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[I]. 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, by Francis L. Hawks, D.D. L.L.D.; WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS*. --- SENATE EDITION, P. G. WASHINGTON'S COPY; INSCRIBED BY HIM to then German U.S. Ambassador Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt. / II. 33rd Congress, 2nd Session: REPORTS ON NATURAL HISTORY AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY incl. the Facsimile of the 'Treaty of Kanagawa'. / III 'UNITED STATES JAPAN EXPEDITION: OBSERVATIONS ON THE ZODIACAL LIGHT, from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855, made chiefly on Board the United States Steam-Frigate Mississippi, during her late Cruise in Eastern Seas, and her Voyage homeward; with Conclusions from the Data thus obtained.'. - 3 VOLUMES IN TOTAL. . .

1857 · Best.-Nr. c2406210204xbvk — Washington, Beverley Tucker - Senate Printer (I/III) / A.O.P. Nicholson (House Printer), 1856/1857. I. 2 blank sheets, XVII (I); 537 pages, with 78 xylographic illustrations in the text; 86 singleside-printed toned or colour-lithographic plates (incl. portraits after Daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown) and 3 foldout-colourplates of japanese woodblock-prints (89 plates in total) and 3 geographical maps (1 foldout) bound within; 2 blank sheets. / II. (House Edition, 1857). (8) 414, (1) 14 pages ('Treaty of Ka-na-ga-wa'[Kanagawa], the first document ever negotiated by the Empire of Japan with any western nation according to International Law), (1) XI (1) p.; some xylographic text-illustrations, 4 (3 coloured) lithographic plates 'Agriculture of China', 22 (of 23, 17 [hand-]coloured) plates of Natural History (Yack, Japanese Fox), Ornithology (Japanese Birds, 5 of 6), Ichthyology (Japanese Fishes, 10), Conchyology (Japanese Shells, 5); 3 (2 folded) maps in the text, 16 plates with meteorological diagrams; 15 of 17 very large multiple folded maps at the end. / III. XLIII, 705 pages with 365 (of 366) astronomic xylographic plates (lacking plate 66); all plates in I and II on singleside printed cardboards. - I. Thick and heavy 'night-blue' full morocco-binding of the period over 4 raised bands with gilt-ornamental frames at panels and bands and gilt title and owner's name ('P. G. Washington') at bottom-of-spine, colour-marbled endpapers; II./III. Blind-tooled (naval motive) publisher's cloth bindings; lex.-4to.(ca. 31 x 23 x 20 cm; ca. 9 kg.).