Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Bound volume of printed Bureau of Ordnance circulars. Pages 1-55 as reissued, with 11 additional leaves bound or pasted in. 12mo, contemporary gilt pictorial calf, worn; some leaves docketed in ink by recipient. Washington, 1863-85
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These orders were issued to Acting Master Alfred L.B. Zerega of the USS Antona, a steamer on blockade duty in the Gulf of Mexico. Printed naval orders are much less frequently seen than Army orders. with--an incomplete run of 39 disbound naval general orders, most signed in type by Gideon Welles, 1863-5.