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* (CHINA) PERRY, COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the South China Seas. Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. 3 vols. 4to, publisher's blind-stamped violet cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With numerous in-text illustrations, 25 maps, 16 tables, and 139 plates, including the suppressed "Bath House" plate not called for in the contents. Wear and fading to boards; backstrips beginning to detach from all vols.; spines chipped; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates. Estimate $ 800-1,200 Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois