Language: English
Published by William Edwin Rudge, 1927
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. New York, 1927; one of 500 copies; light brown cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear; housed in a Mylar cover; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Ex-library with typical stamps and markings; gutter gap at half-title page; fore-edge of fold-out frontispiece creased; interior is clean and unmarked; 25 pages and 44 plates; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Language: English
Published by William Edwin Rudge, 1927
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. New York, 1927; one of 500 copies; light brown cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear; housed in a Mylar cover; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Ex-library with typical stamps and markings; gutter gap at half-title page; fore0edge of fold-our frontispiece creased; interior is clean and unmarked; 25 pages and 44 plates; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Published by William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1927
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. 25 pages in text. 28.5 x 22 cm. Critical Notes by Adele Jenny. Forty-four plates. Double-page fold-out frontispiece in color, a lithograph of a sperm whale. Descriptive Catalogue of the Plates. The earliest trade cards here date from 1730, or thereabouts, as six decades earlier the Crown forbade printing presses in New York. Limited edition, one of 500 copies on rag paper. Orig. tan cloth basket weave cloth. Fine in nicked plain dust wrapper.