Commodore John Rodgers [Book Advertisement]; Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Nave 1773-1838

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. ingle sheet, printed on both sides. Fair. RARE SURVIVING COPY. Single sheet, approximately 12 inches by 9.25 inches, folded in half to make for pages/panels. This brochure/flyer is printed on three of the four sides. It is primarily in black in with several lines in red. The edges and worn, chipped and frayed. The rear panel/page is blank. The advertisement opens with the statement: "This biography, the only one extant, constitutes in no small measure a history of the American Navy during his years of service, 1798 t0 1838, and contains much very important historical material related to this period, chiefly from unpublished manuscripts and scarce documents. It also constitutes perhaps the most graphic account of the old navy, 1794 to 1855, with much valuable and picturesque information relating to the ships, officers, and seamen. Charles Oscar Paullin (20 July 1869 - 1 September 1944) was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy. Following completion of his doctorate, he published a series of articles in the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings between 1905 and 1914 that constituted the first administrative history of the U.S. Navy. They were published posthumously as a book in 1968, twenty-four years after his death. Similarly, a series of articles on American Voyages to the Orient was published in 1971. From 1910 to his retirement in 1936, Paullin served on the research staff of the Carnegie Institution. He published his major works on naval history between 1905 and 1918. The Arthur H. Clark Company (founded 1902) is a major printer of publications related to the history of the Western United States. The company was named for its founder Arthur Henry Clark (1868-1951). He was born and raised in England and attended the University of Oxford for a time before having to find work because of reverses in his family finances. He then began an apprenticeship with the publishing house of Henry Southern & Company. After completing his apprenticeship he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he took a job in Alexander C. McClurg's publishing house A. C. McClurg and Company. In 1892 Clark established his own bookstore in Chicago. He was then recruited by Burrows Brothers of Cleveland, Ohio where he became manager of their rare book sales. While with Burrows Brothers Clark was the main force behind the publication of The Jesuit Relations (first published 1632-1673). In 1902 Clark established Arthur H. Clark company as a bookselling and publishing establishment in Cleveland. The company's first publication was a 16-volume collection by Archer Butler Hulbert on historical trails in the United States east of the Mississippi. The next publication was a collection of the lectures of historian John Bach McMaster. In 1930 the company headquarters were relocated to Glendale, California. The biggest undertaking of the company in the decade after its founders death when leadership was taken over by Arthur H. Clark, Jr. was the 14 Volume The Far West and the Rockies, 1820-1875, a collection of primary documents of early Western United States history edited by Leroy R. Hafen and his wife Ann W. Hafen. In July 2006, the company was acquired by the University of Oklahoma Press and relocated to Norman, Oklahoma, where it continues as an imprint.