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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. 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. .

[New York]: Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine. [1992]. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Cloth, paper spine label on front board, in fitted clamshell case with color illustrations mounted inside, 169p., illustrated. **This edition concists of twenty-six copies, lettered A to Z... Each copy contains an original watercolor by Mari Lyons, The binding of this edition was designed by Kenin Begos Jr.. This is copy C.; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

Arlington VT: Isaac Oelgart. Fine. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Miniature; Miniature; Two volumes bound in full Hewitt niger, gilt tooled, with cloth covered slipcase. Volume I: 105, [1]p., colored frontispiece. Volume II: double shadow box containing eight miniature flies, two each tied by Schwiebert, Jorgensen, Harrop and Neff. Binding is 7.6 by 5.6 cm, pages are 7.3 by 5.6cm. **Related materiials include the 8vo prospectus with mounted title page and stitched in single-sided sheet containing "Contents" and page 7, one of 400 copies. Also a "thankyou" in the form of a colored etching initialed by the artist, with one page of text, same size as the book, and another etching, horizontal format, colored and initialed. All, other than the prospectus, being one of 60 numbered sets. **Bradbury p.167 #1. Hand O-47. .

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

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… Leer más

Samuel Howitt"The Angler's Manual; or, Concise Lessons of Experience, which the proficient in the delightful recreation of angling will not despise, and the learner will find the advantage of practising, containing useful instruction of every approved method of angling, and particularly on the management of the hand and rod in each method. Embellished with twelve plates, designed and etched by S. Howitt."
Liverpool, G. G. Harris for Samuel Bagster, 1808. Octavo, Pp. iv, 28: First edition, 12 engraved plates of various fish and plates depicting fishing scenes. Original printed boards with printed label on re-backed spine. Damp stains on boards and several plates (see photos). Text and plates are clean without spotting. A short tear expertely closed on one plate. An inscription gifting to " W. Wilcox from Mr. Woods April 16 1832". Corner pin holes on 4 of the plates. A good copy of a classic work on fishing with very attractive plates of fishing scenes.

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

Octavo, pale foxing on edges, green leather with silver trout vignette on front board.
First edition. One of 20 special copies, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator (and subsequently signed by the Scholes on the title-page).
One of the publisher Richard Griffin's idiosyncratic limited editions. This special issue not in Kerry White's continuation of Muir's bibliography. Rare by definition.