ROBOTTI, Frances Diane. Whaling and Old Salem : A Chronicle of the Sea. With an Account of the Seal Fisheries, Excerpts from Whaling Logs and Whaling Statistics. Illustrated. With an Introduction by Carleton D. Morse. Salem :Newcomb & Gauss, 1950. First Edition. Pp 192. 8vo, red cloth spine. Forste r 239. Contents : Early History of the "Royal Fish"; Did Salem Whale BeforeNantucket?; Off-Shore to Deep-Sea Whaling; Salem and the Fur Seal Fishery; Whale-Oil, Whalebone, Whale Beef; Whaling Merchants, Officers and Crews; G eorge Dodge of Salem Ships on a Whaler;On the Emerals to the South Pacific,and others. Very good in dustjacket. 65.00