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The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated : together with an account of the American whale-fishery / by Charles M. Scammon ; with a new introduction by Victor B. Scheffer.
LIBRA - Rare QL715 .S2 1968 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine mammals--Northwest Coast of North America.
- Marine mammals.
- Whaling--Northwest Coast of North America.
- Whaling.
- Sealing--Northwest Coast of North America.
- Sealing.
- North America--Northwest Coast of North America.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 319, v pages, 27 pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.
- Contents:
- Part I.
- Cetacea. The California great whale
- The finback whale
- The humpback whale
- The sharp-headed finner whale
- The bowhead, or great polar whale
- The right whale of the North-Western coast
- The sulphurbottom whale
- The sperm whale
- The dolphins
- Part II.
- Pinnipedia. The sea elephant
- The sea lion
- The banded seal
- Fur seals
- The leopard seal
- The sea otter
- The walrus
- Part III.
- The American whale-fishery. Origin and ancient mode of whale-fishing
- The American whale fishery
- Ships, outfits, and manner of taking the whale
- American whaling commerce
- California shore-whaling
- Life and characteristics of American whalemen
- Lagoon-whaling
- Lagoon-whaling incidents
- Again to the North, and home.
- Notes:
- "This Dover edition, first published in 1968, is an unabridged re-publication of the work originally published by John H. Carmany and Company, San Francisco, and G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, in 1874. Additional material in this edition consists of a portrait of the author and a new Introduction by Victor B. Scheffer."--Title page verso.
- "Copyright ©1968 by Dover Publications, Inc."--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911. Marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America.
- ISBN:
- 0486219763
- 9780486219769
- OCLC:
- 451504
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