Rare

Salmon Fishing on the Restigouche. July, 1938.

[N.p: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman], [1938].

Price: $8,000.00


About the item

First edition, one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. [vi], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. White printed wrappers, stapled. Very good. Some minor wear. Green quarter morocco slipcase. Wetzel p. 171 (tentatively ascribed to William Kies. "A rare work."); Bruns K-45 (not seen); Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 105. OCLC 2 copies (Princeton, Wisconsin Historical Society).

Item #312786

Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July, 1938, by a party of six, who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen, comprising: Evan A. Evans, Louis M. Hanks, Roy F. Tomlinson, Theodore G. Montague, William S. Kies, and George I. Haight (to whom authorship is attributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society). The last page of text records their catch by weights. Rare.