[Rarebooks] Perry Expedition to Japan on Ebay

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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, United States Navy, By Order of the 
Government of the United States. Compiled from the Original Notes and 
Journals of Commodore Perry and His Officers, at His Request and 
Under ...[PERRY, Commodore M.C.] HAWKS, Francis L. Washington, by the 
Order of the Congress of the United States, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Only 
vol. 2 with four tinted lithographed agricultural plates, 
twenty-three natural history plates, including six hand-coloured 
ornithological plates, ten hand-coloured natural history plates 
depicting various types of fish found in the seas of Japan, and two 
hand-coloured conchology plates. With sixteen meteorological 
diagrams, and seventeen maps and charts (on sixteen folded sheets). 
Bright colours to hand-coloured plates; maps with closed tears easily 
adjustable. Covers loose. Spine missing


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