Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera cf. brydei Olsen 1913) in the Hauraki Gulf and northeastern New Zealand waters
Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conservation, 2007. Royal octavo, wraps, pp 23. Signed by co-author (Baker). Near-fine condition.
Whales & Whaling
The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans
Canberra: Australian Nature Conservancy Agency, 1996. Tall octavo, pictorial wraps, b&w maps, pp vii, 242. With hadwritten note including the author's compliments loosely inserted, signed by John Bannister. His initials pencilled on title page. Near-fine condition. Uncommon. Conservation action plan, including individual reports on over 40 species of Australian whales.....
Western Australian Humpback And Right Whales: An Increasing Success Story
Perth: Western Australian Museum, 1994. Oblong, pictorial wraps, colour photographs, pp 52. Fine condition. Information on and photographs of Western Australian whales, now (after whaling was stopped) increasing in numbers. A guide to whale watching,
Old Whaling Days
Hull: William Andrews, 1895. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt decoration in lower corner, pp x, 211. Ex-library (faint number to spine, stamp on preface page and endpapers). Boards lightly scrateched. Previous owner's bookplate. Good copy of scarce title. Describes the author's experiences whaling in the Arctic in the 1850s.....
The Whalers
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Octavo, original cloth boards, pp 312. B&w pictorial onlay (printed photograph of man with harpoon gun), Previous owner's bookplate, spine faded, faint ring nark front board, good condition. Novel set on a whaling ship in the Arctic.
Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic
New Bedford, Mass. Old Dartsmouth Historical Society, 1977. Quarto, wraps, colour frontis, b&w illus, pp 127. Compliments slip of the Old Dartsmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum tipped in. Previous owner's bookplate. Some light foxing. Good condition.
Whalers and Whaling. The Story of the Whaling Ships Up to the Present Day
London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1925. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w illus, pp 248. Ex-library. Foxing. Fair condition.
Pursuing the Whale: A Quarter-Century of Whaling in the Arctic
London: John Murray, 1926. Octavo, cloth boards with black decoration, frontis portrait of the author, b&w plates, pp x, 344. Previous owner's bookplate. Light foxing. Very good condition.
Whalemen Adventurers. The Story of Whaling in Australian Waters and Other Southern Seas Related Thereto, from the Days of Sails to Modern Times.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xx, 263. No dustjacket, but description from dustjacket tipped in to front endpaper. Light foxing. Previous owner's bookplate. Good condition.
Big Game in Antarctica
Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1937. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, pp 254. An embossing tool has neatly punched "Cancelled. Univ.Qld.Lib" to the title page and through to the next five pages. No other ex-library marks. Previous owner's bookplate (private collection). Occasional light foxing. All illustrations complete. Protected in removeable clear wrap.....
Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, ppxxiv, 365. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine in near-fine d.j., protected.
Whale ships and Whaling. A pictorial history of whaling during three centuries. With an account of the whale fishery in colonial New England.
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1925. Introd. Frank Wood. Royal octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, pp xi, 40 plus plate section: over 200 illustrations. Previous owner's inscription. Previous owner's bookplate, plus remnat of earlier bookplate. Very good condition.
Petticoat Whalers. Whaling wives at sea, 1820 - 1920
Auckland: Collins New Zealand, 1991. Paintings by Ron Druett. Royal octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, colour illus, pp 213. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in near fine d.j.
Harpooner: A Four-Year Voyage on the Barque Kathleen 1880-1884
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936. Edited by Leslie Dalrymple Stair; illustrated by Paul Quinn. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, endpaper maps, pp xv, 316. Slightly chipped to top edge of dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in very good d.j,. Protected.
Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders. Whales and Whalemen
New Milford, Connecticut: N. Flayderman, 1972. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 293 plus (xii) bibliography, notes, index. Previous owner's bookplate. Lightly rubbed to edges. Very good condition in very good d.j. The first complete book on the art of scrimshaw, with over 450 illustrations. Dovetails the development of.....
More South Sea whaling : a supplement to The South Sea whaler, an annotated bibliography of published historical, literary, and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century
Canberra: Australian National University, 1991. Royal octavo, wraps, pp 61. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Previous owner's bookplate. Some mild foxing. Very good condition.
More South Sea whaling : a supplement to The South Sea whaler, an annotated bibliography of published historical, literary, and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century
Canberra: Australian National University, 1991. Royal octavo, wraps, pp 61. Typed signed letter from the author loosely insrted. Some foxing. Very good condition.
More Scrimshaw Artists ... With the Shipboard Journal of Charles H. Durgin on a Whaling Voyage to Hudson's Bay in the Ship Monticello of New London, 1864-1865
Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, b&w illus, pp xiii, 189. Previous owner's bookplate (John Bannister) and pencilled initials, pencilled inscription rear endpaper, o/w fine in like d,j. An indispensable guide for the collector, curator, connoisseur, and maritime enthusiast. Among the 160 articles and appendices.....
The Perano Whales of Cook Strait 1911-1964
Wellington: Reed, 1982. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, colour plates, pp xvi, 238. Whaling in New Zealand.
Greasy Luck : A Whaling Sketch Book.
London: Martin Hopkinson, 1932. Royal octavo, original cloth boards, full-page illustrations (b&w drawings on yellow background), illus endpapers, pp 127. Ex-library, with Nautical College Pangbourne bookplate. Cloth worn and marked. Ink annotations one page of text, otherwise text and illustrations clean. Fair condition.
Whaling
New York: Doubleday, 1924. Original cloth boards with gilt ship vignette, colour frontis, colour plates, top edge gilt, pp ix, 358. Previous owner's bookplate. Gift inscriptin. Very good condition. "Wherein are discussed the first whalemen of whom we have record; the growth of the European whaling industry, and of its.....
Men & Whales at Scammon's Lagoon
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. 1st ed., Limited edtion of 700 copies, octavo, pp.314, incl Index, b&w fronts., col fold maps, ep maps, book-plate, orig cl pict bds., near fine condn.
Fishing for the Whale - A Guide-Catalogue to the Collection of Whaling Relics in the Dundee Museum
Dundee: Dundee Museum and Art Gallery, 1972. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 62. Very good condition.
The American Whaleman: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. Royal octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp xiv, 355. Faint trace of water stain to the outside edge of some pages. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in very good d.j.
Songs the Whalemen Sang
New York: Dover, 1970. 2nd ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xviii, 331. Previous owner's bookplate, pencilled inscription. Spine sunned, stitching weakening in early pages. Good condition. One of the largest collections of ballads and songs traditionally sung by whaling seamen. A record of life on board a whaling ship.....