Author: Burnett, D. Graham
Title: Trying Leviathan : The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xiv,266,(16)pp, In a torn dustwrapper.. 16pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.

Keywords: American Legal History, Tax Evasion Trials, New York State, United States, Whale Oil, Nineteenth Century, Whales, Whaling,