Assorted Group of Early American Marine Ephemera

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Assorted Group of Early American Marine Ephemera, the items primarily pertaining to individuals and vessels from Salem, Massachusetts, before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, highlights including a prize of war declaration of the sloop Andrigo of Salem to the French private sloop Le Brilliant dated July 22 1759, a bound booklet containing remarks and statistics on board the private arms ship America, commanded by James Cheever, Jr., beginning November 24, 1814 and ending April 8, 1815, including lists of vessels captured by the America and ship John, and articles of agreement between the owners and crew; deposition and protest dated January 12, 1811, by the crew of the American brig Nabby, stating its unseaworthyness, the cargo thrown overboard, and the vessel to be sold for scrap; nine small hand-drawn charts tracking the 1817 voyage of the brig Ceres of Salem to Sumatra; a journal inscribed by Nathaniel Hathorne (the father of the notable author),dated 1796, of the voyage of the ship Perseverance on its passage from Salem to Betavia; a small journal kept on board the private armed ship John James, a small ink sketch of a sundial; a booklet containing transcriptions of late 18th century documents written by Captain J.P. Felt of Salem, including the formation of the Salem Marine Society and listing of its first members, lists of American privateers fitted out from Salem during the Revolutionary War, transcribed by R.L. Paine in 1834; a handwritten contemporary narrative of the loss of His Majesty's ship L. Hector in a letter to the secretary to the admiralty, November 23, 1782.



Estimate $6,000-8,000

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