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(PERRY EXPEDITION.) Hawks, Francis L. 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. Volume 1 (of 3). 2 color and 88 tinted lithographed plates; 6 maps. xvii, [1], 537 pages. 4to, 296x233 mm, original cloth, spine faded, ends chipped, shelf label removed, rear joint partly frayed, cover corners worn through; contents clean apart from occasional faint offsetting onto plates from facing text pages, upper and outer margins of the nude bathing plate browned by inserted 1945 newspaper cutting regarding Perry's views on the strategic value of Iwo Jima. Front endleaf inscribed: "With kindest regards John Weir Perry great grandnephew of M. C. Perry." New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1857
