Pages 637-640 of a book on whales, with a hand-colored engraving depicting a beached whale being sliced up between them-- with seamen measuring, one working with axe on the blubber, and 3 overseers. Whaling ship and boat in the bay. Bound in a vellum (?) binding with two blank leaves on either side of the printed ones. "Whale." written in pencil on the front cover. Text in English. Two columns per page. Quarto format.
