PERRY, MATTHEW C., Comm. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854. Washington, D.C.: Nicholson, 1856. 23 engraved plates (18 colored), 25 maps and navigational charts (many folding), 88 (of 91?) lithographed plates (mostly views), 3 colored reproductions of Japanese paintings (2 folding), and 352 zodiac full-page illustrations. 3 volumes, large 4to, third volume in original blind-stamped cloth, two volumes in contemporary half morocco, wear to spine of volume II; a few newspaper clippings and sheets tipped in at ends of volume I and on verso of a few plates, hole in zodiac plate (number 63), without the unnumbered bathing plate. Sold not subject to return. (3)

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PERRY, MATTHEW C., Comm. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854. Washington, D.C.: Nicholson, 1856. 23 engraved plates (18 colored), 25 maps and navigational charts (many folding), 88 (of 91?) lithographed plates (mostly views), 3 colored reproductions of Japanese paintings (2 folding), and 352 zodiac full-page illustrations. 3 volumes, large 4to, third volume in original blind-stamped cloth, two volumes in contemporary half morocco, wear to spine of volume II; a few newspaper clippings and sheets tipped in at ends of volume I and on verso of a few plates, hole in zodiac plate (number 63), without the unnumbered bathing plate. Sold not subject to return. (3)

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