Whaling
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BOYS AND GIRLS LIBRARY.
Natural History of Fishes [and] The Peace Maker.
Worcester, Lazell, circa, 1830.
16mo, with wood-engravings; slight damage to spine but a very good copy in the original stiff pictorial wrappers.
Two works in one. The first, The Natural History of Fishes, is a primer for children describing twelve species...
Australian: $275 (Approx. US $248, Euro €191) Quote ref.
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CHASE, Owen.
Narrative of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket...
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.
Folio, with 12 engravings by Robert Gibbings; original green and yellow cloth, with a little rubbing to binding,...
The Golden Cockerel Press edition of this classic Pacific whaling rarity: the account of the famous Essex...
Forster, 17; Hill, p.50; Howes, 318 ('c'); Huntress, 205C; Starbuck, p. 228; Whaling Masters, p.223.
Australian: $2850 (Approx. US $2569, Euro €1977) Quote ref.
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COULTER, John.
Adventures in the Pacific...
Dublin, William Curry Jnr., 1845.
Octavo; original cloth, spine sunned, library stamp and shelf markings on title, otherwise a fine untrimmed copy.
First edition: with a detailed and lengthy account of the Marquesas in the 1830s where Coulter assumed native dress,...
Hill, p. 70; O'Reilly-Reitman, 903.
Australian: $2850 (Approx. US $2569, Euro €1977) Quote ref.
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[KERGUELEN] PAGES, Pierre-Marie François de.
Voyages autour du monde...
Paris, Moutard, 1782.
Two volumes, octavo, with ten folding engraved maps and plates; some scattered spots, small tear to first title-page,...
First edition: the rare original account of Pagès's extensive narrative of travel and exploration, of most interest for...
Hill, pp. 526-7 (English edition only); Spence, 887.
Australian: $6250 (Approx. US $5634, Euro €4336) Quote ref.
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SKOGMAN, Carl Johan Alfred.
Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden...
Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, 1854.
Two volumes in one, octavo, with three folding tinted maps, and 20 lithographs (18 coloured) and numerous woodcuts; an...
First edition: the official account of the voyage of the Eugenie, the first Swedish circumnavigation, with...
Borba de Moraes, p. 815; Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 2051; Hawaii One Hundred, 76; Hill, p. 573; Kroepelien, 1196; not in Ferguson; O'Reilly-Reitman, 1179.
Australian: $3600 (Approx. US $3245, Euro €2497) Quote ref.
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WHALES.
Fishes and Amphibious Animals. For the Use of Children.
London, Edward Lacey, circa, 1850.
Octavo, handcoloured plates; extremities worn and some stains to wrappers, but good in original wrappers with engraved...
A rare and charming natural history primer for children. This is number six of the Zoological Gallery, and...
Australian: $485 (Approx. US $437, Euro €336) Quote ref.
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[WHALING] FRENCH ARTIST.
Technical drawing of Whaling equipment.
France, circa, 1820.
Original drawing in ink on paper, 220 x 290 mm., ms. notations in ink and pencil; in fine condition, mounted.
A finely-executed nineteenth-century technical drawing showing the tryworks and various implements involved in on-board...
Australian: $4650 (Approx. US $4192, Euro €3226) Quote ref.
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