(TRAVEL) Perry Matthew Calbraith; and Francis L Hawks editor

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(TRAVEL.) Perry, Matthew Calbraith; and Francis L. Hawks, editor. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. 22 maps, 117 plates (most tinted or colored lithographs), 16 tables, hundreds of text illustrations. xvi, [1], 537; [8], 414, [4], xi, [2]; xliii, 705 pages. 3 volumes. 4to, publisher's cloth, faded, minor wear; first and most important volume quite clean, foxing to volumes II and III, some plates detached in volume II; perforated University of Virginia stamp on second title page and no other library markings. 33rd Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Ex. Doc 79. Washington, 1856

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The voyage that opened Japan to the United States. Including the scarce suppressed nude bathing plate facing page I:408. If Congress had just left it there without comment, it probably would have attracted far less attention over the years. Hill 1332; Sabin 30968.