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LOT 15:
ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS
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ANTIQUE JAPAN PERRY EXPEDITION COLOR LITHOGRAPHS
Six antique color lithograph prints including Delivery of the President's Letter, Japanese Soldiers at Yokuhama, Temple at Yokuhama, View of Uraga, Yedo Bay, Lew Chew Costumes, Middle Class after Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885), Delivering of the American Presents at Yokuhama after W. T. Peters (American, 19th century). All the illustrations are from the 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, by order of the Government of the United States is a printed history, in 3 volumes, of the Perry Expedition, written by Francis L. Hawks, under the supervision of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, and using the written materials compiled by Perry and his colleagues on the expedition. The series was first presented as a report to the United States Senate, then published commercially, in 1856.
Dimensions: Average 9" x 11 3/8" in. All measurements are approximate.
