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- Hegarty, Reginald B. (compiler). 1959
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- $55 … SALE $40 Johnson, W.M., 2004
Forster, Honore. 1985. The South Sea Whaler. An Annotated Bibliography of Published Historical, Literary, and Art Material Relating to Whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the 19th Century. First edition. Kendall Whaling Museum & Edward J. Lefkowicz: Sharon and Fairhaven, Massachusetts. ix + 157 pp., endpaper maps (2 copies) hardcover, 4to near fine, second copy new in wraps [Indispensable for scholars, and students of whaling history with published diaries, autobiographies, narratives, scholarly works, adult and juvenile fiction, dissertations, and more pertaining to whaling in the Pacific. Its full appendixes and indexes for islands, vessels, and captains make it a researcher's dream] $18 Follman, E.H. and A.E. Manning. 1989. The use of radio telemetry as an aid in the retrieval of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) stuck during the Annual Eskimo Subsistence Hunt in Alaska. Arctic (Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America) 12(3): 89-198. [part of the entire journal issue) HC, marbled edgewear, shelfwear spine lettering $30 NB Foreman, Henry Chandlee. 1966. Early Nantucket and Its Whale Houses. Hastings House: New York. 291 pp., illus. and photos throughout Original HC, dust jacket, mylar sleeve, shelf wear, ex library with book plates and stamps $35 JC Francis, Daniel. 1984. Arctic Chase. A History of Whaling in Canada's North. Tops'l: London. 117 pp., 24 b/w photos Paperback, 8vo, very good [The whale hunt in the eastern and western Arctic, using firsthand accounts; records Canada's whale fishery industry and foreshadows Arctic territorial ownership in modern day oil and gas exploration] $20 … Garrett, Howard and Candice Keays Garrett. 1985. New England Whales. Whalesong Publishing Company: Rockport, Massachusetts. 33 pp., color photos throughout Original paper, card stock covers, new, signed by both authors $15 Grady, Don. 1986. Sealers and Whalers in New Zealand Waters. First edition. Reed Methuen: Auckland, New Zealand. 307 pp., copious illustrations, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams, endpaper maps Original HC, DJ, large 8vo, fine [Sealing and whaling in the southern pacific region from the earliest days to the modern era of Conservation] $85 … Goode, George Brown. 1887. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V - History and Methods of the Fisheries - Volume II. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: Washington, D.C. xx + 881 pp., many tables, few b/w drawings HC, large, 4to, reading copy, leather boards detached, spine partially missing, text is very good [Chapters include: the Whale Fishery, the Blackfish and Porpoise Fisheries, the Pacific Walrus Fishery, the Seal and Sea-Otter Industries, the Turtle and Terrapin Fisheries, the Oyster, Scallop, Clam, Mussel and Abalone Industries, the Crab, Lobster, Crayfish, Rock-Lobster, Shrimp, and Prawn Fisheries, the Leech Industry and Trepang Fishery, and the Sponge Fishery] $55 … Goode, G. B. 1884-1887. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington. 5 Sections bound in 7 quarto volumes, Seven volumes together [complete set]: [This monumental undertaking of surveys by two dozen scientists including Rathbun, Collins, and Goode was placed in the care of U.S. Fisheries Commissioner and Smithsonian administrator, George Brown Goode and resulted in a complete compendium of the status of U.S. Fisheries during the early 1800s. In addition to marine mammals, information was collected on fishes and invertebrates, the fishing industry, fishing grounds, and fisheries methodology.] $800 Section I. Natural history of useful aquatic animals. Text. 895 pp. Original cloth boards. Condition of binding poor (loose and ripped, needs rebinding). Contents in good condition. Section I. Atlas. 277 plates, including 11 of cetaceans, 21 of pinnipeds, and 2 of manatees, folding map. Original cloth boards. Condition of binding fair (loose, chipped and stained), contents in good condition. Section II. A geographical review of the fisheries industries and fishing communities for the year 1880. 787 pp. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. Leather scuffed and one split in spine, corners bumped. Contents in excellent condition. Section III. The fishing grounds of North America, with forty-nine charts (edited by Richard Rathbun. 176 pp, 4 pl., 17 maps and charts + 32 folding maps and charts. Section IV. The fishermen of the United States (by G. B. Goode and J. W. Collins). 178 pp., 19 pl. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. Binding sound, but leather scuffed and worn, corners bumped. Contents in excellent condition. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Vol. 1. 808 pp. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. Binding sound but leather scuffed and worn, corners bumped. Contents in excellent condition. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Vol. 2. 881 pp. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. Spine chipped and cracked, one split, corners bumped. Contents in excellent condition. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Atlas. 235 pl., including 51 of whale, porpoise and seal fisheries. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled boards. Binding sound but leather scuffed and worn, corners bumped. Contents in excellent condition. Gunther, E. R. 1949. The habits of fin whales. Discovery Reports 25:113-142, one photographic plate. Quarto. Original wrappers. Spine taped, otherwise excellent. $30 Harmer, S. F. 1914-74. Items 1-11 bound together in black buckram, with title on spine, “Cetacea stranded on British Coasts. 1913--1965 [sic]. Nos. 1--6, 10--14.” Published by Trustees of British Museum. Includes pl., photo pl., maps, charts. Condition fair to fine for the various issues. $135 Harmer, S. F. 1914. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1913. 18 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1915. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1914. 21 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1916. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1915. 13 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1917. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1916. 15 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1918. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1917. 23 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1919. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts during 1918. 25 pp. Harmer, S. F. 1927. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts from 1913 to 1926. 104 pp. Fraser, F. C. 1934. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts from 1927 to 1932. 51 pp. Fraser, F. C. 1946. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts from 1933 to 1937. 69 pp. Fraser, F. C. 1953. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts from 1938 to 1947. 65 pp. Fraser, F. C. 1974. Report on Cetacea stranded on the British coasts from 1948 to 1966. 83 pp. Hegarty, Reginald B. (compiler). 1959. Returns of Whaling Vessels Sailing from American Ports. A Continuation of Alexander Starbuck's "History of the American Whale Fishery". Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and Whaling Museum: New Bedford, Massachusetts. 58 pp., tables throughout $95 - Hardcover, oblong, green cloth boards w/ gilt letters, very good, light foxing [With additions by Philip F. Purrington, foreword by M. V. Brewington; Lists of ships and sailings after Starbuck's "History of the American Whale Fishery form its Inception to the Year 1876" through the end of whaling under sail a half century later; also includes Hawaiian whalers, since the Sandwich Islands were a sovereign nation when Starbuck wrote] Hjort, J. and N. Knipowitsch, 1907. Berickt Ueber Die Lebenswerhaeltnisse und den Fang der Nordiscen Seehunde [in German, Report on Living Conditions and Catch of Nordic Seals]. Conseil Explor. De la Mer, Rapports P-V. 8. 125 pp., 9 pls., 3 double-page maps small 4to, paperbound, library stamps, author's dedication to F.A. Jentink $112 Hyrtl, J., 1850. Zur verglechenden Anatome der Trommelhohle. 1. Ueber einen neuen Muskel in der Trommelhohle bei Phoca vitilina. 9 pp., 1 lithographed pl. folio, disbound (no covers). $40 International Commission on Whaling, 1950-1955. International Commision on Whaling. 1st- 6th Report of the Commission. 32, 16, 40, 31, 28, 27 pp. wrappers, library stamp. [This is a collection of reports 1-6.] $50 International Whaling Commission (Donovan, Greg, ed.). 1982. Aboriginal/Subsistence Whaling (With Special Reference to the Alaska and Greenland Fisheries). Report of the International Whaling Commission Special Issue 4, Cambridge, United Kingdom. v + 86 pp., about 20 illus., pictorial boards Hardcover, 4to, meeting in 1979 in Seattle, Washington, organized by the Commission; separate panels issued reports on wildlife, nutrition and cultural anthropology] $60 Isaksen, K. and O. Wiig (eds.), 1995. Conservation Value Assessment and Distribution of Selected Marine Mammals in the Northern Barents Sea. Nederlands Commissie voor Intl. Natuurbescherming Mededelingen 28. 59 pp., num. figs., 3 color photos paperback, few markings $25. Israels, L.D.E., 1992. Thirty Years of Mediterranean Monk Seal Protection, a Review. Ned. Commissie voor Int. Natuurbescherming Mededelingen 28. 65 pp., 11 figs., paperback. $25. Jackson, C. Ian (ed.). 2003. The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Volume I. The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813. Hakluyt Society: London. Series III, no. 12. lxi + 242 pp., 9 illus., 5 maps, Hardcover, DJ, 8vo, as new [Accounts of three voyages in the 'Esk' combine scientific records with social and religious comments and descriptions of navigation and whaling] $40 Jansen, J., 1953. Two papers: Studies on the Cetacean Brain. The Gross Anatomy of the Rhombencephalon of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) AND A Note on the Amygdaloid Complex in the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus). Hvalradets Skrifter. Scientific Results of Marine Biological Research. 48 pp., 13 figs., 2 pls. Wrappers, good $30 Jell, P.A. and R.A. Paterson (eds.), 1991. Humpback whales [from 1990 Conference Proceedings]. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30(2): 239-354, 10 color phots, 60 figs., 14 tabs. Paperback, very good $25. Jenkins, James Ravis. 1948 [1998 reprint; limited to 200 copies]. Bibliography of Whaling. Martino Publishers: Mansfield Ctr. Connecticut. 104 pp. Hardcover, large 8vo, new [Remains the only general whaling bibliography and thus essential for collectors, researchers and dealers] $55 … SALE $40 Johnson, W.M., 2004. Monk seals in Post-Classical History. The role of the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) in European History and Culture, from the Fall of Rome to the 20th Century. Kerkwerve: Leiden. 91 pp., 31 (13 color) figs., paperback, new $30. Johnson, W.M., 2004. Monk Seals in Antiquity. The Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) in Ancient Hstory and Litterature. Kerkwerve: Leiden. 101 pp., 17 (13 color) figs., paperback, new $35. Kanwisher, John W. and Sam H. Ridgway. 1983. The physiological ecology of whales and porpoises. Scientific American 248(6): 110-120, illus. Good condition, original paper, shelf wear $5 Katona, S.K., V. Rough, and D.T. Richardson. 1993. A Field Guide to Whales, Porpoises, and Seals from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. 4th ed. Revised. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C. 316 pp., photos Paperback, near fine, owner stamp $5 Kemp, S. and A. G. Bennett. 1932. On the distribution and movements of whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland whaling grounds. Discovery Reports 6:165-190, Pl. 7-42. Quarto. Original wrappers. Spine chipped, loose and taped, otherwise excellent. $35 Kilian, B. 1983. The Voyage of the Schooner “Polar Bear”. Whaling and Trading in the North Pacific and Arctic, 1913-14. Old Dartmouth Historical Society: New Bedford. Alaska Historical Commission Studies in History no. 25. 106 pp., 131 photos, 3 maps Hardcover, near fine $40 King, J.E. 1964. Seals of the World. Trustees of the British Museum: London. 154 pp., 12 pls. Cardstock $5 Kükenthal, W. 1889 & 1893. Vergleichend-anatomische und entwicklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen an Walthieren [in German, Comparative anatomical and developmental studies: Skin, bones, central nervous system, development of external body shape, dentition, etc.]. Erster Theil. Kap. I: Die Haut der Cetaceen; Kap. II: Die Hand der Cetacean; Kap. III: Das Centralnervensystem der Cetaceen. Zweiter Teil. Kap. IV: Die Entwicklung der äusseren Körperform; Kap. V: Bau und Entwicklung äussere Organe; Kap. VI: Die Bezahnung. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 3(1):I-X, 1-20, 5 figs.; 22-200, Pl. 1-13 (1 in color); 3(2): 4 figs. Pl. I-VII, 221-448, 115 figs., Pl. 14-25 (one in color).  
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