Author: Nordhoff, Charles
Title: Whaling and Fishing.
Description: Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1856. First edition Pp. x, 383; frontispiece plate. Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped cloth, spine is lettered in gilt and with large gilt decoration at the center of the front and rear covers, brown clay-coated endpapers, sm 8vo (6 ¾ inches x 4 ¾ inches). A rare early North American work on whaling. Bookplate from the ""House of Belt"" on the front endpaper. Signatures of Harvey Childs Nelson and Elmer G. Fitzgerald on the blank front endpaper. Spine cloth is a bit dull and shows some rubbing, contents and front and rear covers are bright and clean; overall about very good..

Keywords: Whales Whaling mammals marine mammals cetacean Cetacea fishing North America


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