030682 The Riverside Press Cambridge; Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1964 Third Printing Dust Jacket Fine Ex Library 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Hard Cover Very Good VERY CLEAN, CRISP & SOLID EX LIBRARY CPY. Fine pictorial unclipped jacket of moderate wear, cloth boards w/gilt centered stamped whaling vessel, mapped endpapers, Illustrated w/listings of illustrations, Introduction, Part I: The Voyage of the Florida, 1858-1861 from the journal of Eliza Azelia Williams includes Crew List & Outfitting operations in 1858, Description of the Flordia, The Whalers in the Civil War (Eliza birthed both children at sea). Part II: The Destruction of the Whaling Fleet in the Artic Ocean (1871). Address by William Fish Williams to the Brooks Club in Bedford Mass, 1902, including the statement signed by the Whaleship Masters before abandoning their ships. Part III: The Voyage of the Florence, 1873-1874, from a manuscript by William Fish Williams. Appendix I. One Whaling Family. Appendix II: Whaling History. Excellent Personal /Reference Cpy. 401 pp. WONDERFUL read & nice copy! $8.00USD
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