The Japan Expedition 1852-1854: the Personal Journal of Commander Matthew C. Perry
by Pineau, Roger (ed.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1968 Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1968 241 pp with B&W and color plates throughout. Introduction by Samuel Elliot Morison, the eminent historian and author of the Perry biography "Old Bruin" Commander Mathew C. Perry 1704-1858." Decorative maps on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards are clean and bright with very slight rubbing to extremities, no loss of material.DJ, in mylar wrapper, is intact and unfaded, with one small chip missing along top edge. Not price-clipped. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quarto.. First Thus.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400821
- Title
- The Japan Expedition 1852-1854: the Personal Journal of Commander Matthew C. Perry
- Author
- Pineau, Roger (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institute
- Place of Publication
- Washington D.C.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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