Fishing & Angling

London: John Watts, 1740. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Illustrated throughout with charming textual engravings of fish. Bound in full brown contemporary calf skillfully rebacked with rules stamped in gilt and with a black leather spine label stamped in gilt. All edges stained red. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper.

London. William Pickering. 1825. Brilliantly custom bound in full gilt ruled crushed morocco. Eight superb gilt tooled swimming fish to front and rear covers. Gilt ruled spine compartments with gilt tooled fish motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt titles. Elaborate gilt tooled Turn-ins. Gilt tooled edges all around. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 48mo. 2.25" x 3.5". First Edition Thus. Part of the renowned "Diamond Series" this issue is the smallest complete edition of Walton's classic ever printed. Illustrated with an engraved Frontis and various decorations en texte. Front cover and spine evenly sunned. Abrasion to the blank verso of the front free endsheet. A Fine, crisp beautiful copy of Pickering's famous miniature printing. Keynes -94.

London. The first two leaves are supplied in manuscript and the last title . lacks the last leaf of the index. ** The angling title is complete, . the book has been professionally respined matching the original binding.. 1683. Third Edition. Hardcover. 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Contemporary blind ruled leather, frontispiece showing a woman and a woman with fishing rods. **Being pages [142]-167 of: The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excelllent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together wilth some rare and besutifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both iln the English and French mode... **OCLC #270816780. .

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Graying or UmberJohn JacksonGibbings & Co, London, 1899. VG+. Green cloth gilt decorative title panel and blind recessed borders. 72 pp. Four pages of adverts. With 10 plates. coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. With addendum by John Miller. Fourth Edition. Bookplate to fep. Lead corners gently rubbed. All plates present and in good order. Binding sound. 41002 ANTI fishing £300.00

"NEWCASTLE FISHERS' GARLANDS" - A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, edited by Joseph Crawhall. 1864; George Rutland; Newcastle-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. The book is a compilation of content from past publications of "The Fisher's Garland" from 1820 to 1864. At the back of the book is a Memorial to Izaak Walton, best know as the author of "The Compleat Angler.""Dedicated to the Members of the Coquet-Dale Angling Club, with an earnest hope that the lines herein cast may perchance rise some stray Roxby or Doubleday of that honourable body, and induce an attempt to resume and continue the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands, so charmingly set forth by the spirits of a former generation."Condition:Some areas of bubbling under the cloth on the front cover; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine; light soiling to front and back covers. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. Occasional foxing to a handful of random pages...otherwise, the pages are clean and white with no… Read More

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1950, hardcover, x-260 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the title page, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, dampstain to fore-edge of boards affecting no other area, small bookstore sticker to front pastedown, text block top edge darkened. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, spine faded, faint dampstains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-known author of Return to the River, A River Never Sleeps, and The Western Angler traces the development of the seasons and their effect upon his world, the habits of fish and game, the details of family and community life, and, more broadly, the position of mankind amidst the wonder and beauty of the world of nature.

1841 1ed Foreign Field Sports Color Illustrated Hunting Fishing WHALING Howitt

An extremely valuable and impressive, color illustrated work of sport and outdoors by illustrator Samuel Howitt. 'Foreign Field Sports' is a 19th-century sports manual known for its engravings on hunting, big game animals, fishing and ice fishing, horse racing and competitions, and whaling! The whaling engravings themselves are often considered some of the most desirable views of the sport!

Note on dating and rarity: While the title page does not indicate dating, the plates themselves are dated by 1813 and 1833. William gilling was a notable London publisher from 1841-1844. Individual engravings from this work are known be extremely desirable and some sell alone for nearly $1,000!
Item number: #6293
Price: $2500
HOWITT, Samuel
Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : containing fifty plates, beautifully coloured, from the original drawings
London : Published by W. Gilling, [1841]. First edition by… Read More

The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 2004. Leather Bound. Fine/Near Fine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION 2004. Edition of only 20 copies, this is copy 10. Book is in Fine condition with no noted flaws. Outer box is Near Fine, with a small bump to back bottom edge. Includes a fly hand-tied by Frankie McPhillips, inset on inside front cover with the fly tier's initials in ink and protective textured tissue overlay. Text is printed on archival paper. Approximately 9.5" x 6.5". Sepia frontispiece. Bound in full publisher's green morocco, gilt lettering, decoration and rules to spine, gilt fish design on front cover, blind rules to edges of front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk bookmark, housed in a green silk-lined drop-down box with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and embossed gilt fish design on front cover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a… Read More

1859 British Fish Illustrated Woodcut Engravings Natural History Yarrell 2v SET

The first edition of William Yarrell's "History of British Fishes' was published in 1836 with a supplement added in 1839. This 1859 edition contains descriptions of 260 species with illustrated cuts, and many additional ornamental vignettes. According to Westwood & Satchell
"indispensable in every English Anglers Library as a work of reference. Yarrell was, besides, an angler, and his work contains many useful hints in connection with the sport (WS).

This EXQUISITE 1859 edition is illustrated with 522 woodcut engravings!
Item number: #7732
Price: $599
YARRELL, William
A History of British Fishes.
London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1859.

Details:

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 2 volumes
o V1: [xxxviii], 675
o V2:[5], 670, [2]
o 522 woodcut engravings
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References: Casey Wood p. 639. Freeman p. 379. Westwood & Satchell pp. 243-44. cfStarkman & Read p. 114. Nissen ZBI, 4488
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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and spine, one spine . label missing, owner initials on front flyleaf, pages toned.. 1864. Hardcover. Three-quarter green leather with marbled sides and matching marbled edges and endpapers. Six spine compartments with red gilt-stamped leather label in one and one missing in another. iv, 432pp. Eight lithograph plates of fish species, including color plate of a pike, many other engravings in text. A handsome bound volume of issues of this Victorian fishing magazine, featuring articles about the natural history of various fish, reviews of fishing books, reports on fisheries, fishing techniques, pollution, Izaak Walton, and gossipy piscatorial puffery. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

This is an early fishing book - "Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the (River) Tweed" by William Scrope, Esq. 1843 1st edition; John Murray; London. "With an Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc." The book features 13 full-page lithographs (some with color) and 9 wood engraving, in-text "vignettes."From the Preface:"It will be seen that in the letter-press I have attempted little more than to give a correct and faithful account of the manner and spirit in which the sport of salmon fishing is carried on in various ways where the scene is laid, and to bring before the sportsman the characters of such people as he is likely to fall in with in his excursions."Here are a few examples of the contents:* Citizen Anglers* His Powers of Swimming and Leaping* Change of Colour in Fish* Seasons of Various Rivers* Encounter with a Duck* Childish Incident* Murderous Fish* A Ponderous Salmon* Cut and Drowned* New Construction of a Salmon Reel* The… Read More

J. Rivington, T. Caslon, and R. Withy. London. 1766 + 1760. SECOND HAWKINS EDITION. 8vo. (7.1 x 4.7 inches). (2pp - advert leaf for books printed by R. Withy), lvi, xxii, 304, -- Second part; (1 - Portrait of Cotton), xlviii, iv, ii, iv,128, (viii, index). Complete. Separate title to second part, dated 1760. Illustrated with 14 engraved full page plates, including one of music, plus 16 engraved text illustrations. A clean copy with good strong impressions of the plates. Bound in contemporary full tan calf, with a later dark brown calf title label added. Spine with expert replacements of the top and bottom panels, and two board corners to match the original. Five raised bands. Compartments ruled in gilt. Date to the bottom panel in gilt. Small previous owner bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Some offsetting to the endpapers, from the leather turn ins. Hinges are a little cracked to the surface but firm and strong. Corners a little bumped but overall an attractive and tactile copy of this… Read More

Perth Scotland: P. D. Malloch, 1933. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Fine But For Slightest Traces Of Use. 151 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Printer Code Is " 2/33 ". Laid In Is A Gun Licence, Dated 1934, Purchased In Inverness. An Exceptional Copy..

The Gentleman Angler"Containing short, plain, and easy instructions, whereby the most ignorant beginner may in a short time, become a perfect artist in angling…With several observations on Angle Rods, and Artificial Flies; How to chuse the best hair and Indian Grass; Of the proper times and seasons for river and pond fishing…Together with an appendix, containing the method of rock and sea fishing…By a gentleman, who has made angling his diversion upwards of twenty-eight years." From the preface: "the most perfect and complete of any that has hitherto appeared in print". Topics include the angler's song, laws of angling, infallible bait, recipes for fish dishes, and a glossary of angling terms."The Second Edition, with large ADDITIONS.' London. Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch. 1736. 12mo, pages [2], vi, 200, [8]. Complete with an index and publishers' advertisements. 19th century half calf with marbled boards. Rebacked with gilt lettering.
Light foxing and browning, attractive binding… Read More

This trade edition of Mayflies of the Driftless Region was printed at Midnight Paper Sales on Monadnock Dulcet paper, in an edition of 1,000 copies in the summer of 2006. The text was set by hand in Bembo Monotype and printed from the original metal type. The images were printed from the original hand-engraved end grain maple blocks.