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PERRY, Matthew Calbraith. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Washington: Beverly Tucker, 1856, 3 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 118 plates only, most lithographed, some tinted, 18 hand-coloured, 3 coloured reproductions of paintings, one duplicate plate, 22 maps and charts, mostly folding, 352 wood-engraved astronomical illustrations and 16 tables with diagrams (some plates in vol. I lightly dampstained, deep clean tear to one page in vol. I, some plates spotted), original cloth gilt (lacking backstrip of vol. I, worn). Sold not subject to return. (3)
