Author: PEREIRA Feliciano Antonio Marques :
Title: Viagem da Corveta Dom João I a capital do Japão no anno de 1860 por F.A.M. Pereira. Capitão de fregata e commandante de mesma corveta.
Description: Lisboa , Imprensa Nacional, 1863, in-8°, 221 pp + folding map (Pelos S. Maury e Silas Bent, Officiaes da Marinha Americana, 1855) + (2)nn pp, bound in blue cloth, smooth spine with gilt title, with libray stamp on title ; ''Dr. Fragozo Fernandes Advocado..Lisboa''. Another tipped in printed ex-libris on the first paste down. Half title and title very slightly stained, map with some minor foxing, but still a fine/good copy. First edition of the account of the first modern Portugese attempt to open up Japan to Portugal and Western Europe, seven years after Commander Perry's voyage. (See Kyoto University Nipponalia I, 2061). .

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