"This first edition consists of sixteen hundred and twenty-five copies of which one hundred and fifty-six are numbered and signed and contain an original drawing by Mr. Ashley." This copy is neither numbered nor signed and is without the original drawing.

Contains "the account of my whaling voyage in the bark Sunbeam, originally published in Harpers̕ magazine some twenty years ago under the title T̀he blubber-hunters"́.--Foreword.

"A list of books concerning whales and whaling": p. [147]-149.