Frank, Stuart M.

Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists

Mystic, Conn, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1991. Hardcover. A beautiful, rich blue casebound book with the title in gilt lettering down the spine and across the front cover. There is a color-pictorial illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in white and black lettering down a blue and white spine. Also has a mylar jacket. Pages: (6), iii-xxxiii, (4), 2-198, (2). Contains several black-and-white photographs. VG+/VG: The dust jacket is showing wear around its edges, especially near the spine. The book itself has solid binding and sharp corners.

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Book number: 202626

Catalogue: Whaling and Scrimshaw

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; Scrimshaw ; ;

Frank, Stuart M.

Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved : Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Boston, MA, David R. Godine, 2012. 1 ed. Hardcover. Black dj with color illustration and white text, blue boards with gilt design and lettering on spine. xv, (2) 384 pp. features many color illustrations. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the New England port of New Bedford was among the five richest cities in America. Its wealth was derived from a single source - whale oil, the "fossil fuel" of the early Industrial Revolution, providing light and lubrication to the burgeoning economy of young America. The New Bedford whaling fleet was the most numerous, adventurous, and far-ranging in the world, setting off on voyages that often lasted for three or four years and extended as far as the Antarctic and Siberia. VG, dj with some minor creases and tears, boards and pages in excellent condition .

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Book number: 202854

Catalogue: Whaling and Scrimshaw

Keywords: Whaling and Scrimshaw ; New Bedford Whaling Museum ; ;

Robert C. Eldred Co

The Collection of the Late Arno "Buck" R. Haberkorn III with Other Marine & Oriental Export Art at Auction

Robert C. Eldred Co, 2007. Softcover. A white softcover book with the title in black lettering down the spine. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. VG: Warping to a small portion of the cover (like it was clutched with great strength while being read). Contains marginalia.

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Book number: 202920

Catalogue: Whaling and Scrimshaw

Keywords: Whaling and Scrimshaw ; Haberkorn Collection ; ;