May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Arnold, Thomas. Introductory Lectures on Modern History. 8vo, contemporary diced calf, backstrip faded; bookplate on the front pastedown (Henricus Montagu Butler). Fifth Edition. London: T. Fellowes, 1860
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with a fore-edge painting titled "hull whalers in the arctic." The painting, which likely dates from the late 19th century, depicts three 3-masted ships with ice in the background surrounding a partially submerged whale that has been harpooned twice.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.