The Angler's Vade Mecum, Containing A Descriptive Account...
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. First edition. One hundred and ninety-four examples of flies, arranged... Read More
Price: $1,000
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Fishing Print: “Fall Fishing,” depicting a fisherman in a river in the midst of fall foliage.
“Privately printed for Theodore Gordon Flyfishers in a limited edition of three hundred copies”. Read More
Price: $250
The Rev. Cotton Mather: His Fish Story. Wherein is made abundantly clear for the first Time, the proper Answer to...
London: Printed by James Tregaskis and Son...at the Sign of the Caxton Head, 1934. First edition. Excerpted from Mather's Magnalia Americana. Read More
Price: $250
Sport in Europe.
London: Sands and Co, 1901. First edition. Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. Read More
Price: $550
Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. Second Edition. “Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine, “has the contemplative man’s recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages.” (Westwood & Satchell)... Read More
Price: $65
Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852. Second edition. "Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, "has the contemplative man's recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages."... Read More
Price: $200
A Summer in Alaska. A popular account of the travels of an Alaska exploring expedition along the great Yukon River...
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Read More
Price: $350
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A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well Known on the...
London: John B. Day, 3, Savoy Street, Strand, 1876. First edition, second issue. VERY FINE COPY. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. Both issues of this... Read More
Price: $6,000
Salmon Fishing in Canada.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More
Price: $300
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More
Price: $350
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More
Price: $350
One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife
The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles...
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and... Read More
Price: $10,000
Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative...
New York: Scribners, 1903. Limited to 160 copies on hand-made paper. Read More
Price: $1,500
The Angler's Guide containing Easy Instructions for the Youthful Beginner with Several Observations on fishing…Directions for the Proper Baits and...
London: Joseph Smith [James Bullock, Printer], 1828. An abridged edition of “The Gentleman Angler” first published in 1726. This edition simplified for novices in the art. VERY RARE as are the earlier editions, the only copy of this edition we were able to locate being in the British Library. The... Read More
Price: $375
The Angler's Hand-book.
London: R. Tyas, 50, Cheapside; J. Menzies, Edinburgh, 1838. First edition. A diminutive, popular treatise, first published in 1838. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Read More
Price: $2,250
The Anglers' Club Story: Our First Fifty Years 1906-1956.
New York: The Anglers' Club of New York, 1956. First edition, one of 750 copies. Read More
Price: $200
Anglers' Evenings. Papers by Members of the Manchester Anglers' Association. 1st - 3rd Series.
Manchester: Abel Haywood and Son, 1883, 1882, 1894. First editions of the 2nd & 3rd Series, second edition of the 1st Series. Papers given at the monthly meeting of the Club. A very attractive set, and very scarce in the triple decker format. Read More
Price: $250
An Angler’s Delight
The Best of the Anglers’ Club Bulletin 1920-1972. With an Introduction by Sparse Grey Hackle (Alfred W. Miller).
New York: Privately printed by the Anglers' Club of New York, 1972. First Edition, one of 1,000 copies. An Angler’s Delight. A lively compilation of prose and poetry by 18 contributors to the distinguished club's Bulletin, including “Sparse”, Eugene V. Connett, III, Richard C. Hunt, Dana S. Lamb, H.G. Pickering... Read More
Price: $150
Well Dressed Lines, Stripped from the Reels of Five New Englanders.
New York: Privately Printed by The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1962. First, limited edition, one of 500 copies. A collection of angling prose and verse by David McCord, Francis W. Hatch, Edward Weeks, Leslie P. Thompson, and Edmund Ware Smith. ("The cod / Is odd. / The Cape Codder / Is Odder." --McCord). Read More
Price: $150
The Angler’s Pocket-Book; or, Compleat English Angler...also, Nobbs’s Celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling.
London: Printed by H.K. Causton, 1805. Third edition. Robert Nobbs’s treatise was originally printed separately in 1682. Read More
Price: $450
The American Angler. Devoted to Fishing — Brook, River, Lake and Sea — Fish Culture. Volume 2, nos. 2, 5-10, 13,14, 16-20.
New York: The Angler's Publishing Company, 16 July to 4 November 1882. First edition. A choice and representative group of issues of this important, early, and long-lived angling periodical, with contributions by the leading American and Canadian angling writers of the day, including Harris, James Henshall, Charles Hallock, et. al.... Read More
Price: $750
Log of the Eleventh Annual Cruise of the Second Presbyterian Fishing Club of Philadelphia, July 2nd to 13th, 1881, inclusive...
Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, Printers, 1881. First edition. Hijinks and fishing in the Delaware Bay. The humorous folding map bears the legend Map of the Bottom of Delaware River and Bay. Compiled from Explorations by the 2nd Presbyterian Fishing Club, on their 11th Annual Cruise, 1881. Uncommon. Read More
Price: $350