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Whaling
Thomas BEALE. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale... to which is added, a sketch of a south-sea whaling voyage. London: John van Voorst, 1839. 8° (198 x 123mm). 3 wood-engraved plates. Original cloth (extremities slightly bumped). BM(NH) I,p.116.
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David Moore LINDSAY. A Voyage to the Arctic in the whaler Aurora. Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1911. 8° (208 x 137mm). 56 plates. Original cloth, blocked in white and gilt (spine slightly rubbed and bumped at head and foot).
Lewis HOLMES. The Arctic Whaleman; or, winter in the Arctic Ocean... together with a brief history of whaling. Boston: Wentworth & Co., 1857. 8° (184 x 125mm). 4pp. publisher's advertisements. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 full-page wood-engraved illustrations. (Some spotting.) Original cloth (rubbed, extremities scuffed); together with a collection of 76 other works on whales and whaling, mostly general modern reference works, but including the following (W.SCORESBY. The Arctic Regions and the northern whale-fishery, London, [circa 1849], 12°; George Francis DOW. Whale Ships and Whaling, Salem, Mass., 1925, 8°; Walter J.CLUTTERBUCK. The Skipper in Arctic Seas, London, 1890, 8°; Frank T.BULLEN. The Cruise of the "Cachalot" round the world after sperm whale, London, 1898, 8°; W.G.Burn MURDOCH. Modern whaling & Bear-hunting, Philadelphia & London,, 1917, 8°; Frederick W.TRUE. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge vol.XXXIII The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, Washington, 1904, large 4°; William GILKERSON. American Whalers in the Western Arctic... A portfolio... by... Gilkerson Introduced and related... by John R. Bockstoce, Fairhaven, Mass., 1983, oblong 2°). (79)
Thomas BEALE. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale... to which is added, a sketch of a south-sea whaling voyage. London: John van Voorst, 1839. 8° (198 x 123mm). 3 wood-engraved plates. Original cloth (extremities slightly bumped). BM(NH) I,p.116.
[With:]
David Moore LINDSAY. A Voyage to the Arctic in the whaler Aurora. Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1911. 8° (208 x 137mm). 56 plates. Original cloth, blocked in white and gilt (spine slightly rubbed and bumped at head and foot).
Lewis HOLMES. The Arctic Whaleman; or, winter in the Arctic Ocean... together with a brief history of whaling. Boston: Wentworth & Co., 1857. 8° (184 x 125mm). 4pp. publisher's advertisements. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 full-page wood-engraved illustrations. (Some spotting.) Original cloth (rubbed, extremities scuffed); together with a collection of 76 other works on whales and whaling, mostly general modern reference works, but including the following (W.SCORESBY. The Arctic Regions and the northern whale-fishery, London, [circa 1849], 12°; George Francis DOW. Whale Ships and Whaling, Salem, Mass., 1925, 8°; Walter J.CLUTTERBUCK. The Skipper in Arctic Seas, London, 1890, 8°; Frank T.BULLEN. The Cruise of the "Cachalot" round the world after sperm whale, London, 1898, 8°; W.G.Burn MURDOCH. Modern whaling & Bear-hunting, Philadelphia & London,, 1917, 8°; Frederick W.TRUE. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge vol.XXXIII The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, Washington, 1904, large 4°; William GILKERSON. American Whalers in the Western Arctic... A portfolio... by... Gilkerson Introduced and related... by John R. Bockstoce, Fairhaven, Mass., 1983, oblong 2°). (79)
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