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Historical work on the Dutch trade and activities at sea, esp. whaling and herring fishery, with magnificent views of the harbours of the Netherlands, including Batavia View picture(s) 1 AA, Cornelis van der [& D.JONG, H. Kobell Jr. & M. SALLIETH]. Atlas van de zeehavens der Bataafsche Republiek & die van Batavia  en Onrust. Mitsgaders de afbeeldingen van de haringvisscherij en de walvischvangst. In Een-en-dertig Kunstplaaten naar het  Leven afgebeeld ... En met vermelding van veele bijzonderheden, betreffende den ouden en lateren toestand der Nederlandschen koophandels, visscherijen, traffieken en fabrieken. Amsterdam, L. Maaskamp, 1805. Large folio . Modern three-quarter calf. With fine engraved title in various scripts by Klockhoff, and 31 double-page engraved views (ca. 285 x 395 mm) of Dutch harbours with a great variety of sailing-ships, mostly in a stiff breeze, including the harbours of Batavia and Onrust (an island near Batavia) in the Dutch East-Indies and two views of herring-fishery and whaling, after the drawings by H. Kobell Jr. and D. de Jong, engraved D. de Jong & M. Sallieth, with captions in French and Dutch. (5), VI-XII, 135 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  Fishing  Indonesia  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  VOC  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 2 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French views on fishing View picture(s) 3 DRALET, Eugène François. Considérations sur l' histoire naturelle des poissons, sur la pêche et les lois qui la régissent. Toulouse, J.-M. Douladoure, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, blue gilt title label on spine, with blue boards. 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a detailed account of whale fishery View picture(s) 4 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. Allgemeine Abhandlung von den Fischereyen, und Geschichte der Fische ... Von Herrn Duhamel du Moceau ... imgleichen von Herrn de la Marre. Leipzig & Königsberg, Johann Jacob Kanter, 1772-1775. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. With 3 title-pages, 6 half-titles of which one engraved half-title, 98 folding plates, 1 folding table, numerous tables in volume 1, a few head-pieces. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fish of Scandinavia View picture(s) 5 FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. Skandinaviens Fiskar. Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text vols. and one atlas vol. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt. Many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in 2 text vols. and 55 chromolithographed plates in atlas vol. with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. (8), 566, (10); (6), 671 (pp. 568-1279), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Ichthyology  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Herring fishery and foreign relations, from the library of Professor Vrolik View picture(s) 6 GEVERS DEYNOOT, Willem Theodorus. Specimen oeconomico-politico-juridicum inaugurale, de Magno sive Halecum Piscatu Belgico, (Haringvisscherij). Leiden, J.W. van Leeuwen, 1829. Nineteenth century half blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt. (6), 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Fishing  Ichthyology  Law  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well-illustrated work on the Dutch whale- and herring-fishery in the Northern Seas and Greenland View picture(s) 7 RESTE, Bernard de. Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures. Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.' With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Fishing  Greenland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Netherlands  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Birds, fish and eskimos from the Alaska region depicted View picture(s) 8 ROSSE, Irving C. Cruise of the revenue-steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic ocean in 1881. Medical and anthropological notes. Washington, Governement Printing Office, 1883. 4to. Modern cloth. With 9 full-page chromo-lithographs and 3 full-page heliotypes. 120 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alaska  Botany  Discovery & Exploration  Eskimo  Fishing  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated early work on fish View picture(s) 9 SALVIANI, Ippolito. Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus, cum eorumdem formis, aere excusis. Rome, the author, 1554 (on colophon last leaf dated january 1558). Folio. Later vellum, spine ribbed with gilt title. Engraved allegorical title with an architectural frame around a portrait of the author and decorated with marine motifs with the coat-of-arms of Marcello Cervini, the proposed dedicatee, on top, 81 full-page engraved illustrations of fish, of which 36 are plates, all 81 plates included in the signatures and foliation, many woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device on last leaf. (8), 256 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The classic manual for anglers View picture(s) 10 WALTON, Izaak & Charles COTTON. The complete angler. To which are added, an introductory essay; the linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work. Second edition. London, John Major, 1824. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo Contemporary gilt and blindstamped full calf, gilt and deocrated spine with two red morocco title labes lettered in gold, marbled endpapers and edges. Part I: Frontispiece engraved portrait of I. Walton after H. Slous, printed title-page, 10 full-page engraved plates, numerous illustrations in text. Part II: Frontispiece engraved portrait of C. Cotton after H. Corbould, printed title-page, 3 full-page engraved plates, numerous illustrations in text. LVIII, 1-262; 263-416 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Fishing  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting sportsman's manual View picture(s) 11 [CUISIN, J.P.R.]. L'école du chasseur, suivie d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse a piston, sans  pierre, a foudre, a système, a foudre fulminante; avec la manière de s'en servir, etc. Paris, Lécrivain, 1822. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With folding lithographed frontispiece and 9 full-page lithographed plates showing guns, nets for bird catching, fishing rods, etc., and all kinds of hunting and fishing devices. (4), 402 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Amsterdam edition of a popular manual on hunting birds and fishing View picture(s) 12 [FORTIN, François]. Les ruses innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux passagers, & les non passagers:  & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Ouvrage très curieux, utile & recreatif pour toetes personnes qui font leur selour à la campagne. Par F.F.F.R.D.G., dit le Solitaire inventif. Suivant la copie de Paris. Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1695. 5 part in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed, richly gilt and lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, engraved title 'Les ruses innocentes de la chasse et de la Pesche', 66 numbered plates, 9 of which are folding, woodcut vignette on title, head- and tail pieces and initials. (10), 58, (4); (4), pp. 59-122, (4); (6), pp. 123-186, (4); (4), pp. 187-232, (2); (6), pp. 238-292, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fishing  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The gentlemen's guide to hunting and fishing View picture(s) 13 [FORTIN, François]. Les Ruses Innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les Oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de Bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux Secrets de la Pêche dans les Rivieres  & dans les Estangs. Et un Traité tres-utile pour la Chasse. Et la Maniere de faire tous les Rets & les Filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With title printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial to the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, of which 50 illustrate hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. (16), 445, (1 blank), 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most spectacular fishes from Hawaii in a leporello book View picture(s) 14 [HAWAII]. Hawaiian fishes. (Honolulu, James Steiner, c. 1910). Oblong 12mo., 12,5 x 17, 5 cm. Publishers red cloth, gilt title and illustration of a Hawaiian beach on frontcover. 12 beautifully chromolithographs of fishes (ca. 12 x 16cm.), folded in the form of a leporello book (concertina); captions printed in red. Advertisement for the Honolulu Aquarium pasted at back cover. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Fishing  Hawaii  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fish on the menue: good for your health View picture(s) 15 [NONNIUS, Ludovicus]. Ichtyophagia sive de piscum esu commentarius. Antwerp, Apud Petrum & Ioannem Belleros, 1616. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, large paper label with allegorical illustration on spine, title lettered in ink. Woodcut vignette with the medical emblem on title, woodcut vignette of a lion, framed within a catouche, on verso, and several woodcut initials in the text. (16), 176, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Gastronomy  Ichthyology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interlarded with unexpected details and anecdotes View picture(s) 16 [TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES]. Billets in the Low Countries, 1814 to 1817. In a series of letters. Embellished with coloured plates. London, W. Shackell for J.J. Stockdale, 1818. 8vo. Modern half purple morocco with gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers, uncut. Engraved frontispiece of a 'Dutch peasant' and 3 engraved plates showing resp. a 'Flying bridge' or chain ferry, a 'Shrimp cathcher' and a curious 'Pulpit in the Netherlands', all 4 plates after the original drawings by the author and all handcoloured. (2) 228 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  English  Fishing  Low Countries  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The trade of sea fish in Utrecht View picture(s) 17 [UTRECHT]. Ampliatie op de publicatie tegen het buyten omryden met zeevisch. Gearresteert by de vroedschap der stadt Utrecht op den 5. Maart 1770 en van den stadhuyze (more solito) gepubliceert op den 17. dito. Utrecht, widow J.J. van Poolsum, 1770. 4to. Unbound and unopened. Woodcut coat of arms on title. (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Fishing  Politics  Trade  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute containing four very rare Veere fishery ordinances, and a manuscript extract View picture(s) 18 [VEERE]. Collection of ordonances on fishery at Veere in Zeeland, partly printed, partly in manuscript. Middelburg, Veere, 1746-1774. 5 parts in 1 vol., four printed, one in manuscript. Original boards. With woodcut coat-of-arms of Veere on 4 titles. Full description >> Related Subjects: Commerce  Fishing  Law  Topography  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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