Angling
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# 26217
SCOTT, Ernest
Historical memoir of the Melbourne Club
Melbourne : The Specialty Press, 1936. Octavo, gilt decorated full crushed morocco (corners slightly bumped), pp. xii; 111, photographic illustrations, a few specks of foxing, else fine. Edition limited to 650 numbered copies.
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# 22923
The “Geisha” and the “Cherry Blossom” fishing book : all about gut fishing lines and fishing. (Presentation copy)
with a few caustic comments on fishermen themselves. Issued free by the Proprietors of the famous “Geisha” and “Cherry-Blossom” gut lines. [Sydney : Standard Publishing House, 1937]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (darkened, some creasing and marks), inside front wrapper with illustrated advertisement, a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the first page ‘To Alex Smith, …
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# 15584
RONALDS, Alfred
The fly-fisher’s entomology
Illustrated by coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect. And accompanied by a few observations and instructions relative to trout and grayling. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Third edition. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration in blind (rubbed), pages uncut and some unopened, pp x-115-32; illustrated with twenty colour …
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# 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 …
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# 15539
The quest of the trout
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1935. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated stiff wrappers inscribed by author Evelyn Temple Emmett, date in ink on title page, pp 86.
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# 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.
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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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# 15601
DUNNE, J.W.
Sunshine and the dry fly
London : A & C. Black, 1924. Octavo, cloth boards lettered in black (rubbed), with 2 owners’ bookplates and one ownership label, and inscription on preliminaries; pp 136; scattered foxing. From the library of prominent angling bibliophile Jock Grey.
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# 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 …
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# 15604
SCOTT, Jock [pseud. D.G.F Rudd]
At the sign of the split cane : some fishing “casts,” practical and otherwise
London : Witherby, 1934. First edition. Royal octavo, cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket; pp 176, with ten illustrations; a fine 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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# 15572
BARKER, Thomas
Barker’s delight : or the art of angling
Wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that recreation, both for catching he fish, and dressing thereof. London : Darling & Son for C.S.B., 1887. Facsimile of second edition. Octavo, parchment boards (rubbed), pages uncut, pp 40; a fine copy. Bushell p. 28, “limited to 100 …
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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.