One Whaling Family
by Harold Williams (edited by)
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good /Fine
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St. Charles, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Riverside Press Cambridge; Houghton Mifflin Company. VERY CLEAN, CRISP & SOLID EX LIBRARY CPY. Fine pictorial unclipped jacket of moderate wear, cloth boards w/gilt centered stamped whaling vessel, mapped endpapers, Illustrated w/listings of illustrations, Introduction, Part I: The Voyage of the Florida, 1858-1861 from the journal of Eliza Azelia Williams includes Crew List & Outfitting operations in 1858, Description of the Flordia, The Whalers in the Civil War (Eliza birthed both children at sea). Part II: The Destruction of the Whaling Fleet in the Artic Ocean (1871). Address by William Fish Williams to the Brooks Club in Bedford Mass, 1902, including the statement signed by the Whaleship Masters before abandoning their ships. Part III: The Voyage of the Florence, 1873-1874, from a manuscript by William Fish Williams. Appendix I. One Whaling Family. Appendix II: Whaling History. Excellent Personal /Reference Cpy. 401 pp. WONDERFUL read & nice copy! . Very Good. Hardcover. Third Printing. 1964.
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- Seller
- Julie's Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 030682
- Title
- One Whaling Family
- Author
- Harold Williams (edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press Cambridge; Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- WILLIAMS, ELIZA AZELIA - DIARIES, MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES-AMERICAN WHALING FAMALIES-SAILING ADVENTURES 1858- "THE FLORIDA" SAILING VESSEL-THREE YEAR VOYAGE, ACCOUNT- FAMILY ACCOUNT-BIRTHING AT SEA- WILLIAMS FAMILY-MANUSCRIPTS-VOYAGES: FLORIDA"
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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