Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst .. door Abraham Moubach. Nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche bakkeljaau-visschery. 2e druk.

Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728.4to. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (P. van Thol & R.C. Alberts, 1727), 6 folding maps and 11 engraved plates (1 folding after A. Salm by Van der Hem). (36),392,(13),(2) pp.Second and best edition; the first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1720. - This classic work on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early 18th century. It is the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions, Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen and Strait Davis. Giving along with extensive natural history, geography, history, and economics, detailed lists of ships' outfits, lists of shipowners and captains, an extensive vocabulary, and copious other details. At the end an account of New-Foundland cod-fishing. - (p.101 with marginal tear without loss of text). - A fine copy of the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling.Tiele 1241; Cat. NHSM II, p.899; Allen 177; Jenkins p.162; Sabin 106376.Willem Barents and the wintering on Novaya Zembla (1596-1597)The Dutch Arctic navigator Willem Barents (1507-1597) undertook three voyages to the Barents Sea between the years 1594 and 1597. In 1596 Barents sailed as pilot for the third time in search of a northeast passage again under the overall command of Jacob van Heemskerk. The fateful decision of sailing to the north of Novaya Zembla, forced the crew to winter on the northeast coast of Novaya Zembla. They constructed a dwelling named Het Behouden Huys out of the ship's timbers. The wintering from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597 is the earliest over-wintering this far north. They were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barents had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. The rest of the survivors were picked up by a Dutch trading ship commanded by their former fellow traveler Jan Corneliszoon Rijp. A Norwegian harpooner, Elling-Carlsen, discovered the remains of the Saved House in 1871. The fact that this story became a classic account of a search of a northeast passage to China is not only due to the diary of Gerrit de Veer and the poem by Hendrik Tollens, but also to its importance for the cartography of the Northeast Passage.