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a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries : with an account of the whale fishery in colonial New England
xi, 446 pages : illustrations, plates, facsimiles ; 28 cm.
Model of the whaler "Deborah Gifford" of New Bedford, frontispiece -- Preface -- Introduction by Frank Wood, curator of the Bourne Whaling Museum, New Bedford -- The whale fishery in colonial New England -- Whale ships and whaling; a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries -- Whaling vessels -- The whaler "Charles W. Morgan" of New Bedford -- Whales and whaling -- Jonah and the whale.
by George Francis Dow ; introduction by Frank Wood, curator of the Bourne Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass.
"This copy is one of ninety-seven of which eighty-seven are for sale"--Title page verso.
The Cushing Library/Maritime copy is number 56.
Publication ... of the Marine Research Society ; no. 10