CLASSIC WORK ON GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY

ZORGDRAGER, C. G. (CORNELIUS GISBERT).

Bloeyende Opkomst der Aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche Visschery.... Uitgebreid met eene korte Historische Beschryving der Noordere Gewesten, Groenlandt, Ysandt, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Eiulandt, de Straat Davis... met byvoeging van de Walvischvangst,.... door Abraham Moubach.

Amsterdam, Joannes Oosterwyk, 1720.

4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Title-label with gilt lettering. Neat repairs to upper and lower compartment and to small parts of the other compartments. One corner renewed. Engraved frontispiece. (34),330,(14 - incl. errata) pp., 6 folded engraved maps and 7 engraved plates. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

First edition. "C.G. Zorgdrager's classic volume on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early eighteenth-century Dutch and Germanic fisheries". Allen 177: "Zorgdrager's work is by far the most important of the early authorities on the northern Whalefishery, and must always be one of the chief sources of information for the early history of the subject." 

Order-nr.: 56116