Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing
by Davy, Sir Humphrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good; Spine mildly rubbed, slipcase lightly soiled.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Rockville Centre, NY: Freshet Press. Very Good; Spine mildly rubbed, slipcase lightly soiled.. 1970. Facsimile; First Printing. Hardcover. White cloth in illustrated brown cardboard slipcase. viii, 273pp. Black and white illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the 1828 edition of this fishing classic subtitled: A series of conversations with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43774
- Title
- Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing
- Author
- Davy, Sir Humphrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Spine mildly rubbed, slipcase lightly soiled.
- Edition
- Facsimile; First Printing
- Publisher
- Freshet Press
- Place of Publication
- Rockville Centre, NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FISHING, Angling, Fly Fishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Spine
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- Soiled
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.