Fac-Simile of a Japanese Drawing. Caption Title

by Commodore Matthew Perry, T. Sinclair, Lithographers

A$125 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Washington . A.O.P. Nicholson . Circa 1856 . Stock ID #217774 Coloured lithograph 21.8 x 35.3cms; 29 x 43.6cms sheet , marginal toning with a couple of minor chips and spotting, original folds, but the image clean and unmarred in very good condition. Lithograph after a Japanese woodblock prepared for Commodore Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan... . In March 1854

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