Philippine eBooks

I am happy to discover this compilation of Philippine eBooks from Project Gutenberg by Mr. Jeroen Helingman in his Bohol.ph web site.

Rizaliana
• The Social Cancer (Noli me Tangere), José Rizal, 1912.
English translation by Charles E. Derbyshire. (lvii + 502 pages, 1,204 kB)

• The Reign of Greed (El Filibusterismo), José Rizal, 1912.
English translation by Charles E. Derbyshire. (796 kB)

• The Indolence of the Filipino, José Rizal, 1913.

• Lineage, Life, and Labours of José Rizal, Austin Craig, 1912.


History

• The Philippine Islands, Antonio de Morga, 1905.

• The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes, Austin Craig [Editor], 1912.

• The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon: From Ifugao to Kalinga: A Ride Through the Mountains of Northern Luzon, Cornélis de Witt Willcox, Kansas City, 1912.

• Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines, H. Wilfrid Walker, London, 1909.

• Viajes por Filipinas: De Manila á Marianas, Juan Álvarez Guerra, Madrid, 1887.

• Viajes por Filipinas: De Manila á Albay, Juan Álvarez Guerra, Madrid, 1887.

• Viajes por Filipinas: De Manila á Tayabas, Juan Álvarez Guerra, Madrid, 1887.

• The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2), Dean C. Worcester

• True Version of the Philippine Revolution, Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (1869-1964), Tarlak, 1899.

• The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico: The Eldorado of the Orient, Murat Halstead, Chicago, 1898.

• The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Emma Helen Blair (-1911) and James Alexander Robertson (1873-1939)

o Volume I, 1493-1529 (Papal bulls dividing world between Spanish and Portuguese; Life of Magalhães; Chronological Tables)

o Volume II, 1521-1569 (Expeditions of García de Loaisa 1525–26, Ruy Lopez de Villalobos 1541–46, amd Miguel Lopez de Legazpi 1564–68)

o Volume III, 1569-1576 (Various letters between Legazpi and King Felipe II)

o Volume IV, 1576-1582 (Relation of the Filipinas Islands, Erection of the Cathedral of Manila, Foundation of Monasteries, Expeditions to Borneo, Jolo, and Mindanao)

o Volume V, 1582-1583

o Volume VI, 1583-1588 (Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila; History of the Great Kingdom of China; various letters)

o Volume VII, 1588-1591 (Numerous letters)

o Volume VIII, 1591-1593 (Various letters and accounts; Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese stuffs.)

o Volume IX, 1593-1597 (The embassy to Japan; Letter to the king of Camboja; Pacification of Mindanao; various letters)

o Volume X, 1597-1599 (Numerous letters)

o Volume XI, 1599-1602 (Oliver van Noordt's attack on Luzón; Battles with the Dutch; Jesuit report on Christianization (including Bohol))

o Volume XII, 1601-1604 (Expedition reports; various letters; start of Chirino's very interesting Relacion de las Islas Filipinas; includes some sections on early Bohol history.)

o Volume XIII, 1604-1605 (Continuation of Chirino's Relacion de las Islas Filipinas, several letters.)

o Volume XIV, 1605-1609

o Volume XV, 1609 (Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippine Islands.)

o Volume XVI, 1609 (Second part of Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippine Islands, followed by excerpts from de Argensola's Conqvista de las Islas Malvcas.)

o Volume XVII, 1609-1616

o Volume XVIII, 1617-1620

o Volume XIX, 1620-1621

o Volume XX, 1621-1624

o Volume XXI, 1624

o Volume XXII, 1625-1629

o Volume XXIII, 1629-1630

o Volume XXIV, 1630-1634

o Volume XXV, 1635-1636

o Volume XXVI, 1636

o Volume XXVII, 1636-1637

o Volume XXVIII, 1637-1638

o Volume XXIX, 1638-1640

o Volume XXX, 1640

o Volume XXXI, 1640

o Volume XXXII, 1640

o Volume XXXIII, 1519-1522

o Volume XXXIV, 1519-1522; 1280-1605

o Volume XXXV, 1640-1649

o Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666

o Volume XXXVII, 1669-1676

o Volume XXXVIII, 1674-1683

o Volume XXXIX, 1683-1690

o Volume XL, 1690-1691

o Volume XLI, 1691-1700

o Volume XLII, 1670-1700

o Volume XLIII, 1670-1700

o Volume XLIV, 1700-1736

o Volume XLV, 1736

o Volume XLVI, 1721-1739

o Volume XLVII, 1728-1759

o Volume XLVIII, 1751-1765

o Volume XLIX, 1762-1765

o Volume L, 1764-1800

o Volume LI, 1801-1840

o Volume LII, 1841-1898

o Volume LIII, Bibliography

o Volume LIV, Index, A-I

o Volume LV, Index, J-Z

Folklore

• Filipino Popular Tales, Dean S. Fansler, 1921.
• Philippine Folklore Stories, John Miller, 1904.
• Philippine Folk Tales, Mabel Cole (Cook), Chicago, 1916
• Philippine Myths and Folk-Tales, Laura Watson Benedict, Fletcher Gardner, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington
• A Little Book of Filipino Riddles, Frederick Starr (1858-1933)

Anthropology

• The Bontoc Igorot, Albert Ernest Jenks, Manila, 1905.
• Negritos of Zambales, William Reed, Manila, 1905.
• Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore, Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961), Chicago, 1915.
• The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe, Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961), Chicago, 1922.

Linguistics
• English-Bisaya Grammar in Twenty Eight Lessons, R. P. Fr. Pedro Jimenez

Tagalog
• Ang Tunay na Buhay ni P. Dr. Jose Burgos, Honorio Lopez
• Alamat ng Ilang-Ilang, Jose N. Sevilla

A large number of books on the Philippines can be located online at the web site of The United States and its Territories, according to Mr. Hellington. For more books, visit the web site of Project Gutenberg of the Philippines.