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    • The Wax Plug in the External Auditory Meatus of the Mysticeti. (National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 27, pp. 293-301, plates XIV-XVIII)
    • Purves, P. E.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $56.85
    • Publisher: Cambridge: At the Universoty Press,    Date Published: 1955
    • Description: first edition; large quarto, [9] pp. of text, 5 plates with printed guards; extraction roughness at spine and only the detached front cover of paper wrappers remains; a whale's ear wax is significantly different than that of a human, in the baleen it is helpful in transmitting high frequency sounds. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: marine biology, whales, baleen whale, ear wax, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 799795
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    • The Foetal Growth Rates of Whales with Special Reference to the Fin whale, Balaenoptera Physalus Linn. ((National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 29, pp. 281-308)
    • Laws, R. M.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $25.74
    • Publisher: Cambridge: At the University Press,    Date Published: 1959
    • Description: first edition; large quarto, [28] pp., 1 plate; extracation roughness at spine and only the detached front cover remains from paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: marine biology, whales, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 803479
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    • Some Aspects of Respiration in Blue and Fin Whales. (National Institute of Oceanography. Discovery Reports, Volume 7, pp. 363-406, plate XV)
    • Laurie, Alec H.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $17.82
    • Publisher: Cambridge: At the University Press,    Date Published: 1933
    • Description: first edition; large quarto, [44] pp., 1 plate; extraction roughness at spine and only the deatched front cover of paper wrappers remains. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: marine biology, whales, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 803480
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    • Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg. Edited by William Henry Flower.
    • Eschright, D. F., et al. Flower, William Henry, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $80.24
    • Publisher: London: Robert Hardwicke for the Ray Society,    Date Published: 1866
    • Description: first English translations of four articles published 1861-1862 viz. On the Greenland Right Whale ... by D. F. Eschright (with a short new appendix by Flower), On the Species of Orca inhabiting the Northern Sea ... by D. F. Eschright, On Pseudorca crassidens by J. Reinhart, and Synopsis of the Cretaceous Mammals of Scandinavia ... by W. Lilljeborg; folio (leaves 36.5 cm. tall), viii, [2], 312 pp., 6 plates; private book plate, original paper sides darkened with back cover stained and cloth spine split at back joint, text damp stained at margins, plates badly damp stained and some chipped at fore edge with no loss, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: history of science, whales, marine biology, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 799784
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    • Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg. Edited by William Henry Flower.
    • Eschright, D. F., et al. Flower, William Henry, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $79.44
    • Publisher: London: Robert Hardwicke for the Ray Society,    Date Published: 1866
    • Description: first English translations of four articles published 1861-1862 viz. On the Greenland Right Whale ... by D. F. Eschright (with a short new appendix by Flower), On the Species of Orca inhabiting the Northern Sea ... by D. F. Eschright, On Pseudorca crassidens by J. Reinhart, and Synopsis of the Cretaceous Mammals of Scandinavia ... by W. Lilljeborg; folio (leaves slightly shorter than 36 cm.), viii, [2], 312 pp., 6 plates; private book plate, light general age toning to text with plates darker and one has plate number shaved, overall slant but still near very good in later cloth. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: history of science, whales, marine biology, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 799756
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    • Investigations on Cetacea. (Volume 1 through 4)
    • Pilleri, G.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $307.25
    • Publisher: Berne: (Hirnanatomisches Institut der Universitat),    Date Published: 1969
    • Description: Volumes 1 through 4 with the third volume in two parts, only; each volume approximately 200-300 pages, some articles have illustrations, the fourth volume has tables in pocket at end as issued, entirely in English (Articles submitted in German, Italian, French translated by Diane von Nordheim, a practice discontinued in later volumes), private book plates and reading creases down spines of pictorial paper wrappers but a very good group. Volumes Included: 5
    • Subject: marine biology, mammals, whales, dolphins, porpoises, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 856589
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    • Whale Marking. Progress and Results to December 1939 (Discovery Reports, Vol. XIX, pp. 245-284, plates XLIII-LXVIII)
    • Rayner, George W.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $76.06
    • Publisher: Cambridge: At The University Press,    Date Published: 1940
    • Description: first edition; quarto, library markings and later cloth with the original front cover of paper wrappers bound in, most of the plates are folding and have been strengthened at folds with tape that tones but never obscures image side, overall good+; the whales are shot with numbered darts that become embedded in their blubber and are retrieved when and if they are dismembered by commercial whalers. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: marine biology, whales, RKo   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 789637
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    • On the histological structure of Cetacean lungs, (Discovery reports)
    • F Haynes
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $28.57
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press    Date Published: 1937
    • Description: 5 pp., one plate; rebound in buckram (hardcover with original cover retained), ex library, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: whales biology rk0 mll   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 778220
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    • Den gamle hvalfangst. Kapitler av dens historie.
    • Aagaard, Bjarne.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $38.12
    • Publisher: Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Verlag,    Date Published: 1933
    • Description: 166, [1] pp.; ex library, lacks front cover of paper wrappers, text browned with margin flaking, illustrations not well reproduced, working copy only . Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: whaling   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 350346
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    • The Sperm whale, Physeter Catodon, (Discovery reports)
    • L. Harrison Matthews
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $18.46
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press    Date Published: 1938
    • Description: pp. 95-164 + plates, rebound in buckram (hardcover with original covers retained), ex library, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: sperm whale oceanography marine science rk0 mll   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 778443
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    • On the Organization of the Caaing Whale, Globiocephalus melas. (from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London)
    • James Murie
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $86.64
    • Publisher: London    Date Published: 1873
    • Description: first edition; small folio, [167] pp., 9 plates with most of them partially color; later cloth with a modern private book plate but overall very good; the Caaing Whale is also called the Pilot Whale, it avoids confusion if you don't call them Potheads . Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Caaing Whale, Pilot Whales, anatomy, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 805628
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    • On a Specimen of Ziphius Recently Obtained Near Dunedin. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. XII, Part 8
    • J. H. Scott & T. Jeffery Parker
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $79.75
    • Publisher: Zoological Society of London    Date Published: 1889
    • Description: [9] pp., 3 color plates; original paper wrappers with later tape rebacking, near very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: natural history whales mll   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 799905
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    • A Book of Whales. With Forty Illustrations by W. Sidney Berridge. (Progressive Science Series)
    • Beddard, F. E.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $31.42
    • Publisher: London/NY: John Murray/G. P. Putnam's Sons,    Date Published: 1900
    • Description: first edition; xv, [1], 320, 10 (ads for other books in the series), frontispiece, plates, a few illustrations in text; original cloth soiled an d spine badly faded with a split down center, modern private book plate 1914 signature of "J. Erik Hamilton" with a typed label below identifying him as the zoologist on the Discovery in 1926-1927, an old written list of repairs to be done around the house attached to last blank and a blank bookseller's invoice on back pastedown, shaken and a working copy only; includes dolphins. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: natural history, whales, dolphins, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 858611
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    • The Whale and His Captors, or, The Whaleman's Adventures, and the whale's biography as gathered on the homeward cruise of the "Commodore Preble." With engravings
    • Henry T. Cheever
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $1,107.99
    • Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers    Date Published: 1849
    • Description: the true first edition (1849), not noted in Sabin; xii, [1] (list of engravings), [1] (plate), [21]-314, [6] (ads) pp., frontis., plates within the text; original gilt & blind stamped brown cloth, spine & tips chipped, text foxed, fading contemporaneous inked line to front free endpaper, however overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: whaling mw8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 652070
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    • The Habits of Fin Whales (Discovery Reports, Vol. 25)
    • E. R Gunther
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $129.92
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press    Date Published: 1949
    • Description: pp. 115-141, one plate; rebound in buckram (hardcover), ex library, spine sunned, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: whales oceanography marine science rk0   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 778416
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    • The Humpback whale, Megaptera Nodosa, (Discovery report)
    • L. Harrison Matthews
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $31.38
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press    Date Published: 1937
    • Description: 91 pp. + plates, rebound in buckram (hardcover with original cover retained), ex library, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: humpback whale oceanography marine science rk0   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 778445
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    • Miriam Coffin or The Whale-Fishermen. A Tale. Second Edition.
    • Hart, Joseph C.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $387.30
    • Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers,    Date Published: 1835
    • Description: 2 volumes, small octavo, iv (press notices), 204 (beginning with blank recto of ad and including 10 pages of music) pp. + 198 pp.; library markings, original cloth with printed paper labels worn and faded with tears and chipping at spines, age spotting in text; Wright I 1134,. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: fiction, American literature, wark, whaling   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 530598
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    • Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle et l'anatomie des Limules par J. van der Hoeven. Avec sept planches.
    • Hoeven, Jan van der.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $353.37
    • Publisher: Leyde: Chez S. & J. Luchtmans,    Date Published: 1838
    • Description: first edition; folio (leaves 40 cm. tall), [viii] (beginning with half title), 48 pp., 7 plates, original paper covered boards with later(?) paper tape at spine; binding darkened with lower outside corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked, general age toning, the plates have short tears and fraying at top margin and a light damp stain in lower margin but images not touched, good+ only but an untrimmed copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: history of science, marine biology, Limulus, Limuli, Horseshoe Crab, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 807469
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    • The Vascular Networks (Retia Mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera Physalus), Discovery Reports, Volume 5 pp. 327-362, text figs. 1-10.
    • Ommanney, F. D.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $33.28
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press    Date Published: 1932
    • Description: large quarto, [35] pp., original paper wrappers, now somewhat worn or chipped, particularly at edges, else good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Natural history oceanography Whales   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 622728
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    • When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic. First Paperback Edition (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
    • Dorothy Harley Eber
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    • ISBN: 077351421X   Price: $13.41
    • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press    Date Published: 1996
    • Description: First Paperback Edition, 187 pp., Paperback, very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: ctt anthropology whaling history   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 696102
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