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Lot 363
363. Goode (George Brown) th e fi s h e r i e s a n d fi s h e ry in d u s t r i e s
o f t h e un i t e d stat e s, 5 vol. in 7, plates and maps, some folding,
1884-87 § United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IV.
Report of the Commissioner for 1875-1876, plates, lightly browned,
1878, original cloth, rubbed, some wear to joints and spine ends,
4to, Washington, DC (8) £200 - £300
*** The second includes an illustrated 768pp. Appendix History of
the American Whjqale Fishery from its Earliest Conception to the
Year 1876 by Alexander Starbuck.
Lot 364
364. Hawley (Frank) wh a l e s & wh a l i n g in Ja pa n, Vol.I, Part I
[all published], Miscellanea Japonica II, n u m b e r 78 o f 125 C o p i e s,
printed on handmade paper, folding colour woodblock frontispiece
of “The Harpooneers’ Carouse”, plates, some folding, errata slip in
Japanese loosely inserted, original morocco-backed boards, uncut,
spine slightly spotted, dust-jacket frayed and defective at spine,
board slip-case (slighlty rubbed), 4to, Kyoto, for the Author, 1958-
60. £250 - £350
*** Three volumes were planned but only this published.
365. Jenkins (James Travis) bi b l i o g r a p h y o f wh a l i n g, Journal of
the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History vol.2 part 4 pp.71-
166, modern cloth, 1948 § Forster (Honore) The South Sea Whaler:
An Annotated Bibliography, Sharon, 1985 § Sherman (S.C.) and
others. Whaling Logbooks and Journals 1613-1927: An Inventory
of Manuscript Records in Public Collections, New York & London,
1986 § Truitt (Deborah) Dolphins and Porpoises; A Comprehensive,
Annotated Bibliography of the Smaller Cetacea, Detroit, 1974,
all but the first original cloth; and 12 others, bibliography, some
pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (16) £100 - £150
Lot 366
LONDON
366. Kingston (W.H.G.) th e so u t h se a wh a l e r, 1882 § Hazen
(Jacob A.) Five Years before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle
aboard of a Whaler and Man-of-War, second edition, Philadelphia,
1854 § Davis (William M.) Nimrod of the Sea; or, the American
Whaleman, 1874 § Rand (Edward A.) Up North in a Whaler, [c.1900]
§ Ballantyne (R.M.) The World of Ice or, the Whaling Cruise of
“The Dolphin”, 1873, plates and illustrations, some spotting or
browning, original cloth, the first four pictorial gilt, rubbed; and
c.50 others whaling and maritime fiction including some Melville,
8vo et infra (c.55) £150 - £200
367. Lubbock (Basil) th e ar C t i C wh a l e r s, with a small bundle of
letters from various people addressed to Basil Lubbock concerning
whaling ships loosely inserted, Glasgow, 1937 § Chatterton
(E.Keble) Whalers and Whaling, foxed, 1925 § Dow (G.F.) Whale
Ships and Whaling, Salem, 1925 § Ashley (Clifford W.) The Yankee
Whaler, limited edition, worming to joints, lacking front free
endpaper, [c.1936] § Leavitt (John E.;) The Charles W.Morgan,
Mystic, Ct., 1973 § Harland (John H.) Catchers and Corvettes: The
Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War 1860-1960, upper hinge
broken, Rotherfield, 1992, plates and illustrations, original cloth or
cloth-backed boards, the first three rubbed, some spines faded, the
last three with dust-jackets, the fourth also with slip-case (worn);
and 12 others on whaling ships, v.s. (18) £250 - £350
368. Markham (Albert Hastings) a wh a l i n g Cr u i s e to baffin’s
bay ..., first e d i t i o n, wood-engraved plates and illustrations,
some foxing, contemporary calf, spine rubbed and faded, 1874 §
Walker (A.Barclay) The Cruise of the Esquimaux...to Davis Straits
and Baffin Bay..., Liverpool, 1900 § Smith (C.E.) From the Deep
of the Sea..., 1922 § Lindsay (D.M.) A Voyage to the Arctic in
the Whaler Aurora, 1911 § Barron (Capt. William) Old Whaling
Days, Hull, 1895 § Jackson (Gordon) The British Whaling Trade,
1978 § Lacroix (L.) Les Derniers Baleiniers Français, modern half
morocco, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in, Nantes, 1947,
plates and illustrations, all but the first and last original cloth or
boards, rubbed, some a little stained, the sixth with dust-jacket; and
c.45 others on northern whaling, mostly Arctic, 8vo & 4to (c.50)
£250 - £350
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