[Whaling] C.G. Zorgdrager. Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche
Visschery (...) Met byvoeging van de Walvischvangst (...) nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-visschery. The Hague, P. van Thol and R.C. Alberts, 1727. 2nd enlarged ed. (40),392,(14) p. 4to. Engr. frontisp., 6 fold. maps, 1 fold. and 10 full-p. plates, contemp. calf. Frontisp. w. sm. part of corner missing (not affecting engr.), otherwise a very fine copy.
One of the most important and authoritative texts on the Dutch and Germanic whaling industries of the early 18th cent.