Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PERRY, MATTHEW CALBRAITH; and Francis L. Hawks, editor. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854. 21 maps, 116 tinted or colored lithographic plates, 16 table plates, illustrations. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 3). 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, faded, minor wear, joints strong; closed tears on a couple of maps, a bit of minor foxing. 33rd Congress, 2nd Session, House Ex. Doc 97. Washington, 1856

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The voyage that opened Japan to the United States. Lacking, as usual, the suppressed nude bathing plate. Hill, Pacific Voyages 1332; Sabin 30968.