Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1866. First Little, Brown edition, one of 100 copies printed at the University... Read More about The Complete Angler, or the contemplative man’s recreation … edited by John Major
Price: $3,750
London: W.W.Robinson, 69, Fleet Street, 1846. First edition. Read More about Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are...
Price: $150
Kokadjo, Maine: 1942. ; approx. Folder a bit edgeworn with foxing and staining to cover label, occasional toning, foxing, and offsetting to text leaves. Scrapbook commemorating a trip to Little Lyford Pond Camps (Maine) in the summer of 1942. With both typescript and manuscript entries, original photographs, letters, brochures, and newsclippings..... Read More about Little Lyford Pond Camps in the Moosehead Region [cover title
Price: $750
Chicago: Published by W.E. Wroe, 1914. First edition. RARE. This is the log Blomfield, an English artist, kept on this trip which started in Chicago on Sept. 13, 1914. He was the guest of Mr. Wroe and during the trip painted "23 studies in oil and water color besides a...... Read More about Rod, Gun and Palette in the High Rockies. Being a record of an Artist's Impressions in the Land...
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[Hawley, Pa: 1999]. First edition, one of 800 copies. The history of this storied sportsmen's club founded in 1870 by Fayette Giles in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Contains lists of former officers and directors. Membership included Genio Scott and Charles Hallock, the club"s first secretary. The club enjoys trout and bass..... Read More about History of the Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club 1871-1999
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London: John Van Voorst, 1841. First edition. Inscribed by the Author, Litchfield Copy. Includes 23 German recipes for cooking fresh-water fish. Book plate of Edward Sands Litchfield, and letter laid in to him from a friend on the occasion of him being given the book (1966). Autograph verse on free..... Read More about A Treatise on the Management of Fresh-Water Fish, with a view to making them a source of profit...
Price: $300
Paris: Librairie des Champs-élysées, 1945. First edition. Read More about La Pêche Fluviale en France. Son état son avenir
Price: $125
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the..... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...
Price: $1,500
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1887. First edition thus. An anthology of angling tidbits, this is a reprint of Piscatorial Reminiscences (1835) without the latter's "Catalogue of Books on Angling" Read More about Anecdotes of Fish and Fishing
Price: $150
London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography. More “the result of paste and scissors” (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by the groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, who states in the Catalogue that it “is formed upon Sir Henry..... Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...
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London: William Pickering, 1835. First edition. More "the result of paste and scissors" (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by a bibliography of angling books contributed by Pickering. Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...
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Springfield, Mass: Samuel Bowles. New York: The American News Company; Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. First edition. Read More about A Summer Vacation In the Parks and Mountains of Colorado
Price: $50
Birmingham: Printed by and for M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1788. Fifth edition. Read More about The Art of Angling; or, Compleat Fly-Fisher … to which are added, Directions for Making...
Price: $500
Ludlow: H. Procter, 1806. Read More about The Art of Angling, or Complete Fly & Bottom-Fisher ... new edition
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Ludlow: Printed by H. Procter, 1814. Eighth edition. This copy conforms to the Heckscher collation (X, 170 pp.), which does not call for a frontispiece; we have seen copies with an engraved frontispiece. Read More about The Art of Angling; or, Compleat Fly-Fisher … to which are added, Directions for Making...
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Ludlow: R. Jones, 1854. A New Edition, Revised, with half-title. Attractive edition. Read More about Bowlker's Art of Angling, containing directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Making Artificial...
Price: $250
Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. First edition. The Rare First, Taverner's Copy. Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker's name appears in the first edition, in the second, his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779, Charles "was considered..... Read More about The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular...
Price: $8,000
New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Edition of 250. Superbly executed portrait of Samuel Morris, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, the earliest hunt club organized in America. Ralph L. Boyer (1979-1942) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and under William Merritt Chase. He illustrated a...... Read More about Samuel Morris, Esqr. 1734-1812 Foxhunter
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New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Edition of 250. Finely executed portrait of pioneering American angler Thaddeus Norris, author of The American Angler’s Book, first published in 1864 and reprinted throughout the nineteenth century. Ralph L. Boyer (1979-1942) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and under William..... Read More about Thaddeus Norris, Esqr. 1811-1877 Angler
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. No. 46 of 200 copies. Connett published two drypoints by Boyer in 1929, and this colored trout-fishing print in 1936, followed by a salmon fishing print in 1937. The Derrydale catalogue noted: “This is the only colored, modern trout-fishing print available. It was carefully..... Read More about “After a Big One” [Trout-fishing scene of an angler casting into a shaded pool
Price: $1,500
New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Number 32 of 250 copies, signed. Read More about "An Anxious Moment - Salmon Fishing"
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1978. First Edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper, “To Elsie & Harry [Darbee], Your own copy with all the thanks for setting me on the way. Robert H. Boyle / June 20, 1980”. With the Darbee's fly-tying bookplate. Read More about The Second Fly-Tyer's Almanac
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London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. Third edition. Not in Westwood & Satchell. The Fourth Section treats of angling “improved to spiritual uses”; notes Westwood & Satchell, “Though the 4th section contains frequent allusions to angling the details of the sport are merely employed as pegs to..... Read More about The Hon. Robert Boyle's “Occasionall Reflections.” With a Preface &c. by John Weyland,...
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Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York: The Nassau Press, [cza. 1908]. Early edition. Advertisments at back for a few remaining copies of the first edition. Read More about The Angler's Guide. A Handbook of the Haunts and Habits of the Popular Game Fishes, Inland and...
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New York: Mail and Express Job Print, 1904. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite the title “Compliments of the author J.R. Bradley” Big Game hunting by the author and his friend T.T. Reese in the Stickeen (sic) River Country. The trials of traveling consume the first 28 pp., after which are several..... Read More about Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia
Price: $3,250
