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Item #42093 Daylight Land. The Experiences, Incidents, and Adventures, Humorous and otherwise,...

MURRAY, W.H.H.

Daylight Land. The Experiences, Incidents, and Adventures, Humorous and otherwise, which befell Judge John Doe, tourist, of San Francisco; Mr Cephas Pepperell, Capitalist, of Boston; Colonel Goffe, the Man from New Hampshire, and diverse others, in their Parlour-Car Excursion over Prairie and Mountain. All of Which I Saw, and One of Whom I Was.

Boston. Cupples and Hurd. 1888. 8vo. 22.5cm, 338,[4]p., with frontis and 150 sepia tone plates and illustrations, from photographs and drawings, original light fawn brown cloth, elaborate pictorial decorated stamped in black with titles stamped in white, in fine condition. (Spg). Bruns #274. "Contains The Big Nepigon Trout, Fish and.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42089 By Celtic Waters. Holiday Jaunts with Rod Camera & Paint Brush. By C.K. Illustrated....

KENT, Charles]

By Celtic Waters. Holiday Jaunts with Rod Camera & Paint Brush. By C.K. Illustrated.

London. J. Davy & Sons Dryden Press. 1894. 12mo, 19.2cm, viii,152,[3]p., ads., limited to 500 numbered copies, this being #349, illustrated, quarter Japon vellum backed printed paper over boards, spine is brown damp stained, the boards are damp stained on the bottom third, text is mainly unaffected, good. (Spg). Fishing.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42109 The Camp-Fires of the Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South. Charles WHITEHEAD, dward

WHITEHEAD, Charles E[dward].

The Camp-Fires of the Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South.

Edinburgh. David Douglas. Printed by T. and A. Constable,... at the Edinburgh University Press. 1891. 4to., 26cm, The First Edition thus., x,[2],298p., half-title, photogravure frontis, 15 plates of illustrations, author's vignettes text illustrations, original full dark green cloth, gilt titles and gilt illustrations on the spine and cover, t.e.g. others.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42108 Reminiscences of Sport in Ireland. S. B. WILKINSON

WILKINSON, S.B.

Reminiscences of Sport in Ireland.

Salisbury. The Signet Press. 1987. 12mo, 19cm, limited edition of 1000 copies, xxvi,236p., frontis portrait of the author & 16 plates and illustrations, subscribers list, green cloth, gilt titles, near fine. (Spg). A facsimile reprint of the original 1931 edition with 8 additional plates and a new Introduction by Colin.....

Price: $75.00

Item #42107 The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation. Being an Angler's Record of Insects Seen at...

WEST, Leonard

The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation. Being an Angler's Record of Insects Seen at the Waterside and the Method of Making Their Imitations.

Published by The Author, Ravenhead, St. Helen's. Nd., [1912]. 8vo., 22.5cm, 144p., with 16 plates, (including 13 in colour illustrating 237 files and feathers), original green cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, some slight wear on the spine edges, expertly restored, a very good copy of the first edition. (Spg).....

Price: $10,000.00

Item #42106 The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a facsimile...

WALTON, Izaak

The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a facsimile reprint of the first edition, published in 1653.

London. Elliot Stock. 1876. 12mo. 18cm, x,246p., text illustrations, sheet music, in mahogany morocco grain boxed cloth (French term for a treat boards made to look like calf), gilt spine titles, wear on the top edge of the spine, the text while clean is slightly toned, probably intentionally to indicate.....

Price: $100.00

Item #42105 The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, of Izaak Walton and...

WALTON, Izaak & Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Edited by John Major.

London. D. Bogue. 1844. 16mo. 17cm, fourth edition, lx,418 p., title-page vignette, 12 steel-engraved plate illustrations including frontis portrait (Walton by Housman), and 74 wood engraved text illustrations including title, notes, index, in contemporary full fine grain dark green morocco, gilt decorated raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels.....

Price: $500.00

Item #42103 Upstream and Down. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler. Howard T. WALDEN

WALDEN, Howard T.

Upstream and Down. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler.

Lyon, Mississippi. Derrydale Press. 1993. 12mo, 18cm, 367p., limited to 2500 copies, numerous full page illustrations, bound in full dark blue faux morocco, gilt titles and boards with fly decorations on the corners and an oval colour illustration on the upper cover, all edges gilt, matched marbled endpapers, former owner's.....

Price: $75.00

Item #42101 Fishing in New England. With Illustrations by the Author. Leslie P. THOMPSON

THOMPSON, Leslie P.

Fishing in New England. With Illustrations by the Author.

London. Eyre & Spottiswoode. at the Chiswick Press. 1955. sm4to., 25 cm, first English edition, (limited edition of 50 copies?), vii,101p., with 5 colour fly plates including the frontis & 4 sketch plates, 1 diagram, in full fine grain green linen, gilt spine titles, with gilt fish illustration on the.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42100 Trout Fishing From All Angles. A Complete guide to modern methods by Eric...

TAVERNER, Eric

Trout Fishing From All Angles. A Complete guide to modern methods by Eric Taverner,...; a chapter of Trout Scales by G. Herbert Nall & The Legal Aspect of Fishing by Allan Bacon. The Lonsdale Library. (title page printed in blue and black).

London. Seely, Service, & Co., 1929. tall8vo, 25cm, first edition, 348p., limited to 375 numbered copies, this being #266 and signed by the author, on hand-made paper, with 65 tipped-in half tone plates & 188 text illustrations, & 30 actual fishing flies on rear drop mount on the rear board.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #42098 The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada. Some experiences of an Old Country Settler....

ROWAN, John J.

The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada. Some experiences of an Old Country Settler. With sketches of Canadian Life, Sporting Adventure, and Observations on the Forests and Fauna.

London. Edward Stanford. 1876. 12mo, 19.2cm, The First Edition, viii,440p., colour folding frontis map mounted on fine grain linen, in contemporary half crimson morocco, raised gilt decorated raised bands, full gilt borders and flora decorations and titles in the panels, pebbled green cloth boards, marbled endpapers and edges, with gilt.....

Price: $600.00

Item #42097 Alphabet of Angling, for the Use of Beginners. James RENNIE

RENNIE, James

Alphabet of Angling, for the Use of Beginners.

London. Henry G. Bohn. 1849. 16mo, 16cm, xvi,136p., with 54 engraved text illustrations, list of technical and latin terms in the notes, in the original blind decorated green cloth, gilt spine titles, attractive gilt fly decoration and block title on the upper cover, clean and tight, a fine bright copy.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42096 Atlantic Salmon Fishing. Illustrated by Ogden M. Pleissner, Robert Nisbet, N.A. and...

PHAIR, Charles

Atlantic Salmon Fishing. Illustrated by Ogden M. Pleissner, Robert Nisbet, N.A. and From Photographs Drawings and Maps.

New York. The Derrydale Press. 1937. folio. 32.5cm, Edition Limited to 950 copies, xx,[2],193p., with 6 colour plates including frontis with tissue guards & 55 illustrations, 5 dry dressing plates, 2 map plates (1 folding), in the original green cloth, gilt spine titles & decorations, with gilt illustrated (canoe motif).....

Price: $2,000.00

Item #42095 Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore. A Practical Guide to Modern Methods. With one...

PARKER, Eric, (edited by)

Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore. A Practical Guide to Modern Methods. With one hundred and fifty Illustrations.

London. Seeley, Service & Co. 1929. 8vo. 21cm, The First Edition, 380p., with 75 plates including frontis, 41 text illustrations, index, in contemporary half dark green calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt panel borders, gilt titles and center panel motif decorations, gilt ruled borders on the boards, light green cloth.....

Price: $350.00

Item #42094 With Rod and Gun in Ontario. List of Tourist Camps, operating under Licenses under...

ONTARIO. Department of Game and Fisheries.

With Rod and Gun in Ontario. List of Tourist Camps, operating under Licenses under the provisions of The Game and Fisheries Act of Ontario. For Information And Guidance Of Vacationist.

Toronto. Department of Game and Fisheries. 1939. 12mo, 68p., two colour printed wrappers, staples rushed, some slight occasional soiling on the wraps else very good internally fine. (Spg). Aurora lists 1946 & 1947 issues but not this edition, presumable the first. Interesting information of rivers and camps by regions throughout.....

Price: $60.00

Item #42092 Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas. Donald MacINTYRE

MacINTYRE, Donald

Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas.

Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood & Sons. 1889. thick8vo. 21.1cm, (iii)-xx,464p., colour lithographed frontis and 8 tone photolitho gravure plates, many text illustrations, in contemporary full calf, gilt decorated raised bands, crushed morocco red and green morocco labels, gilt decorative borders and gilt roll decoration on the board and board.....

Price: $600.00

Item #42091 Be a Better Horseman. An Illustrated Guide to the Enjoyment of Modern Riding. With...

LITTAUER, Capt. Vladimir S.

Be a Better Horseman. An Illustrated Guide to the Enjoyment of Modern Riding. With Two Hundred and Thirty Photoraphs by Bert Clark Thayer.

New York. The Derrydale Press. 1941. Sq8vo, 23.3x 18.5cm, xii,241p., first edition limited to 1500 copies, xii,251p., original pebbled red cloth, gilt titles and ruled borders, gilt vignette (horse jumping) on the upper cover, wear on the corner retouched, paper in this title is a bit tanned, a fine copy.....

Price: $100.00

Item #42090 Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces....

LANMAN, Charles

Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. Illustrated by the Author and Oscar Bessau. With an Appendix by Lieut. Campbell Hardy.

Philadelphia. John W. Moore. 1856. 8vo. 23cm, the [enlarged] first American edition, in 2 volumes, xi,[iv],514 & 517,[iii]8pp., ads., with 12 fine wood engraved plates with tissue guards, in the original gilt and blind decoration red cloth, pictorial (moose) decoration in gilt on the upper cover repeated in blind on.....

Price: $600.00

Item #42087 The Moor and the Loch: containing practical hints on highland sports,and notices of...

COLQUHOUN, John

The Moor and the Loch: containing practical hints on highland sports,and notices of the habits of the different creatures of game and prey in the mountainous districts of Scotland; with instructions in Rive, Bum, and Loch-Fishing.

London. John Murray. 1841. 8vo, 21.6cm, Second edition., [vii]-xii,204p., with 16 plates and several text illustrations, bound in later full calf, unevenly toned green, gilt spine titles, gilt rule border on the boards, wide inner black ruled dentelles, t.e.g., else uncut, bookplate (Herry Hunt), light foxing, a very good sound.....

Price: $150.00

Item #42086 The Art of Angling; or Complete Fly Fisher: Describing, The Different Kinds of Fish,...

BOWLKER, Charles

The Art of Angling; or Complete Fly Fisher: Describing, The Different Kinds of Fish, their Haunts, Places of Breeding, &c.&c. Also, Observations on the Breeding of Carp; and the Regulating of Pools or Ponds. To which are added, The Various Kinds of Baits, and Diversity of Flies which Nature Produces: together with ample Directions for Making Artificial Flies. A New Edition.

Birmingham. Printed by Swinney & Hawkins sold by G.G. & J. Robinson, and T. Hurst. N.d. [1790]? 12mo. 17cm, a new edition., xii,108p., Wanting the 3 plates, contemporary boards heavily worn rebacked in later quarter brown sheep, upper hinge cracked, text is clean and sound, as is. (Spg). An early.....

Price: $800.00

Item #42085 ANGLING AUCTION & Bookseller Catalogues]. SOTHEBY'S

SOTHEBY'S

ANGLING AUCTION & Bookseller Catalogues]

Published between 1816 - 1848. [London...]. Sobethy's.. Etc. 8vo., 21.2cm, c. 160p., wanting the spine cap, boards loose, all edges gilt, with two bookplate, (one famous), 1 - Alexr A. Weston (on the paste down front endpapers & 2 - "Bibliotheca Piscatoria. Lynniana". - very rare (Spg). This volume contains.....

Price: $5,000.00

Item #42084 A Quaint Treatise on "Flies, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making". By An Old Man...

ALDAM, W. H.

A Quaint Treatise on "Flies, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making". By An Old Man well known on the Derbyshire Streams as a first-class fly-fisher a century ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published, the Original Spelling and Language Being Retained, with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies and Samples of the Materials for Making Each Fly. - With Two Chromo-Lithographic Facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole.

London. John B. Day. 1876. 4to, 27.5cm, the First Edition, 2nd issue, xiii,[1](errata page),91p., plus 2 chromo litho colour plates & 25 actual specimens of flies and fly making material in 22 oval mounts on 8 (six double sided) hard card plates with 22 recesses of real flies and materials.....

Price: $3,200.00

Item #41485 The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794. An Annotated Bibliography. Henry R. WAGNER

WAGNER, Henry R.

The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794. An Annotated Bibliography.

Staten Island. Maurizio Martino. New York. 1997. 8vo, 553p., plate, title page reproductions, double page map, index, brown cloth, Limited to 150 Copies. As new (gar).

Price: $100.00

Item #41481 History of Canada. History Primers. (Header title). JEFFERS J. Frith

JEFFERS J. Frith

History of Canada. History Primers. (Header title).

Toronto. James Campbell & Son. 1878. 16mo., 15cm, 122,vi]p., disbound from a collection on pamphlets, title page loose, text block sound, as is, rare (Pol).

Price: $50.00

Item #41480 A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. A. Edward NEWTON

NEWTON, A. Edward

A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector.

Boston. The Atlantic Monthly Press. 1921. 8vo., 2nd impression, 267p., index, colour frontis, numerous plates and illustrations, quarter brown cloth back tan paper over boards, paper label, top edge gilt, slightly dust worn, slight residue from removed call label, still very good sound copy (bks).

Price: $25.00

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