An account of the number of ships, and their tonnage, fitted out in Scotland for the southern whale fishery, from Christmas 1763 to Christmas 1785 ...
Subtitle: Required by an order of the Honourable House of Commons, dated the 29th March 1786
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Fishery management; Whaling; Fishery products; Industries
Notes: Signed and dated at end: David Anderson, Examiner. Custom House, Edinburgh, 6th April 1786.

Docket title on verso.

ESTC T18777

Armorial bookplate of John Lord Sheffield.

Bound seventeenth with a series of similar ms. and printed reports on fisheries.

Bound in contemporary half-calf marbled boards (boards detached); in CMI case.