Whaling and Fishing

Pp. x, 383; frontispiece plate. Publisher’s elaborately blind-stamped cloth, spine is lettered in gilt and with large gilt decoration at the center of the front and rear covers, brown clay-coated endpapers, sm 8vo (6 ¾ inches x 4 ¾ inches). A rare early North American work on whaling. Bookplate from the “House of Belt” on the front endpaper. Signatures of Harvey Childs Nelson and Elmer G. Fitzgerald on the blank front endpaper.