De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst
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De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst, voorgevallen by St. Anna-Land in’t jaar 1682. den 7. October. Midsgaders een pertinente beschrijvinge, van de geheele Groen-Landse vaart. Translation: The strange and never heard of capture of a whale, having occured near St. Anna-Land in the year 1682, on the 7th of October. As well as an accurate description of the entire Green-Landic whaling.
This book, written in 1684, provides the reader not only with many illustrated anecdotes from early Dutch whaling history, but also with a detailed description of the equipment whalers should have on board, how to hire captain and crew, and a complete list of Dutch owners of whaling ships in 1683.
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P.P. v. S., 1683. De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst, voorgevallen by St. Anna-Land in’t jaar 1682. den 7. October. Midsgaders een pertinente beschrijvinge, van de geheele Groen-Landse vaart. Verhandeld in prose, en versen. Nevens verscheide saaken tot die materie dienende; gelijk op d’and’re sijde van dit blad kan gesien worden. Leiden 1684 (tweede druk). (De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst)