Dec 14, 2017 - Sale 2465

Sale 2465 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ISAAC WALTON TABER.
Moby Dick. Three illustrations published in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick, or The Whale" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.) Pen and ink on board. Images measure roughly 178x203 mm; 7x8 inches, on 12x13-inch boards. Each signed in image.

Additional Details

Chapter V: "Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter deck." Chapter VI: "Initial, a Whaler" with matte captioned "drawing for a whaling initial/Gift of Mrs. Joseph Chapin, 1940" Chapter XII: "Capt. Ahab/There she blows! A hump like a snowhill it is Moby Dick."