The Barbara Johnson Collection: Books & Manuscripts on Whales, Whaling and Related Subjects Part I [with] Part II [ 2 vols, Swann Galleries, Inc. auction catalogue, sale dates: 28- 29 October,1996 and 25 September, 1997 ].

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2 vols, illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,24 cm, [196] + [176] pp, profusely illustrated (a few in colour). 870 + 533 lots. From the catalogue: "The most singular fact about the Barbara Johnson Collection was that it consisted not of one type of object, but of hundreds of different types of objects all relating to a central subject: whales and whaling. It was less a collection of things than a section of life, a physical chronicle of an activity, in which human and natural history had been pieced back together. Thus one found within this huge assemblage books, prints, manuscripts, paintings, tools, models, weathervanes, furniture and carvings. Barbara Johnson says she often did not know what she was looking for until she found it. The Barbara Johnson Collection was the largest private collection in the world, not only of scrimshaw, but of everything relating to whales, whaling and whalers. " Spin-ends rubbed, otherwise Near Fine. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-46446

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