Antique 19th century The Harvest of the Sea: Including Sketches of Fisheries & Fisher Folk. Book by selling James G. Bertram. John Murray: London, 1873. 340 pp. Third edition with fifty illustrations.
Hardcover, marbelized paper over board covers, leather spine with title and decoration in gilt and raised bands; marble endpapers; teg; Chapters on fish and growth, fish commerce, Italian, Scottish and French fisheries, fish culture, anglers' fishes, natural history of the salmon, economy of a salmon river, natural history of the herring, herring fishery, white-fish fisheries, natural history of the oyster, economy of the oyster farm, shellfish fisheries, foreign fishery exhibitions and home aquariums, the fisher-folk, and stories of fisher life, Charming front illustration of Newhaven fishwives, title-page with vignette illustration; many vignette illustrations showing various types of fish, marine operations and locations.
Good tight condition; slight surface wear; extremity rubbing; corner tips bumped.
Very collectible work related to the History of the Culture and Commerce of Fish, Fisheries, Natural History, Ocean and River Marine Life in Victorian and the 19th century.
Product code: Antique selling 19c Harvest of the Sea Book Bertram 1873 History Fisheries Fisherfolk