The second Spanish edition of the work was published by Rizal himself,
who was always a sincere admirer of the book. It bears the following
title-page: "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas por el Doctor Antonio de
Morga. Obra publicada en Mejico el año de 1609 nuevamente sacada á luz
y anotada por José Rizal y precedida de un prólogo del Prof. Fernando
Blumentritt. Paris, Libreria de Garnier Hermanos, 1890." Shortly
before Rizal began work on his edition, a Spanish scholar, Justo
Zaragoza, began the publication of a new edition of Morga. The book
was reprinted, but the notes, prologue, and life of Morga which
Zargoza had intended to insert, were never completed because of that
editor's death. Only two copies of this edition, so far as known, were
ever bound, one of which belongs to the Ayer collection in Chicago,
and the other by the Tabacalera purchase to the Philippine Library,
in Manila. Still one other Spanish edition has appeared, namely:
"Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas por el Dr. Antonio de Morga. Nueva
edición enriquecida con los escritos inéditos del mismo autor ilustrada
con numerosas notas que amplian el texto y prologada extensamente por
W. E. Retana, Madrid, Libreria General de Victoriano Suarez, Editor,
1909." Retana adds a life of Morga and numerous documents written by
him. An English edition was published as follows: "The Philippine
Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China. at the close
of the sixteenth century. By Antonio de Morga. Translated from the
Spanish, with notes and a preface, and a letter from Luis Vaez de
Torres, describing his voyage through the Torres Straits, by the
Hen. Henry E. J. Stanley, London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society,
1868". However, Stanley's translation is poor, and parts of passages
are not translated at all. [It was this edition then in preparation by
the Hakluyt Society, which Sir John Bowring, a director of the society,
mentioned on his visit to Rizal's uncle in Biñan, so that to make the
book available to Spaniards and Filipinos became an ambition from
childhood with Rizal.-C.] A second English translation appears in
B. and R. vols. 15 and 16. A separate copy of this translation was
also published in a very limited edition, with the title: "History
of the Philippine Islands from their discovery by Magellan in 1521 to
the beginning of the XVII century; with descriptions of Japan, China
and adjacent countries, by Dr. Antonio de Morga, alcalde of criminal
causes, in the Royal Audiencia of Nueva España, and counsel for the
Holy Office of the inquisition. Completely translated into English,
edited and annotated by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson. Cleveland,
Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1907." See B. and R. vols. 9-12
for other documents by Morga, and vol. 53 (or Robertson's Bibliography
of the Philippine Islands, Cleveland, 1908), for bibliographical
details regarding Morga and titles to documents. Perhaps the most
famous of all his writings outside of his book is his relation
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