HAWKS, FRANCIS L. - US JAPAN EXPEDITION.

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..., by order of the Government of the United States... With numerous Illustrations. 3 Vols.

Washington, Beverley Tucker, 1856. Large 4to. Volume I bound in contemp. full calf, gilt spine with gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends, spine somewhat worn. Volume II-III in original blindstamed full cloth. Spines gilt, but faded. XVII,(1),537 pp., 89 tinted lithographed plates (views and portraits), folded maps and numerous textillustrations. II: (8),414,XI pp., 14 facsimile plates, 15 (mostly coloured) plates (fishes and molluscs), plates with diagrams etc. III: XLII,705 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations of zoodiacal light.

First edition of the so-called "United States Japan Expedition". - Sabin, 30958.

Order-nr.: 53982