London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1903 8vo. (20 x 13 cm), xx + 380 pages, folding map + 8 full-page illustrations. A few small marks, but generally a very clean copy. Bound in the publisher ’ s blue cloth binding, title etc. in gilt on the spine and a gilt picture of a whale on the front cover. The cover very bright, but with three small chips in the cloth, two of them on the front hinge.