Av Hvalfangstens Historie
by Risting, Sigurd
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Kristiania: J.W. Cappelens, 1922. [xvi], 625, [5], b/w photos, b/w illus, text figs. . HB. Roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, marbled edges, patterned endpapers. Spine creased. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few ink stamps; shelf label to spine. Good.. Kommandør Chr. Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum I Sandefjord, Publkation Nr. 2. Text Norweigan. First edition. Scarce. The first book published in Norway on the history of whaling based on the author's 20 years research into the history and statistics of whaling. From 1918 Sigurd Risting (1870-1935) was secretary of the Norsk Hvalfangerforening (the Whaling Association of Norway)..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S54926
- Title
- Av Hvalfangstens Historie
- Author
- Risting, Sigurd
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.W. Cappelens
- Place of Publication
- Kristiania
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Norway; Scandinavia; Northern Europe; Europe; Whales; Dolphins; Porpoises; Whaling
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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