Author: Perry, Commodore M. C. & Francis L. Hawkes
Title: 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. Three Volumes. First Editions with the Suppressed Bath Scene
Description: Washington: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. 4to. Original embossed cloth in the more valuable Senate edition. Private bookplate "Ex Biblioteca Oppenheimer" on front pastedowns. I: 537 pp. and 90 hors texte color and tinted lithographs including the suppressed "Public Bath at Simoda" facing page. 408, but which is not in the index of plates; II: 414 pp. and 23 hors texte color and tinted lithographs and numerous facsimiles, maps and charts; III: XLIV pp. and 705 pp. "Observations of Zodiacal Light" charts. Some foxing, mainly not visible on the rectos of the plates and/or in the margins. Sabin, 30958. Hill, 1332. Cordier Japonica 513-4; Cordier Sinica 2122-3; Bennett 88. .
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Title: 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. Three Volumes. First Editions with the Suppressed Bath Scene
Description: Washington: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. 4to. Original embossed cloth in the more valuable Senate edition. Private bookplate "Ex Biblioteca Oppenheimer" on front pastedowns. I: 537 pp. and 90 hors texte color and tinted lithographs including the suppressed "Public Bath at Simoda" facing page. 408, but which is not in the index of plates; II: 414 pp. and 23 hors texte color and tinted lithographs and numerous facsimiles, maps and charts; III: XLIV pp. and 705 pp. "Observations of Zodiacal Light" charts. Some foxing, mainly not visible on the rectos of the plates and/or in the margins. Sabin, 30958. Hill, 1332. Cordier Japonica 513-4; Cordier Sinica 2122-3; Bennett 88. .
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Price: US$ 2950.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-2103
- Book number: 51-2103
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