Browne, J. Ross. ETCHINGS OF A WHALING CRUISE, with notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is appended a brief History of the Whale Fishery, its past and present condition. By J. Ross Browne. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1846. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 580, 8(adv.); 8 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece), numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text (including 5 full-page plates), appendix on the European and American whale fisheries and characteristics of various whales; original cloth (spine faded & a little worn; waterstain throughout, mostly in lower & upper inner margins; occasional foxing); a very good copy; very scarce. New York; Harper & Brothers, Publishers; 1846.
***Spence 197; Jenkins, page 84 (listing only a London edition of 1846 & a New York one of 1850); not in Forster or Forbes, although the appendix refers to whaling in the Pacific and mentions Honolulu; Hill, 2nd Edn., 197 (London edition of 1846): "The narrative provides one of the few accounts we have of what life was like in the whaling fleet of the 1840s written by an intelligent and sensitive observer." #64880
