Angling
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# 15474
Webster, H.T.; Zern, Ed
To hell with fishing
Or, how to tell a fish from fishermen. New York : Appleton-Century, 1945. First edition. Octavo, cloth boards with yellow lettering and fish motif, pp viii-88. A collection of H.T. Webster’s fishing cartoons with accompanying text by Ed Zern; a fine copy.
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# 15520
"The Amateur Angler" [pseud. of E. Marston]
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.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 15574
STODDART, Thomas Tod
The angler’s companion : a popular and practical handbook to the art of angling
London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, 1892. Royal octavo, later half leather over marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and fly motif; marbled endpapers, lithographed frontispiece, pp 207; a very good copy.
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# 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.
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# 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]. …
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# 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 …
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# 15461
The Amateur Angler [pseud. E. Marston]
Days in clover
London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1892. First edition. The large paper issue, limited to 250 copies, with this copy numbered 95 with initials of author. Octavo, vegetable parchment over boards (some chipping), lettered and decorated in black and red, pages uncut and partially unopened, pp viii-120; illustrated with six photographic plates; a near fine copy. …
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# 15545
CAMPBELL, Lady Colin
A book of the running brooks and of still waters
London : Sampson Low Marston, n.d. [c.1900]. Octavo, limp red suede with designs in blind and gilt lettering (fraying to tail of spine), signature of previous owner on front free endpaper; pp 132. A series of articles originally published in The Saturday Review on the benefits of farming fresh water fish for food, including chapters …
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# 15541
WILLIAMS, H.G.
The shag menace : a book for anglers.
Dunedin : H.G. Williams, 1945. Octavo, green boards with pictorial dust jacket (some staining and foxing), pp 94. With four photographic plates; contents clean and sound.
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# 15476
THOMPSON, Lindsay G.
History of the fisheries of New South Wales;
With a sketch of the laws by which they have been regulated. Sydney : Government Printer, 1893. Royal octavo, rebound in modern cloth boards lettered in gilt, title page with tape marks and ink stamp, pp 126; with 4 plates and explanatory text, 16 full page illustrations, and 7 folding maps (last few maps attached …
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# 15475
DYMOND, J.R.; LOGIER, E.B.S. (illustrator)
The trout and other game fishes of British Columbia
Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1932. Royal octavo, boards lettered in gilt, pp 51; illustrated with colour plates; a fine copy. A scarce bulletin containing information on types of trout, char, and Pacific salmon, with further text on conservation methods.