GOODE, George Brown; Richard Rathbun; Joseph W. Collins

The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1884-87. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). 5 parts in 7 volumes, rebound in modern half brown leather, brown cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spines; modern endpapers; vol. I: xxxiv, 3-895pp; vol. I plates: xx pp, plates; vol. II: [xx], 3-787pp; vol. III-IV (bound together): xviii, 238pp, 178pp; vol. V text part I: xxii, 808pp; vol. V text part 2: xx,881pp; vol. V plates: xvi pp, plates; with 555 plates, 17 maps, and 32 folding ocean temperature charts. Ownership signatures of Leonhard Hess Stejneger (vol. I, title page) and James G. Mead (title page, vol. I plates). A straight set in a fresh modern binding, internally toned but clean: Very Good.

First edition of a detailed and extensively illustrated account of the U.S. Fishery industries, discussing natural history, geography, and practices and methods for catching everything from fish to whales to sea sponges. Volume divisions as follows:

I. Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, with An Atlas of Two Hundred and Seventy-Seven Plates.
II. A Geographical Review of the Fisheries Industries and Fishing Communities for the Year 1880.
III. The Fishing Grounds of North America with Forty-Nine Charts.
IV: The Fishermen of the United States [bound w/ v.IV];
V: History and Methods of the Fisheries, In Two Volumes, with an Atlas of Two Hundred and Fifty-Five Plates

This copy with the ownership signatures of Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943). Stejneger, an expert on birds, snakes, and reptiles, was Head Curator of biology at the Smithsonian from 1911-1943, and was Assistant Curator of Birds during the publication of this work. The plate volume for vol. I also has the embossed stamp of the Canadian Institute to the title page, and the ownership signature of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Vol. II has a stamp for the Library Association of Windsor, Vermont.

Price: $1,250.00

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