Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 514

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Chase, Owen; et al. Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. 12 wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbins. Tall 4to, gilt-lettered green and yellow cloth, lightly soiled, extremities rubbed; some toning to endpapers and a small owner's book label. number 11 of 275 copies and the work that served as an inspiration for Melville's Moby Dick. London, 1935