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Harper & Brothers Publishers New York. 1899. 1st Edition. A massive undertaking wherin over 700 woodcuts, photographs, line drawings and maps compliment 5 full plate colour maps and 25 full plate colour chromolithographs. Interesting text of the US involvement in Cuba chasing down the Spanish. A woodcut of one of the 'Rough Riders' is interesting - it depicts Lieut Colonel Theodore Roosevelt who led his troops into the fray without flinching, the air filled with mauser bullets, onwards fighting until the fight of Las Guasimas had been won - June 24th 1898. Fragile hinges. Quarter leather and green cloth bindings. In one volume 509pp. 425 x 280 mm