Whaling - Logbook of the German whaler "Bark Petrel"

Lot 1023 limit € 4.800

German manuscript in black ink on paper, 2 volumes, period between 1877 and 1886, approx. 34 x 21 cm, marbled cardboard boxes with leather backs (stained, rubbed and damaged, with glued protective cover), extensive journal from on board a seal and Whaler's diary was kept by Third Officer Julius Jacobson on the whaling ship Bark Petrel, based in New Bedford, Jacobson records each day's occurrences, including deaths, from July 1877 to June 1886 and from October 1880 to April 1884, fascinating document from the history of German whaling