Lithograph in black with hand-coloring on wove paper, originally published 1856; together with After Hamilton Patterson: Pelor Japonicum... (Natural History Plate V), from the U.S. Japan Expedition, lithograph in black with hand-coloring on wove paper, originally published 1856; and After John Harris (1667?-1719): The Whale Fishery and Killing the Bears, from Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, originally published 1744, T. Woodward, London; and After John Webber (1751-1793), After J. Record: Caps of the Natives of Oonalashka, from James Cook's A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, engraving on laid paper, originally published 1784, W. and A. Strahan, London. Fish 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (sheet), 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (sheet), both unframed; Whales 14 1/8 x 9 in. (plate), 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (sight); and Caps 11 x 8 1/4 in. (plate), 21 x 15 in. (sheet). Note: U.S. Japan Expedition: Bayard Taylor and Hamilton Patterson accompanied Commodore Perry on his Expedition to Japan in the 1850s. One of the tasks of the expedition was to record the flora and fauna of Japan, which had previously been inaccessible to Western naturalists and scientists. James Cook's A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: On his third and final voyage, James Cook and his crew explored and charted the North American West Coast up to the Bering Strait. They then went south to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, where they stayed for three weeks among natives and Russian traders. Cook would then go on to travel south to Hawaii, where he was killed after an attempt to take the King of Hawaii hostage.,