Oct 24, 2002 - Sale 1948

Sale 1948 - Lot 382

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(PIRATES.) [Ellms, Charles]; compiler. The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. Wood-engraved plates and illustrations throughout. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth with gilt skull-and-crossbones, and anchor device along backstrip, overall rubbing with loss at tips and spine ends; owner's stamps on front endpapers, some dampstaining on preliminaries into title. Portland and Philadelphia: Sanborn and Carter (1837)