[Rarebooks] F/S History of the Panama Canal Inscribed to Theodore Roosevelt

[Garry R Austin]

We offer this postpaid in the US and net @$ 275.00

Carrera Justiz, Dr. F. Orientaciones Necesarias Cuba Y Panama. Habana: La Moderna Poesía, 1911. 
First edition; Octavo; pp; xix, (i), (2), 3-435; Illustrated, thirty-eight black and white portraits and maps, one folding map; Half brown morocco, raised bands, gilt spine decorations and lettering, marbled green boards and patterned endpapers; A solid copy, front joint stared at top two inches, still holding nicely. Edges rubbed. The book block is bright and quite nicely printed. All plates and maps present. Carrera Justiz was a political economist, law professor and diplomat. He was Cuba's Ambassador to Spain, the United States and Mexico. This is his history of the Panama Canal from the first French efforts through the successive American completion of the project. He discusses the impact of this Canal, uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the subsequent impact on his native Cuba. This copy is inscribed by the author to Theodore Roosevelt and dated 1911, Havana.


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