Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 407

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
PERRY, MATTHEW CALBRAITH; and Francis L. Hawks, editor. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. 22 maps, 116 plates (most tinted or colored lithographs), 16 tables, text illustrations. 3 volumes. 4to, non-uniform contemporary 1/2 morocco (I and II) and publisher's cloth (III), moderate wear; hinges split in Volume I, 14 large folding maps detached but present, with moderate wear. 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.