The scientific reports of the Whales Research Institute no. 1 - [no. 39]

Tokyo: The Whales Research Institute, June 1948, 1988. 39 individual issues (complete) in 10 volumes, 8vo, modern half green cloth, gilt-stamped spines and upper covers; fine. Tables, graphs, plates (some folding), and illustrations in the text throughout, original printed wrappers bound in. Ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on covers of most issues. A complete run of this title - text in English throughout. It was continued in 1990 by the Scientific Reports of Cetacean Research published by the Institute of Cetacean Research which continues to this day. Issue 12 contains Nemoto's Foods of Baleen Whales in the North Pacific; issue 21 contains Mol's & Bree's A short Contribution to the History of Whaling in Japan during the 17th century; and, Omura's Black Right Whales in the North Pacific; issue 31 contains of Nishiwaki's Present Distribution of the Dugong in the World; plus many more articles of like interest.