Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 377

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WHALING.) Group of early prints and plates of whaling scenes and related topics. 55 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, most 18th to mid 19th centuries

Additional Details

Highlights include an 1874 folk drawing titled "Eric the Red discovering Iceland in the Year 927" "Scheeps-tocht, in den Jaare 1596 naar Nova Zembla ondernoomen," a double-page engraved plate extracted from Le Clerc's Geschiedeniseen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, engraved by Picard Romein, 1730 3 colored aquatints by Fumagalli of Hudson's Bay and Spitzbergen Folder of 22 billheads, checks, and other ephemera depicting whaling and other plates large and small.