London: Francis Constable, 1634. Third edition. Sherwin Copy. Influential manual of conduct for the gentleman or courtier, written... Read More about The Compleat Gentleman. Fashioning him Absolut, in the Most necessary and commendable Qualities...
Price: $4,000
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
Bismarck, N.D: The Cirrus Company [Hand set and printed by Caddy W. Burgess], 1936. First edition. Printed in North Dakota. Collection of verse, some on hunting themes, with pp. 47-62 comprising prose hunting and fishing sketches. A beautiful production in the style of the W.P.A. publications of the period. Read More about The Rye Is the Sea. Together with of the Author’s Experiences As a Novice Hunter and Angler...
Price: $450
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...
Price: $750
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
Easthampton, Mass: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Robinson, Alan James. From the edition of 107, this is A.[rtist P.[roof] I (with state proofs) signed by Alan James Robinson. One of 5 only for sale. ONE OF 5 COPIES. Read More about Atlantic Salmon. Salmo Salar … Essays by Stephen Bodio and Ted Williams
Price: $5,000
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...
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...
Price: $300
Boston: David Godine, 1970. Hidy, Lance. One of 100 copies printed in Monotype Caslon, on Amalfi Paper, signed by the artist. A THING OF BEAUTY. Hidy's first regularly published book. Read More about Moral Reflections on the Short Life of the Ephemeron. This essay first appeared in A Description...
Price: $1,250
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...
Price: $300
Ludlow: R. Jones, 1854. A New Edition, Revised. With an ALS to Charles Engelhard from R.S. Pierrepont, Jr, Old Westbury, N.Y., laid in, about salmon fishing, also inscribed in 1953 to Engelhard from Pierrepont. Read More about Bowlker's Art of Angling, containing directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Making Artificial...
Price: $650
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
Price: $750
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
Price: $750
New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Number 32 of 250 copies, signed. Read More about "An Anxious Moment - Salmon Fishing"
Price: $1,250
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
Price: $150
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,...
Price: $250
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...
Price: $125
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
