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Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du nord;
Nieuwe beschryving der walvisvangst en haringvisschery. French.
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- ouvrage traduit du hollandois par les soins du gouvernement, enrichi de notes, & orné de cartes & de figures à l'usage des navigateurs & des amateurs de l'histoire naturelle. Par le c[omte] Bernard de Reste
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- Histoire des pêches dans les mers du nord
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- French
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- A Paris, : Chez la v[euv]e Nyon, libraire, rue de Jardinet, no. 2., an IX de la République. [1800 or 1801]
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- 3 v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. (8vo)
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- ocn949029150
- Translation, by Bernard de Reste, of the Dutch original, Nieuwe beschryving der walvisvangst en haringvisschery, printed in four volumes in Amsterdam, 1791, thought to have been compiled by V. van der Plaats from the work of Cornelis Gijsbertsz.
- This work is often erroneously attributed to Dirk de Jong, Hendrik Kobell, and Mathias de Salieth, who were the engravers for the original Dutch publication. Cf. Sabin.
- Colophon in volume 3 reads: De l'imprimerie de Stoupe.
- Pagination: v. 1: [4], xxxvi, 432 p., [14] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 464 p., VI leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 3: [4], 378 p., VI leaves of plates (3 or 4 folded).
- Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2 verso blank) a-b⁸ (a5 verso blank) c² A-2D⁸; v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-2F⁸; v. 3: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-Z⁸ 2A⁶ ( -2A6).
- Errata: v. 1, p. xxxvi, 3rd count.
- Volume 1 has 14 folded leaves of plates of which there is one frontispiece and plates numbered I-XIII; volume 2 has plates numbered I-VI; volume 3 has plates numbered I-VI.
- Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces.
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 70100
Subjects
- Fisheries -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History.
- Fisheries -- Netherlands -- History.
- Atlantic herring fisheries.
- Pacific herring fisheries.
- Zoology -- Arctic regions.
- Whaling -- North Atlantic Ocean.
- Whaling -- Greenland.
- Whaling -- Iceland.
- North Atlantic Ocean -- Description and travel.
- Greenland -- Description and travel.
- Iceland -- Description and travel.
- Arctic regions -- Description and travel.