Item #479252 "Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew C. Perry 1794-1858 : the American naval officer who helped found Liberia, hunted pirates in the West Indies, practised diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey and the King of the Two Sicilies : commanded the gulf squadron in the Mexican war, promoted the steam navy and the shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan / by Samuel Eliot Morison. Samuel Eliot Morison.

"Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew C. Perry 1794-1858 : the American naval officer who helped found Liberia, hunted pirates in the West Indies, practised diplomacy with the Sultan of Turkey and the King of the Two Sicilies : commanded the gulf squadron in the Mexican war, promoted the steam navy and the shell gun, and conducted the naval expedition which opened Japan / by Samuel Eliot Morison

1968, First Edition. London : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-torn (with loss) dust wrapper. Blue top-edge. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #479252

Series; Atlantic Monthly Press book. Physical description; xxiii, 482 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858). United States. Navy Officers Biography. Liberia founding. Japan expedition. Samuel Eliot Morison. Old Bruin. Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Oxford University Press. Naval biography. Atlantic Monthly Press. American naval history.

Price: €25.00

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