[Rarebooks] FS: Account of Perry's visits to the Japanese Empire. w/8 lithos. NY: 1855

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(JAPAN) Spalding, J. W.  THE JAPAN EXPEDITION. JAPAN AND AROUND THE WORLD. An Account of Three Visits to the Japanese Empire... With Eight Illustrations in Tint. New York: Redfield. 1855. First edition. 377,(1)pp. plus 2 pages of ads at back. Illus. with 8 fine tinted lithographs. Orig. dark green cloth, gilt, an unusually fine, bright copy, but ex-library with a small paper label on the lower spine and a rubber stamp "withdrawn" on a blank part of the title page. Evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown.  Spalding served on the flagship of the expedition, the Mississippi.	$200.00 (trade discount allowed)


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