{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":61691,"auction_id":209,"set_id":242,"lot_number":"114","artist":"Apolinario Mabini (1864 - 1903)","title":"The Rise and Fall of the\nPhilippine Republic","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"An English translation of Apolinario Mabini’s
\nLa Revolucion Filipina
\nNo title page
\n83 bound pages
\n12\" x 9\" (30 cm x 23 cm)
","medium":"With The Philippine Revolution Judged by A Filipino
\nThe Only Known Chapter of Mabini’s
\nSuppressed History
\nTranslation by Austin Craig
\n8” x 4 3/4” (20 cm x 12 cm)
\n7 pages","size":"","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD AND SANDRA LOPEZ COLLECTION","coa":"","provenance":"","exhibited":"","literature":"","write_up":"The bound printed pages is believed to be the only known existing page proofs of a planned publication of the English translation of La Revolucion Filipina by Apolinario Mabini. This copy is extremely rare as proofs and historical manuscripts that were ready for publication by the National Library were destroyed during World War II. Except for Chapter X, the English translation was done by Mabini
The first known published English translation of La Revolucion Filipina was done by Leon Ma. Guerrero who noted in his translation, The Philippine Revolution (1969) that:
Mr. (Teodoro M.) Kalaw notes that Mabini Englished (sic) his own work. I have not seen this translation, which of course would be authoritative, nor have I seen any others.
Apolinario Mabini, the hero known in the story of our nation as “The Sublime Paralytic” was a controversial figure in his rise and fall from power in the First Philippine Republic. He was known as the “Brains of the Revolution” – a title that was questioned by no less than the Lakambini of the Katipunan, Gregoria de Jesus, who said that Emilio Jacinto deserved the title more than Mabini.
A Mabini biographer will encounter problems in writing a full study of Apolinario Mabini. Aside from the destruction of libraries and archives during World War II, Mabini gave specific instructions to his brother in 1903 that his papers are to be destroyed upon his death. What remained were the ones not in Mabini possession when he died like the official letters and documents when he served under the Malolos Republic; letters and writings to American officials and American newspapers; a diary he kept while in Guam; a handwritten draft of the Balagtas epic Florante at Laura; and a handwritten draft of a history of the Philippine Revolution that he entitled “La Revolucion Filipina.”
It was believed that he started writing La Revolucion Filipina during his Guam exile and completed it on his return to the Philippines. The manuscript is written in pencil in Spanish. It was said that Mabini also made an English translation apparently for foreign readers.
Reading La Revolucion when it was published, Dean Maximo Kalaw of the University of the Philippines commented that Mabini apparently wrote it without the benefit of any documentary sources, relying instead on his memory and talks with his fellow Guam prisoners, most of whom had an axe to grind against Aguinaldo.
La Revolucion Filipina became controversial while still in manuscript form. In 1906, US Consul James LeRoy said that “because of the contents of La Revolucion, the work was not immediately published upon Mabini’s death”.
It was known to friends of Mabini who never had shared his radical views to the full, and who now desire to avert so far as possible the manifestations of factional feeling and personal jealousies which have always in the past been so disastrous to every Filipino enterprise, that in one chapter of these memoirs as written there was a bitter attack on Aguinaldo. This part of the work, they hoped, could be kept from publication for a time at least, till passions should have died down and the men and measures of the past few years could be judged more soberly in general.
LeRoy said that it was Dr. Dominador Gomez, a Filipino physician who was a nationalist and, later, a labor leader, who wooed the Mabini relatives to make him (Gomez) “literary executor” of the Mabini papers. Probably in an effort to malign Aguinaldo for unknown personal reasons, Gomez gave a copy of Chapter X entitled “The End and Downfall of the Revolution” to the newspaper, El Comercio where it was published in its July 23, 1903 issue, two months after Mabini’s death. It was this copy that American author Austin Craig translated into English and published as a pamphlet with the title “The Philippine Revolution Judged By A Filipino: The Only Known Chapter of Mabini’s Supressed History”. This publication led Emilio Aguinaldo to draft his version of the events Mabini mentioned. This reply, however, remained in a typewritten manuscript form until it was first published in 2002 by the Cavite Historical Society with the title Saloobin: Mga Sagot ni Hen. Emilio Aguinaldo sa Mga Paratang ng Dakilang Lumpo.
Chapter X remained the only published portion of La Revolucion Filipina until National Library Director Teodoro M. Kalaw published the entire work along with other Mabini letters and documents in a two-volume edition in 1930 under the Documents of the National Library of the Philippines series where La Revolucion appears in Volume 2.
But prior to the 1930 set, portions of the manuscript were first printed in 1924 at the Manila Book Company by Kalaw with the title La Revolucion Filipina: reseña sintetica. There was also a later published version edited by Jose P. Bantug based on a compilation by historian Jose P. Santos from a series in the newspaper La Opinion from May 13 to October, 1930 that was later published as a book that same year.
It was only when the complete La Revolucion Filipina was published that historians realized that it was not a Mabini memoir—as many were led to believe—but a critique. Only the last few chapters were events that Mabini was familiar with having been a participant.
To date, the original manuscript of La Revolucion Filipina is missing and was believed destroyed in the destruction of the National Library during World War II. Kalaw kept a typescript copy of the work both in Spanish and English but these were also destroyed when his residence in Ermita burned down in the Battle of Manila in 1945","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":"","alias":"","hp":200000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":200000,"userBid":34,"isPaid":0,"userId":34,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":25384,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":240320,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":68589,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/209/242/lot/114.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":113,"next":115,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}