Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 500
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WHALING.) Group of titles relating to Melville's Moby Dick. 5 titles in 6 volumes; 8vo, various bindings and conditions. Vp, 1822-51
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Porter. "Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean . . . in the United States Frigate Essex." Folding map, 8 plates, folding table. 2 volumes. Unmatched bindings; foxing and dampstaining; 2nd edition. New York, 1822.
J.N. Reynolds. "Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific," extracted from an 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine. Pages 377-392; modern boards.
Volume of The Knickerbocker, July-December 1836, with 2 references to J.N. Reynolds: a short note on the planned South-Sea Exploring Expedition, page 247; and a review of his "Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition," pages 742-5.
Volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June-November 1851, including Melville's "The Town-Ho's Story," pages 658-665.
J.N. Reynolds. "Voyage of the United States Frigate Potomac." 8vo, modern binding, plates conserved; not collated. New York, 1835.