Harper's Stereotype Edition. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions: with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history: and an acount of the whale-fishery
Leslie, [J.], Jameson, [R.] and Murray, H Search this
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Date:
1833
Notes:
Chap. ii, Animal and vegetable life in the polar regions, pp. 53-82; cetacea pp. 55-61. a popular compiled account of "the whale" (Balaena mysticetus), finner whales, cachalot, narwhal, etc. Principally from Scoresby. Chap. ix, the northern whalefishery, pp. 297-351. There are later reprints from the same stereotype platers, the title page only modified. The work appeared originally at Edinburgh (8vo, Oliver and Boyd), as vol. i of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library (not seen by me), probably in 1832 or 1833, of which the Harper edition is a literal reprint. A fifth Edinburgh edition appeared in 1845 and a German translation in 1834. See Bosgoed p. 241, no. 3501.
