"The Whale Fishery and Killing the Bears" Illustration from Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotecha , 1744-48

Artifact Label: John Harris (1667?-1719)Navigantium Atque Itinerantium BibliothecaLondon: Printed for T. Woodward, etc. 1744-48 “In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled "A Whaling Voyage to Spitzberge...

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spelling ftloyolamarymuni:oai:digitalcommons.lmu.edu:mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit-1036 2023-06-11T04:17:08+02:00 "The Whale Fishery and Killing the Bears" Illustration from Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotecha , 1744-48 2014-10-01T07:00:00Z image/jpeg https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/37 https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/context/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/article/1036/type/native/viewcontent/LMU_MD_Harris.JPG unknown Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/37 https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/context/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/article/1036/type/native/viewcontent/LMU_MD_Harris.JPG Archives & Special Collections Gallery Exhibit text 2014 ftloyolamarymuni 2023-05-08T06:29:42Z Artifact Label: John Harris (1667?-1719)Navigantium Atque Itinerantium BibliothecaLondon: Printed for T. Woodward, etc. 1744-48 “In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled "A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master." In one of those plates the whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among ice-isles, with white bears running over their living backs. In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes.” Moby-Dick, Chapter 55, “Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales” Navigantium is a comprehensive history of famous voyages including those of Magellan and Drake. Over time reissued editions grew increasingly larger as descriptions of new voyages were added. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/1036/thumbnail.jpg Text Spitzbergen Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School: Digital Commons Woodward ENVELOPE(-145.500,-145.500,-77.283,-77.283)
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description Artifact Label: John Harris (1667?-1719)Navigantium Atque Itinerantium BibliothecaLondon: Printed for T. Woodward, etc. 1744-48 “In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled "A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master." In one of those plates the whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among ice-isles, with white bears running over their living backs. In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes.” Moby-Dick, Chapter 55, “Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales” Navigantium is a comprehensive history of famous voyages including those of Magellan and Drake. Over time reissued editions grew increasingly larger as descriptions of new voyages were added. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/mobydick-asc-galleryexhibit/1036/thumbnail.jpg
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