A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, And Salmon-Fishing; with the Natural History of River Fish, and the Best Modes of Catching Them.
by Ephemera (Pseud. ) [Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803-1857) ]
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Tight clean text-block, lacks spine, boards detached.
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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London: Longmans, Brown, Green, And Longmans. Tight clean text-block, lacks spine, boards detached.. 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Older 3/4 leather, xii, 363p., illustrations. **With the angling bookplate of Hugh Tempest Sheringham, the armoral bookplate of Arthur Potts, bookplate of Mr. William Morris, and signed "Sparse Grey Hackle Alfred Miller" on the next blank leaf. .
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- Bookseller
- HJHurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 260
- Title
- A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, And Salmon-Fishing; with the Natural History of River Fish, and the Best Modes of Catching Them.
- Author
- Ephemera (Pseud. ) [Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803-1857) ]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Tight clean text-block, lacks spine, boards detached.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Brown, Green, And Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- Fly Fishing, Natural History, Salmon, Angling, Provenance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Angling;
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- 12mo
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