{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":48453,"auction_id":97,"set_id":128,"lot_number":"181","artist":"Benito Francia","title":"De caña y nipa. Materiales ligeros.\n[From cane and nipa. Light materials]","starting_price":5000,"signed_dated":"Manila: Ramírez y Comp., 1893","medium":null,"size":"size: 7\" x 5\" (18 cm x 13 cm)\ndepth: 3/4\" (2 cm)","property":null,"coa":"CONDITION REPORT\nSOFT BOUND\nPOOR\nBOOK SPINE NOT GLUED TO THE BOOK","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Benito Francia y Ponce de León was a military doctor who arrived in the Philippines in January 1877. He spent most of his time in the infirmary of the newly created town of Davao (Mindanao). From his early experiences caring for the populace, he wrote a \"Report on malaria\", still in manuscript today. He was promoted and awarded and returned to Spain in 1880. His second stay in the Philippines began in October 1881, a difficult period due to the cholera outbreak. He took part in a battle in Sulu at the end of 1882 and from 1883 was stationed in Basilan. In June 1885, he returned to Spain. In 1887, he published a book in defense of racial intermarriage. He was curator at the Philippine Exposition in 1887 and shortly after returned to the Philippines for the third time. In August 1888, he had to deal with a new outbreak of cholera. After a brief stay in Spain, he returned to the Philippines for the fourth time as head of the civil administration. He left the Philippines for good in 1895 after 20 years of service’; and he still had time to publish a voluminous study on Mindanao, which saw the light of day in Havana in 1898. It was during this last period when he collaborated in Diario de Manila with articles under the pseudonym Tácito that he later compiled in De caña y nipa, a book that Retana praised for the quality of its prose. Many of his articles deal with the problems caused by Chinese and European immigration in the Philippines, and the difficulties of an effective colonization that would bring progress to the islands, and the advantages that, in his opinion — and contrary to Pablo Feced and other Spaniards— Chinese immigration brought. In general, Benito Francia differs from many colonizers of the time for defending ideas that went against the current, perhaps for being ideologically liberal. Book is not sufficiently known in spite of its undoubted merits; a very rare find.","lot_group":"BOOKS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":12000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":12000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":14419.2,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":48361,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/97/128/lot/181.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[12000,14000,16000,18000,20000,25000,30000,35000,40000,45000,50000,55000,60000,70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":180,"next":182,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}