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187626834Portsmouth New Hampshire: O.M. Knight Publisher 1876. 84 pages. Giving a hundred-year history of this naval yard with a prefatory list of the Commandants of the Yard & their dates of service and a "List of Vessels of War built at this Station" for the Royal Colonial and the Navy of the United States at back; also an Appendix with various attestations a List of officers and petty officers of the U.S. Frigate Raleigh August 1775. Author Fentress was a long-time veteran of the Navy serving in the Civil War before capture and imprisonment at Libby Prison. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; original printed light pinkish-tan paper wrap covers; some wear spotting & dustiness to covers; faint old crease-line; contents in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. O.M. Knight, Publisher paperback books
187148202Washington D.C.: U.S. Navy Dept 1871. A collection of general orders for the US Navy nos. 1-163 along with 9 circulars; the majority bound together in half calf over marbled boards gilt spine in 5 compartments raised bands marbled edges; boards rubbed hinges cracked but sound. Orders 160-163 along with all circulars are laid in. Orders 1-70 are summarized with those following as issued. Includes an order concerning the death of President Lincoln Order 51 court martials honors the renaming of ships from Native American words to Greek and then back to Native American and so on. From the library of "Rear Admiral M. Smith U.S.N." likely Melancton Smith III who commanded the Massachusetts and Wabash for the Union during the Civil War with his label on upper free endpaper and signature on flyleaf. <br/><br/> U.S. Navy Dept hardcover books
1845WRCAM15431Np 1845. 40pp. Dbd. Ink note on titlepage attributing authorship to Commander Mercer else about fine. An essay supporting the naval personnel that were apparently criticized in the above mentioned pamphlet treating mainly the issue of the hierarchy of rank and the duties of various officers especially medical officers. SABIN 69696. unknown books
184473226Washington: GPO. Very Good. 1844. Disbound. A report to the Navy department of the United States on American coals applicable to steam navigation and to other purposes. By Walter R Johnson. 1844. Washington Printed by Gales and Seaton.English Book Book xii 607 p. illus. 25 cm.This Government Report is dis-bound removed from a larger volume. Some wear to the spine. The binding is holding tight. The contents are bright and clean with some very light foxing mainly to the page fore-edges. There are 3 fold-out illustrated plates. . GPO unknown books
188540972Newburyport: William H. Huse & Co. 1885. With lists of officers and members as well as by-laws. The venerable Newburyport Marine Society was instituted in 1772 incorporated in 1777 and revised in 1830. This copy belonged to Capt. Charles W. Brown with his inscription and bookplate. Brown was admitted as a member in 1880 and has made some manuscript annotations such as "lost at sea Nov. 29 1884" in the list of members. Spine reinforced with tape otherwise in very good condition in original brown cloth with gold cover lettering. 12mo 42 pp. William H. Huse & Co. hardcover books
18751557843d Cong. 2d Sess. Ho. of Reps. Report No. 124 1875. 130pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
1865261000New Orleans 1865. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Separations at folds crude tape repairs minor chipping. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Confed. ship attempting to run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Here a Union sailor describes one of the last naval incidents of the war in which the CSS Webb made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: "There has been a very dareing sic deed committed on this river since I wrote.All the men of war below us fired at her but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board. unknown books
1837256446Washington D.C. 1837. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. Old folds else fine. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. A PROPOSAL TO FUND NAVY PENSIONS. A chronicle of the short-lived Bank of the United States and its continued involvement in US Navy pensions. <br/><br/>After the demise of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836 a result of the historical "Bank War" between US President Andrew Jackson and Bank President Nicholas Biddle Biddle attempted to resuscitate the institution as a commercial bank chartered by the State of Pennsylvania. The former bank's stock holders except the US government voted to transfer the old bank's assets and liabilities to the new bank which made it difficult to disentangle the dealings of the defunct bank with the newly state-chartered bank. This letter from Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson discusses arrangements for The Bank of the United States to fund Navy Pensions and is an example of it's continued involvement with the US Government after the Second Bank of the United States charter had expired. Reading in part: <br/><br/>"I have received your letter of the 19th inst. and agree to the arrangement you propose that for the funds you may place at the disposal of this department for the payment of Navy Pensions credit shall be given on the Bond from the Bank of the United States chartered by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to the United States."<br/><br/>Written at the onset of the Panic of 1837 Biddle would fail to replicate the success he experienced as President of the Second Bank of the United States and resigned as President in 1839. The Bank of the Unites States failed in 1841. Biddle faced financial ruin and was arrested for fraud but was acquitted before his death in 1844. <br/><br/>Born in Hanover Township New Jersey Mahlon Dickerson 1770-1853 was a cavalry veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion who would go on to be elected Governor of New Jersey serve as US Senator receive two appointments as Secretary of the Navy and be confirmed as a judge for the United States District Court of New Jersey. unknown books
1857218260Washington D.C. 1857. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. Livingston letter stained and separated at fold others very good. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Career of Rear Admiral John W. Livingston. John W. Livingston 1804-1885 naval officer from New York City was the son of a naval surgeon William Turk in 1843 Turk and his wife Mary Livingston Turlk changed their name to Livingston. Livingston rose throught the service and untimately became Commodore during the Civil War and was promoted rear admiral in 1868. See DAB<br/><br/>The earliest letter here is a grant of one month's leave of absence to "Lieut. John W. Turk." In the form letter fromthe Dept. of Navy of 1855 the Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles W. Welsh summons Livingston to appear at a General Court Martial on board the "Receiving ship North Carolina at New York on the 28th day of April" 1855; and the letter from Captain Thomas A. Conover "Flag Officer Comdg U.S. Armed Force Coast of Afroca" conveys orders to Livingston then in command of the U.S.S. St. Louis to "proceed with all despatch to Cape Palmas on the West Coast of Africa and look after our interests in that quarter. unknown books
18681908440th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED165. 1868. 1 1 blank pp. Disbound. Caption-title as issued. Minor chipping of inside margin else Very Good. HED165. unknown books
182613113Washington: Pr. by Gales & Seaton 1826. 8vo. 11 pp. <br><br>Consists of a letter from the Navy Department pp. 34 signed in type: "Sam'l. L. Southard" and a list of officers and seamen who assisted in destroying the frigate Philadelphia pp. 56. Other letters and lists contain information on those of the crew who were still alive at the time of publication as well as the names of widows and numbers of children of those who have died.<br>Â Â Â Â In October 1803 the U.S.S. Philadelphia was captured by the Tripolitans during the blockade of the Barbary coast a great blow to the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean force. Leaving Syracuse on 3 February 1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur and his crew aboard the ketch Intrepid volunteers from the Enterprise and flagship Constitution were assigned the mission of destroying the Philadelphia in Tripoli's well-fortified harbor. The daring mission succeeded brilliantly with none of the crew killed. Government document: 19th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 4. Ho. of Reps. Navy Dept. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 26888. Removed from a nonce volume; four small holes in inner margin not touching text. Ink numeral in one corner of title-page. Foxed. Pr. by Gales & Seaton unknown books
182416716Providence: Barnum Field 1824. 12mo. Contemporary plain wrappers stitched 12pp. Rear wrapper with a couple of tears text lightly foxed Good. <br/><br/> The rare first printing of the Society's By-Laws adopted as of July 4 1824. Its 1798 Charter of Incorporation appears here for the first time after its 1799 printing. Membership is limited to past or current "commanders of vessels" to provide "for their relief in distress and for the relief of their widows and children." Honorary membership is available to "persons of other professions." <br/> Expulsion is authorized for failure to pay dues or if the member "shall sink in to a common drunkard or be guilty of any atrocious vice or become so contentious as to disturb the peace and harmony of the society." <br/>OCLC 22844084 2- Yale Brown as of October 2015. 473 NUC 0618173 1- DLC. Not in Sabin Bartlett Eberstadt AI Decker. Barnum Field unknown books
181957363Newport R.I.: printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber for the Society 1819. 8vo pp. 24; engraved frontispiece by Fairman of Providence marred by ink stains; full contemporary calf worn; small blank piece lacking from title leaf; stain on early blank leaves. Contains a list of the members from 1752 to 1819. Sectional title page for Laws of the Marine Society at p. 9; with several contemporary ink annotations in the margins including five names added to the membership list at the back. Fairman is not found in Hamilton's Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers. A 1906 Goodspeed catalogue notes of David Fairman 1782-1815 that "this is the only example of the engravers work I have seen. Stauffer says that "none of his work has been found." American Imprints 48586; Hammett p. 90; not found in Bartlett. <br/><br/> printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber, for the Society unknown books
1860D130301860s. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth morocco backstrip; folio 400x260mm; approx. pp. 100 full of manuscript entries by a single hand with permanent instructions and headings in ink and crew member names and station designations in pencil; numerous additional blanks at rear. Nonetheless a trove of information. Lined paper listing the 614 men aboard assigning each a number gun and location Fore Castle Port Main Top Mizzen Top etc.; listing division and stations; and recording details of every situation that might occur on the ship see examples below. The ship is unnamed but it appears to be a ship of the Line or a Frigate which had 3 masts as well as some minimal amount of steam power. There were 6 African-American members of the crew all of whom were Union Sailors during the Civil War Edward Turner Joseph Davis and Thomas Mills from Maryland; Henry Andres from the West Indies; Joseph Gordan from New York; Samuel R. Whittaker from Buenos Aires. Three of these men served on the USS Minnesota which may help identify the ship. Also includes the ship's Fire Bill crew member stations of Making Sail from Single Anchor Mooring and Unmooring and much more. A rich volume worthy of further study. Cloth torn; front hinge cracked; first few signatures loose. Alittle faint waterstaining and soiling but generally nice and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1843290096Paris. : Imprimerie Royale. 1843. Publisher’s printed boards. . Very good light scuffing and soiling to covers contents fresh and bright with wide margins. . 4to. 31x23cm. . French text. Uncommon report of a French commission to examine slavery and politics in the French colonies. The early eighteenth century was a time of of civil unrest and slave rebellions in the colonies and public opinion in Europe was strongly anti-slavery. This led to the final abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1848. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.4 lb. Imprimerie Royale. hardcover books
1858166961858. 38 2 blankpp disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. unknown books
1853154071853. 32d Cong. 2d Sess. HED No. 69. 1853. 91pp Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
181613097Washington: Pr. By William A. Davis 1816. 8vo. 12 i.e. 14 pp. <br><br>Navy Secretary B. W. Crowninshield's report to the Senate transmitting a list of all the ships and vessels of the United States Navy showing the names rates and stations for each vessel. Pp. 1314 misnumbered 1112. Government document: Senate document United States. Congress. Senate; 14th Congress 1st session. Unnumbered Senate document. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 39364. Removed from a nonce volume; outer margin darkened. First leaf lightly chipped in fore-margin not touching text. Pr. By William A. Davis unknown books
1816WRCAM26297Washington: Printed by William A. Davis 1816. 12pp. Dbd. Unopened. Very good. Detailed list of ships in the Navy where they are stationed and specific comments. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 39364. Printed by William A. Davis unknown books
1809WRCAM26355Washington: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1809. 11pp. plus folding charts. Dbd. Charts loose. Good. Information per the Senate request about gun boats. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 18880. Printed by Roger C. Weightman unknown books
1814TB27256Washington City: Printed By Roger C. Weightman "by order of the senate of the United States." 1814. First Edition. Very good in self-wraps removed from from its original volume with most of the signature folds separated and short closed tears at the spine edges due to the original oversewing. The large fold-out tables "List of the naval force of the United States" is separate but part of the document. Without a dust jacket. 15 numbered pages followed by a fold-out table of ships and vessels of the navy of the United States with the rate station and name of the commander of each which is followed by the motion of Mr. Horsey of the State of Delaware "praying a repeal of the act laying an embargo.on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States passed the 17th day of December A.D. 1813." Printed By Roger C. Weightman "by order of the senate of the United States." paperback books
184011618Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 8vo. 15 pp. <br><br>Concerning a meeting between William Branford Shubrick 17901874 commander of U. S. naval forces in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico and Charles Baudin 17841854 commander of French naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico with much discussion of ceremonial procedure. Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 150. Ho. of Reps. Navy Dept. Removed from a nonce volume; two holes in inner margin not touching text. Light spotting. Title-page with number inked in upper right corner by an early hand. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
181711561Washington: William A. Davis 1817. 8vo. 5 1 pp. <br><br>On the petition of Navy surgeons requesting an increase of rank and pay equivalent to that of Army surgeons. Contains a letter of B. W. Crowninshield Secretary of the Navy to the Chairman of the Naval Committee of the Senate dated 23 January 1817 and three other letters. "71" printed at head of title. Government document: Senate document United States. Congress. Senate; 14th Congress 2nd session no. 71. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 42463 & 42510. Removed from a nonce volume; gutter margin a little irregular; edges darkened. Title-page rubber-stamped by the War Department Library. William A. Davis unknown books
183118909Washington 1831. 8vo. 3 pp. <br><br>January 10 1831. Read and laid upon the table." Government document: 21st Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 38. Ho. of Reps. Navy Dept. Removed from a nonce volume. Ink numeral in top margin of p. 1. Foxing. Very good. unknown books
183118912Washington 1831. 8vo. 21 pp. <br><br>January 5 1831. Read and laid upon the table." Government document: 21st Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 28. Ho. of Reps. Navy Dept. Removed from a nonce volume. Ink numeral in top margin of p. 1. Very good. unknown books
