75/3384 [Whaling]. Zorgdrager, C.G. Bloeijende Opkomst der Aloude en Hedendaagsche Groenlandsche Visschery (...) Met byvoeging van de Walvischvangst (...) nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-visschery. Amst., I. Tirion, 1728 (frontisp. w. address: The Hague, P. van Thol and R.C. Alberts, 1727), 2nd enl. ed., (42),392,(13)p., engr. frontisp., 6 fold. maps, 1 fold. and 10 full-p. plates, contemp. hcalf w. gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.

- Title-p. repaired at margins; occas. sl. (water)stained; upper hinge widening. Covers w. a few sm. waterstains.

= Bound w. extra table between page 310/311 ''Lyst van de Groenlandsche Visschery, en Prys der Goederen, zeder 1725''; Tiele 1241 note (only 12 maps/ plates); Honig Sale 411; Cat. NHSM p.899; Sabin 106374; Jenkins p.162; Lauridsen p.190; Chavanne 2110; Ingalls 13: "C.G. Zorgdrager's classic volume on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early eighteenth-century Dutch and Germanic fisheries". Allen 177: "Zorgdrager's work is by far the most important of the early authorities on the northern Whalefishery, and must always be one of the chief sources of information for the early history of the subject." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLX.