Item #36482 Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States. Embracing full directions for dressing articial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc, etc, etc. New York. Robert B. ROOSEVELT.

Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States. Embracing full directions for dressing articial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc, etc, etc. New York.

Carleton, Publishers. 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, The First Edition. 304,[8]p., ads., with numerous woodcuts text illustrations, original wavy grain tan/plumb cloth, gilt spine titles faded, top and bottom spine edges worn, bookplate, a very good sound copy. Bruns R-106. Wetzel, p205."First known treatise recommending silk waterproofed fly lines". Sage, p172. Heckscher 1663. W&S. P179. ~ Personal recollections of Lake Superior angling with observations on fly-tying and recipes for sporting fare and (potent) drink. With a sporting motif bookplate "Ex Libris J. Salkeld Younghusband" Item #36482

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