Feb 13, 2003 - Sale 1960

Sale 1960 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PERRY EXPEDITION.) Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry. 126 (of 133) plates; 22 maps; 352 star charts. 3 volumes. 4to, original cloth, shaken, spines faded; some foxing on plates in Volume. Washington, 1856

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House of Representatives issue. Volume 1 lacks view of Longwood facing page 94, the nude bathing scene facing page 408, and the 2 color facsimiles between pages 462 and 463; Volume 2 lacks 3 natural history plates.