#O43
1886
Limited First Edition. Large Octavo. 29, [2] pp. Original publishers light-blue printed wrappers. Covers a little dust soiled and with a couple of small edge chips of rear cover, text mildly browned otherwise a very good copy.
Very Rare work as no copy found in Worldcat. Unnumbered copy of a total edition of 630 copies. "It took about five stopovers by five different European ships before the name "Islas de Carolina" was used to refer to the stretch of islands located south of Guam. The name finally stuck when in 1686, a Spaniard by the name of Francisco Lazcano, named them after King Charles II of Spain who funded the expedition.
Some few Western travellers subsequently visited the islands, but an early visit of missionaries (1732) resulted in one of several murderous attacks on the newcomers; and only in 1875 did Spain, claiming the group, make some attempt to assert her rights. The Caroline Islands were subsequently placed under the Spanish East Indies, administered from the Philippines. Germany, which had occupied Yap, disputed the Spanish claim, and the matter went to the arbitration of Pope Leo XIII in 1885. He decided in favor of Spain, but gave Germany free trading rights. The Spanish did not occupy any island formally until 1886.
Then in 1899 in the German-Spanish Treaty (1899), as a consequence of the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain sold the islands to Germany for 25,000,000 pesetas or respectively 17 million Marks (nearly 1,000,000 pounds sterling), which administered them as Karolinen, administratively associated with German New Guinea"(Wikipedia).
