[Whaling] (Jong, D. de). De Walvischvangst, met veele byzonderheden daartoe betrekkelyk

Met plaaten. Amsterdam/ Harlingen, P. Conradi/ V. van der Plaats, 1784 - (1786), 4 parts in 1 vol., VII,(1),96; 116; 116; 116 p., w. 20 (fold.) engr. maps and plates (of 21, 1 plate, a non fold. costume plate, vol. III, p. 8/9, missing.), cont. hroan, gilt and ribbed spine, 4to. Leather rubbed, otherwise very good.

First edition. Tiele 104, sub.; Muller, Historieplaten, vol. I, 179 and IV, 5107; De Groot, 1980, nr. 180. The first three parts on whale fishery and the fourth part dealing with herring fishery (w. 1 engr. plate), also published separately in 1786. Rare work on whaling and herring fishery containing the 2 large fold. plates, engraved by M. Sallieth after H. Kobell Jr., dated 1781. Furthermore 6 fold. maps, unsigned, of the North Pole, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Island, Old and New Greenland, the Davis Street and Iceland, single page plates, encounter w. a bear and Dwelling at Nova Zembla, by D. de Jong, 1784. The other plates depict a.o. birds, a cachelot, a sleigh-ride etc.