Whaling
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The Story of the Pacific : Explorers of the Earth's Mightiest Ocean
by Rabling, Harold
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.. 1965. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Dustjacket lightly rubbed. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Library Edition - meaning the hinges are reinforced at binding time. 191pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Hardback.
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€9.27
WHALING AND OLD SALEM
by Frances Diane Robotti
New York: Bonanza. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light staining on side text block edge. Light rubbing along panel edges. Small chip at spine crown. .
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€66.12
Logbook for Grace
by Murphy, Robert Cushman
Time Inc., 1947. 1965. good. tpb slight cresing of cover and a small chip off back top. Describes passages thorugh the Sargasso sea and Cape Horn, the whaling activity and the life aboard the ships.
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€6.92
Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the east coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool
by Scoresby, William Junior
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1823. Octavo Size. Good++ condition. Half leather, marbled boards, title patch to top of spine. Bookplate to front paste-down. Leather lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Rear board has a small chip to leading edge. Plate 1 - the general map, is a copy (sympathetically copied) tipped in as original plate torn out. All other maps/plates are present and original. Some foxing throughout. A very clean, tight copy of this important work. 472 pages. An...
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€540.58
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by Holden, Robert
Sydney: Harper Collins. 2003. Very Good condition. 302 pages. The life of Australian whaling captain, William Chamberlain: a tale of abduction, adventure and murder. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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€8.65
Whale Hunt
by Nelson Cole Haley
Ives Washburn, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. No Edition Remark. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decorations. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned.
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€10.63
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[Photo Album Depicting Whale Hunts and other Native American Activities]
by Lesneski, Richard P
Barrow (Now Utqiagvik), Alaska, 1959. Very good. 7" x 11". String tied, cloth over wood. 47 leaves with 109 black and white photographs adhesive mounted rectos only with another 8 laid in; 57 photos measure 4 7/8" x 4 7/8" or larger, the rest a mix of sizes; several are captioned. Album very good with moderate wear; photos generally very good or better. This is a photo album with approximately 80 photographs showing Native Americans in the northernmost regions of the United States. It was compiled by...
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€2,363.00
The Yankee Whaler (Publisher series: Classic Reprint Series.)
by Ashley, Clifford W. (With Zephaniah W. Pease.)
Ottawa: Algrove Publishing Limited [1-894572-40-8] 2001, reprint of the 1926 edition. (Hardcover) 379pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Black cloth with color illustration and gilt lettering. Illustrated title page, black and white and color illustrations, tables, photographs, diagrams, glossary, bibliography. Publisher series: Classic Reprint Series. Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy. Locale: Massachusetts; United States. (Transportation, Schooners, Ships, Whaleboats, Whalers, Whaling).
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€29.77
Whaling and Old Salem
by Robotti, Frances Diane
New York: Fountainhead Publishers [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xxi, [3], 292, [4] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white plates. With an introduction by Henry Beetle Hough. Minor bowing to the boards; jacket is price-clipped with minor edge wear.
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€20.79
WHALE HUNT: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship 'Charles W Morgan' 1849-1853
by Haley, Nelson Cole
Travel Book Club, London, 1951. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. Travel Book Club Edition; 319 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. Original covers in original dust jacket. Nice clean copy. Synopsis: Haley ran away at the age of twelve. Returned to school in 1848/49 but within a few months went off to sea in the ship Charles W Morgan. The author wrote this at the time of his marriage in 1864 after he had retired from the sea and was living in Hawaii. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1...
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€14.78
WHALE HUNT: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship 'Charles W Morgan' 1849-1853
by Haley, Nelson Cole
Robert Hale Ltd, London, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition; 319 pages, 16 b/w illustrations, end paper maps. Blue covers, no dust jacket. Covers grubby and faded, shelf wear, spine faded, end paper hinges previously reinforced with blue tape, contents clean. Synopsis:Haley ran away at the age of twelve. Returned to school in 1848/49 but within a few months went off to sea in the ship Charles W Morgan. The author wrote this at the time of his marriage in 1864 after he...
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€11.82
WHALING NORTH AND SOUTH
by Morley F.V. & Hodgson J.S
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: xvii, (2), 229pp, (2) [8 publishers advertisements], illustrated, 47 b/w photographs on plates, plus one page of drawings, Polar maps on front end-papers. Blue cloth covers, block titling to front cover and gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket. Vivid (and well illustrated) descriptions of whaling in the 1920s, in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Spence 812. A personal narrative of whaling in the Arctic and Antarctic along with the...
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€41.38
Birth of a whaleship
by Hegarty, Reginald B
New Bedford Public Library, Mass., 1964. 159 p. ill. b/w lines of the ships and photographs. very good decorated boards, slight sunning of spine. Covers the construction of New Bedford whalers, these barquentine ships famous late 1800's stood the rigors long sea passages. The details of the hull design and all the masts, rigging, sails are explained.
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€34.61
One Whaling Family
by Williams, Harold
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Whaling in the 1800's from the journals and manuscripts of 3 Williams family members. End paper maps. The spine is sunned and the gilt spine lettering is dull. The contents are clean and tight and there are no interior or exterior markings or owner names.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 401 pages .
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€11.30
Whale Hunt
by Nelson Cole Haley
London: The Travel Book Club, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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€4.73
Whaler's Eye
by ASH, Christopher
England: George Allen & Unwin, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Book and dustwrapper lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, book cover and foredges soiled, dustwrapper worn and soiled. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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€18.90
Rebel Down Under: When the "Shenandoah" shook Melbourne, 1865
by Pearl, Cyril
Heinemann, Melbourne, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 500 g; IX, 202 pp., last two blank, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, two appendices, select bibliography. Illustrated black and white frontispiece, of Captain James Waddell. The text is illustrated with contemporary black and white illustrations and sketches. Dark blue boards with gilt writing on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing sailing ship at berth, blue background with white and black writing on...
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€18.55
Whaling Around Australia
by Colwell, Max
Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 168 pages, Bibliography and Index. A complete history of the Whaling industry in Australian waters. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€11.12
SHE BLOWS! AND SPARM AT THAT!
by William John Hopkins
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket as published. With Illustrations from paintings by Clifford W. Ashley. There are 361pp. Rare in this edition and condition. A clean, tight copy. Illustrated with glossy B & W plates. Second Impression stated.
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€37.81
THE YANKEE WHALER
by Clifford W. Ashley
New York: Dover. 1991. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good+ in wraps. .
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€66.12
CRUISES IN THE BERING SEA
by Niedieck, Paul (Translated From The Original German by R. A. Ploetz, M. A
Small quarto (9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches) London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1909. First Edition. xv, 252 + [4] pages of Publisher's Advertisements, "With 73 Full-Page Plates (on unnumbered leaves), a Map, and 56 Illustrations in the Text, Reproduced From Original Photographs."
The colored map is folded into a pocket attached to the rear pastedown. Original gray cloth binding with title and author on upper cover, and in gilt on spine; patterned end papers, appendix, and index. Very good condition (small blemish... Read more about this item
The colored map is folded into a pocket attached to the rear pastedown. Original gray cloth binding with title and author on upper cover, and in gilt on spine; patterned end papers, appendix, and index. Very good condition (small blemish... Read more about this item
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€165.41
WHALER'S EYE
by Ash, Christopher
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket. Three thick ink marks on copyright page, has slightly bled onto dedication page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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€41.31
Japanese Position on Whaling and Anti-Whaling Campaign 捕鯨における日本の立場と反捕鯨キャンペーン (Hogē Ni Okeru Nihon no Tachiba to Hanhogē Kyanpe-n)
Tokyo: The Institute of Cetacean Research, 1998. Paperback. 54p., wraps, 7x10 inches. Small scratch on rear cover, else very good. Text appears in English and Japanese.
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€20.79
Whale Hunt
by Nelson Cole Haley
Rear cover sunned adjacent to spine; a couple of spots on front cover; a little light spotting to prelims; o/w, a nice clean copy
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€5.91
