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Report on the United States Navy...



Item # 598186

May 14, 1831

NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, May 14, 1831 

* Early United States Navy
* USS Java returns to America


Inside has: "Arrival of the Java", and "Free Persons of Color" concerning their quarantine of 40 days for all vessels containing them. Also: "American Navy" includes a list of the ships and much more on the navy including comments on ships being built.
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/2 inches, nice condition.

As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."

Category: Pre-Civil War