Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858) ed. Francis L. Hawks (1798-1866)
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan.

Washington D.C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856.

Special presentation copy with secretarial note signed by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) as first edition, President, sending this specially bound copy to Sir Edward Thornton (1817-1906), "As a slight evidence of his kindness in undertaking the laborious task of arbitrating the questions between the United States and Brazil in the case of the ship 'Canada.'" Signed January 14, 1871; bound in full contemporary pebbled navy morocco over beveled boards, gilt extra; with Grant's note tipped between endleaves in volume one; illustrated with all plates as called for, the set consisting of four large quarto volumes in uniform deluxe bindings, aeg, 11 x 8 1/2 in. (4)

Hill 1332; Sabin 30968.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.