Sailing directions and nautical remarks; by officers of the late U.S. Naval expedition to Japan, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry.

£3,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare separately published report containing results of the latest surveys undertaken during the famous US expedition in 1853-54 under Commodore Perry (1794-1858) to open Japan to Western trade. The text and the large folding map includes the latest maritime data for the Philippines, the China Coast, as well as Japanese waters. According to the introduction (p. 3) the report was compiled by William Lewis Maury (1813-1878) and Silas Bent (1820-1887), who served aboard Perry’s flagship the “Mississippi”. The second part is formed of a full facsimile reproduction of the Treaty between the US and Japan together with an English translation.

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