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. 21 engraved plates (18 colored), 22 maps and navigational charts (many folding), 89 (of 91?) lithographed plates (mostly views), 3 colored reproductions of Japanese paintings (2 folding), and 352 zodical full page illustrations. 3 volumes, large 4to, original blindstamped cloth, some rubbing, light fading or darkening to spines; hinges of vol. II cracked with book block becoming loose; without the unnumbered bathing plate (supplied in photographic reproduction). (3)