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Zorgdrager, Cornelis Gijsbertsz. Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst .. door Abraham Moubach. Nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche bakkeljaau-visschery. 2e druk.Amst., Isaak Tirion, 1728.
4to. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (P. van Thol en R.C. Alberts, 1727), 6 folding maps and 11 engraved plates (1 folding after A. Salm by Van der Hem). (36),392,(13),(2) pp.

€ 6.500
Second and best edition. - This classic work on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early 18th century. It is the most important and extensive old Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions. Giving along with extensive natural history, geography, history, and economics, detailed lists of ships' outfits, lists of shipowners and captains, an extensive vocabulary, and copious other details. At the end an account of New-Foundland cod-fishing. - (2 small tears in blank margin). - Very fine copy.
Tiele 1241; Cat. NHSM II, p.899; Allen 177; Jenkins p.162; Sabin 106376.

  
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