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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpe[nt]s, [an]d in[sec]ts. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast-Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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On the anatomy of a fin-whale (Physalus antiquorum, Gray) captured near Gravesend / by James Murie.
Murie, James.Date: [1865]- Books
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Memoir on the anatomy of the humpback whale, Megaptera Longimana / by John Struthers.
Date: 1889- Books
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Observations upon a fin-whale (Physalus antiquorum, Gray) recently stranded in Pevensey Bay / by William Henry Flower.
Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899.Date: [1865]- Books
Modern treatment of diseases of the throat, nose, and ear / by H. Lawson Whale.
Whale, George Harold Lawson, 1876-1943.Date: [1930]- Pictures
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A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 577211i- Books
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Account of the dissection of a young rorqual, or short whalebone whale, (the Balaena rostrata of Fabricius) : with a few observations on the anatomy of the foetal Mysticetus / by Dr. Knox.
Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.Date: [1834?]- Books
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A new method, humbly offered to the consideration of parliament, for carrying on the Whale-fishing to great advantage.
Date: 1725?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006307: Sperm whale
Date: 03 June 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/52/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Newfoundland, Greenland, and southern whale fisheries.
Great Britain.Date: 1789- Pictures
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Above, a beluga whale; below, a porpoise. Coloured etching.
Reference: 41219i- Books
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On the bones, articulations, and muscles of the rudimentary hind-limb of the Greenland right-whale (Balaena mysticetus) / by John Struthers.
Struthers, John, 1823-1899.Date: 1881- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006308: Sperm whale
Date: 03 June 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/52/89Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Mrs. Sarah Bradmores prophecy of the wonders that will happen, anno Dom. 1687 : Also what will be the effects of the whales comeing up the river of Thames, and continued the 4th. and 5th. of August, anno Dom. 1686.
Bradmore, SarahDate: 1686- Books
The Queen of Whale Cay / Kate Summerscale.
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-Date: 1998- Pictures
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Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 39950i- Archives and manuscripts
"The Nutritional Value of Whale Meat"
Date: 2000Reference: PP/TLO/G/1Part of: Tim Lobstein: Papers of the London Food Commission and the Food Commission- Books
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A description of above a three hundred animals, Viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents & insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Illustrated with 100 elegant copper plates.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: 1797- Pictures
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A whale. Coloured etching.
Date: 1 March 1793Reference: 40909i- Archives and manuscripts
Whale log: fair copy
Date: 1913Reference: MS.3283Part of: Lillie, Denis Gascoigne (1888-1963), biologist- Books
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Narrative of the wreck of the 'Favorite' on the Island of Desolation [Kerguelen Island]: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and its whale and seal fisheries ... / Edited by W.B. Clarke, M.D.
Nunn, John, 1955-Date: 1850- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000865: Showcase of whale and seabed specimens
Date: 28 July 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/8/52Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Manufacture of Whale Oil Emulsion"
Date: 1931Reference: WF/C/RD/4/76Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd