Whaling Around Australia

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. Very Good+. 1977. Paperback. 0727003526 . Looks unread, bibliography, index. 250gms weight; Seal Books; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 180 pages .

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 168 pages, Bibliography and Index. A complete history of the Whaling industry in Australian waters. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1969. slight wear to cover edges, some library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Australia's first industry was whaling sending flimsy boats from bays and beaches to harpoon whales, then turn the blubber into oil which went to light the homes of England. Larger ships were needed to pursue whales away from the coast until the commercial development of petroleum put a sudden end to deep sea whaling but after many years it recommenced,… Read more about this item

Rigby, Australia, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australian History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 44749. .

Adelaide: Rigby. 1969. 8vo, cl bds, illus d.j., b&w plates, b&w line illus, pp. 167 plus unpag bibliography and index. D.j. worn to edges with sticker residue to upper right corner and crease to inner flap. Book in very good condition. 167 History of whaling in Australia 1st edition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. 178pp, index, bibliog, 34 bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, flaps creased, minor shelf wear. Australia's first industry was also its most hazardous way of making a living. From the early days of flimsy boats setting out from shore with hand held harpoons to the end of the Australian whaling industry, this… Read more about this item

UK: Angus & Robertson (U.K.) Ltd, 1970 0207952469. 1970 FIRST EDITION hardback with dust wrapper. The book measures 22cm x 14cm, has 168 pages and is richly illustrated with b&w photographs and line drawings. Binding and contents are in very good order, dust wrapper has three creases on front flap and a shelf wear along top edge, with two small… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby, 1969. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. chipped dust jacket 168pp., b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index,

Rigby, 1977-01-01. Paperback. Good.

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Australia's first whaling industry was pursued with such zest that it reduced the whales from the coastline to almost zero. Other nations were then able to follow them into their Antarctic breeding grounds leaving a fraction of their population intact. 220 x 144mm., pp. 12 (prelim.), 178, b/w plates, biblio.,… Read more about this item

London, Angus & Robertson, 1969.. 8vo; pp. (xii), 180 (last 2 blank); frontispiece, 20 pages of plates, bibliography, index; blue cloth-grained papered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, tape shadows on free endpapers, a very good copy.. First UK edition.

Seal Books, Sydney, 1977. . 178 pp including index, b&w photographic plates and illustrations, line drawings, very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers.

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Adelaide. Rigby Limited., 1969.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 168pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Whaling was one of Australia's first industries & was one of its most hazardous. Fleets of whaling ships set sail from Hobart & Sydney in search of whale pods off the coast of Australia.