Ramon, the Rover of Cuba, and Other Tales. - John Lauris Blake - Bog

Title: Ramon, the rover of Cuba, and other tales.Author: John Lauris BlakePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00607000CollectionID: CTRG10180461-BPublicationDate: 18430101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: First published in 1829. Evenings in Boston, a juvenile reader first published in 1827, is attributed to John Lauris Blake in the National Union Catalog, though not in Shoemaker's Checklist of American Imprints. Five of its twelve chapters are set, like Ramon, in Cuba, where Blake may have traveled during a period of failing health in the 1820's. The second edition (1828) includes a four-page advertisement for Blake's The Juvenile Companion.Collation: [4], 5-295 p.: incl. front., plates, illus.; 19 cm