<mods version='3.3' xmlns='http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3'> <titleInfo> <title> Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan </title> <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 </subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo type='alternative'> <title> United States Japan Expedition </title> </titleInfo> <name type='personal'> <namePart> Perry, Matthew Calbraith </namePart> <namePart type='date'> 1794-1858 </namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority='marcrelator' type='text'> creator </roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type='personal'> <namePart> Lilly, Lambert </namePart> <namePart type='date'> 1798-1866 </namePart> </name> <name type='personal'> <namePart> Jones, George </namePart> <namePart type='date'> 1800-1870 </namePart> </name> <typeOfResource> text </typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type='code' authority='marccountry'> dcu </placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type='text'> Washington </placeTerm> </place> <publisher> Beverley Tucker, printer </publisher> <dateIssued> 1856 </dateIssued> <issuance> monographic </issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority='iso639-2b' type='code'> eng </languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <form authority='marcform'> print </form> <extent> 3 v. : ill., charts, maps, plates and portfolio (15 fold. charts, maps) ; 29 cm. </extent> </physicalDescription> <tableOfContents> Vol. 2. Natural history reports by D.S. Green ... [et al.] -- 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. </tableOfContents> <note type='statement of responsibility'> Compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers, at his request, and under his supervision, by Francis L. Hawks. </note> <note> On spine: United States Japan Expedition. </note> <note> "List of charts of the United States Japan Expedition" (15 fold sheets) issued in portfolio, to accompany v. 2. </note> <note> Vol. 2 (Natural history reports) by D. S. Green and others; v. 3 has title: Observation of 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. Printed by A.O.P. Nicholson. </note> <subject authority='lcsh'> <topic> United States Naval Expedition to Japan, 1852-1854 </topic> </subject> <subject authority='lcsh'> <geographic> Japan </geographic> <topic> Description and travel </topic> </subject> <relatedItem type='series'> <titleInfo> <title> Ex. doc. ; no. 79 </title> </titleInfo> <name type='corporate'> <namePart> United States. </namePart> <namePart> 33d Cong., 2d sess. </namePart> <namePart> Senate. </namePart> <namePart/> </name> </relatedItem> <identifier type='lccn'/> <identifier type='uri'> http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/narrativeofexped03perr </identifier> <identifier type='uri'> http://www.archive.org/details/narrativeofexped03perr </identifier> <relatedItem type='otherVersion'> <location> <url note='Online version - Biodiversity Heritage Library (incl. species name-finding tools)'> http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/narrativeofexped03perr </url> </location> </relatedItem> <relatedItem type='otherVersion'> <location> <url note='Online version - Internet Archive'> http://www.archive.org/details/narrativeofexped03perr </url> </location> </relatedItem> <location> <physicalLocation> Elec Pubs </physicalLocation> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority='marcorg'> DGW </recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding='marc'> 780710 </recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding='iso8601'> 20081209145938.0 </recordChangeDate> <recordIdentifier> 27829 </recordIdentifier> </recordInfo> </mods>