New York: privately printed [at the Beaverkill Press], [1983]. First Edition, one of 300 deluxe copies, this marked... Read More about Catskill Rivers. Birthplace of American Fly Fishing
Price: $1,250
Paris: Librairie des Champs-élysées, 1945. First edition. Read More about La Pêche Fluviale en France. Son état son avenir
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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...
Price: $750
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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Franklin, PA: The Evening News Printing Co, December, 1914. First edition, “for private distribution among friends only”. Signed by the author on the preface. Summer and Fall at Camp E-Z. Fishing and boating and camp life on French Creek, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. RARE. Contents: A day with the boys at..... Read More about Up the Creek. Being a Selection of Articles by …
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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
Price: $550
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...
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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..... 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..... Read More about Thaddeus Norris, Esqr. 1811-1877 Angler
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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..... Read More about Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia
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[Pleasantville, New York: Privately Printed, 1929]. First edition. ‘It’s Better Just a Little Farther on’. Bradley was Secretary-Treasurer of the Beaverkill Trout Club from 1910-1929; the club had 43 members at the time of his writing. A brief but detailed section of reminiscences is followed by early photographs of sport..... Read More about Fly-Fishing Reminiscences (With Illustrations) of My Early Years (1908-1916) at the Beaverkill...
Price: $15,000
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1908. First edition. Read More about Angling & Art in Scotland. Some Fishing Experiences Related and Illustrated
Price: $175
New York: D. Appleton, 1860. Pioneer of American Sporting Journalism. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical "Spirit of the Times," and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the annual..... Read More about Life of William T. Porter
Price: $350
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., Printers, 1870. Second edition. Read More about The Delaware Water Gap; Its Scenery, Its Legends and History
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1888. New edition. Heckscher copy. Chapters on Fox-Hunting, Salmon-Fishing, Covert-Shooting, and Deer-Stalking. Read More about Sport
Price: $225
London: Printed by and for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1740. First edition. The true first edition of this popular work, arranged alphabetically, which went into numerous regular and pirated editions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Read More about The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing: with the Natural History of River, Pond & Sea Fish
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London: T. Lowndes, No. 77, Fleet-Street, 1775. The Sixth Edition, with great Improvements. An expanded edition, “with great Improvements,” including 135 woodcuts and an alphabetical arrangement of text. Read More about The Art of Angling
Price: $225