PERRY, COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH 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 Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy... Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856.3 vols. 4to, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With numerous in-text illustrations, 17 (of 25) maps, and 131 (of 139) plates, (not including the suppressed "Bath House" plate). Wear and fading to boards and spines; hinges starting; some leaves detached from backstrip, vol. 1; intermittent foxing; offsetting from plates; tears to some folding maps.