[Rarebooks] FS: 1821 Annotated U.S. Naval Register

[Kaaterskill Books]

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United States Navy. REGISTER OF THE COMMISSION AND WARRANT OFFICERS 
OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES; INCLUDING OFFICERS OF THE MARINE 
CORPS, &C. &C. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 
CONFORMABLY TO A RESOLUTION, OF THE HON. SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, 
PASSED 2D AUGUST, 1813. n.p.: Metropolitan Press, 1821. 31, [1] pp. 
Sm. 8vo. Plain paper wrappers. Shaw & Shoemaker 7397; Barnes p.242. 
Includes errata: "The following changes have taken place in the 
Register, since the first impressions were stricken off by the 
printer," p. [32].

The copy of Lewis R[ichard] Morris (1760 -1825) of Springfield, 
United States Representative from Vermont, a brigadier general in the 
State militia and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 
1817, who helped bridge the Connecticut River and lock it at Bellows 
Falls. A gift from his friend Mark Richards. Later stamp of Mrs. E. 
E. Atwater. Heavily annotated with then current updates including 
those retired or deceased, the new ships to which officers were 
assigned, etc. Includes name, rank, date of Commission, and where 
stationed, for the entire Navy and Marine Corps, pay scales, 
storekeepers, constructors, a list of vessels (7 battleships, 8 
frigates including 1 powered by steam, 2 corvettes, 5 sloops, 2 
brigs, 5 schooners, and 6 gunboats). OCLC shows one at the Univ. 
Rochester; also copies at the Preble Collection at the Navy Dept. 
Lib. and the AAS, all with errata. A well annotated copy, rebound 
with blank wrappers and cloth spine, cloth now lacking, mathematical 
notations on wrappers, with earliest containing a list of the number 
of members in each of the ranks. Period signatures and notations on 
wrappers which are soiled and darkened, institutional blind stamp and 
faint ink stamp on title page, gift inscription on first blank, 
further gift stamps on first blank and rear wrapper, occasional 
marginal chips and wear, still about good.  [31457] $300.00


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