War in Cuba or the Great Struggle for Freedom by Senor Gonzalo de Quesada - 1896

Chicago: The Dominion Company, 1896. 656 pp. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2"; Grey cloth over boards with pictoral stamped illustration and lettering on cover and spine, some lettering in gilt, minor corner bumping, torn top spine head, marbled edges, floral patterened endpapers, many black and white engravings and phototype engravings throughout, in very good + condition.A comprehensive book on the struggle for Cuba to become independent from Spanish dominion. Part I talks of the great insurrection. Part II contains the complete history of Cuba, beginning from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. Part III gives a more picturesque description of the lush and tropical Cuba along with the manners, customs, and characteristics of the Cubans. A complex, at times barbarous look at the "Queen of the Antilles".