Collected Essays on Defence Strategy, and an Account of Perry's Arrival in Japan

by Perry Expedition To Japan

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original grey wrappers, stitched as issued, manuscript cover label A contemporary Japanese manuscript sammelband recording the defensive anxieties and administrative response prompted by Commodore Matthew C. Perry's return to Japan in 1854, with manuscript maps, plans, and sketches connected with the negotiations at Kanagawa. This composite manuscript brings together two Japanese reports produced in the immediate context of Perry's expedition to Japan. The first, a

• Binding: Wrappers

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