9 plates on whaling 18th c.
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Beskrivning
PLATES ON WHALING - BEARHUNT. 9 engraved plates on whaling, 18th century.
Consists of: Harris - Bowen, The whale fishery and killing of bears (from Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, London 1744-48), Millar, Curious prospect of an Iceberg in the island of Spitsbergen (c. 190x290 mm.), Millar - Thornton, View of the whale fishery &c. in Greenland, Vüe de l´ile de Kilduyn (Russia, Bering Sea, c. 1715) (2 copies), 4 plates of which one depicting whales and one Greenlanders hunting a narwhale (titled Savvages Groenlendois) and one showing the hunt of icebears.
9 plates.
Konditionsrapport
Some spotting and soiling, 1 plate browned, a few losses to margins.
Auktionsnummer:
621557
Datum:
2019-03-17