(JAPAN PERRY) Manuscript reports concerning Commodore Per

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(JAPAN -- PERRY.) Manuscript reports concerning Commodore Perry and international trade. 2 volumes. 8vo format, 10x6 1/4 inches, cord-stitched sheets; nicely preserved. Japan, Kaei 6-7 (1853-54)

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The first volume, a manuscript document with the cover illustrated by a seated Perry also includes a profile bust of Commander Henry Adams and a sketched plan of the ceremonial meeting place where official treaties were signed.

The second volume contains four manuscript documents, including Japanese translations of official letters directed to the Japanese Emperor from President Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Edward Everett and Commodore Matthew Perry. In his letter to the Emperor, Fillmore implores for harmonious commerce: "I have directed Commodore Perry to assure your imperial majesty that I entertain the kindest feelings toward your majesty's person and government, and that I have no other object in sending him to Japan but to propose to your imperial majesty that the United States and Japan should live in friendship and have commercial intercourse with each other."