Gold Rush Treasures from the SS Central America

by Q. David Bowers

$75 · Offered by Mullen Books

New York, New York: Christie's, 2000. Softcover. Red & color illus. wraps, 246 pp., color illus. VG. Item #153107 Issued in conjunction with a 2000 auction of 169 lots, mostly of gold coins, retrieved from the wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857 off the coast of North Carolina. Begins with a narrative and illustrated history of the ship and its sinking by Q. David Bowers, including a bibliography.

  • Binding: Softcover

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