EditorialLeviathan, balaena, Parallel title: Leviathan, the whale; Whales, Signed: G. D. He?mann sculp, copperplate, plate DXXXIII, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Heumann, Georg Daniel (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspurg und Ulm: ged...
EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialFin whale, Balaenoptera physalus (endangered) and bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialBowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, being hunted by whalers with harpoons. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialWhalers hunting a bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Above and below the vignette are examples of the whale's diet of shellfish, plankton and shrimp. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848.