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Whales and whaling. : For little readers. : Embellished with appropriate engravings
Title
Whales and whaling. : For little readers. : Embellished with appropriate engravings.
Published
New Haven: : S. Babcock--Church Street., 1837.
Physical Description
16 p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Shirley 5406: Original green wrapper with wood engraving of a woman seated at a table with two girls on p. [1] of wrapper, and wood engraving of a shop scene on p. [4] of wrapper. Autograph: Nathaniel Baker.
Notes
Condensed from William Scoresby's Account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery (Edinburgh, 1820).
In printed wrapper; variant bindings. One state has a wood engraving of a woman seated at a table with two girls on p. [1] of wrapper, and a wood engraving of a shop scene on p. [4] of wrapper; another state has a wood engraving of a whaling party on p. [1] of wrapper, and a wood engraving of a boy running with a dog on p. [4] of wrapper.
"New editions of toy books, just published by S. Babcock"--catalogue, p. [4] of wrapper.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2007
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks.
Publishers' catalogs.
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