Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Subtitle: 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
By: Pub. by order of the Congress of the United States
Series: Harvard astronomy preservation microfilm project -- 00127; Western books on Asia -- fiches 1,390-1,415
Publisher: B. Tucker, Senate printer
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; Voyages and travels; United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854); United States. Navy. East India Squadron
Notes: At head of title of v. 2: 33d Cong., 2d Sess. Senate. Exec. doc. no. 79.

Vol. 1 compiled from the original notes and journals of Com. Perry ... by Francis L. Hawks ...; v. 2 Natural history reports, by D. S. Green and others; v. 3 has title: United States Japan expedition. Observations on the zodiacal light, from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855, made chiefly on board the United States steam-frigate Mississippi, during her late cruise in eastern seas, and her voyage homeward: with conclusions from the data thus obtained; by Rev. George Jones.

Expedition known as U.S. Japan expedition.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., Xerox University Microfilms, 1974. 35 mm. (American Culture Series, reel 595.3-596.1)
Table of contents: title: Vol. 2. Natural history reports by D.S. Green [et al.] ... Account of the botanical specimens collected in Japan by S. Wells Williams and James Morrow by Asa Gray [et al.]; title: v. 3. Observation on the zodiacal light, from April 2, 1853 to April 22, 1855, made chiefly on board the United States Steam-Frigate Mississippi ... with conclusions from the data thus obtained / by George Jones.