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252 pages. Examines the social and economic aspects of life in St. Edmonds since its beginning. Contains a blend of information from a number of sources including newspapers, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, photos, and other authors' research. Includes a treasure trove of genealogical information. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Black-and-white photographic endpapers. Other than some hand-written genealogical details hand-written upon the family tree on page 205, book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Moderate wear and bit of sunning to colourful dust jacket. Excellent copy overall. Book
First edition, 2 vols., xvi, 336; vi, 348pp., engraved frontispieces and titles browned, illustrs., within the text, cont. smooth calf calf, marbled paper boards, lightly rubbed, contrasting green morocco title labels to spines. Westwood & Satchell, p. 150.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with woodcut illustrations in the text; original green ribbed cloth, boards with multiple frame borders in blind, gilt back, uncut, cream endpapers, a remarkably well-reserved bright, crisp copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Westley & Clark on rear paste-down. CRISP, ELEGANT COPY OF AN ANGLING CLASSIC IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. 'Highly esteemed. The chapters on fly-fishing are unusually clear and comprehensible' (Westwood & Satchell). Westwood & Satchell, pp. 85-6.
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 280 pages. "Deals with the shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. The seaward limit of the region corresponds to the outer perimeter of Canada's Fishing Zone 5, i.e. 200 nautical miles (321 km) from the outer coast. Eighty-five species are listed, and each species is given a common name. Complete keys, with accompanying diagrams, are provided. Accounts of 82 species include detailed morphological descriptions and halftone illustrations, notes on colour, main distinguishing characters, maximum carapace and total lengths, total known geographic and bathymetric ranges, first known local capture, and information on biology and economic importance. Seventeen species are recorded for the first time... Included are sections on shrimp parasites, sexing of shrimps, use of keys, explanation of measurements, and also a gazetteer, glossary, partial synonymy, and index to scientific and common names. Eight plates and a frontspiece illustrate the colours of 41 shrimp species when live." - Abstract. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Average wear with several short edge-tears to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality signed copy of this exceptional reference. Book
Topics include: Number and status of fishermen, type and size of fishing craft, inventory of fishing gear and shore equipment, landings and disposition of fish, revenues and expenditures. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 0.7" thick. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
128 pages. Magnificent cover art by Charles Dye depicts overheated truck hauling Christmas trees and several fresh kills. Two contributions by Jack O'Connor in this issue. Additional Features: Hunting wild goats and boars on Santa Catalina Island; Polar Bears were forgotten in this desperate fight to survive; Bucks with buckshot in Louisiana's low country; Quest of the Golden Trout - of 1,000 Wyoming mountain lakes it was Big Elbow or bust; In the California goose capital, where everything proved ducky; To Quebec's Kipawa for a princely bull moose; Jack O'Connor article on the World's Most Beautiful Deer - India's chital; Blood and Snow - it was tough to claim this buck after shooting him; Catskill Giant - Egbert H. Schultz' first bear was New York's biggest for 1954; Monkeyshines on Biscayne Bay, Fla. - photos of Bongo the chimp fishing!; Scioto Pinch - winter's squeeze up north brought duck limits in Ohio; Circuit Rider - following a killer cougar for seven days near Boulder Valley, Montana; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury outboard motors; I Followed Izaak Walton - from Sinnemahoning Creek, PA, to the River Dove; How to use a dog for bush-tails (squirrels); Jack O'Connor on accurate light sport rifles; Incredible photo of 85.75lb world record lake trout caught in Lake Athabaska, Saskatchewan. Nice ad for the 1956 Nash cars. Nice color Remington ad inside front cover features their new magnum shotgun shells; One-page black and white ad for the 1956 Chevrolet cars (Chevies). One-page color-photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; 2/3-page brown and black ad for the Savage Model 24 rifle. Illustrated Ruger handgun ad. Great color ad for the Golden State Arms Corporation inside back cover features Hitler Jugen dagger for $5.95 - with sheath, postpaid! Nice color-photo Evinrude outboard motor ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Cover photo of Italy's Isola dei Pescatori. Features: Many beautiful photo fashion ads in black and white and color; Five photos of the Moonlight Mist Ball include Vivian Goodman, Prince and Princess Artchil Gourielli, Nina Foch, Mrs. John Leib, Martha Crawford, Mary Elliman, Mrs. John Hilson, Minnie CassattMrs. Edward F. Hutton, Maurice Moore, Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky, Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis, Jr., and W.E. Hutton; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad features color illustration of Mrs. James "Monty" Waterbury fishing; Wedding photos include Hugh Montgomery Adams with the former Leta Margaret Nichols, Francis Arthur Carmody and the former Stalla Marie Carvin, Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Pattison (she the former Charlotte Preble Cabrera), Ensign Robert Woodhull Hopkins, the former Joan Elizabeth Dreher, Martin Hopkins Potter, Jean Drake Dreher, Robert C. Hopkins, and James Bovaird; Article on travel between Paris and Venice; Fur fashion photos with Rosalind Russell; Fashion photos of Mrs. Amory S. Carhart, Jr., Mrs. Dmitri Negroponte, Mrs. Winston Frost, Elinor Patricia Jones, Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson, Jr., Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, Mrs. Charles H. Hornburg, Jr. (formerly Gwenn Welter), Mrs. Robert Hare (formerly Martha Michalis), Mrs. Bertrand Taylor III outside the Hotel Pierre, Mrs. James Averell Clark, Jr., Cornelia Lyman, Mrs. James F. Donovan, Mrs. Daniel G. Tenney, Jr., Mrs. Francis C. Lawrance, Catherine Campbell, Mrs. John S. Radway, Elaine Reed, Mrs. Robert P. Gibb, Mrs. William G. McKnight (formerly Le Brun Rhinelander), Mrs. Fletcher Godfrey (formerly Paulette Bragg), Mrs. Herman Harjes (formerly Tauni de Lesseps), Marguerite Higgins, Geraldine Page, Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps (exiting car at the Waldorf-Astoria), Susan Sexton (at the Drake Hotel), and Mrs. John R. McDonnell (formerly Dorothy Root), at the Lombardy Hotel; Jet vs. Prop - the new concept of jet air transportation, by Henri J. Lesieur, General Manager of Air France for North America; Misia Sert and the Muses (part II) - article with photos of Marcel Proust, Bone de Castellane, Princess "Dolly" Radziwill, Mrs. Eugene Kelly, Jr., Sergei Diaghilev, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Caruso; Photo feature on the farmlands home of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Tilton in Cooperstown; Photos of the Watch Hill residence of Ambassador to Cuba and Mrs. Arthur Gardner; Happy Birthday Oscar (Hammerstein) - a wonderful one-page photo-illustrated note from Richard Rodgers; United States Lines ad includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, Hildegarde (famous chanteuse), Helen Hayes, and Messrs. Burnet, Grant and Vaughan; Half-page phot ad for the Waldorf-Astoria features Los Chavales who will be performing on the Starlight Roof; Color Nash car ad includes black and white photo of Miss Margaret Sullavan; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
391 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Several pages of nice photographic plates. The author, born in 1903, recounts his life with considerable emphasis on his times in the wild hunting, trapping and fishing. Unmarked. Tight and square with average external wear. A sound copy. Book
[Agricoltura-Apicoltura] (cm.17) piena pelle originale nervi, titolo e fregi oro al dorso, tagli rossi.-- pp. XXIV, PP. 396. Opera rara e poco nota, nonostante il giudizio positivo di Filippo Re, Dizionario.D' Agricoltura.: "Questo libro scritto per l' agricoltore che sa leggere, mi sembra uno de più utili, e come tale giudicato, bonum opusculum, dall' Haller. Cominci con architettura rustica, e tratta indi della coltivazione dei giardini, degli orti e dei pometi.Metodi per liberare dagl' insetti le piante. Agricoltura de campi del prato, del bosco; si occupa della caccia della pesca.Della pastorizia, coll' educazione delle api e de bachi da seta. Opera sconosciuta ai principali repertori come: Pritzel, Hunt, Jackson, Lastri, Choix e Plesch. Alcune tracce d' uso alla legatura ma internamente bellissimo e fresco esemplare. Alla sguardia dedica coeva manoscritta: "Pour remettre à Monsieur Gioseph. Castagnino De Turin, de la part de M. Corderi De Lyon". * Re II p.113; * Haller II 511.[f65] Libro
Cm. 15, pp. (4) 263 (3). Con frontespizio inciso, e 7 (di 10) belle tavole f.t. in rame, disegnate da Francesco Solimena e incise da F. de Louvemont. Legatura coeva in p. pelle, fregi in oro al dorso (con mancanze), tagli spruzzati di rosso. Importante opera, considerata "il miglior poema secentesco sulla pesca, compresa quella dei coralli. È importante anche per la terminologia dei pesci e altri animali acquatici" (Ceresoli 281). Nicola Giannettasio (Napoli 1648-1715) fu dotto letterato latinista, matematico e filosofo, dal 1666 padre gesuita. Fu autore di vari poemi in lingua latina. Buon esemplare, purtroppo mancante di 3 delle 10 belle tavole incise. . Graesse, III, 78; Brunet, II, 1583; Piantanida, 3105..
Avec un dessin de J.-Baptiste Millet, reproduit en fac-similé, 1 vol. in-12 reliure de l'époque demi-basane bleue, dos à 4 nerfs dorés orné, G. Charpentier, Paris, 1878, 2 ff. (faux-titre et titre), 238 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. (table) Edition originale. Rare exemplaire de ce charmant ouvrage traitant des thèmes suivants : "Pêche du Barbeau à la ligne - Pêche du Cabot à la sauterelle - Revers sur le Salat - Pêche de la Brême au ver rouge - Paysans pris à la plume - Pêche de l'anguille à la Rougeane - Le château de Blagnac - Sainte-Hélène. Le frai de la Truite". Bon état (ancienne restauration d'un petit accroc à un f., petit frott. en dos et sur tranche sur qq. ff., bon exemplaire par ailleurs). Vicaire, VII, 543 Français
- A. Le Vasseur, Paris 1895, 14x20,5cm, relié. - Nouvelle édition sur papier courant. Reliure à la bradel en demi percaline chocolat, dos lisse orné d'un motif floral doré, double filet doré en queue, pièce de titre de chagrin sapin, plats de papier marbré, ex-libris encollé sur une garde, couverture conservée, reliure de l'époque. Envoi autographe signé de Edmond Nodot en tête du premier plat de couverture qui comporte d'infimes manques angulaires sans gravité. Ouvrage orné d'illustrations hors-texte et d'un portrait de l'auteur en frontispice. Rare et agréable exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present; the guard offset as intended), 8 plates in monochrome and 17 illustrations in the text, half-title and blank preliminaries very lightly spotted; original coarse-grain red cloth, sides ruled in gilt, back lettered in gilt and blocked with a pike motif, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, black endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy in wholly unrestored contemporary themed binding. With 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end and contemporary binder's ticket of Burn & Co on rear paste-down. Lovely copy of the second edition of this angling classic, first published in 1865. AN UNUSUAL COPY IN THAT THE FRONTISPIECE IS COLOURED, WHEREAS HAMPTON STATES MONOCHROME. A third and final edition followed in 1876. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton, p.222; Westwood & Satchell, pp.168-9.
Edité par l'auteur, 1987. In/4 (25 x 17 cm) broché, couverture illustrée d'une vignette, 306 pages, illustrations : 10 planches hors-texte dont deux en couleurs, 3 planches de mouches en couleurs, 5 photos en noir et blanc, 11 dessins d'Albert Drachkovitch, 37 figures in-texte et 12 cartes de l'auteur. Tirage à 800 exemplaires numérotés (n° 587). Enrichi d'un envoi de l'auteur. Biblio : Gaidy p. 393.
Audot, Paris, 1818. Fort in/12 brochage d'époque, sans les couvertures, non massicoté, sous chemise cartonnée avec liens de satin, frontispice, 23 planches hors-texte, 361 p. Edition originale d’un ouvrage réédité de nombreuses fois. Pêche à la ligne, de la pêche aux filets, de la connaissance des poissons et de leur pêche en particulier. Gaidy p. 296.
Cm. 21; pp. (4), XLIV. Cartonato dorato coevo. Vignetta del Cagnoni incisa al frontespizio e capolettera inciso. Ottimo esemplare 327 / P
Cm. 21; pp. (4), XLIV. Cartonato dorato coevo. Vignetta del Cagnoni incisa al frontespizio e capolettera inciso. Ottimo esemplare. (327 / P) 661 / 30
Cm. 21; pp. (4), XLIV. Cartonato dorato coevo. Vignetta del Cagnoni incisa al frontespizio e capolettera inciso. Ottimo esemplare. (327/(P) 372/32
First edition, folio, [12], 270pp., limited to 375 numbered copies, title page printed in red and black with vignette at its centre, 20 photoengraved plates after the artwork of D. Y. Cameron, tissue guards, orig. green buckram decorated in blind and gilt, uncut, t.e.g. light rubbed otherwise a very nice copy.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED, with 10 coloured plates amd numerous line illustrations in the text, some mild and generally inoffensive age-staining; original green cloth, gilt backs, small tear at extreme head of backstrip of first volume else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp set. Extremely scarce
(Codice AN/3413) Trente-cinq planches originales in folio (43x27 cm). Edition 1771, illustrée de nombreuses gravures par Bernard; avec 9 pages d'explication, texte sur deux colonnes. Sur papier pur chiffon à la cuve, grandes marges non rognés. Très bon état. Jointe photocopie de la page de titre du volume. Réliure moderne, demi toile, titre dorè. Très bon état. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
in-16, pp. 150, broch. edit. Edizione originale, (estratto dall'Agricoltura Ticinese), non comune. Comprende: Catalogo ragionato dei pesci; Istrumenti e modi di pesca; Leggi e diritti privati di pesca; Cenni e considerazioni sull'industria e commercio.Timbro di possesso al titolo, ottimo esemplare, a pieni margini.. Ceresoli, p. 409..
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations; black full bonded leather gilt, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers, silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES. Includes appendices of rod and reel models and manufacturing dates.
in-16, pp. XXII, 430, (4), leg. post. t. tela con tass. in pelle al d. e tit. oro. Bella edizione di classico poema didascalico, con ricco apparato di note al fine e indici delle cose notabili, delle similitudini, dei nomi dei volatili, uccelli e pesci. Ceresoli 391. Ex libris. Bell'esempl. [152-C]