Item #262587 Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. [Bound after:] The Game Fish of the Northern States and the British Provinces …. John Harrington Keene, Robert B. ROOSEVELT.

With Fly Tying Materials

Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. [Bound after:] The Game Fish of the Northern States and the British Provinces ….

New York: O. Judd Co., David Judd, Pres't, 751 Broadway, 1887; 1884.

Price: $750.00


About the item

First edition of Keene, later edition of the Roosevelt. 2 plates with 37 mounted pieces of fly-tying materials. 113 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With Fly Tying Materials. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Bookplate of Samuel Lambert and another. Bump at head of spine, some traces of wear, very good. Keene: Wetzel p. 169; Bruns K9 (never having examined a copy of the first ed.); R104.

Item #262587

A finely bound copy collecting two choice American books, from the library of Dr. Samuel W. Lambert (1859-1942), a noted New York physician, bibliophile and angling collector, and a member of the Anglers’ Club of New York.