[Minnesota] [Fishing] Gibbs, Oliver JrBiblio.com
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186935330New York: H. D. McIntyre & Co 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 1 141 pages 2 pages advertisements 1. Brick cloth hardcover with gilt title stamped on the front cover. Cloth is lightly chipped head of the spine and edge worn on the corners. Light occasional foxed spots to the text. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page - "Samuel C. Clarke Esq. With the respects of Oliver Gibbs Jr." Contents are a series of letters from a former Civil War officer to General Spinner on fishing in Minnesota. From the introduction: "These letters were begun with the purpose of amusing a little band of wild men in Washington who adopting the habits and customs of civilized life were found to be pining for their old sports; and chained to their office work the whole year round by the behests of public duty they were obliged to be led around in some way as these letters took them - On Paper - or starve their gushing fancies altogether except so far as they might be able to subsist upon the memory of what they had done with gun and angle before they came here. General F. E. Spinner Treasurer of the United States was the "Big Indian" of this band. Hence the letters were addressed to him; and it was upon his motion that they were given a wider reading than was first intended through The Spirit of the Times. H. D. McIntyre & Co hardcover
1876L0859London: John B Day. G : in good condition with brown card slipcase. Covers rubbed with edge-wear. External joint split. Page edges browning. Slipcase case rubbed with tape repairs. 1876. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 230mm 12" x 9". pp91. Two chromo-lithographic facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole on card. Llugwy North Wales; Offerton Stepping Stones. 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. A Quaint Treatise on Flies and Artificial Flymaking by an old Fisherman. Lists 26 flies with 22 examples on hard card with the made up fly and the materials used to create it: March Brown Dottril Dun Little Chap Watchett Oringe Brown Granum Black Gnat Tailey Tail Green Drake Oringe Headed Dun Light Dun Bigg Dun Crossing Brown Spider Flee Black Ant Large Red Ant Small Common Ant Small Caterpillar Bank Flee Little Sky Blue Stream Flee Willow Flee White Mout Brown Mout. Appendix: Indian Yellow Eden Fly Summer Dun March Brown Green Drake Grey Drake. Bookplate of William Charles Everley Taylor of Scarborough. Inscribed in pen on fep. . John B Day hardcover
188529717London: Field and Tuer Leadenhall Press 1885. First Edition and one of only 100 Large-Paper Copies of a total edition of only 600 copies. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND SPECIALLY BOUND MOST PROBABLY FOR PRESENTATION. With a profusion of hand-colored woodcut plates after Joseph Crawhall in chapbook style and with bound-in cloth pockets labeled in black. 8vo in very beautiful contemporary full red-orange calf likely a binding for presentation purposes the boards are elaborately decorated with a very wide and exquisitly detailed borders of stylized thistles the spine with central gilt tooling gilt depicting fish and tackle bags within double-gilt ruled compartments separated by gilt ruled raised bands two compartments with gilt lettering board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled in floral motif page edges untrimmed green endpapers. 112 8 pp. A very handsome copy of an especially elusive book lavishly bound likely a presentation copy and unique thus the binding well preserved and sturdy with some light evidence of age or use some general mellowing the text retains the original pockets and black leaves all as pristine. A bit of mild offsetting from the cloth pockets. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF CRAWHALL'S FINEST PRODUCTIONS IN ITS BEST AND MOST LIMITED FORMAT. This abridged edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER contains 36 songs and poems taken from the text of the fifth edition. The prospectus promises that this collection will 'rank amongst the quaintest and most covetable' and we have to agree. The book includes small cloth pockets for the owner's own use. They have whimsicle labels such as "Fysshe Tales I believe" a very small one and the much larger "Fysshe Tales I don't believe". Also for the owner's personal use are 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' bound in at the rear for the owner to write in his own stories. These leaves are un-used. Field and Tuer, Leadenhall Press hardcover
185128907AB1851. London and other places of print Harper Collins / William Mackenzie / John Van Voorst and others 1851-1999. Octavo. More than 3000 pages with many illustrations for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Angler. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Many of the publications with some signs of wear but overall and especially the collector's items in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The historical publications are true gems for the collector and this collection would be the perfect foundation for a meaningful Fly-Fishing-Library. This collection is the perfect gift for the Fly-Fisher. Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express. paperback
