Angling

  • # 44796

    HENDERSON, W.

    My life as an angler

    London : W. Satchell, Peyton & Co, 1879. First trade edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, Morocco spine (rubbed at head and foot), armorial bookplate, woodburytype frontispiece, pp. xvi; 312, illustrated, small loss to margin of pp. xv-xvi, internally fine.

  • # 44793

    James Arthur Lees and Walter J. Clutterbuck

    Three in Norway

    By two of them. With map and fifty-nine illustrations on wood from sketches by the authors. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. Fourth edition. Octavo, illustrated cloth with image of a fisherman (lightly sunned to spine, small bump to fore edge of upper board), bookplate to front pastedown, pp. xii; 307, folding map printed …

  • # 44797

    WALTON, Izaak and COTTON, Charles

    The Compleat Angler

    Edited with an introduction by Richard le Gallienne. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. London and New York : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Quarto, half crushed morocco over pebbled cloth, ruled in gilt, edges and corners rubbed, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation of fish, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore …

  • # 44794

    THOMAS-STANFORD, Charles

    A river of Norway. Being the notes and reflections of an angler

    London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Octavo, gilt-illustrated cloth (a few light marks), slightly canted, top edge gilt, pp. xvi; 168; 40 (publisher’s catalogue), photogravure plates with tissue guards, colour plan. Fishing for salmon and trout in Norway.

  • # 42773

    WIGRAM, R.H.

    Trout and fly in Tasmania

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, green cloth boards, pp 94; edges foxed, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated with seven photographic plates. Scarce. Richard Henry Wigram emigrated to Tasmania in 1924, and was a keen angler at an early age. He was known for his innovative fly designs as well as authoring a wide …

  • # 34411

    SCROPE, William

    Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co., and Glasgow : Thomas D. Morison, 1885. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, edges rubbed, old sticker to head of spine, light stains to endpapers, bookplate from the Library of Parliament, Tasmania to front pastedown, lithographed …

  • # 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 …