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18950085727Pittsburgh: np 1895. Photograph. Very Good. 15 original photographs sepia tinted from an outing of the Rocky Mount Fishing Club based out of Pittsburg Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. All photos measure 4.25 x 3.5 inches. Very Good with slight waving and creasing. Includes 4 photos of men holding the fish they caught a lunch scene an American flag base camp lunch scene and a few pastoral scenes. 4 of the photos are duplicates so of the 15 photos include there are 11 distinct images. NB: the blue glare in our images is from the scanning -- it does not appear on the actual photos. np unknown
18842083002117700247Fujii magobee 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 Fujii magobee paperback
184733587Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1847. 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. Longman Brown Green and Longmans, hardcover
18892512090054Schuylkill Fishing Company 1889. Paperback. Acceptable. Softcover. Poor binding. Lacking rear wrap. Front cover chipped with heavy loss. Library stamps and markings. Text block split. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Schuylkill Fishing Company paperback
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
1836AH 2490London: Orr and Smith 1836. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12 mo 15 cm. orig. giltblind-stamped clothpp. xvi 136; illustrated title page vignette woodcuts in text spine is sun faded light edge and corner wear corners bumped 1 st edition was 1833 Booksellers printed label present at lower inside edge of front cover" E.Chalmers HallamSporting Book Specialist9 Blossom WayHillingdonMiddlesex England." Size: 12mo. Orr and Smith Hardcover
1868000814Philadelphia: Porter and Coates 1868. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original green cloth. Illustrated. Variant state with brown endpapers most copies found with yellow endpapers. Cloth beginning to split on outer front hinge albeit hinge still strong and board firmly attached. Light frayig to spine ends. Else a very nice clean copy of a book usually found in shabby condition. Very good. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Porter and Coates Hardcover
1900BOOKS070121IPhiladelphia: Ketterlinus-Private Printing 1900. HC. good olive cloth spine wood veneer backed boards hardcover. B&W illustrations. Douglass was an inventor and co-founder of Victor Talking Record Company. He also produced a film in 1918 which may have been the first American feature-length color film. An avid fisherman this little book was most likely published as a keepsake for his friends. Images available. 12pp. Ketterlinus-Private Printing unknown
1877L0445London: The Field. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cobver lightly rubbed. Ownership details on fep. 1877. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 132pp. . The Field hardcover
188833146L. Upcott Gill 1888. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text neat contemporary signature on front endpapers free endpapers mildly browned; strongly bound in maroon pebble-grain cloth gilt back red sprinkled edges a very good bright crisp copy. As often this copy is bound without the trade advertisements. First edition of the third part of 'The Book of the All-Round Angler' of which each constituent part is complete in itself. All four parts were severally republished and all are scarce in their original editions. Hampton p.77. L. Upcott Gill, hardcover
189618420Privately Printed at the Telegraph Printing Works Bromley 1896. 8vo. First Edition with 47 plates; original plum cloth gilt back primrose endpapers backstrip very lightly faded else a very good clean copy. With 4pp of trade advertisements at end. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton p.112; Westwood & Satchell Morton p.245. [Privately Printed at the] Telegraph Printing Works, Bromley, hardcover
188737361L. Upcott Gill 1887. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text neat contemporary signature on front endpapers free endpapers lightly browned; maroon pebble-grain cloth gilt back red sprinkled edges a near fine copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Hampton records only the second edition of 1900 et seq. See Hampton p.77. L. Upcott Gill, hardcover
1888g9979Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co. G : in good condition plus without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Stamp on title page. 1888. First Edition. Turquoise cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 105pp ads. Coloured maps and fold out map. . Thacker, Spink and Co hardcover
1895AH 2434London: Chapman & Hall 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 1/2 calf gilt spine leather spine label raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt pp. x 284 illustrated with numerous illustrations by pencil brush and camera 4 full page hand-colored plates of salmon flies by the author indexex private library with bookplate spine is faded wear at edges and corners binding is scuffed hinges cracked but firm scattered foxing throughout moderate foxing to half-title light foxing to title-page. Chapman & Hall, Hardcover
1885e4059Edinburgh: Privately Printed. Cover worn and detached. Outer spine missing. Content VG. Details of previous owner on half title. 1885. Limited to 75 large paper copies. Vellum cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 64pp. Edition limited to 275 small-paper copies and 75 large-paper copies. . Privately Printed hardcover
1855k2305London: William Blacker. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Inner hinge cracking; fep and frontispiece nearly loose. Previous owner stamps to prelims and final page. Ink spot to edge-block. 1855. Second Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". xi iv 259pp plates. 21 plates 17 hand-coloured. . With Descriptions of Flies for the Season as they Came Out of the Water. . William Blacker hardcover
190031720Rhode Island: s.i. 1900. Very Good. Rhode Island: s.i. ca. 1900. First Edition. Large broadside printed on linen 29.5x45.5cm. Light uneven toning some fraying to margins as can be expected else a Very Good or better fresh example.<br /> <br /> Possibly unrecorded display broadside listing fishing infractions and their accompanying fines. Sea bass and lobster are the most carefully monitored especially "egg bearing" lobsters "taken for private use" $5 fine and lobsters "taking sic by non-licensed men" $20 fine. The bottom edge of the broadside concludes with the rules pertaining to fresh water fish should not be "taken in any other manner except with single hand lines with not over 2 hooks upon each". As for ice fishing "During the open season when fishing through ice a person may operate 10 lines with a single hook upon each."<br /> <br /> None in commerce or OCLC as of January 2025. s.i. unknown
189211101Henry Sotheran 1892. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 11 coloured plates several of flies and hackles; all with original tissue guards present 3 plates in monochrome with original tissue guards double-page plate and 9 illustrations in the text contemporary signature and address on front free endpaper; original pictorial ivory buckram upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back gilt top uncut covers moderately age-stained as usual corners lightly bruised else a firm clean crisp copy. A second edition of this angling classic appeared in 1894; both editions are scarce in any condition. Hampton p.246; Westwood & Satchell Supp p. 252. Henry Sotheran, hardcover
1852L0409London: George Routledge. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and bumped. Spine sunned. Tightly bound. Slight spine lean. 1852. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 120mm 7" x 5". 153pp. Colour frontis of flys; b/w engravings. A Descriptive account of the Habits and Haunts of Fish and a Geographical and Ichthylogical account of the principal rivers and streams in England. . George Routledge 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
1897558066London: Longmans Green and Co 1897. Woe betide the boy of today who practises some of these pastimes!. Includes pastimes such as Birds'-nesting ! A VERY NICE COPY.Some repair to spine.Please email for further details. James Maunsell Newborough Patrickswell Co Limerick. New Edition. Red Decorated Cloth. Very Good Gilt Edge Pages/No Jacket. Illus. by 252 Illustrations. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hardback. Longmans, Green, and Co Hardcover
188521584Hamilton Adams 1885. 8vo. Third Edition with a lithographed frontispiece original tissue guard present engraved and printed titles 11 lithographed plates one depicting flies; all original tissue guards present and 10 woodcut illustrations in the text frontispiece and illustrated title mildly foxed; original ribbed green cloth gilt back yellow endpapers uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED a remarkably bright clean crisp copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end and single-leaf prospectus for the enlarged edition of Lloyd's Field Sports tipped in. The illustrations are by Haghe Landseer and Williams from paintings by Wilkie Landseer Simson and Cooke. 'Next to Walton himself there's no more engagingly discursive and allusive writer in the language. For the feel of fishing the sense of it I almost said the taste of it I know of no other to place him beside' Gingrich. A lovely copy of the best reissue; Scrope's classic treatise was first published in 1843. James was owner of Hurstmonceux Place in Sussex. Gingrich p.117 et seq.; Sage 183; Westwood & Satchell p.191. Hamilton Adams, hardcover
18852342acLondon: Hamilton Adams & Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Remnants of tape at gutter of fep. 1885. Reprint. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 150mm 10" x 6". 317pp. 13 b/w plates. . Hamilton, Adams & Co hardcover
18852342abLondon: Hamilton Adams & Co. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep. 1885. Reprint. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 150mm 10" x 6". 317pp plates. 13 b/w plates. . Hamilton, Adams & Co hardcover
186525635London: Routledge Warne and Routledge 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Ssecond Edition Revised and Enlarged. green blind-stamped cloth gilt spine pp. xx 320 frontis. light wear and bumps to corners some minor shelf wear two line ink sig on front free endpaper front hinge is cracked but holding light foxing to frontis. title page and prelims scattered light foxing to text. Size: 8 Vo. Routledge, Warne and Routledge Hardcover
