Memoria sobre a pesca do bacalhão, offerecida á Companhia de Pescarias Lisbonense, por seu author … e mandada imprimir pela direccão da mesma companhia.
by AZAMBUJA, Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de
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Lisbon, Na Typographia de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1835.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, text block edges sprinkled blue from an old binding. Very good condition. 48 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Azambuja was Portuguese charge d'affaires in the United States from 1829 to 1834. Pages 45-8 deal with whaling, including mention of New Bedford, Fairhaven, New London, Falmouth, Newport, Plymouth, Salem, Sag Harbor, New York, among other places in the United States. Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador are also discussed. Most of the book deals with fishing for cod, with emphasis on the United States and Canada. Herring are also mentioned.*** Innocêncio X, 113. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29001.1. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature before 1850. Porbase locates five copies: four in the Bibliotecta Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc locates a copy in the British Library, and several electronic copies. NUC: NN, CaOTU.
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- Memoria sobre a pesca do bacalhão, offerecida á Companhia de Pescarias Lisbonense, por seu author … e mandada imprimir pela direccão da mesma companhia.
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- AZAMBUJA, Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de
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- Lisbon, Na Typographia de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1835.
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- fishing, cod, herring, Alantic cod fishing, fishery management, fisheries, whaling, whales, bacalhão, New Bedford, Fairhaven, New London, Falmouth, Newport, Plymouth, Salem, Sag Harbor, New York, Canada, Newfoundland, Labrador, Food
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