Author: CRAPO, HENRY H.,
Title: The New-Bedford directory, containing the names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business and dwelling houses, and the town register, with lists of the streets and wharves. To which is added a list of vessels employed in the whale fishery.
Description: New-Bedford, Benjamin Lindsey, 1841 (October 1841 on frontcover). 12 (ads on pink paper) +166 pp. Hardcover. Or. printed boards with leather spine, covers with ads of David Baker, William Howe, A.D. Richmond; Amos Bates, George A. Bourne, Wm. A. Gordon. (Top of spine sl. dam.; light foxing throughout). VG. ¶ Provenance: James Thornton, with his name label on pastedown, inked signature on title, and his name in a different hand on rear pastedown (possibly the first owner of the book, and also mentioned in the directory/list of inhabitants); John Kehew, nautical instrument maker, with company label on pastedown (also mentioned in the directory); The Kendall Whaling Museum, with bookplate on front endpaper.

Keywords: Reference books naslagwerken Whales whaling. Massachusetts (Mass.) U.S.. . 1841


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