A private journal of John Glendy Sprouston, U. S. N. Edited by Shio Sakanishi by SPROSTON, JOHN GLENDY - 1940

Tokyo: Sophia University, 1940. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], iii, [1], [vii]-xii, 122, [1]; 19 plates reproducing drawings from the journal; pages browning else a good, sound copy, or better in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and in silver on spine. The first publication of an original manuscript by an officer of the Perry Squadron, presumably not known to the Commodore, and coming to light at Anderson Galleries in 1926 where it was immediately bought by the Library of Congress. An important primary source at the dawn of Japanese-American relations. Issued in the publisher's Monumenta Nipponica Monograph series.