Captain Vancouver’s Voyage Captivates NE Book Auction Bidders

SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. — Conducted in two sessions, New England Book Auctions offered more than 450 lots of travel and Americana books, prints and periodicals, early and fine books, lithographs and selections from the inventory of Periodyssey, Northampton, Mass. The highest-achieving lot in either session was a record of Captain Vancouver’s survey of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. Published in London in 1798, this first edition of A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pac