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A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 577211i
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A common whale, a dolphin and a porpoise. Coloured engraving by P Dixon, ca 1824.
Date: 1824Reference: 39932i
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The belly and side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout and underside. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 39929i
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A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.
Reference: 39934i
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Om nordhvalen (Balaena mysticetus L.) navnlig med hensyn til dens udbredning i fortiden og nutiden og til dens ydre og indre særkjender / af D.F. Eschricht og J. Reinhardt.
Daniel Frederik EschrichtDate: 1861
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A whale with the head of the Prince Regent spouts two streams inscribed "The liquor of oblivion" and "The dew of favour", referring to his desertion of the Whigs and to favours bestowed on the Tories. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
George CruikshankDate: 1812Reference: 38413i
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[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council.
John Joseph William NeunerDate: 1963
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Jonah and the whale. Engraving after P. Brill.
Paul BrilDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 2027435i
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The whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic : compared with those occurring in European waters / with some observations on the species of the North Pacific. By Frederick W. True.
Frederick W. TrueDate: [1904]
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Guide to the whales, porpoises, and dolphins (order cetacea) : exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W / [drawn up by R. Lydekker].
Richard LydekkerDate: 1909
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The top side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 39927i
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Vlyssis Aldrouandi philosophi, et medici Bononiensis De piscibus libri V et De cetis lib. vnus / Ioannes Cornelius Vteruerius ... collegit ; Marc. Antonius Bernia in lucem restituit ... cum indice copiosissimo.
Ulisse AldrovandiDate: MDCXXXVIII [1638]
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Greenland: fishermen spearing whales from the safety of their boats; right, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured engraving.
Date: [1705]Reference: 42326i
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Whalemeat : bacteriology and hygiene / by R. H. M. Robinson [and others].
Date: 1953
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A beaked whale blowing a fountain of water through its snout. Coloured engraving, ca 1815.
Date: 1 Nov 1815Reference: 39931i
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Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 39950i
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The seals and whales of the British seas / by Thomas Southwell.
Southwell, Thomas, 1831-1909.Date: 1881
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Pilot Whale Campaign.
Pilot Whale Campaign.Date: [1994?]
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Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales / By John Hunter, Esq., F.R.S. : from the Philosophical transactions.
John HunterDate: [1787]
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Memoir on the anatomy of the humpback whale, Megaptera Longimana / [Sir John Struthers].
John StruthersDate: 1889
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A whale. Engraving, ca 1793.
Date: 1 March 1793Reference: 39925i
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A blunt headed cachalot, a gibbous cachalot, a porpoise and a dolphin. Etching by J Scott, ca 1812, after S Edwards.
Sydenham EdwardsDate: published as the Act directs 1 July 1812Reference: 39936i
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Greenland: above, indigenous fish including seals; centre, three different whales; below, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured engraving.
Date: [1705]Reference: 42324i
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The natural history of the sperm whale ... To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage. In which the author was personally engaged / By Thomas Beale.
Beale, Thomas.Date: 1839
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A narwhal, a common whale and a pike-headed whale. Etching by J Scott, ca 1812, after S Edwards.
Sydenham EdwardsDate: published as the Act directs 1 March 1812Reference: 39937i