- 2 1/2 PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER 8" BY
10", SIGNEDby Goddard London, dated November 9, 1849. Lemuel Goddard was an American sperm oil merchant in England and a partner to New Bedford shipowners Swift and Allen...
[more like this] - 11 BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING TO INCLUDEMADAGASCAR
JACK BY EDOUARD STACKPOLE, SIGNED 1935. THRILLING ADVENTURES OF THE WHALER ALCYONE OUT OF PROVINCETOWN, 10VO, 1916. THE VOICE OF THE WHALEMAN BY SHERMAN WITH SIGNED LETTER,...
[more like this] - 7 BOUND VOLUMES RELATED TO WHALING TO
INCLUDEARCTIC ROVINGS BY DANIEL WESTON HALL, BOSTON, 1861, 8VO, 171 PAGES, GREEN CLOTH BOARDS, EMBOSSED WITH SHIP. GREAT CONDITION. 2 VOLUMES ARTIC EXPLORATIONS BY ELISHA...
[more like this] - ELEVEN 19TH C HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS
RELATEDTO WHALING AND THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY IN NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS. ONE IS FRAMED. FIRST IS A JULY 3, 1877 MANUSCRIPT LIST OF WHALES SEEN AND TAKEN BY THE WHALING...
[more like this] - 4 BOUND 19TH C BOOKS RELATING WHALING
IN ARCTICREGIONS TO INCLUDE AN 1884 REPORT OF THE CRUISE OF THE REVENUE STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARTIC OCEAN. QUARTO, CLOTH BOUND WITH GILT LETTERING BY CAPTAIN M. A. HEALY...
[more like this] - 19TH C BOOK TITLED ETCHINGS OF A WHALING
CRUISEBY JOHN ROSS BROWNE. HE WAS THE THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN BORN TO THOMAS EGERTON BROWNE, AN IRISH NEWSPAPER EDITOR. THOMAS BROWNE WAS A NATIONALIST WHO RAN AFOUL OF...
[more like this] - 4 RARE 19TH C BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING
AND THESOUTH PACIFIC INCLUDES LIFE AND ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC BY A ROVING PRINTER, NEW YORK, 1861, HARPERS & BROS., PUBLISHERS. 361 PAGES WITH NUMEROUS INTERESTING...
[more like this] - 4 LETTERS HANDWRITTEN ON BOARD THE WHALESHIPGOSNOLD
WHILE ON A WHALING VOYAGE WITH STOPS AT HONOLULU, YOKOHAMA AND THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. THE FIRST LETTER IS DATED FEB. 16, 1873. IT IS WRITTEN TO MR. HENRY WILLIS, NEW BEDFORD,...
[more like this] - RARE 1794-1803 BOUND VOLUME OF NANTUCKET
MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE 13" X 8.5". MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE, Includes approx. 25 of Nantucket merchant James Barker (1759–1832)'s transcribed letters to merchants worldwide...
[more like this] - (2) BOOKS ON WHALING, TO INCLUDE: ROCKWELL
KENTillustrated Moby Dick: or the Whale, by Herman Melville. De Luxe edition, Garden City Publishing, 1937. Hardcover, gilt illustration of whale tail on front cover, gilt...
[more like this] - WHALING JOURNAL TO THE PACIFIC ON BOARD
THEWHALESHIP "GOOD RETURN II" OF NEW BEDFORD, DATED MAY 30TH, 1839. 243 HANDWRITTEN PAGES WITH NUMEROUS WHALE STAMPS. THE JOURNAL WAS KEPT BY CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH TABER WHOSE...
[more like this] - LOT OF 8 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RELATED
TO WHALESAND NEW BEDFORD TO INCLUDE (1) AN 1858 COPY OF "THE HISTORY OF NEW BEDFORD" BY DANIEL RICKETSON, CLOTH BOUND, 412 PAGES, GOOD CONDITION WITH MINOR FOXING; (2) PAPER...
[more like this] - LARGE LOT OF MOSTLY LATE 19TH CENTURY
EPHEMERARELATED TO SHIPPING AND WHALING. APPROXIMATELY 250 PIECES TO INCLUDE NUMEROUS ITEMS FROM CAPTAIN JOHN WESLEY THOMPSON OF MAINE. HE WAS BORN IN THE 1830S AND COMMANDED...
[more like this] - RARE 4 PAGE WHALING LETTER. THIS IS
A COMMERCIALletter headed toward Oahu, Honolulu, May 10, 1850, from Augustus Howell to his brother in New York. The Howell family was heavily involved in the whaling industry...
[more like this] - RARE 3 PAGE WHALING LETTER, 1826, WRITTEN
IN TWOstages to the owner/agent Silas or Stephen and Lewis Howell, Sag Harbor, NY. First stage dated Sept. 17, 1826, bound to the islands. Talks about oil obtained, watered...
[more like this] - RARE 16 PAGE WHALING MANUSCRIPT, 1834,extensively
detailed. Instructions for Captain John Egbert Howell (1813-1840) of the whaling ship Telegraph, Sag Harbor, New York, bound for the Pacific. Signed by his brothers, agents/owners...
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