Whale fishing. Facsimile after a woodcut from "La cosmographie universelle" by André Thevet (1516-1590), published in Paris in 1575. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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