Resultados da Pesquisa: the whale and his captors por cheever rev henry

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, (1991). hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Fairfield, WA:Ye Galleon Press. (1991). Facsimile reprint of 1850 edition.  314pp+6pp ads and colophon. Illustrated. Hardcover.  A very good clean copy, inside and out.  

London: T.Nelson and Sons, 1859. Hardback. Fair. Small blue boards, 240pp. Ink school prize inscription to 1st fep, dated 1860. B&w frontis has scattered foxing around the edges. Publishing history of this title written in pencil on rear pastedown by a previous owner. Externally scuffed, bumped and a little worn at corners and ends of spine. Inside, top inch of Preface page missing, with the loss of a few lines of Preface text. Tiny corner of piece of one internal page missing, text unaffected. Inside, pages a little tanned, occasional scattered foxing to some pages, well-thumbed. But otherwise a good tight copy and priced accordingly. Size: 5 x 4 Inches Approx

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Scarce in this first edition. He recounts tales of whaling in the waters off New Zealand, near the Rio de la Plata, and in the Arctic Sea. A history of whaling is also included, as is the peculiar vocabulary of whalemen.Hill 283 (who notes only the 1850 edition). Forster 21. Bound in publisher's blind stamped and decorated red cloth. Scattered foxing, some cover wear. A good copy only.. 11 x 17 cm. xiii, 314, 5 (publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved plates.