Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History of Whaling During Three Centuries With an Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial New England
by: Dow, George Francis

Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 446 pages, illustrated with black and white frontispiece, photographs in the text. Illustrated endpapers. Begins with 40 pages of text, consisting of an introduction by Frank Wood and a substantial essay by George Francis Dow. This is followed by 207 BW plate pages of illustrations, along with an index. A book all about whales, whaling, whalers, Jonah and the Whale, etc. A visual feast of whaling ships. Light fading to spine, Clean copy.

Record # 383742