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BARTHELMESS, Klaus & Joachim MÜNZING. Monstrum horrendum. Wale und Walstrandungen in der Druckgraphik des 16. Jahrhunderts und ihr motivkundlicher Einfluss. (Hamburg, 1991). 3 volumes in box. 4to. With many plates (several in colours). 220 pp. [Boeknr.: 7559 ]

€ 65,00

BEYERMAN, H.C. Walvisvaart, wijnhandel & schilderkunst. De Rotterdamse reders Beyerman. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1995. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 176 pp. Whale hunting, wine trading & painting. The Rotterdam ship-owners Beyerman. [Boeknr.: 9426 ]

€ 25,00

BRUIJN, Jaap R. & Joost. C.A. SCHOKKENBROEK. De laatste traan. Walvisvangst met de Willem Barendsz, 1946-1964. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2012. Boards. With many illustrations (several in colours). 336 pp. History of the last Dutch whaling period. [Boeknr.: 32832 ]

€ 30,00

BRUIJN, Jaap R. & Louwrens HACQUEBORD. Een zee van traan. Vier eeuwen Nederlandse walvisvaart, 1612-1964. Zutphen, Walburg, 2019. Boards. With 86 illustrations (several in colours). 368 pp. History of four centuries of Dutch whaling. [Boeknr.: 35568 ]

€ 30,00

CAMPEN, Samuel Richard van. Dutch Arctic expeditions and route: being a survey of the North polar question, including extended considerations for the renewal of Dutch Arctic research. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1876.Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With title-vignette and folding coloured map of the North Pole by J. Letch & Co. XXXVII, 263 pp. First edition; all published. - Including chapters on: Holland's enterprise and duty, Government expeditions, Polar problems, The Arctic revival, The Gulf stream route, the early Dutch whalers, etc. and in the appendix a chronological table of Arctic voyages North-East and North-West of Greenland (860-1876). - A fine copy..Cat. NHSM I, pp.309-310 (later ed. only). [Boeknr.: 35672 ]

€ 375,00

CHASE, Owen. The wreck of the whaleship Essex. A narrative account by Owen Chase, first mate. Edited, and with prologue and epilogue by Iola Haverstick and Betty Shepard. London, Constable Young, (1968). Blue boards, spine lettered (spine discoloured). With map and illustrations. 128 pp. The Essex, Captain George Pollard, sailed from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, for a sperm whaling cruise in the Pacific. A dramatic account told by one of its few survivors. The whaling ship was rammed by an angry sperm whale on November 20, 1820. On the sailors terrifying battle for survival the survivors had restored to cannibalism, and a relative of the captain was killed and eaten. Herman Melville used Chase's narrative as a source for his Moby Dick. [Boeknr.: 35575 ]

€ 25,00

CLOUD, Enoch Carter. Enoch's voyage. Life on a whaleship 1851-1854. Edited by Elizabeth McLean. Wakefield, Myer Bell, 1994. Cloth, with dust-jacket (rep. with tape). 381 pp. Enoch Carter Cloud sailed out of New Bredford on the whale ship 'The Henry Kneeland'. For nearly three years he kept a journal detailing the glory, hardships and dangers of life at sea. Edited by the author's great-great-granddaughter. [Boeknr.: 35587 ]

€ 25,00

CRANZ, David. Historie van Groenland behelzende eene naukeurige beschrijvinge van 's lands ligging, gesteldheid, en natuurlijke zeldzaamheden; den aart, zeden en gewoonten der inwooneren aan de West-zijde bij de Straate Davis; 's lands aloude en nieuwe geschiedenisse; en in't bijzonder de verrichtingen der Missionarissen van de Broeder-Kerk, door welken twee gemeenten van bekeerde heidenen aldaar gesticht zijn. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Haarlem, C.H. Bohn, Amsterdam, H. de Wit, 1767.3 volumes. Later boards. With 14 folding engraved maps and plates by J. Swertner. XXXIV,356; 282; 382,(2) pp. First published in German Historie von Grönland. Barby & Leipzig, 1765; with bookplate E.M. Cox. - This first Dutch translation has more and better plates than the original edition and added is an extensive study of the natural history of Greenland, together with descriptions of the life and customs of the Greenlanders, their religion, knowledge of the stars, and a brief vocabulary of their language (Howgego). - Detailed description of Greenland by David Cranz (1723-1777), the historiographer of the Brethern, he stayed at Ny Herrnhut in Greenland, in 1761-62. With sections devoted to the establishment of the first Herrnhut or Moravian mission in Greenland, the nature, manners and customs of the inhabitants on the West coast on Davis Strait, whales and the whaling-industry in general, and the Eskimos. 'The minute journal of the noble Moravian Brethren, gives us in their own language the phases of Aboriginal life and peculiarities which daily presented themselves. No tribe of American savages has been more closely or intelligently studied. Specimens of their language are given...' (Field 383). This account was very popular and translated and reprinted in many languages. 'das vollständigste Gemälde von Grönland im 18. Jahrhundert, ein Werk, das auch Heute noch mehr als nur historisches Interesse beanspruchen darf' (Henze I, p.751). - A clean copy of the most comprehensive book on Greenland published in the 18th century.Arctic Bibl. 3469; Chavanne 5634; Tiele 282; Cat. NHSM I, p.301; Sabin 17415. [Boeknr.: 2100 ]

€ 695,00

DEKKER, P. De laatste bloeiperiode van de Nederlandse arctische walvis- en robbevangst 1761-1775. Zaltbommel, Europese Bibliotheek, 1971. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 86 photographic illustrations. 328 pp. Classic work on the last florescence of Dutch whaling at the end of the 18th century. [Boeknr.: 10660 ]

€ 65,00

DICKINSON, Anthony B. & Chesley W. SANGER. Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, (2005). Boards, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. XVII,254 pp. The authors examine the modern era of the regions's shore-station industry from its beginnings in 1896 through subsequent cycles of decline and revival until its enforced closure in 1972. [Boeknr.: 35578 ]

€ 65,00

DOES, Willem van der. Storm, ijs en walvisschen. Een moderne Vikingtocht met Noorsche walvischvaarders naar de Zuidelijke IJszee. Voorwoord van C.M. Bakker. Batavia, Albrecht & Co., (1934). 4to. Original pictorial boards (soiled). With illustrations by the author. XV,374 pp. First edition. - Storms, ice and whales. The Antarctic adventures of a Dutch artist on a Norwegian whaler. [Boeknr.: 35413 ]

€ 35,00

DOES, Willem van der. Storms, ice and whales. The Antarctic adventures of a Dutch artist on a Norwegian whaler. Translated by R. van Baak Griffioen. Introduction by J.C.A. Schokkenbroek. Cambridge, William B. Eerdmans, (2003). Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations by Willem van der Does. XXIII,391 pp. [Boeknr.: 29301 ]

€ 18,00

DONRAADT, W. Chr. Zij waren er bij. Eilanders op de walvisvaart. (Dokkum, H.H. v.d. Helm, 1972). Wrappers. With many illustrations.100 pp. Dutch whaling in the Antarctic in the 20th century. [Boeknr.: 35577 ]

€ 18,00

DUFRENOY. Cabinet du petit-naturaliste. 3me édition. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1818.16mo. Contemporary half calf (spine ends skilfully restored). With engraved frontispiece and title-page, and 12 engraved plates. VI,235 pp. Fine illustrated book on natural history, incuding one plate of a sperm whale. Written by Adélaïde Gillette Billet Dufrénoy (1765-1825), a French poet and painter from Brittany. - (Age-browned). [Boeknr.: 37558 ]

€ 125,00

GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY. De Groenlands vaarder. Rooktabak. Harlingen, Tromp Azn, (ca. 1920).Brown paper tobacco bag with illustration of a Greenland whaling ship, printed in red. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 31058 ]

€ 45,00

GROOT, Jeldert Jansz. Reizen en rampen van kommandeur Jeldert Jansz Groot en anderen. Wormerveer, Meijer, (1946). Boards. 49 pp. 500 copies printed. - Dutch whaling voyage with the ship Anna starting in 1777. [Boeknr.: 3668 ]

€ 20,00

HACQUEBORD, L. & W. VROOM. (Red.). Walvisvaart in de Gouden Eeuw. Opgravingen op Spitsbergen. (Amsterdam), De Bataafsche Leeuw, (1988). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 200 pp. Contributions on Dutch whaling in the 17th century by J.R. Bruijn, G.G. Schilder, A.M. van der Woude, P.D.J. van Iterson, L. Hacquebord, a.o. [Boeknr.: 796 ]

€ 25,00

HACQUEBORD, L., J.R. LEINENGA, K. de KORTE. Nederlanders in de Poolwinter. Groningen, Arctisch Centrum, (1989). 4to. Boards. With many illustrations. 67 pp. [Boeknr.: 3813 ]

€ 18,00

HACQUEBORD, L. Smeerenburg. Het verblijf van de Nederlandse walvisvaarders op de westkust van Spitsbergen in de zeventiende eeuw. The sojourn of whalers on the westcoast of Spitsbergen in the 17th century (with a summary in English). (Groningen), 1984. 2 volumes. Wrappers. With many illstrations and plates. 311 pp. - (Thesis) [Boeknr.: 9835 ]

€ 150,00

HACQUEBORD, Louwrens & René de BOK. Spitsbergen 79 o N.B. Een Nederlandse expeditie in het spoor van Willem Barentsz. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1981. Folio. Wrappers. With many illustrations (some in colours). 160 pp. Dutch expedition to the settlement of Smeerenburg on Amsterdam Island in northwest Svalbard, founded by Danish and Dutch whalers in 1619 as one of Europe's northernmost outposts. [Boeknr.: 794 ]

€ 18,00

HACQUEBORD, Louwrens. De Noordse Compagnie (1614-1642). Opkomst, bloei en ondergang. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2014. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many illustrations (mostly in colours). 136 pp. The Noordsche Compagnie (Northern Company) was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and operating until 1642. [Boeknr.: 33580 ]

€ 30,00

L'HONORÉ NABER, S.P. Walvischvaarten, overwinteringen en jachtbedrijven in het hooge Noorden 1633 - 1635. Zes teksten verzameld en van aanteekeningen voorzien. Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1930. Decorated cloth. With facsimiles. XXV,181 pp. Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde. - Six Dutch journals on whaling, including the journal of Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter (1635). [Boeknr.: 7294 ]

€ 35,00

LAAN, Adolf van der & Siewert van der MEULEN. 'T Binnen seylen der Groenlands vaarders. - La navigation des pecheurs dans le port. - Il veleggiare dei pescatori nel porto. - Das Seeglen der Grönlands Fahren in dem Hafen. (Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 29,5 x 40 cm. Optical whaling print depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers. - (Cut short; sl. soiled).Ingalls 147; Cf. Brewington 86. [Boeknr.: 33885 ]

€ 275,00

LEINENGA, Jurjen R. Arctische walvisvangst in de achttiende eeuw. De betekenis van Straat Davis als vangstgebied. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1995. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 237 pp. The importance of Davis Straat for whale hunting. [Boeknr.: 9418 ]

€ 25,00

LOOTSMA, S. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche walvischvaart (meer speciaal de Zaansche). Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1937. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. With 13 plates. 172,(48) pp. Inportant contribution to the history of Dutch whaling, especially the Zaansche. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 1267 ]

€ 75,00

LUYKEN, Jan. Tocht naer Nova Zemla in den jaere 1596. (Amsterdam, 1681). Engraving by Jan Luyken. Ca. 26 x 33,5 cm. From: Bor. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen. - Attractive engraving illustrating an encounter with a walrus on Willem Barentsz's third voyage to the Arctic in 1596. - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 1054 A; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen, p.15; Atlas van Stolk 979; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 3; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 101. [Boeknr.: 16432 ]

€ 175,00

MACLEOD, Innes. (Ed.). To the Greenland whaling. Alexander Trotter's journal of the voyage of the 'Enterprise' in 1856 from Frasenburgh & Lerwick. (Sandwick), The Thule Press, 1979. 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 74 pp. [Boeknr.: 35581 ]

€ 18,00

MARTIN, Kenneth R. Delaware goes whaling 1833-1845. Greenville, The Hagley Museum, (1974). Wrappers. With many illustrations. 64 pp. On the whaling industry in Delaware especially the Wilmington Whaling Company. [Boeknr.: 35576 ]

€ 18,00

MELCHIOR, A. De eerste walvisvaart van de 'Willem Barendsz'. Met een inleiding van W.H. Bierman. Haarlem, Gottmer, (1947). 8vo. Half cloth. With many illustrations. 233 pp. The Willem Barendsz (I) was the first Dutch whaling factory ship that was used between 1946 and 1955 for nine whaling expeditions in Antarctica by the Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor de Walvischvaart (NMW). [Boeknr.: 3845 ]

€ 18,00

MOOY, Henriëtte. Naar Groenland met de Frankendaal. Historisch verhaal naar het journaal van commandeur Maarten Mooy behelzende zijne uitreize van Amsterdam den 22sten april 1786, zijne bezetting in het ijs, zijne rampspoeden in zee en behouden aankomst voor Amsterdam op 28 februari 1787. 2e herziene en vermeerderde druk. Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 1946. Boards. With illustrations. 102 pp. Circumstantial journal of a voyage to Greenland with the ship Frankendaal in 1786. [Boeknr.: 804 ]

€ 18,00

MORTON, Harry. The whale's wake. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1982). Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 396 pp. This lively account of southwest Pacific whaling discusses the whales, whalers, whaling techniques, equipment, ships, crews, uses for whale products, and whaling from shore stations. [Boeknr.: 35585 ]

€ 35,00

MÜNZING, Joachim. Der historische Walfang in Bildern. Für das Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. Herford, Koehler, (1987). 4to. Wrappers. With 108 plates and illustrations (several in colours). 142 pp. [Boeknr.: 13557 ]

€ 25,00

PICART, Bernard. Stranding van een walvisch van 70.voeten lang, tusschen Katwijk en Scheveningen, in de maandt van February, anno 1598. (Amsterdam, 1630). Engraving by Bernard Picart. Ca. 26 x 33 cm. From: Le Clerq. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden.- Stranded whale on the Dutch shore near Katwijk, February 2, 1598. This engraving 'is particular important as a prototype for both whale print iconography and 17th century Dutch landscape. This particular depiction of a sperm whale was to be copied for two hundred years in European stranded whale and natural history prints' (Ingalls p.190). - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 1082a; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 360; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 532; See Sliggers & Wertheim, 'Op het strand gesmeten', p.52-56. [Boeknr.: 34074 ]

€ 450,00

POE, Edgar Allan. De muiterij op den walvischvaarder en de verdere schier ongeloofelijke avonturen van Arthur Gordon Pym. Vertaling van G. van Uildriks. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 1923. Pictorial cloth. 276 pp. The tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. [Boeknr.: 36228 ]

€ 25,00

RICHARDS, Rhys. Into the South Seas: the southern whale fishery comes of age on the Brazil banks 1765 to 1812. A review of the whaling activities of American, British, French, Spanish and Portuguese whalemen off Brazill and Patagonia before 1812. Paramata, Paramata Press, 1993. Wrappers. With illustrations. (8),128 pp. [Boeknr.: 35579 ]

€ 45,00

RUIJS, Aerjen Jansz. De walvisvaartjournalen van Aerjen Jansz. Ruijs uit de Zijpe, 1783 en 1784. Ingeleid en bezorgd door Gerry Baars-Visser, Hans Besseling, Netty Bleichrodt-Vegter, Jaap R. Bruijn, Harry de Raad, Piet Schilte en Ineke Vonk-Uitgeest. Hilversum, Verloren, 2022. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. 159 pp. Two 18th century journals of a humble sailor on whaling trips to Greenland and Spitsbergen. [Boeknr.: 36894 ]

€ 20,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van Rusland, Zweden, Denemarken en Noorwegen: als mede van de landen onder de Noord Pool gelegen, en van de Groenlandsche visschery. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door Matthias van Goch. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311. [Boeknr.: 21656 ]

€ 475,00

SCHOKKENBROEK, Joost C.A. Harpoeniers en robbenjagers. Nederlandse walvisvaart en zeehondenjacht in de 19de eeuw. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2008. Wrappers. With coloured plates. 222 pp. Dutch whaling in the Arctic 1815-1885 and Antarctic 1827-1849. [Boeknr.: 30825 ]

€ 25,00

SCHOKKENBROEK, Joost C.A. Trying-out. An anatomy of Dutch whaling and sealing in the nineteenth century, 1815-1885. Amsterdam, Aksant, 2008. Pictorial boards. With 14 illustrations. 366 pp. This study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815-1885) - an era neglected so far. A pioneering book focused on the men involved in the two maritime industries, be it on shore or aboard the whaleship. [Boeknr.: 33502 ]

€ 25,00

THOMAS, Marie Simon. Onze IJslandsvaarders in de 17de en 18de eeuw. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche handel en visscherij. Amsterdam, ENUM, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 16 maps and 30 plates. XXXVI,320 pp. Thesis. - History of the Dutch whale and cod-fishing in the 17th and 18th century. [Boeknr.: 1561 ]

€ 175,00

UNWIN, Rayner. Overwintering op Nova Zembla. Willem Barentsz en de expeditie om de Noord. Amsterdam, Prometheus, 1995. Wrappers. With illustrations. 271 pp. Translation of A winter from home. Willem Barents and the North-east Passage. [Boeknr.: 16253 ]

€ 15,00

WEVER, Jan. Journaal der merkwaardige reizen van Jan Wever (van West-Terschelling) naar Turkije, Oost-Indië, China, Noord- en Zuid-Amerika, ter walvischvaart bij Groenland, enz. loopende van 1847 tot 1904. Ingeleid door A.B. van Deinse. 's Gravenhage, A.A.M. Stols, 1946. Half cloth. With portrait. VII,63 pp. [Boeknr.: 818 ]

€ 18,00

WHALING. - Reverse painting on glass of Jonah and the whale. With houses and a ship in the background. Late 18th century. Old frame. Ca. 28 x 37,5 cm. Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image.The prophet Jonah or Jonas is especially legendary as the man who survived three days in the belly of a whale. - Some loss of paint but still an attractive picture. [Boeknr.: 36431 ]

€ 375,00

WHALING. - 'T Binnen seylen der Groenlands vaarders. - La navigation des pecheurs dans le port. - Il veleggiare dei pescatori nel porto. - Das Seeglen der Grönlands Fahren in dem Hafen. (Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 31 x 40 cm. One of a set of four optical scenes depicting whaling. These prints were a popular 18th century visual entertainment. This set is copied from the Dutch set of sixteen by Adolf van der Laan and Siewert van der Meulen. - A fine old handcoloured scene depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers.Ingalls, Francis B. Lothrop Collection, 147; see Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 86. [Boeknr.: 35821 ]

€ 325,00

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. Amsterdam, 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. Second and best edition; the first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1720. - 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 Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions, Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen and Strait Davis. 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. - (p.101 with marginal tear without loss of text). - A fine copy of the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling.Tiele 1241; Cat. NHSM II, p.899; Allen 177; Jenkins p.162; Sabin 106376. [Boeknr.: 1552 ]

€ 3950,00

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