Whale Ships and Whaling.

CHURCH, Albert Cook.

$275.00

Item Number: 130850

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.

First edition of Church’s work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.

Born in New Bedford of a family of seafaring people, Albert Cook Church enjoyed a lifetime association with whaleships and whalemen and has here assembled one of the most complete descriptive photographic histories on the subject.