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."" The 6 engraved double-page maps are : 1. Neue Charte von den Nord-Pol. 2. Neue Charte von Alt und Neu Groenland mit Strasse Davis. 3. Neue Carte von island. 4. Neue Carte der Insul Spitsbergen. 5. Jan Mayen Eyland. 6. Neue Charte von Nova Zembla.Sabin, 106374 - Lauridsen XI,10.
Utrecht, 1989 xiii + 466pp. + grote uitvouwbare kaart, 23cm., Doctoraal proefschrift (Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht), originele omslag, stempeltje op verso titelblad, [with a summary in English: The battle of the righteous. Kautokeino 1852], G111924
Paris, Nyon, AN IX (1801). Bound in 3 fine uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Stamp on title-pages. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with giltlettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Light wear to some corners. Engraved folded frontispiece. (4),XXXVI,432(4),464(4),378 pp., 22 folded engaved plates and 6 folded maps. Internally clean and fine, on good paper.
Sabin, 70100.
Nürnberg, Georg Peter Monath, 1750. 4to. later hcalf. Raised bands. richly gilt spine. Old spine pasted on. Stamps on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (6),370,(10) pp., 6 folded engraved maps, 7 (of 8) engraved plates. First and last quires with scattered brownspots.
Scarce second German edition. Having all the 6 engraved double-page maps : 1. Neue Charte von den Nord-Pol. 2. Neue Charte von Alt und Neu Groenland mit Strasse Davis. 3. Neue Carte von island. 4. Neue Carte der Insul Spitsbergen. 5. Jan Mayen Eyland. 6. Neue Charte von Nova Zembla.Sabin, 106377 - Lauridsen XI,13.