JAPAN -- HAWKS, F.L. 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 M.C. Perry, (…). (With:) G. JONES. Observations of the Zodiacal Light, from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855. Washington, 1856. 3 vols. xvii, 537; (8), 414; xliii, 705 pp. Vol. I: 90 (cold./tinted) lithogr. plates incl. the suppressed bathing plate which is not present in most copies, and incl. 3 cold. "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints, 6 maps/charts (2 fold.), & num. woodcuts; Vol. II: 17 (cold.) lithogr. plates, 16 diagram plates of winds and currents, 14 pp. facsimile and 17 (large) fold. charts on 16 sheets, num. woodcuts; Vol. III: 352 charts depicting zodiacal light w. a text-p. 4°. Cont. hcf. (2) and ocl. (Upper inner hinge vol. 1 broken, greater part of maps a bit dam./rumpled, some waterstaining (espec. to vol. 2), some foxing in places in all vols.).
The Perry Expedition was a U.S. naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan, involving two separate trips to and from Japan by ships of the United States Navy, which took place during 1853–54. The expedition was commanded by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858). It resulted in the opening of Japan to American and international trade, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the western "Great Powers". - Sabin 159-60; Cordier Japonica 513-4; Cordier Sinica 2122-3.€ 500
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