Item #25086 The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those in European Waters With Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific. Frederick True.
The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those in European Waters With Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific.
The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those in European Waters With Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific.

The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those in European Waters With Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific.

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1904. First edition. Wraps. An unopened copy in the original printed paper wrapper, the personal copy of Robert J. Lanier, Aquarist and Officer of the Aquarium at the New York Zoological Society.

Comparison of whale species by Frederick True, first head curator of mammals & whale expert, who secured the first life size whale for the Smithsonian by sending a team of experts to a whaling station in Newfoundland, where they made the first full cast ever taken from a whale.

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Vol. XXXIII. Small folio, 332pp, 50 b&w printed photographic plates. Front wrapper chipped at edges, detached, spine perished. As is. OCLC: 952710356. Good - condition. Item #25086

Price: $125.00

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