Image Lot Price Description

2030
$4,600.00

APPROXIMATELY 35 EARLY PAMPHLETS AND BOOKLETS. A number of them bearing the name George W. Storer, U.S.N. An example of some of these include “Regulations for the Uniform and Dress of the Navy of the United States, 1841”; “Regulations of the Federal Fire Society of Portsmouth, 1854” and 1826; “Cutlass Drill”; “Boat Signals for the U.S. European Squadron”; “Rules of the Navy Department, 1832”; “Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California in Illustration of his map of Oregon and California by John Charles Freemont, 1848” (no map); Correspondence between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, 1820 (Barron killed Commodore Stephen Decatur in a duel); “Court of Inquiry held at the Navy Yard Brooklyn, NY upon Captain James Barron of the United States Navy in May 1821”; “Case of the Somers Mutiny, 1843”; A memorial for Commodore Stephen Decatur dated November 24, 1849; “An Imposter Detected or an Exposure of the Calumnies and False Hoods of Vincent Molte on the Character of Thomas Shields, New Orleans, 1815”; plus many more. CONDITION: Varies, generally good. 9-98739 (500-1,000)


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - Winter 2010
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