Naval Expedition to Japan by Commodore Perry

Message of the President of the United States; Correspondence relative to the naval expedition to Japan; transmitting a report of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 6, 1854, calling for correspondence, &c., relative to the naval expedition to Japan

Much of the text by Commodore Matthew Perry

Published by (n.p.), Washington DC, 1855

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Commodore Perry's correspondence written during his historic two-year expedition to Japan, which led to the opening of the island nation to the West. This is the first publication of Perry's dispatches detailing his observations on Japan at a time when it was very little known in the United States. This collection of Perry's dispatches, with some correspondence from the Pierce and Filmore administrations. Pages foxed; the original publisher's purple cloth faded at the spine. Front endpaper has flamboyant signature that has bled through to second endpaper. Otherwise tight and clean