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"Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858;: The American Naval Officer Who Helped Found Liberia

Samuel Eliot Morison

A very good+ copy, clean, crisp, and unmarked, in a very good- dust jacket with some foxing and a few chips and tears. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xxiii, 482 pp. Illus. with 75 b/w photos, drawings, and maps. 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 Gult Squadron in the Mexican War, Promoted the Steam Navy and the Shell Gun, and Conducted the Naval Expedition which Opened Japan.

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482 pages

English edition · First published 1967 by Little, Brown · ISBN 9781199117571

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