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Forest, Lake and River. The Fishes of New England & Eastern Canada. In Two Volumes
by JOHNSON, Frank M.
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Boston. Printed for Subscribers. 1902. Hardcover. 4to, 26cm, 2 volumes, xxvii,313 & xi,368pp., limited to 350 copies, this being #273, colour plates, printed on hand made paper, text illustrations, rebound in green buckram with black labels, damp stained, good thus. (ds1) Wetzel. (Ltd edition) p.166 Lacks the portfolio of 12 extra plates (as usual). The original binding was suede… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bill Guppy. King of the Woodsmen. Life Long Friend and Tutor of "Grey Owl". With a new Introduction by Hugh Stewart. Profusely Illustrated with phonographs, line sketches, and maps
by PINK, Hall
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Ottawa. McGahern Stewart Publishing; in co operation with Temagami Community Foundation. 2016. Soft cover. New. 8vo, 23cm, xvi,296p., illustrated stiff wraps, trade paperback, new Much of the social history of the Temagami region is recorded in bits and pieces in obscure places. A frequently referenced document is King of the Woodsmen by Hal Pink about a legendary Temagami… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers
by CRAWHALL, Joseph (Edited by)
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Newcastle-on-Tyne. George Rutland. 1864. Hardcover. 12mo, 19.5cm, xv,312p., woodcut illustrations, in half crushed green morocco, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt (fishing) device decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, very good to fine copy. Contains songs issued by the Newcastle-on-Tyne Typographical Society. The illustrations are from Thomas Bewick's "Select Fables" in 1820. Item Price
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Hints on Angling, with suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are appended some brief notices of the English, Scottish, and Irish Waters
by BLAKEY, Robert] By Palmer Hackle (pseud)
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London. W.W. Robinson. 1846. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, xvi,339pp., appendix, original blind decorated web grain green cloth, gilt spine title & pictorial (fishing) decorations, spine darkened (titles clear), some splashing on the upper board, edges worn, small stain at the gutter of the front endpaper, internally clean, a very good copy thus. Westwood & Satchell p33. The first of a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Angler's Guide, Abridged for the Use of Young Anglers, Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: Containing, The Art of Trolling and Fishing for Jack & Pike, Fly-Fishing & Making; Also, Bottom & Float Fishing, & Trimmer Angling, With Directions how to plumb the Depth, To bait the Hooks, to make paste,...How to lay Night-Lines and Sniggle for Eels,..And, the best Method of making Ground-Bait, &c. Founded on 40 Years and Experience
by SALTER, T.F.
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London. Sold for the Author by T. Tegg. 1816. 14.5cm, first abridged edition, xvi, 80p., frontis engraving, title-page vignette, 20 text wood-cuts, appendix, glossary, marbled endpapers & leaf endings, dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title, fine. Westwood & Satchell p187. An exceptionally fine copy of Salter's juvenile version of "The Angler's Guide, or Complete London Angler." (1814). A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
by BADHAM, C. David
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London. John W. Parker and Son. 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 20cm, first edition, xii,552p., index, in the original blind decorated dark green cloth, gilt spine titles, wanting the front free fly else very good to fine copy. W&S p20, Heckscher 108. A fascinating item on the history of fish of all types, fish markets, tackle, cookery etc. gleaned from… Read more about this item Item Price
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Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States. Embracing full directions for dressing articial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc, etc, etc. New York
by ROOSEVELT, Robert B.
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Carleton, Publishers. 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, The First Edition. 304,[8]p., ads., with numerous woodcuts text illustrations, original wavy grain tan/plumb cloth, gilt spine titles faded, top and bottom spine edges worn, bookplate, a very good sound copy. Bruns R-106. Wetzel, p205."First known treatise recommending silk waterproofed fly lines". Sage, p172. Heckscher 1663. W&S. P179. ~ Personal recollections… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rambles With A Fishing-Rod
by ROSCOE, E.S.
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Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood and Sons. 1883. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18mo, first edition, vi,[1],152p., half title, in the original dark blue green cloth, gilt spine titles, blind stamped block titles and angling motif decoration on the upper cover, triple ruled blind stamped borders on bevelled boards, a fine copy. Fly fishing in Ireland, Bavaria, Germany, Normandy, Switzerland,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Insect Life and the Management of a Trout Fishery. Frontispiece by Mr. John Henderson
by MOSELY, Martin F.
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London. George Routledge & Sons. 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16cm, first edition, ix,112p., frontis & 17 plates, index, original full stiff dark green fabrikoid, gilt titles on the spine, a fine bright copy. Hampton p. 68. Item Price
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Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. (Title page printed in red and black)
by HALFORD, Frederic M.
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London. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sm4to, 25.3cm, the First Edition, xii,289, [1]p., ad., frontis & 25 plates (6 hand coloured plates), text illustrations, in the original dark olive green cloth, gilt titles and borders on the spine and upper cover, bevelled boards, t.e.g., spine cap is mainly faded, hinges slightly shaken but sound,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Yorkshire Trout Flies. Comprising 11 Plates of Illustrations, from the Author's Own Drawings, with Particulars of the Dressing of Each Fly; and Chapters on Fishing the Minnow, the Creeper, the Stonefly, and the Worm in Clear Water, with an Extra Plate Showing the Hooks Necessary Therefore
by PRITT, T.E.
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Leeds. Goodall and Suddick. 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.5cm, the first edition, limited to 200 copies, this being (numbered 126 in pencil on the half title), with 1 plain and 11 hand coloured plates, (depicting 62 dressings), in the original dark green cloth, black and blind borders on the boards, gilt spine and upper titles, small bookplate, expertly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Angler in Wales, or Days and Nights of Sportsmen. In Two Volumes
by MEDWIN, Thomas
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London. Richard Bentley. 1834. Hardcover. 22cm, xv,336 & vii,348pp., with 2 engraved frontis & 2 title vignettes, 13 text illustrations, bound in full blue morocco, marbled boards, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt (fish) decorations in the panels, a very good set. Westwood, p.150. Sage, p.142. Item Price
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Farm-Cottage, Camp and Canoe in MaritimeCanada, or, The Call of Nova Scotia to the Emigrant and Sportsman
by SILVER, Arthur P.
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London. Routledge & Toronto. Musson. [1908]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 23cm, first edition,xviii,249p. with 97 illustrations mainly from photographs, rebound inhalf green calf, marbled boards, gilt and blind ruled raised bands, gilttitles, t.e.g., a fine copy attractively bound. (atl) Includes chapterson fishing, hunting sailing the Labrador coast and a birch-bark canoetrip. Item Price
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Lost Amid The Fogs: Sketches of Life in Newfoundland, England's Ancient Colony
by McCREA, Lt-Col. R.B.
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London. Sampson Low, Son, & Marston. 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 21cm, first (sole) edition, xv,299,[24]p., ads., hand coloured lithographed frontis view, in the original mustard yellow cloth, ornate black stamped borders, titles & panel decorations on the boards, gilt spine titles, original grey coated endpapers, the binding is dust worn, stamping still clear, expertly restored, with a contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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British Angler, or, A Pocket-Companion forGentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art ofAngling: Comprehending all that is Curious and Useful in the Knowledgeof that Polite Diversion.
by WILLIAMSON, John
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London. Printed for J. Hodges, at theLooking-Glass on London Bridge. 1740. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo, 17cm, first edition,viii,318, [x],p., (index inc errata), with copper engraved frontis & 3fine folding copper engraved plates, (plate three supplied from anothercopy), expertly rebacked in restoration style matched brown calf and theoriginal marbled boards, gilt titles along the spine in decorated frameborder,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Quaint Treatise on "Flies, and the Art Artyfichall Flee Making". By An Old Man well known on the Derbyshire Streams as a first-class fly-fisher a century ago. 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 theMaterials for Making Each Fly. - With Two Chromo-Lithographic Facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole
by ALDAM, W. H.
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London. John B. Day. 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to, 27.5cm, the First Edition, Second Issue, xiii,[1](errata page),91p., plus 2 chromo litho colour plates & 25 actual specimens of flies and fly making material in 22 oval mounts on 8 (six double sided) hard card plates with 22 recesses of real flies and materials, the text and mounts… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Fly Fisher's Guide, illustrated byColoured Plates, representing upwards of Forty of the most useful Flies,Accurately Copied from Nature
by BAINBRIDGE, George C.
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Liverpool. Longman, Rees, Orme, .1834. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 21.7cm, 3rd edition, viii,162p., with 8 hand colourengraved plates, (inc. frontis), in the original decorated green clothboards, early rebacked (amateurish) in quarter black cloth with titles,an original paper label on the upper cover, hinges linen guarded,endpapers acidic, some transfer on the tissue guards, fly annotations inpencil and ink on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The KENTISH ANGLER; or the Young Fisherman's Instructor: shewing the Nature and Properties of Fish, Which are generally angled for in KENT; Their Haunts, Spawning Times &c., Rules and Cautions to be observed by Young Anglers; the proper method ofAngling for Trout, Carp, Pike, Tench, Roach, Eels &c, Worm, Minnow,Cadis, and Maggot fishing; Fly fishing; and the Preparation of ArtificialFlies; and An Abstract of the Laws of Angling. - By An Experienced Angler-
by KENTISH Angler (Anonymous)
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Canterbury: Printed by J. Saffery; and may be had at Goulden'sGrocery and Fishing Tackle Shop, opposite palace street, Canterbury.1804. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo, 17.5cm, the first edition, 40p., wanting the frontis and errata leaf, inserted is a folding Angling Scene engraving supplied from the London Illustrated News, clipping laid down on the final leaf and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Atlantic Salmon and the Fly Fisherman. Sketches by Ed Sutton
by ANDERSON, Gary
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Toronto. Doubleday Canada. 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to, 28cm,[14],240,[1]p., the first edition, limited edition 150 numbered copies& signed by the author & illustrator, this being #56, many sketches,illustrations and plates by Ed Sutton, & numerous plates andillustrations from photographs including some in colour, maps, bound infull speckled beige Bangladesh goat (kid), titles and fly devicedecorations stamped in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Fly Patterns, The Manipulation of Dressing Them and Practical Experiences of Their Use. Edition De Luxe, Limited to 50 Copies
by HALFORD, Frederic M.
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NewYork. E.P. Dutton and Company. 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 28cm, in 2 volumes,viii,219p., v2. (being 9 recessed plates), with photogravure frontis portrait of Edgar Williamson & 9 colour chromo-lithographic plates of fishing flies, 18 plates of colour charts, 16 photogravures of fish and fishing spots on india paper mounted, 22 text illustrations, printed on fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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