Matthew Calbraith Perry Commodore (6 results)
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Trade Paperback. Condition: VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. xvii, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Summary:Enhanced with over 200 rare illustrations, this thrilling firsthand account relates the tension and triumph attendant upon Perry's mission to establish Japanese-American diplomatic relations. Drawn from the journals of the commodore and his offic…ers, the narrative also features entries from diaries and official correspondence and reports, all brimming with revealing anecdotes.
More imagesNarrative 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. With Numerous Illustrations
[PERRY, Commodore Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858)] HAWKS, Francis L.
Published by Washington, by the Order of the Congress of the United States, 1856, 1856
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- First Edition
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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First Edition. [Travel / Diplomacy / trade] FIRST EDITION. Four volumes, comprising three volumes text and plates, with supplemental clamshell volume containing the maps. Quarto (29 x 21cm). With numerous plates, maps, charts and illustrations, many of which are tinted and hand-coloured. Includes the 'Bath House' plate, p.408, w…hich was later suppressed. Elegantly hand-bound in half blue morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides. Contents clean, one or two small chips and tears, small and discreet institutional stamp to margin of copyright page, vintage repair to corner of same, neat manuscript note 'Cong. 2d sess. SENATE' et.c to top margin of title, exterior as new. An attractive copy in a handsome recent leather binding. Commodore Perry was in charge of the expedition to establish diplomatic relations with Japan and it was partly as a result of his mission that Japan embarked upon its modernisation programme. In a long and distinguished career as a U.S. Naval officer, Perry commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War. He led the Perry Expedition (the present document) which ended Japan's isolationism and signed the Convention of Kanagawa between Japan and the United States in 1854. He pioneered an apprentice system which establish the curriculum at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, and championed the new steam engine which modernised the navy and led to the moniker "Father of the Steam Navy" Sabin 30968. Signed.
[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.'. -
HAWKS, Francis Lister (1798-1866; Historian, Priest, 1st President of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane Author) / Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858; Naval Officer; Volumes I and II) / WASHINGTON, Peter Grayson (1798-1872, Son of a Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City; Proveniance, Dedication; Volume I) / Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879; German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States', longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S.; published the first colour-printed Map of Mexico; Proveniance) / Rev. George Jones, A.M. (Chaplain United States Navy; Volume III) / Eliphalet Brown (Photographer):
Published by Washington, Beverley Tucker - Senate Printer (I/III) / A.O.P. Nicholson (House Printer), 1856/1857., 1857
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- First Edition
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, GermanyC O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany .
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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.). *** [Verlängerter FRÜHSOMMER-VERKAUF / Ongoing EARLY SUMMER-SALE: um über 20% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Donnerstag, 09.07.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 20% until Thursday, July 09; vorheriger Preis / previously EUR 1.800,-] --- (Sabin #30958, Cordier 'Japonica' #513, Nissen ZBI #3132) I. FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINAL; THE SENATE-EDITION (Senate executive Documents #34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session), published parrallel to Nicholson's 'House-Editon'. - FIRST BLANK SHEET WITH 4-LINE INSCRIPTION ''to Baron Gerolt / with the kind regards / of P. G. Washington / Feby. 16 1857''. Peter Grayson Washington (1798-1872), son of the Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington (1732-1799, American Founding Father and first President of the United States) served as 'Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City'; Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879) was the German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States' and has been the longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S. In the quarter+ century of service, Gerolt met presidents James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. As a studied mining geologist (Freiberg Mining Academy) in ''1824 he travelled to Mexico as an agent of the German-American Mining Association, where significant silver mines were suspected. Together with Carl de Berghes, also an Mining Association Agent, he published the 'Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del Estado de Mexico' in 1827 with Arnz & Comp., a special mineralogical map of central Mexico, which is considered the first geological map of Mexico printed in colour.''(german wikipedia). - Corners of the leather-binding partly somewhat rubbed, panels slightly rubbed and slightly scratched; some textpages opposite of lithographic plates with slight offsetting (shadow) last sheets with slim humidity-stain at top sharp-corner, last 10 sheets (incl. rear endpaper) with small hole in the blank bottom margin; A MAGNIFICIENT COPY WITH A 'WELL NAMED' ASSOCIATION OF THE PERIOD. --- II. Binding somewhat rubbed, lacks plate 6 of Ornithology and textpages 257-262 (beginning of Ichthyology); Acceptably used. / III. Binding rubbed, many pages with humiditystain at foreedge or top sharp-corner (growing towards the end), lacks zodiac-plate #66 (of 352). --- MAIN OFFER IS THE LUXOURIUS EQUIPPED AND COMPLETE HISTORIC ASSOCIATION COPY OF VOLUME I; Vols. II and III have been added from another set to create scientific completeness (more or less). . .
More imagesChart of the World shewing the Track of the U.S. Steam Frigates, Mississippi, Susquehanna and Powhatan as Flagships of the Japan Squadron under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S.N., 1853-54 World Map 1854
PERRY, M. (MATTHEW), C. (CALBRAITH) COMMODORE AND EDWARD SELS.
Published by Hydrographic Office c1854., United States., 1854
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Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaAsia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB
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Large black and white folded map. Some browning at the folds, some fold lines have been repaired with archival tape but overall in good condition. Scale 1:37,000,000. 54 x 91 cm "In January 1852 Perry was selected to undertake the most important diplomatic mission ever entrusted to an American naval officer, the negotiation of a… treaty with Japan, a country at this time sealed against intercourse with the Occidental powers" (DAB). By March 31, 1854, the treaty granting the U.S. trading rights had been signed by the Japanese. Drawn by Edward. Sels and engraved by Selmar Siebert this map was issued as part of the United States Naval Expedition to Japan, 1852-1854. Shows the route of the US Steam Frigates Mississippi, Susquehanna and Powhatan. Some regions such as Antarctica and Enderbury's Land appear to be un-explored, Tasmania appears at Van Diemen's Land.
More imagesPublished by Nicholson, Washington, 1856
- First Edition
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Small Folio. House issue, of this most important expedition, led by Commodore Perry, which opened Japan to the West. original cloth, volume 2 only, but with the illustrations from volumes 1 and 2, unbound; lacking the "suppressed" NUDE BATHING PLATE. Vol. II shows minor wear at extremities,…small loss at spine ends and small stain at lower margin of first 100 pages, not affecting text; cloth darkened at lower front board. Overall very good. Lacks chart showing tracks of hurricanes at page 354. Plates are very good to fine. Neat owner name and date on title page. Folding maps bound in at rear.
