History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876, in Two Volumes [Whaling]

vii, 407; 408-779 pp. 8vo. 1964 reissue of the work originally published in Part IV of the Report of the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1878. An edition was also issued privately by the author in the same year. This limited edition of 750 copies includes a new introduction by Stuart C. Sherman. Photographic frontispiece of author, maps on endpapers. Starbuck also wrote a history of Nantucket (not included here), which was an important hub for the whaling industry. Can we also take a moment to appreciate the fact that there exists a history of whaling by someone named Starbuck? We feel confident that Herman Melville would approve. This is more than simple coincidence, though: Starbuck was a prominent Quaker family name in Nantucket. Several of them were whalers, and an island in the South Pacific whaling grounds is named after them.