THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE, New York, 1814  Here is a lot of 10 issues from during the War of 1812 era, each issue having reports on the war. All issues have some sort of damage, perhaps half are close-trimmed at a margin affecting some words, a few with holes, etc. But all have War of 1812 content.
The desirability of this issue is amplified by its publisher, Naphtali Phillips, a prominent Jewish-American journalist of the early Republic who famously pulled the very first printed copy of Washington's Farewell Address off the press in 1796. He was also married to the daughter of Moses Seixas—the famed leader of Newport’s Touro Synagogue whose historic 1790 letter to George Washington prompted the President's immortal declaration that the U.S. government "gives to bigotry no sanction."

Background: This lot of ten 1814 issues of The National Advocate represents an exceptionally rare and historically significant grouping of War of 1812-era journalism, capturing crucial firsthand reports from a pivotal year of the conflict—including Northern border operations, Atlantic naval engagements, and the British Chesapeake campaign—on durable Early Republic rag paper. The primary desirability and distinct rarity of these issues stem directly from their publisher, Naphtali Phillips, a landmark figure in early American Jewish history and print culture who famously pulled the first printed copy of George Washington’s Farewell Address off the press in 1796 and married into the prominent Seixas family of Newport's Touro Synagogue. Because early 19th-century newspapers under Jewish proprietorship are remarkably scarce, this collection offers a rare dual convergence of wartime military history and significant early American Jewish heritage, making the lot a highly notable piece of American print culture despite minor condition flaws like close-trimmed margins and minor holes.