Ibunso Collection Of Exotic Tales

$4,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Japan : n.p, circa 1853 . Manuscript collection of three foreign affairs reports documenting late-Edo Japan's intelligence gathering and strategic planning around the years of Commodore Perry's armed arrival in 1853. Very good. Item #52590 A rare primary source from an epochal turning point in world history. After word reached the Tokugawa shogunate of Perry's imminent expedition to pressure Japan into opening to wider

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