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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.

Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1903. One of 150 copies, printed in 'Subiaco' type, with one initial in red, on Japanese paper. With the famous woodcut frontispiece of a man fishing and decorations ‘after the text of Wynkyn de Worde in 'The Boke of St. Alban's empynted at Westmester in the yere of thyncarnacion of our Lorde mcccclxxxxvi (1496’ by St. John Hornby and Meysey Turton”. Fine textual illustrations throughout. 8vo, bound in the original full limp vellum. 48 pp. An especially fine copy, beautifully preserved. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST PLEASING BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS. This work reprints in “exact” facsimile the first printing of any book on fishing ever printed in England. The interest of the "Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle" lies not only in its priority in the field of fishing literature, but also because it has served as a literary quarry to many succeeding writers on fishing, and it also established a high moral value for the craft of fishing and is… Leer más

LONDON, WILLIAM MACKENZIE, [1879]. FIRST EDITION, FOLIO, TWO VOLUMES, 41 COLOURED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. EACH SPECIES DRAWN FROM NATURE BY A F LYDON, PLUS NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. TISSUES GUARDS, OCCASIONAL MARKS, PUBLISHER'S RED BRICK CLOTH, OVER BEVELLED EDGED BOARDS, RUBBED AND STAINED. THE BINDING IS WEAK AND SO SOME PLATES ARE LOOSE. CONTENTS VERY GOOD, AS ARE THE PLATES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONE ON LAMPREYS, WHICH HAS A SMALL WATER STAIN.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Grey considers the fishes of the South Seas to be the fiercest in the world. He tells his stories of the tuna, sailfish, wahoo, and swordfish which would make any fisherman envious. Mr. Grey caught a 618-pound Silver Marlin, apparently a new species at the time and he tells of the fight of 1040 pound Striped Marlin and includes a photo of this incredibly huge fish along with 48 other photographs taken by the author. A fine bright copy bound in green cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with wear along the top edges, a piece torn away at the head and small tear along the bottom of the front panel. Internally fresh without foxing, no names or plates.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition. Thick Quarto. First printing with (I-F) code. Grey consider the fishes of the South Seas to be the most fiercest in the world. He tells his stories of the tuna, sailfish, the wahoo and swordfish which would make any fisherman envious. Mr. Grey caught a 618 poind Silver Marlin, apparently a new species at the time and he tells of the fight of 1040 pound Striped Marlin and includes a photo of this incredibly huge fish along with 48 other photographs taken by the author. A fine bright opy bound in green coth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with wear along the top edges, a piece torn away at head and small tear slong bottom of front panel. Internally fresh without foxing, no names or plates.

Washington D. C.: S. N. (Unknown). Very Good. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "EXTRACTED FROM THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND AND JAPAN IN 1852, 53 AND 54, BY COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, U. S. NAVY". Japanese fish taken from Recent Specimens by the Artists of the U. S. Japan Expedition, 10 hand coloured engraved plates numbered III- XII with 36 pages of text. Clean brown publishers cloth with lightly rubbed/chipped spine head and rubbed spine heel. Gilt title on spine. Front lower corners slightly bumped. Light foxing on a few text pages with all plates clean. Bookplate of George Page Ely who was the husband of bookbinder Caro Weir Ely of Connecticut. Fish, Asia, Japan; Color Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 36 pages .

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… Leer más

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… Leer más

The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1996. Fifth. Leather Bound. Fine/Near Fine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION 1996. Edition of only 65 copies, this is copy 17. Book is in Fine condition with no noted flaws. Outer box is also Fine. Includes a fly hand-tied by Flemming Andersen, 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". Black and white frontispiece. Separately-bound 1920 introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell, laid in. 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… Leer más

London: John Major, 1823. The Important First Major Edition, Large Paper Copy. With 2 engraved portraits, 2 copper engraved plates of music, 10 copper plates engraved by Cook and Pye after drawings by Wale and Nash, and 77 woodcuts in the text. 8vo, Large Paper, in an especially handsome contemporary binding of full green crushed morocco, covers bordered and stamped in gilt with wide ruled frames featuring gilt dolphin fish corner tools and a central gilt tool of a fish and fisherman's net, spine lettered in gilt in two compartments between elaborately decorated raised bands and with gilt central tools of fish and a reel in three others, board edges gilt ruled, gilt ruled turn-ins, a.e.g. lx, 412 pp. A very appealing copy of this fine illustrated edition of Walton's classic, the very handsome binding sturdy and strong, the hinges fine and solid, the text well preserved with the inevitable foxing to which the edition is prone being light and less than typical and only occasionally present.… Leer más

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed and inscribed second printing (in first edition jacket) of Maclean's collection of semi-autobiographical short fiction, a now-classic of Western literature and fly fishing, whose title novella formed the basis for the 1992 Robert Redford-directed film of the same name. Maclean's inscription, on the front endpaper, reads: "University of Chicago, / April 15, 1979. / To Bobby: / With deep affection and best wishes. / Norman". Although we can only guess at the identity of the inscribee--perhaps a former colleague at the University of Chicago, or a friend at the Press--Maclean's warm inscription and use of first name only suggests that the two were quite close. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); xiv, 217pp.; blue cloth boards, silver spine lettering. Second printing, as designated by number line and corrected ISBN on copyright page (but with the uncorrected misprinting of "always" as "adways" still present on p. 27).… Leer más

Flack, Marjorie. Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog. Copyright 1934, Doubleday & Company, Inc., First Edition. For Young Readers. Used. Good Condition/ Good- condition rare, unclipped $2.50 original dust jacket. . Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A. Beautifully illustrated. Please see our photos. The Story: "Tim Tadpole lived in a small pond at the edge of the wood. All around him the Peeper frogs sang, while the Great Bullfrog croaked and jumped. But Tim couldn't sing and he couldn't jump either. All he could do was to wriggle through the water until the day he made an exciting discovery!" YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Paris, J. F. Ostervald, Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'Aîné, 1823 (1823-1825).
Folio [494 x 310 mm], 1 l., (54) ll. of text, 40 plates on large Indian paper, each one mounted with printed title, (1) l. of table.
Half-roan, rebacked, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons. Contemporary binding.
First issue of the most sumptuous work published about the coasts and ports of Normandy during the reign of Charles X.
It was published in several parts. The first three were published under the title "Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France."
It was an atypical editorial adventure because two of the artists approached for the drawing of these exceptional plates were English: Bonington
andCopley Fielding, as well as many engravers such as Thales and Théodore Fielding, who worked in Paris, "at this remarkable time for English watercolour art".
Abbey, Travel, 92.
The magnificent iconography comprises 40 superb aquatints finely watercolored at the time, which represent various views of the… Leer más

Worcester, printed by M. Olivers, no date circa 1758.. TITLE CONTINUED: With Directions for Making each Fly. &c. The whole Interspers'd with many Curious and Uncommon Observations. FIRST EDITION circa 1758. Small 8vo, bound in fours, approximately 150 x 95 mm, 6 x 3½ inches, pages: [4], 1-95, (1), final page blank, head- and tailpieces, first initial historiated, bound in full contemporary sheep, no title to spine, double gilt rules to edges of covers. Binding rubbed with some scuffing to upper cover with small loss of original leather, pale browning to pastedowns and endpapers, the date in ink 1746 at foot of title page, otherwise a very good copy. Old ink inscription to front free endpaper identifying this as the Henry Lowndes copy, purchased from Thorpe's catalogue (a London bookseller of the time). The Henry Lowndes library of "a very curious and extensive collection of books on angling" was sold by S. L. Sotheby's and Co.on Nov. 7th. 1843, this is mentioned in Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca… Leer más