Item #:37808
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, With Note of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, Its Past and Present Condition.
Browne, J. Ross.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1846), NY
b/w plates. xiii, 580, 8 pp.
Price: $650
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, With Note of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, Its Past and Present Condition.
Browne, J. Ross.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1846), NY
b/w plates. xiii, 580, 8 pp.
Price: $650
First edition of a key work on American whaling which, gives a general picture of life on a whaling ship in the 1840s and… contains much information relevant to whaling in the Pacific Ocean. – Forster 11. It was also an important source and inspiration for Herman Melville, who reviewed this book for Literary World in 1847. Jenkins p. 84. Howes B-877. Signature cut out of top of title page, with no loss of text. Prelims a bit dusty, else a good copy. Bound in original cloth. Backstrip laid down.
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