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Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815.Date: [Jany. 1st. 1789]Reference: 37593i- Archives and manuscripts
"The Hidden Tragedies of the Arctic Whaling Fleet" by Robert Dunn, from Harper's Weekly, plus a cutting showing a photograph of Dunn in 1898
Date: c.1906Reference: MS.7487/2Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
Cuisine on a whaling ship, 1867-1868.
Burr, Horace, 1848-1916.Date: 1967- Books
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The natural history of the sperm whale ... To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage. In which the author was personally engaged / By Thomas Beale.
Beale, Thomas.Date: 1839- Books
Treatment of surgeons on board whaling-vessels / John Struthers.
Struthers, John, 1823-1899Date: 1856- Books
The cruise of the "Gipsy" : the journal of John Wilson, surgeon on a whaling voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1839-1843 / edited by Honore Forster.
Wilson, John, 1810-1879.Date: [1991]- Books
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Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian archipelago, etc. with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited / By Frederick Debell Bennett.
Bennett, Frederick Debell.Date: 1840- Books
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The thankful Christian. A brief essay, upon those returns of thankfulness and obedience to the glorious God, in which there lies the most acceptable and ingenuous thanksgiving to him for his benefits. Address'd unto all that have received the favours of heaven; but more especially unto them, who after the good successes of a whaling-season, would express their gratitude unto God their Saviour. [One line from Psalms]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1717- Ephemera
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Pilot Whale Campaign.
Pilot Whale Campaign.Date: [1994?]- Books
Leviathan, or, The whale / Philip Hoare.
Hoare, Philip.Date: 2009- Pictures
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Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured aquatint by E. Duncan after W.J. Huggins.
Huggins, William John, 1781-1845.Date: 1834Reference: 34839i- Pictures
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A beaked whale blowing a fountain of water through its snout. Coloured engraving, ca 1815.
Date: 1 Nov 1815Reference: 39931i- Books
The sounding of the whale : science & cetaceans in the twentieth century / D. Graham Burnett.
Burnett, D. Graham.Date: 2012- Pictures
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A whale. Engraving, ca 1793.
Date: 1 March 1793Reference: 39925i- Books
XXVIII. Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales / by John Hunter ; communicated by Sir Joseph Banks.
Hunter, John, 1728-1793.Date: 1787]- Pictures
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The top side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 39927i- Books
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A view of the Greenland trade and whale-fishery. With the national and private advantages thereof.
Elking, Henry.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
A book of whales / by F.E. Beddard ; with forty illustrations by W. Sidney Berridge.
Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925.Date: 1900- Pictures
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A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.
Reference: 39934i- Pictures
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The belly and side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout and underside. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 39929i- Books
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Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales / By John Hunter, Esq., F.R.S. : from the Philosophical transactions.
Hunter, John, 1728-1793.Date: [1787]- Books
The whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic : compared with those occurring in European waters / with some observations on the species of the North Pacific. By Frederick W. True.
True, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1858-1914.Date: [1904]- Books
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The contract of copartnery of the East-Lothian and Merse Whale-fishing company.
East Lothian and Merse Whale-Fishing Company.Date: 1751?]- Books
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A view of the Greenland trade and whale-fishery. With the national and private advantages thereof.
Elking, Henry.Date: 1725- Books
Thomas De Quincey's reluctant autobiography / John C. Whale.
Whale, John C.Date: 1984