2323 - 2571 NATURAL HISTORY, HORSES AND HORSEMANSHIP, HUNTING, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY etc.
= Very rare. Diary by Erling D. Naess of the two month whaling voyage of the 'Vikingen', 16 Dec. 1934-18 Feb. 1935, from Cape Town to the Enderby Land whaling grounds (Antarctic waters). The 'Vikingen' was a Rasmussen whaling company ship. The diary gives detailed notes regarding the catch, as well as technical details and plans of the Vikingen and its companion ships the Vestfold and the Sir James Clark Ross. Erling Dekke Næss (1901-1993) was a Norwegian businessman (and later shipowner), who was asked in 1927 to invest in the Viking Whaling Company Ltd. by two Norwegian whaling pioneers. The plan was to build a whaling ship that included a whaling factory on board, basically a tanker. In 1934 he went to Cape Town to study the whale hunt himself. After a decade the company was sold and Naess entered the oil tanker business.
- Joints and spine-ends rubbed; frontcover sl. waterstained (unobtrusive) and sl. scuffed. Nice binding. Contents fine.
Turton, W. A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of The British Islands, with Figures of Each of the Kinds. London, Longman etc., 1840, 2nd ed., IX,(3),324,16p., 12 handcol. engr. plates, orig. blindst. cl. w. gilt ornament on front cover.
- Lacks free endpapers; multiple owner's entries on upper pastedown and verso of the first plate; pages largely uncut. Covers sl. soiled.
AND 9 others, all w. (handcol.) ills. or plates, i.a. MRS. LANKESTER, Wild flowers worth notice (...) (London, 1872, handcol. engr. plates by J.E. SOWERBY, contemp. blindst. cl.) and (E. FRITTON and S. MARY), Conversations On Botany (London, 1834, handcol. engr. plates by J.E. SOWERBY, contemp. hcl.).
- Vol. on fishes w. bookplate of Thomas Hugo on verso frontwrapper. All vols. paper over backstrip partly worn off.
= Complete set of Thomas Bewick's chap books on British and foreign natural history. Nissen ZBI, 353. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Owner's stamp on title; textp. and 2 plates (sl.) waterst. in blank margins. Top of spine and board-edges worn.
= Nissen, ZBI 1281; cf. Nissen, BBI 590. John Ellis (1710-1776) was a pioneering zoologist and microscopist who established the animal nature of zoophytes and laid the foundation of marine biology in Britain and Europe. In this work Ellis makes a clear distinction between plants and animals and proves that corals and Bryozoa are animals. This Dutch edition includes plate 38 (not present in the original English version), showing the multiplication of corals. The last plate shows Mr. Cuff's microscope, which the author used for his research. From the "Luyken Landfort" library (armorial bookplate on upper pastedown).
- Modern heraldic bookplate on verso first free endpaper; lacks final free endpaper; 18th cent. owner's entry on title. Vellum sl. soiled.
- Bookblocks shaken. Vol. VII dam. spot on backstrip.
= Nissen ZBI, 2095, 2099, 2633, 3870 and 3869. Comprising: II. Felinae; III. Ruminantia (part 1); VII. British Quadrupeds; IX. Dogs; XIII. Introduction to the Mammalia.
AND later editions of vol. II. Felinae (ed. 1858) and of vol. VIII. Whales etc. (n.d. Nissen, ZBI 1812).
- Five plates in vol. 2 sl. water-/ dampst. (one w. traces of paper); 2 textlvs. repaired in blank margin. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Nissen, ZBI 3128; Nissen, BBI 502; Pritzel 2341.
- Contents occas. (trifle/ sl.) soiled/ waterst./ wormholed in blank margins; occas. trifle foxed; owner's entry on title-p. Joints split(ting); extremities worn; top of spine dam.
= Rare first and only Dutch edition. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 4341, listing the English edition published in 1754 (with only 18 plates).