Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, A Commander in the Navy of the United States, etc., Including The Charges and Specifications of Charges, Preferred Against Him by the Secretary of the Navy, To Which is Annexed an Elaborate Review.

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In black cloth with title embossed in gilt on spine ("Cooper's Review of the MacKenzie Case") and on front board ("The Mackenzie Case with a Review by J.F. Cooper".) Book has been archivally re-cased using original covers and spine, with replacement paste-downs and end papers. Text block is tight and clean. Bookplate on front board paste-down of H.O. Havemeyer, Jr, designed by the artist Joseph Winfred Spenceley. Havemeyer (1847-1907) was from a prominent New York family that included a former Mayor of New York, and was himself the founder of the company that eventually came to be called Domino Sugar. The trial of Naval Commander Mackenzie was a sensation at the time and is considered to have been the impetus for the founding of the US Naval Academy. Mackenzie commanded the ship "Somers", which embarked on a voyage to Africa 1842, and was an experimental schoolship for naval apprentices, staffed with a mostly inexperienced crew. Three of the crew members (including the 19 year old son of the Secretary of War) mutinied and were executed on board after an investigation. Upon return, Mackenzie was court martialed but exonerated after trial. This book contains the proceedings of the court martial, follow by an 81-page review by James Fennimore Cooper (renowned author of "Last of the Mohicans", etc), who was highly critical of Mackenzie. N° de ref. del artículo 003081

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