Set of four plates from narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the china Seas & Japan, Nat Hist. Fish Pl. III, Pl. IV, Pl. V, Pl. VIII 1856 [4], Handcoloured engravings del. H. Patterson, 20 x 50 cm, 50 x 20 cm. Literature: 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, was printed in Washington, D.C. By A.O.P. Nicholson in 1856