Whalers & Whaling

Brown, Martha Smith Brewer. She Went A-Whaling. The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown from Orient, Long Island, New York, around the World on the Whaling Ship Lucy Ann, 1847-1849. Transcribed and edited by Anne MacKay. Foreword by Joan Druett. Introduction by Donald H. Boerum. Orient, N.Y.: Oysterponds Historical Society, 1993. 2d printing. 103 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. As new pictorial stiff wrappers. ISBN 0963191128. #21802. $10
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Diddel, Margarita Thompson. Thistle in Her Hand: The Sea Adventures of a Young Whaling Wife. Interlaken, New York: Windswept Press, 1988. 413 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. 'This is a whaling wife's true story. When Maria Tobey married John C. Hamblin, the sea captain she loved, she also wed herself to the sea she had hated since her girlhood on Cape Cod. But she made the ship, The Roman, a home for her husband, herself, and over the years, her two children born on board the ship in the Pacific Islands [with] details of life aboard a whaling vessel in the 1800's.' - Rear cover. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary with spine label, stamp on top edge and on the title page, barcode label on front flyleaf, stamps on rear flyleaf and inside rear cover. ISBN 1557870357. #26383. $20
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Earle, Walter K. Scrimshaw : Folk Art of the Whalers. Illustrations by Jane Davenport. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Whaling Museum Society, 1957. 1st printing. [iii], 36 pages. Illustrations. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), spine and upper edge slightly sunned. #25335. $12.50
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Euller, John. Whaling World. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. 1st edition. 119 pages. Illustrations. Subtitled: From prehistoric times to the present day. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #13211. $12.50
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Hare, Lloyd C. M. Salted Tories: The Story of The Whaling Fleets of San Francisco. Mystic, Connecticut: Marine Historical Association, 1960. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 114 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Marine Historical Association Publication, 37. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Small rectangle cut out near bottom of title page, not affecting text. #13667. $7.50
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Murphy, Robert Cushman. A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat: Cruise of 'Daisy' in the Atlantic Ocean, June 1912-May 1913. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 1st printing. Small 4to. 176 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. The author's own copy with his bookplate inside the front cover, with a gift inscription to another scientist by two of his children on the front flyleaf. Good hardcover in slightly frayed and worn dust jacket. #25293. $35
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Nichols, William Henry. A Journal of a Whaling Voyage to The South Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, on Board Barque "Emerald" of Salem, Joseph Dexter Master and kept by William Henry Nichols. Salem, Massachusetts: Naumkeag Publications, 1973. 1st edition. 184 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Inscribed and signed by the author's grandson, Capt. Henry C. Nichols, USN (ret.), who edited the journal. Nichols, who had just completed his 7 years' indenture, was the cooper and ship's clerk On this voyage from May 24, 1838 to February 28, 1840. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11124. $40
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Sanderson, Ivan T. Follow The Whale. Maps and charts by the author. Illustrated by F. Wenderoth Saunders. London: Cassell, 1956. 1st Gt. Brit. edition. 423 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #11405. $12.50
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Schmitt, Frederick P. Mark Well the Whale! Long Island Ships to Distant Seas. Port Washington, N.Y.: Ira J. Friedman Division, Kennikat Press, 1971. vii, 151 pages. Index. Illustrated. Photographs. Endpaper Maps. Signed by the author on title page. Empire State Historical Publications Series, 97. Very good hardcover in Good dust jacket. Pages 80-81 stain from newspaper clipping. ISBN 0804680973. #16335. $15
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Stackpole, Edouard A. The Sea-Hunters: The New England Whalemen during Two Centuries, 1635-1835. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1953. 510 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. A detailed history of the development of American whaling, 1635-1835, including a full account of the whaling industry from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812. Good hardcover in slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. #24926. $10
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Villiers, Alan J. Whalers of The Midnight Sun: A Story of Modern Whaling in The Antarctic. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles Pont. New York: Scribner's, 1934. 1st edition. 285 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good, except for small gash on spine title, right on the word 'sun'. #11848. $27.50
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Watson, Paul, as told to Warren Rogers. Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals. New York: Norton, 1982. 1st edition. 258 pages. Photographs. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. ISBN 0393014991. #12967. $27.50
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