THE LIFE STORY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY HC BOOK 1899 1ST ED HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES

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Offered for auction from an estate sale is the following an Early and Quite Scarce 1st  Edition Hard Cover Book published in 1899 by Edward S. Ellis, A.M. The Eminent Historian and Biographer.  The book is  titled as follows
THE LIFE STORY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY
His Ancestry and Early life, School Days, Life at the Naval Academy, Brilliant Career in the Civil War, Services in the Navy Department, Various Commands on the White Squadron
THE WORLD-FAMED VICTORY AT MANILA and
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO AMERICA
Information on the title page continues as follows:
Together with
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES AND OUR WAR WITH AGUINALDO
The book “The Life Story of Admiral Dewey” as noted above was published in 1899. This Green hardcovered book with gold lettering on the front and spine “Note good portion of the gold is missing” contains 444 Clean pages.  The book exhibits old age toning or browning as photos on pages. The book is complete with no writing or soiling.  The title page and the introduction page have separated from the binding but complete. The page binding on all other pages are tight but both the front and back covers are beginning to separate at spine.  A couple of the pages have a chip due to dryness of the paper.   The book was manufactured without a dustjacket.
The book is superbly Illustrated with Eight-Color Lithographs and Nearly One Hundred Beautiful Half-Tone Engravings.  The hardcover  exhibits light storage or shelf ware on top and bottom of spine and front corner edges as photo shows.  The book size is 7 ½ x 9 ¾ x 1 1/2 inches.  The book does not have a dustjacket as noted above.  The books weight is 2 lb 9 1/8 oz.
Below I have typed the INTRODUCTION from the book and placed 17 photographs of the book exterior and interior in ad below.  Please view photos for condition.
INTRODUCTION:
THERE are giants who salute one another across the gloom of the centuries.  They are  majestic figures towering above the myriads clustering at their feet, and limned against the eternal background, their heroic forms will stand out distinct in all their impressive grandeur, as the ages, throbbing with human endeavor, sweep past.  Other giants will rise and take their places in the immortal group, and the world will do them homage.
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It is only within modern times that the Sailor has become the equal brother of the soldier.  Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Charlemagne, Washington, napoleon and Wellington, were all leaders of armies of greater or less magnitude, but Nelson, Farragut and Dewey climbed to their mighty pedestals during the present century, and the last of the peerless trio, at its very close.  Henceforward, as Mahan shows, the struggle for supremacy between warring nations must take place on the sea and the Sailor promises to pass beyond his brother Soldier in the race for glory.
How true that the career of all whom the world calls great is rarely or never foreshadowed by their youth.  Who would have dared to prophesy the wonderful future of grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Nelson, Farragut or Dewey while they were still boys?  If circumstances favored the development of their genius, it is none the less true that their genius was simply awaiting its opportunity.  And being true of them, it must be equally true of thousands of others who are at this hour living uneventful livers, and who will pass to their rest, without their friends or probably themselves suspecting the powers lying latent within them, because the crisis will never arise to call them forth;  but if the need is for a leader, Washington, or Grant steps forward; if for comrades to their leader, Greene, Wayne, Sullivan and Putnam, or Thomas, Sherman, Farragut, Porter and a host of compatriots appear.  When they passed from the stage of action, and the cry was heard again, it was answered by Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Watson and the commanders in the field.
It is an impressive truth we repeat that this transcendent ability is never absent or lacking among the American people.  We have hosts fully measuring up to every requirement, and who, when weighed in the balance will never be found wanting.  In the career of no man is this fact more strikingly shown than in that of Admiral George Dewey, who rising form the ranks of the “common people,” has reached, almost a single bound, the highest pinnacle of fame and won the everlasting gratitude of his countrymen.  It is comforting assurance indeed that no matter how immense the demands that may be laid upon us in the future, we have a plentitude of brain, of brawn, of courage, of skill and of genius fully to meet and surmount than all.  From the loins of the Anglo-Saxon spring in a gratitude at the consciousness that among all nations, peoples, climes and ages none has been so favored of heaven as ours.
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