Lot 357

Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith




Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 3 September 2008 at 12:00 BST
£432
Description
Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. First edition, volumes 1-2 (of 3), 4to, volume 1 with 5 maps and charts and 87 (of 89) lithographed plates, also without nude bathing plate; volume 2 with 4 tinted lithograph plates, 23 natural history plates, 16 metereological diagrams and 2 (? of 17) maps and charts, contemporary quarter brown morocco, some spotting and browning, small library blindstamp on titles, bookplates, and number on spines
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