The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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Plan of CebÚ Cathedral; drawn by Juan de Siscarra, engineer, 1719; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla Frontispiece
Autograph signature of Joseph Torrubia, O.S.F.; from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 35
Title-page of Dissertacion historico-politita, by Joseph Torrubia (Madrid, 1753); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University 41
Map showing new route from Manila to Acapulco, presented to Governor Fernando ValdÉs TamÓn by the pilot, Enrique HermÁn, 1730; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 49
Plan of infantry barracks in Manila; drawn by the military engineer, Thomas de Castro y Andrade, 1733; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 53

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