The Compleat Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation in Two Parts
by Walton, Isaac and Cotton, Charles
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1759. Printed and sold by Henry Kent, London. The First Part 'Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing.' The Second Part being 'Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream.' 'With Draughts of all the Fish; ornamented with a Number of Copper Plates, and a great variety of useful and copious Notes by Moses Browne.' The Appendix concerns the Laws surrounding Angling. Leather boards rubbed and edgeworn, corners and spine ends bumped and chipped, front board detached from binding, 5 raised bands to spine, spine rubbed and worn with loss, ink inscription to front pastedown dated 1820, fep, frontispiece, title page, Preface and Postcript detached from binding, closed edges browned, in-text illustrations throughout, text clear to read, final pages dog-eared at head and browned along edges, feint notation marks to head of rear pastedown.. Seventh Edition. Leather. Fair. 16mo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74639
- Title
- The Compleat Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation in Two Parts
- Author
- Walton, Isaac and Cotton, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Seventh Edition
- Date Published
- 1759
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
- Size
- 16mo
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Bookcase
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About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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