[Rarebooks] FS: Perry's Expedition to Japan, 1856, Illustrated with 22 maps, 111 lithographs, and much more

[Charles Agvent]

Excellent price for this important and well-illustrated work:

PERRY, Matthew Calbraith. 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 his supervision. Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. 
First Edition. Three quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") volumes bound in modern 
pebbled buckram. Illustrated with 22 maps (most folding), 3 color 
facsimiles of Japanese paintings, 111 mostly tinted lithographs 
including 18 brilliantly hand-colored lithographs of birds, fish, and 
mollusks, 16 meteorological diagrams, over 70 in-text wood-cut 
illustrations, and 352 full-page wood-engraved astronomical charts. 
Volume I lacks the Court Interpreter and Bridge of Cut Stone plates. The 
Photographer's plate is present, but the suppressed and scarce Nude 
Bathers plate is not. One-inch tear to plate opposite p. 345 and about a 
three-inch tear to the text at p. 485 in Volume I. Scattered foxing and 
occasional staining throughout, though most of the lithographs are 
clean. Some soiling to the title page and elsewhere; a few pages have 
ragged edges. A few maps have tears at folds and edges with one map 
detached from text block. Generally a Good set in a durable if not 
attractive binding. (#008271)        $2,500.00

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