The Northern Whale-Fishery
hardcover
Philadelphia
by SCORESBY, William
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. hardcover. good. 192pp. Wide 24mo, 1/2 contemporary black leather, spine ends worn, edges of boards lightly worn. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d., circa 1875. "An abridgment, with some modifications and additions of the second volume of captain...Scoresby's work on the Arctic Regions and Whale-fishery, Edinburgh, 1820." Preface. Pages 40-148 are on the whale fishery at Spitzbergen. (Inventory #: 219774)