Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 900
?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. 132 (of 133) plates; 22 maps; 352 star charts; lacks the plate to face page 325 in Volume 1 (Bay of Wodowara). 3 volumes. 4to, original cloth, spines faded, ends chipped; contents generally clean, 19th-century institutional stamp on titles and some text leaves, few plates loose, plate to face page 406 bound upside down. Washington, 1856

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first edition of the official account of the U.S. Japan expedition; House of Representatives issue. With the nude bathing plate facing page 408 in Volume 1. Hill 1332.