Research Catalog

Title

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan [electronic resource] : 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 ; compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers, at his request, and under his supervision, by Francis L. Hawks.

Author

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856.

Details

Additional Authors

• Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866.
• Jones, George, 1800-1870.
• United States. Navy Department.
• United States. Congress (33rd : 1853-1855)

Description

1 online resource (3 v.) : ill. (some fold.), maps (17 fold.), ports., facsims.

Series Statement

• 33d Cong., 2d sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc. ; no. 97
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House) ; 33rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 97.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
• Japan > Description and travel
• United States > Foreign relations > Japan
• Japan > Foreign relations > United States

Note

• Includes index.
• Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Contents

v. 1. Narrative of the expedition / compiled by F.L. Hawks from the journals of Perry and his officers -- v. 2. [Natural history reports / D.S. Green and others] -- v. 3. Observations on the zodiacal light / Rev. George Jones.

OCLC

• 366454
• NCCO2007078

Author

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.

Title

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan [electronic resource] : 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 ; compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers, at his request, and under his supervision, by Francis L. Hawks.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856.

Series

33d Cong., 2d sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc. ; no. 97

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House) ; 33rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 97.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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Added Author

Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866.

Jones, George, 1800-1870.

United States. Navy Department.

United States. Congress (33rd : 1853-1855)