Navigatio Piscatorum in glacie quaerentium Balaenam. La Navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine.
[n.d., c.1760.] Hand coloured etching, 320 x 430mm. 12½ x 17". Stain to centre of title area. Trimmed close to upper platemark. A Greenland whale fishery with polar bears (coloured in black!) in the foreground. Title in Latin and French. Possibly from a set of four arctic whaling and fishing scenes published by George Balthasar Probst (1732 - 1801) in Augsburg. Numbered 'CCI.' lower left.
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