Fishing & Angling

William Pickering, London, Thomas White, printer, Johnson's Court, 1825, petit in 32 (8,5 x 5, 5 cm), XVI + 314 pages (pagination continue sur les deux titres) + (4) pages (index in fine). Ouvrage illustré en noir et en hors texte d'un joli frontispice représentant les trois protagonistes du livre (Piscator, Auceps et Venator), d'une page de faux-titre gravée, de bandeaux de tête de titre et de nombreux dessins de poissons dans le texte. Reliure romantique de l'époque, plein veau noir maroquiné, plats ornés en doré d'une frise florale d'encadrement, coupes avec roulette dorée, dos titré et orné de grands fers dorés. +++++++ Rare et jolie édition anglaise dans un petit format proche du minuscule et dans une reliure romantique, de cet ouvrage de référence comprenant les textes de Izaak Walton (1593-1683) et Charles Cotton (1630-1685) : The Complete Angler, or the… Read More

London: for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts, 1815. The eighth edition, being Bagster's Second Edition, 1815. Contemporary leather at spine with brown cloth-covered boards. Good only, light to moderate foxing throughout, boards splitting at spine, 1846 dated gift inscription front endpage, a few instances of period marginal pencilling, which is fading. Overall a good candidate for rebinding.. Eighth Edition . Leather Spine/Cloth Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: The Theater. Good+. 1722. Hardcover. First part translated by William Diaper: second part translated by John Jones who also wrote an account of Oppian's life and writings and compiled the catalogue of his fishes. (8) , 232, (7- list of subscribers). Contemporary full brown leather with decorative blind stamp to covers & 5 bands on spine. No spine label. Faded gilt dentelles on edges. Encased in a custom brown marbled covered slipcase. Illustrated with engraved title and tailpiece. Interior of text is very nice: bright, clean & intact without foxing. Front hinge cracked with cover partially detached & rear hinge partially cracked with cover firm. Angling, Ichthyology, Sports. ; 8vo; 232 pages .

1784 Complete Angler Fishing Hunting Angling Fish Trout Cotton Walton Hawkins

Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton's 'The Complete Angler' was an important and extremely popular game and hunting book from 1653. Walton sought to celebrate the everyday fisherman and hunter, providing tips, tricks, and first-hand observations on fishing, and hunting through the lens of a conversation between two fictional anglers.

This 1784 edition includes woodcut illustrations most of which depict fish and fishing tackle.It was edited by John Hawkins, and the Hawkins editions are some of the best of all 'Angler'
editions.
Item number: #15660
Price: $750
WALTON, Izaak; COTTON, Charles
The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation
London : Printed for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
o
Part I – lxxxii, 267, [1]
§ 10 full-page plates
·
Wanting two plates of music
§ 20 in-text engravings
o
Part II – xxxiv, 111,… Read More

1878 FISHING Complete Angler Hunting Angling Fish Trout Cotton Walton Rivers

Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton's 'The Complete Angler' was an important and extremely popular game and hunting book from 1653. Walton sought to celebrate the everyday fisherman and hunter, providing tips, tricks, and first-hand observations on fishing, and hunting through the lens of a conversation between two fictional anglers.
This 1878 British edition includes notes by C.C. Davies.

Item number: #14578
Price: $499
WALTON, Izaak; COTTON, Charles
The complete angler
London: Frederick Warne, 1878.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
[xii], 467, [1]
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o
Decorative blue cloth
· Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 13.5cm)
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!

14578Photos available… Read More

Edinburgh / London: W. & R. Chambers / Orr & Smith, 1835. Book. Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine; no jacket; 156 pages; b&w illustration on title page; 1835 on title page and no date on copyright page. Good minus condition: mild extremity wear to binding with a little loss of cloth; light general scuffing to binding; top of front exterior hinge split through cloth with a little loss of the cloth; hinges strong; name (James M. Cokburn?) and date of 1835 on ffep; slight interior toning. New plastic protective jacket..

Edicom, 1986. Hardcover. One of 3000 unnumbered copies of this limited edition. Used- Near Fine Condition. Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Dust jacket shows more wear than book, with some blemishing and minor staining on the front and back covers, a few small tears at the top of the book around the spine. DJ is not price clipped. No highlighting or other markings on the inside of the book. Gorgeous black and white, as well as color, plates. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Katonah: Martha's Glen Publishing, 1977. First edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. (Katonah: Martha's Glen Publishing). Quarto, green cloth with gilt titles. 296, (iv) pp.with index, and 4 pages for notes. Dust jacket depicts the author working on a rod.

Bellingham: Forrest-Park Publishers, 1996. Limited edition. Very good or better. (1996). Octavo (6.25 x 9.25), burgundy leatherette, gilt. 112pp. Illustrated with and by drawings by Ariel Shimondel. Included is an original photo of cover art for a jacket to accompany the first traded edition. The limited does not have a jacket. This edition is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 69.

Detailed step-by-step photos and compete instructions how to tie timeless patterns as Gray Ghost, Lady Doctor, Chief Needahbah, and more.Small 1/2 inch tear to the upper left dust jacket corner

London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1902. First English Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Green publisher's cloth with motif in gilt and silver. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear cloth age-toned with slight lower corner and spine tip wear. 8vo; 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. 209 pages with an index, 48 photos on plates. First English edition. Ref: Bruns T64. "The coast of America, and more particularly that of Florida and Mexico, is the recognized resort of those who angle for the biggest that the sea has to give".   "In this volume I have endeavored to lay before fellow sportsmen at home some of the charms of fishing for tarpon ......" The author reminiscences and describes angling in Florida waters for tarpon, sharks, rays, catfish and bass. Reads like an old sailor's tale and is aimed to distinguish the fish that call the coast around Florida home from those elsewhere in the oceans, Turner-Turner's work has aided… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First British Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good; No Dust Jacket. Photography by Julian Dimock.. Brown cloth covered boards with pictorial in three colors with stamped titles in gilt. Boards vivid. Spine mild age-toning. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs by Julian Dimock. 8vo; 318 pages. First Edition, First Printing. Printed by Unwin Brothers. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning, foxing on the preliminaries; Modest handling wear with corners rubbed and a age-toned spine.. Almost every phase of outdoor Florida life is pictured here and described from the dangerous sport of capturing live alligators in the coastal rivers to life with the Bee Hunters in the interior. [Bookman] Interesting features on moonshine, Tarpon fishing, Saltwater fly fishing, Manatees Dolphin, Crocodiles, and Florida Birds.. REF: Heller 2:837; Publishers' Weekly, 1908: 127; Bookman 1909 V28: 508; Bruns D76

New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. Limited Edition. Half leather to cloth Hardcover. A Near-Fine Collectible Copy. Deluxe issue of 249, this example marked "presentation copy," and inscribed on the half-title by the author to Tom Mahoney, his editor at Morrow ["whose interest & help made it all possible" with the date of March 1947] and a second signature on the limitation page. Contains the extra suite of six color plates by Burke in the original printed envelope. (Uncommon to be with the book). Publisher's three-quarters green morocco, five raised bands with gilt rules and emblems in slipcase. 9.25 by 6.25 inches; 3-640 pages, color plates by Edgar Burke and line drawings by Ivin Sickles with decorated endpages, and a separate suite in an accompanying envelope (rarely found with the book). Slipcase worn, the binding extremely neatly restored retaining the original spine, a sound copy internally.  The worn slipcase was not issued by the publisher. A handsome and collectible copy. … Read More

Octavo, frontispiece, uncommonly good in original burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt.
First edition. Inscribed & signed by the author.
Wackett states that only 500 copies were printed and now very scarce.