Report of the Secretary of the Navy (1832, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1847, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1867, 1868) (Commodore George S. Blake's copy)

Secretary of the Navy; Gideon Welles; John Y. Mason; Abel P. Upshur; James K. Paulding; Mahlon Dickerson; Levi Woodbury

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1832

[Commodore George S. Blake's copy]  8 volumes, containing 13 years of the Secretary of the Navy's annual reports (Including: 1832, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1847, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1867, 1868).    Pages are in good condition. Large folding, engraved plate in 1864 volume. Folding maps showing squadrons engaging Confederate naval forces in the 1863 volume.  Etc.   

Inscription from Commodore George Smith Blake (1803-1871).   Blake has signed some of the title pages. Commodore Blake was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy from 1857 to 1865. Blake was an antiquarian and Massachusetts native.  He donated these books to the Brookline (MA) public Library in 1871.  A gift inscription to Blake in the 1867 volume states, "Compliments of the Secretary of the Navy."