AMER WINTER 2018
The live portion of this session begins on Thursday, February 8, 2018.
JOURNAL USS BOSTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON STORER, COMMANDER, 1830-1832.Fine, large manuscript leather bound folio, 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Titled on page 1 "JOURNAL OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES SLOOP OF WAR BOSTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON STORER ESQ, COMMANDER FROM NEW YORK TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, COMMENCING JUNE 29, 1830". This same page lists officers who began the trip, day-by-day occurrences are detailed on the approximate 200 pages, ending December 13, 1832 back at the Boston Navy Yard where the marines were transferred to the barracks and the men were discharged, finally hauling down the colors ending 2-1/2 year voyage at sea to the Mediterranean and back. The USS Boston was an 18-gun sloop of war launched in 1825. It served in Brazil 1826-1829 and then as part of the Mediterranean station which this journal details 1830-1832. The Boston was wrecked on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 15, 1846 during a storm, although the ship was lost, all hands were saved. SIZE: CONDITION: Very good. Full leather binding is scuffed, but signatures and pages are tight and clean, French end papers and decorated raised spine. 52737-4 JGS (1,500-3,000)