[Rarebooks] fa: ACCOUNT OF A SPERM WHALE CAST UP ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST 1825 - w/ PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian scientific works, auction ending Sunday, September 15. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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James Alderson: An Account of a Whale of the Spermaceti Tribe, cast on shore on the Yorkshire Coast, on the 28th of April, 1825. [Cambridge: 1826]. A complete paper, extracted from a broken volume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, bound in burgundy french wraps; 4to (28 x 22 cm); p. 253-266 (14 pages), plus three leaves of plates. Occasional light scattered foxing, a bit of dust-soiling to the top edge, otherwise clean and sound and firmly bound in fresh modern wraps.

A fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, at the time of this lecture, the future Sir James Alderson (1794-1882) later gained considerable renown as a physician; he was elected president of College of Physicians in 1867 and named physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1874. "Sir James was a man of many interests… He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and one of the founders of the Hull and East Riding School of Medicine and Anatomy, which opened in 1831. A few years earlier he published an account of his dissection of a huge whale which had been washed ashore at Tunstall…" (Ann Godden: "A Stroll Down Albion Street [Hull] — 1892") .