1859 Japan and the Japanese: A Narrative of the U. S. Government Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry

Description

Illustrated, Very Scarce

Second edition. A very scarce volume. 

First published in the U.S. under the title 'The Americans in Japan: An Abridgement of the Government Narrative of the U.S. Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry'. 

Rebacked, with the original cloth for the boards and spine laid down.

A contemporary account of this significant expedition led by U.S. Navy officer Matthew C. Perry, who signed the Convention of Kanagawa - a treaty which effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text engravings. With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. 

Collated, complete. 

From Robert Tomes, an American physician, diplomat and writer.