[CHAPPELL, THOMAS.] An Account of the Loss of the Essex, from havingbeen struck by a Whale in the South Seas. With Some Interesting Particulars of the Sufferings of her Crew on a Desert Island and in their Boats at Sea. From the Narrative of One of

[CHAPPELL, THOMAS.] An Account of the Loss of the Essex, from havingbeen struck by a Whale in the South Seas. With Some Interesting Particulars of the Sufferings of her Crew on a Desert Island and in their Boats at Sea. From the Narrative of One of the Survivors. IN: The Second Series: Tracts of the Religious Tract Society. In One Volume. Woodcut illustrations. 91 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary .5 calf. London, [1830] E800-1200 Complete run of the second series of Religious Tract Society publications. Number 579 is Chappell's first-hand description of the ramming and sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex by a whale in the Pacific, and the aftermath. The episode was first recounted by Owen Chase, another survivor, in his 1821 Narrative, a key source for Melville's Moby Dick. Huntress 241C.