French Whaling: The Final Era

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LACROIX, Louis. Les Derniers Baleiniers Français. IMP. DE BRETAGNE. 1938. Octavo, half-leather binding, dust jacket preserved, 373 pages. Colored frontispiece, plates outside text. Numerous photographic plates, illustrations and black and white maps outside text. Several folding plans and black and white maps outside text, at end of work. Preface by Emile Gabory. Half a century of history of major French whaling from 1817 to 1867. Illustrations by V. Batard and R. Chapelet. History of whaling vessels from Dunkirk, Dieppe, Le Havre, Saint-Malo, Nantes, Bordeaux and Marseille from 1817 to 1867. Flags in use on whalers.