Matthews Leonard Harrison Editor (6 results)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. illustrated end-papers(b/w. whales on blue background); profusely illustrated throughout by b/w. & colour photographs, drawings & diagrams; Foreword by Philip F. Purrington (curator The Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass, USA); chapters include: Whales in Mythology & Folklore;The Biology of Whales; The Different Kinds of Whales; Whaling with Boats & Hand Harpoons; The Last Relics of the Old Days; Science & Whaling; Modern Whaling; Whale Products; The Life of Whales; & Some Books about Whales. The main author & supervising editor of the book is Dr Leonard Harrison Matthews, former director of the Zoological Society of London, but co-writers for different chapters are credited at the front of the book. Size: Oblong 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 287 pages. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink, neat, to title page. Black titles spine & front with slightly rubbed silver gilt silhouette of a whale to front cover. Light bumping to outer corners. blue cloth. Includes picture credits, bibliography & glossary. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Natural History & Resources; Biology; Whaling; Marine Mammals; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0045990069. ISBN/EAN: 9780045990061. Inventory No: 4987. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine copy in Very Good, price clipped dustwrapper. Stated First printing. Pages and covers are crisp intact and unmarked; price clipped jacket is worn at corners and spine extremities. 287 pages including Glossary and Bibliography, profusely illustrated in 287 illustrations, 87 in full color. This is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. The text written by a group of international experts, deals with every aspect of whales and whaling. Chapters on: Whales in Mythology & Folklore; Biology; Whaling with Boats & Harpoons; Science & Whaling; Modern Whaling; Whale Products; Life of Whales; Last Relics of the Old Days; The Different Kinds of Whales.…

Quarto,288 pp.,colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper.

1st Ed. Foreword by Philip F. Purrington. 287 PP profusely illustrated in b/w & colour. Eps: Whale species (Japanese names). Hard cover, silver device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and repaired. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. Oblong: 25.2 x 27.5. The whales in mythology and folklore, their biology, whaling industry and whaling boats, whale products, . whale protection. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK. Very good landscape format book in fresh clean blue cloth covers with partially rubbed silver gilt picture of a whale to the front. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; very well illustrated; fold to first few pages. The dust jacket is very good++ and not price clipped; three small [0.5"] closed nicks.…

First edition. George Allen & Unwin, London. 1968. Thick square 4to hardback with dust-wrapper. Colour and black and white photographs and other illustrations. Glossary. Front panel of wrapper detached from spine, but present, wrapper margins and spine are browned o/w a good copy overall.