Category: Angling

Sparse Grey Hackle. Deluxe, limited edition of only 48 copies with manuscript page and signatures of contributors.

By: Alfred W. Miller, Austin M. Francis (ed.)

Price: $850.00

Publisher: New York, The Anglers' Club of New York : 1993

Seller ID: 3083

Condition: Near Fine

Number 48 of only 48 signed deluxe copies containing a leaf of original manuscript tipped in to rear of book. Grey cloth clamshell case with gilt title to grey morocco label to spine. Full blue morocco. Gilt Anglers' Club logo to front cover. Gilt title to grey morocco label to spine. Signatures of Austin Francis, Patricia Miller Sherwood, Nick Lyons and Thomas Taylor to limitation page. An as-new copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages; Signed by Editors; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for The Art of Angling, greatly enlarged and improved; containing directions for fly-fishing, trolling, bottom fishing, making artificial flies, &c. &c. Bowlker's Art of Angling; embellished with numerous engravings.

The Art of Angling, greatly enlarged and improved; containing directions for fly-fishing, trolling, bottom fishing, making artificial flies, &c. &c. Bowlker's Art of Angling; embellished with numerous engravings.

By: Charles Bowlker

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Ludlow, Procter and Jones : 1829

Seller ID: 3054

Condition: Very Good

Printed paper boards. Losses to head and tail of spine. Front hinge beginning. Foxing to endpapers. Otherwise, a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 8" - 9" tall; viii,9-154 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496.

By: Dame Juliana Berners (Wynkyn de Worde)

Price: $110.00

Publisher: London, Elliot Stock : c. 1881

Seller ID: 2973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

London: Elliot Stock. Very Good. c. 1881. Hardcover. Paper covered boards. Chip to front cover. Gilt title to black morocco label to spine. Loss to head of label. Small bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Deckle edges. A nice clean copy. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton, A Sketch of Their Lives and Family Connection

By: E. Marston

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1908

Seller ID: 6923

Condition: Fine

Attractively bound in dark green half morocco with gilt rule to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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A Book on Angling, being a complete treatise on the art of angling in every branch with explanatory plates, etc.

By: Francis Francis

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1872

Seller ID: 6546

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue morocco with marbled boards and gilt particulars to spine. Although 3rd edition, this contains revisions and improvements since first published. Contains 15 plates throughout, many of which are hand colored. Chapter subjects include, but are not limited to: Bottom-fishing, Mid-Water Fishing, Artificial Fly-Fishing, Artificial Flies, On Lake Fishing &c., Spinning for Trout, The Salmon, Salmon Flies, and Tackle Making and Fly Dressing. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean; except p. 122 has written in ink "Illegal," which is most likely referencing certai...
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Image for The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts. With: The Lives of the Authors: and Historical Notes Historical, Critical, Supplementary, and Explanatory.

The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts. With: The Lives of the Authors: and Historical Notes Historical, Critical, Supplementary, and Explanatory.

By: Isaac Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Samuel Bagster : 1808

Seller ID: 6012

Condition: Very Good

Professionally recased with full brown polished calf and debossed decorative dentelles as well as gilt rule; 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated with many black and white hors texte plates and illustrations throughout text. Occasional spotting throughout, primarily to plates. Wear to exterior edges and small losses to leather on boards (see image). vi, 512 pp., [ii] 6 x 9 3/4 inches.
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Image for Book of the Black Bass comprising its complete scientific and life history together with a practical treatise on angling and fly fishing and a full description of tools, tackle and implements

Book of the Black Bass comprising its complete scientific and life history together with a practical treatise on angling and fly fishing and a full description of tools, tackle and implements

By: James A. Henshall

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co. : 1881

Seller ID: 3233

Condition: Very Good

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.. Very Good. 1881. Green cloth boards with gilt bass motif to front cover. Gilt particulars and fisherman decoration to spine. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Corners bumped. Brown painted endpapers. Name of previous owner dated 1882 penciled to front free fly. Accession stamp to bottom of title page of J. Clark Salyer II, who served as chief of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Division of Wildlife Refuges from 1934 to 1961, and for whom the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota is named. A nice, clean copy without further mar...
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Joe and Me. An education in fishing and friendship.

By: James Prosek

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc. : 1997

Seller ID: 3110

Condition: Near Fine

Limited Edition. 22 of only 50 copies. Bright red ruled Nigerian goatskin over silk. Gilt title and author to morocco spine labels. Matching red cloth slipcase with gilt title and author to red morocco label. Foldout original watercolor of Colorado River Cutthroat Trout by author to front of book. Limitation page signed by author and binder. Inscription from subject of book to limitations page reads: "To ... who cares about all that we can learn from small streams. Best wishes and good fishing. Joe Haines". A handsome, as-new copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190, [1] pages; Signed by Collect...
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Image for Les Caboteurs et pecheurs de la cote de Tunisie (Coasters and Fishermen of the Coast of Tunisia) Une page d'archeologie navale (A Page in Naval Archaeology)

Les Caboteurs et pecheurs de la cote de Tunisie (Coasters and Fishermen of the Coast of Tunisia) Une page d'archeologie navale (A Page in Naval Archaeology)

By: P. A. Hennique

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Fils : 1888

Seller ID: 5274

Condition: Very Good

Vibrant green cloth with debossed black and gilt decorations to boards and spine. 63 plates, 12 of which are hand-colored--all present. Plates are adhered to tabbed heavy stock paper, 8 of which are folding plates. Uncut pages. Minor rubbing at spine. 83 pp. (text) 6.75 x 10 inches.
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Silver Swimmer

By: Richard Buck

Price: $355.00

Publisher: New York, Lyons & Burford, Publishers : 1993

Seller ID: 3138

Condition: Near Fine

New York: Lyons & Burford, Publishers. Near Fine. 1993. Limited Edition. 30 of only 55 copies. Signed by author to limitation page. Full green goatskin with silver fish motif to front cover. Silver title to spine. Page of original manuscript tipped in to rear of book. Housed in grey cloth clamshell case with particulars to morocco label to spine. A nearly new copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xvi, 416, [i] pages; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for A Concise Treatise On The Art Of Angling. Confirmed By Actual Experience, And Minute Observations, Exempt From Redundancies, And Superfluities, Which Tend More To Perplex, Than Instruct, With The Proper Methods For Breeding And Feeding Fish, And Of Making Fish-ponds, Stews, &c, With Several Arcana Never Before Made Public. To Which Is Added The Compleat Fly-fisher, The Game Laws Relative To Angling, And Prognostics Of The Weather, Independent Of The Barometer

A Concise Treatise On The Art Of Angling. Confirmed By Actual Experience, And Minute Observations, Exempt From Redundancies, And Superfluities, Which Tend More To Perplex, Than Instruct, With The Proper Methods For Breeding And Feeding Fish, And Of Making Fish-ponds, Stews, &c, With Several Arcana Never Before Made Public. To Which Is Added The Compleat Fly-fisher, The Game Laws Relative To Angling, And Prognostics Of The Weather, Independent Of The Barometer

By: Thomas Best

Price: $220.00

Publisher: London, C. Stalker : 1789

Seller ID: 3052

Condition: Good

Nineteenth century Mandarin-red paper-covered boards. Paper label to spine. Hinges weak & worn but firmly attached. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin (of Sherwin Williams) to front pastedown. Moisture mark to initial 3 & last 3 leaves' lower gutter; strengthening to fore-edge corners of frontis not affecting image. 7" - 7½" tall; [170],[ii] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for The Art of Angling, Confirmed by actual experience; interspersed with several new and recent discoveries; to which is now added Nobb's Complete Troller... The whole forming a complete museum, for the lovers of that pleasing and rational recreation. Also, Prognostics of the Weather independent of the barometer; and a new chapter, containing rules, how best to form a competent judgement of the changes that ta

The Art of Angling, Confirmed by actual experience; interspersed with several new and recent discoveries; to which is now added Nobb's Complete Troller... The whole forming a complete museum, for the lovers of that pleasing and rational recreation. Also, Prognostics of the Weather independent of the barometer; and a new chapter, containing rules, how best to form a competent judgement of the changes that ta

By: Thomas Best

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, B. and R. Crosby and Co. : 1814

Seller ID: 6545

Dark green half morocco with marbled boards as well as gilt rule and particulars to spine. Frontispiece. First free page has been reattached with document tape. Previous owner's name to first free page, otherwise no other markings. Toning and spotting to pages throughout, although not affecting text. viii, 259 pp., [1]. 4 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches.
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Image for Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon, instructions to sportsmen, anecdotes, etc. (Abel Chapman's annotated copy)

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, with a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon, instructions to sportsmen, anecdotes, etc. (Abel Chapman's annotated copy)

By: William Scrope (Edited by The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold : 1898

Seller ID: 3109

Condition: Very Good

Half vellum over marbled boards with ruled brown morocco label to spine. In custom green cloth clamshell case with red ruled gilt particulars to spine as well as gilt-stamped notation "Abel Chapman's annotated copy." Lightly deckled edges; top edge gilt. Bookplate of noted naturalist Abel Chapman to front pastedown. Chapman's occasional notations penciled throughout text. E.g., page 17 where he comments on the author's salmon events occurring in June: " 'June'? / Impossible / A.C." Chapman's notes indexed in penciled autograph to front and rear fly papers. Subsequent owner's business...
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Category: Angling