Rare Books

# 15480

WIGRAM, R.H.

The Shannon Rise : Tasmania’s fishing miracle

Launceston : Telegraph Publications, [1953]. Octavo, coloured pictorial wrappers (light corner creases),  pp 48. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. “One of Australia’s most sought after booklets on angling. Very scarce.” [Dunn, Angling in Australia, p. 311]. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was an avid fisher at an early age. …

# 15537

STEWART, W.C.

A caution to anglers, or ‘The practical angler’ and ‘The modern practical angler’ compared

Edinburgh : A & C Black, 1871. First edition. Octavo, paper wrappers, front wrapper loose and rear wrapper detached, paper loss on spine, mild foxing; pp iv – 56. Published in reaction to a very similarly titled angling guide by Harry Cholmondeley-Pennell. The two books, whilst sharing similarly worded titles, differed greatly in approach to angling. Pennell …

# 15552

[Fly Fishers' Club]

The Fly Fishers’ Club Annual Dinner : Monday, March the Ninth 1908

London : [s.n], 1908. Octavo, stiff wrappers with photograph of Lord Montagu Norman, ribbon ties, marked along spine, [pp 12]. The programme for a sumptuous annual dinner for the Fly Fishers’ Club held at the Hotel Metropole. Includes menu and wine list, with vintages served such as 1900 Krug, 1898 Louis Roederer, and 1893 Bollinger.

# 15553

“Hewitt” Trout Fishing Specialties

New York : Marchbanks Press, [c.1900]. Octavo, paper wrappers, staple bound (some rust marks), [pp 7]. A trade catalogue for flies and other fishing equipment, with an article on Hewitt’s Trout Feed.

# 15549

OGDEN, James

Ogden on fly tying, etc.

London : John T. Norman, 1879. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in black and blind, remains of spine label on edge of both boards, bookseller stamp on title page, errata tipped in at title page, pp iv-90. Illustrated with two mounted albumen photographs, and 4 lithographic plates. ‘A successful Cheltenham tackle dealer, …

# 15550

FISHER, P. [pseud. W.A Chatto]; DAVIES, G. Christopher (ed.)

The angler’s souvenir

London : Frederick Warne, [1877]. New edition. Octavo, blue boards with lettering and design in gilt, black, and blind, spine slightly faded, pp [ii]-311. Illustrated with 32 plates by Beckwith and Topham, and text surrounded by varying decorative borders. ‘In this edition only a portion of the original work is retained, the practical matter having …

# 15556

WIGRAM, R.H.

The uncertain trout

Melbourne : Georgian House, 1951. First edition. Quarto, cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, with pictorial dust jacket (mild wear to edges), pp 72. A scarce and sought-after classic of Australian flyfishing literature. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was an avid fisher at an early age. He was known for his …

# 15472

HEWITT, Edward R.

Hewitt’s handbook of fly fishing

New York : The Marchbanks Press, 1933. Octavo, pictorial cloth boards, previous owner’s inscription and label on front endpaper, his bookplate to first blank, pp 116. With sections on tackle, fly fishing techniques, types of waters, hooking, playing and landing trout; a very good copy.

# 15520

"The Amateur Angler" [pseud.]

Fresh woods and pastures new

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887. Octavo, green pictorial limp boards, pp x-136; a fine copy. Bushell, p.70.

# 15523

Studies of an angler

Melbourne : J.T. Picken, 1950. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth boards with dust jacket, pp xii-235; a fine copy. Chapters on angling books, on the effect of barometric pressure on trout, and on casting plastic bodies for artificial flies, and on many other aspects of flyfishing and aquatic entomology. Sir Lawrence James Wackett (1896-1982) was …

# 15598

BROOKE, Major General Geoffrey

The major goes fishing

London : Seeley & Service, [c.1954]. Octavo, cloth boards in pictorial jacket; stitching starting to loosen; 31 pp; illustrated with seven line-drawings by R.P. Needham; a good copy.

# 15585

HOWITT, S[amuel]

Howitt’s angler’s manual; or concise lessons of experience

Which the proficient in delightful recreation of angling will not despise, and the learner will find the advantage of practising; containing useful instruction on every approved method of angling, and particularly on the management of the hand and rod in each method; embellished with twelve plates, of fish, fishing, baits, and tackle. Liverpool : F.G. …

# 15603

HENN, T.R.

Practical fly-tying

London : Adam and Charles Black, 1950. Octavo, cloth boards with dust jacket; pp 127; illustrated with three photographic plates and numerous line-drawings in the text; a very good copy. With practical tips, recipes and dressings.

# 15568

BAILEY, William

The angler’s instructor : a treatise on the best modes of angling in English rivers, lakes, ponds, and on habits of the fish

London : Longmans, 1857. First edition. Octavo, cloth boards with decoration and lettering in gilt and blind (rubbed), front hinge split, lacking front free endpaper; pp viii-112; contents clean. An interesting publication on the Nottingham school of angling, which opted to cast directly from a wooden reel without a check with a ‘Derby twist’ silk …

# 15558

JESSE, Edward (1780 – 1868)

Scenes and tales from country life : with recollections of natural history.

London : John Murray, 1844. First edition. Octavo, binding by J. Larkins in half calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting label lettered in gilt, previous owner’s bookplate to pastedown; pp vii-396; plates with mild foxing. Lowndes, p.1199.

# 15560

SHAW, Fred G.

The science of dry fly fishing

London : Bradley, Agnew & Co., 1906. Quarto, pictorial cloth boards (rubbed), pp xv-142-xxviii; with colour frontispiece and twenty-five plates; occasional foxing; a very good copy.

# 15570

The angler and his friend; or piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions

London : Longman, Brown Green, & Longmans, 1855. First edition. Octavo, full calf boards with ornately tooled borders in gilt and marbled paper onlays (rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and tan title label lettered in gilt, front hinge split, marbled endpapers and edges, lacking half title page, pp vii-306; with hand-coloured frontispiece, possibly supplied; …

# 15569

HAMILTON, Capt. G. D.

Trout-fishing and sport in Maoriland

Wellington : The Government Printing Office, 1904. First edition. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt lettering, pp. xix-428; illustrated with 2 photographic frontispiece images, 20 photographic plates, 2 collotype plates, and 2 chromolithographed plates of trout flies; occasional very minor water staining to margins, otherwise in fine condition.  

# 15575

BLAKEY, Robert (ed.)

The angler’s song book

London : George Cox, 1855. First edition. Octavo, textured cloth boards, spine discoloured with remains of printed label, bookplate to pastedown, pp xvi-276; contents clean and sound. Westwood and Satchell, p. 34.

# 15579

[BOAZ, Herman]

The Angler’s Progress: A poem. Developing the pleasures the angler receives from the dawn of the propensity in infancy, till the period of his becoming a complete angler

London : For J.H. Burn, 1820. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, titled in gilt on spine (some wear), marbled endpapers, pastedown with armorial bookplate of John-Longueville Bedingfield Esq. of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk.; pp [12]; illustrated with twelve wood cuts; a fine copy. First illustrated edition, published in the same year as the unillustrated Newcastle …

# 15463

MARCH, James

The jolly angler; or water side companion.

Containing an account of all the best places for angling, the means used to obtain permission, as well as an account for the different sorts of fish contained therein: the tackle, baits, & other requisites to form an expert angler: with correct description of tying hooks, making artificial flies, repairing tackle, &c. London : The author, [c.1830]. …

# 15464

PICKARD, F.W.

Trout fishing in New Zealand in wartime

New York : G.P. Putnam’s, 1940. First edition. Numbered 189 of 250. Royal octavo, cloth backed papered boards lettered in gilt (rubbed), uncut, occasionally unopened; a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper for Mr. Thomas Coyle; pp 180; illustrated with photographs of New Zealand by the author’s wife; a near fine …

# 15454

The Amateur Angler [pseud. E Marsten]

By meadow and stream : pleasant memories of pleasant places

London : Sampson Low Marston, 1896. First edition. Octavo, pictorial green cloth boards (lightly rubbed), ink marks on lower board, pp xiv-134; illustrated with fifteen photographic plates; clean throughout. Bushell, p.70.

# 15455

Clericus [pseud. Rev. William Cartwright]

Facts and fancies of salmon fishing

London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1874. First edition. Octavo, green cloth boards, upper board with decorative fly fishing lure in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, all edges stained red, author’s presentation inscription on title page; frontispiece and title page with small stains to fore-edge; pp 271; with 10 illustrations of angling scenes. Westwood and …

# 15459

KEENE, J. Harrington

Fly-fishing and fly making for trout, bass, salmon, etc.

With plates of the actual material for making flies of forty-eight varieties. New York : Forest and Steam Publishing Company, 1898. Third edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth boards with gilt roundel containing fly blocked in black, laid over a fishing rod with small fish, spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 159; …