{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":59822,"auction_id":186,"set_id":220,"lot_number":"107","artist":"José Rizal (1861 - 1896)","title":"El Filibusterismo","starting_price":5000000,"signed_dated":"Signed and dedicated “A mi querido amigo el doctor T. H. Pardo de Tavera, Jose Rizal, Gante, 16/ IX 1891” (To my dear friend, the doctor T. H. Pardo de Tavera, Jose Rizal, Ghent, 16 September 1891)<br/>\nBoekdrukkerij F. Meyer-Van Loo, Vlaanderenstraat, 60<br/>\nFirst Edition, Ghent 1891","medium":null,"size":null,"property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"From the collection of Don Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, as evidenced by an ex libris with his name on the marbled endpaper on the inside front cover and his name stamped on the title page as “Dr. T.H. Pardo de Tavera.”","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Printed when Jose Rizal was both emotionally and financially exhausted, the masterpiece El Filibusterismo contains fewer pages and was produced in fewer copies than his first book, the Noli Me Tangere. \n\nIt is thus considered far rarer than his Noli Me Tangere. It is also the most poignantly produced, marshaling all that Rizal had to offer, together with funds raised from fellow Filipinos across Asia and Europe—in France, Belgium, the Philippines, and China. \n\nThis edition’s unique value comes from the National Hero’s signature added below a dedication to Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera. Signed September 16, 1891, it predates the commonly known printing date and is literally the press’s first copy. Rizal held this very book, personally sending Pardo de Tavera a message with it. \n\nLetters to his close friend Jose Basa in Hong Kong and others detail the lengths to which Rizal went to have El Filibusterismo printed. First of all, he moved from Paris (away from the high-living temptations of the Exposition of 1889) to save money and to find not just cheaper living quarters but also an inexpensive printing shop. \n\nHe found it in Ghent, Belgium, at the Boekdrukkerij F. Meyer-Van Loo at No. 60 Vlaanderen Street, which extended installment terms to him. \n\nRizal rented a room at a low-rent boarding house near the press at No. 47 Henegouwen Street. He shared it with Jose Alejandrino, then a student in chemical engineering. Together, they skipped meals and checked the galleys. Alejandrino would later become a prominent general of the First Philippine Republic. \n\nEven with the “pay as you print” arrangements, Rizal struggled. He exhausted the first loan sent by Jose Basa and became so desperate that he threatened\nto abandon the project and burn the manuscript.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":21000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":21000000,"userBid":34,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":15457,"reserve_price":10000000,"hammer_price":25233600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":65316,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/107.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[],"prev":106,"next":108,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}