This 8.5-inch x 10.25-in book of only 56-pages contains 20 full plate color or b&w illustrations, mostly of well-known whaling ships in side views. 12 other smaller plates of various scenes. Each ship plate is accompanied by a few pages of historical information about that specific ship. Inside covers show Interesting cut-away sectional views of a whaling schooner, a whaling bark, a longboat (whale boat), and a deck view of whaleboat.
This 7-inch x 10-inch soft-bound book of 114-pages relates many whaling stories, from the CSS Shenandoah sinking more than a dozen Yankee whaler in the Pacific, AFTER Lee’s surrender, to building steam-powered ships in San Fransisco, for Arctic whaling. Only a few b&w plates, but interesting reading.
This 9-inch x 11.25-inch, 240-page book is choc-full of b&w photos of scrimshawed whale teeth, as well as whalebone & ivory jagging wheels, fids, bodkins, seam rubbers, swifts, busks, canes, gameboxes, toys, ship blocks, belaying pins, candlesticks, sewing stands, ditty boxes, water dippers, logbook stamps, ship models, etc. Binnacles, harpoons, figureheads, actant, ship lanterns, baskets and many other type of nautical collectibles are also pictured.
This HUGE 9.5-inch x 12-inch, 200-page book contains scores of beautifully detailed, color photographs. Each page of text has one column in Portuguese, and one column in English. The lives & scrimwork of dozens of scrimshander from the Azores and Madeira islands groups are discussed and compared. A truly unique and incredibly beautiful book.
156 Pages. Softbound. Written by a famed marine artist, this book presents whaling from the vantage point of one who not only sailed aboard a whaler himself, but possessed the observant eye of an artist and the literary skill to record what he saw and thought as the great age of whaling drew to a close. Enhanced with 150 superb illustrations, The Yankee Whaler is perhaps the definitive treatment of 19th Century whaling, presenting a complete and well-documented picture of every aspect of the topic. A great reference and a great read.