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Plate CVIII from an unknown book depicting whales, fish, and fishery equipment. At top, two fish and a spouting baleen whales. Text reads "Fig. 10. Batistes Vetula, or old Wife." (by top fish), "Fig. 1 Balaena Mysticetus, The Whale." (by whale),"Fig. 9. Bastistes Monoceros or Unicorn Fish" (by lower fish). Below is some fishery equipment, labeled with figure numbers and letters. This includes a "Flying Bridge" and a boat. Faint ink transfer from a typeset page is visible all across the surface.


whales
1780-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Bell, A.; Wal.
ink; paper
10 1/2 in x 8 in
Britain