RESTE, BERNARD DE | Histoire des Peches, des Decouvertes et des Etablissemens des Hollandois dans les Mers du Nord. Paris: Nyon [1801]

RESTE, BERNARD DE

Histoire des Peches, des Decouvertes et des Etablissemens des Hollandois dans les Mers du Nord. Paris: Nyon [1801]

3 volumes. 8vo (205 x 125 mm). 6 folding maps, 22 plates (most folding); intermittent light spotting, some plate offsetting, hinges weak on volume 1. Contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards with spines richly gilt and maritime motif to panels; joints rubbed, more so to the first, corners exposed.

First edition of this uncommon translation of De Jong's 1791 Nieuwe Beschryving der Walvischvangst, with material from other sources added regarding Atlantic whaling and Greenland.

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Sabin 70100 (listing the 1801 edition only)