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1848rif. 29206AB1848. Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby James McGlashan / Simpkin Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece X 111 pages with 21 plates original Lithographs often large folding. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp "Board of Public Works" to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition. Includes for example the following illustrations: 1. Frontispiece: Spearing the Basking Shark or Sun Fish West Coast of Ireland Large Folding Plate 2. Schooner Recommended by Mr.Brabazon for the West Coast Fisheries Large Folding Plate 3. Deck Plan of Schooner - 100 or 150 Tons - Recommended by Mr. Brabazon for the West Coast of Ireland 4. Skerries Hooker - 20 to 50 Tons 5. Irish Herring Net 6. English Herring Net - Figure I 7. English Herring Net - Figure II 8. MA II X Fishing Boat 9. Penzance or St. Ives Herring or Pilchard Boat 10. One of the Irish Herring Fleet 11. Trawler with her Trawl Down Large Folding Plate 12. Trawl Irons 13. English Trawl Large Folding Plate 14. Irish Trawl Large Folding Plate 15. Sun Fish Basking Shark Harpoon 16. Salmon Net - Figure I Large Folding Plate 17. Salmon Net - Figure II Large Folding Plate 18. Salmon Boxes 19. Mackerel Fishing 20. English Lobster Trap / Irish Lobster Pots 21. Oyster Dredges: English Oyster Dredge / Irish Oyster Dredge / Large Size Oyster Dredge Brabazon writes in his Introduction: 'I am induced to write this account of the present state of the Irish Fisheries and offer the following suggestions for their improvement which may be carried into effect by a Fishing Company conferring the greatest benefits on the country and profit to themselves. The Fisheries are the greatest and at present almost the only resource of the West of Ireland. From the loss of the potatoes as a certain means of subsistence the fiishermen would give their undivided time to the Fisheries instead of losing the best seasons by wasting their labour on a high-rented potato garden. They would thus throw an immense quantity of cured food such as Hake Cod Ling Herring Haddock and Coal Fish into the interior of the country while they could dispose of such fish as could not be cured such as Turbot Plaice Mackerel Gurnard John Dorey Ray and Soles at the markets along the coast. The cured fish even with the present limited supply brought to the markets of Westport and Newport County Mayo is sold as low as a penny per lb. free from bone green salted that is not dried and sometimes not so high as a halfpenny per lb. fresh.The company should establish stations along the coast: say they began with three one at Killibegs one at Newport Pratt and one at the Shannon Mouth.From the Store at Ballyshannon I would send fresh fish packed in Ice and also cured fish by water carriage through the Enniskillen Lakes and by the Ulster Canal on to Belfast supplying all the intermediate twons and interior of the country. Chapters in the book include for example: Herring Nets - Buoys - Mode of Curing / Curing the Herring / The Rhodry-More / The Cod Fisheries / Lobster Crab and Cray Fish / Packing Herring etc. etc. hardcover
1668rif. r1865London: Richard Marriot. G: in good condition. 19th century re-backed binding. Edge-wear. Previous owners inscriptions to fep. Occasional foxing and staining slightly impinging. Slight worming to inner margin of pages extinct; slightly impinging. Tape repairs to fore-edge of page 53. 1668. Third Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 150mm x 90mm 6" x 4". xiv 96pp vi. 10 b/w vignettes. . Richard Marriot hardcover
rif. DADAX0671244000New unknown
1845rif. 89414Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co 1845. First Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Bound in original publisher's paper wraps titled and bordered in black to front wrap. iv; 168pp. Chipping and wear to edges and extremities spine panel heavily chipped lacking rear wrap strong and tight but with several closed tears soiling etc; internally clean & untrimmed with some dampstaining to the upper quarter of the earlier pages bookplate of noted sporting bibliophile Harry Worcester Smith to verso front wrap some light spotting and soiling in places a couple of proud gatherings last 2 leaves a frayed and spotted cosmetically but not substantially affecting the last page of text. Strong despite its innate fragility handsome despite wear a good solid example of a book that is a distinct rarity complete in its original wraps. Henry Herbert was a rather tragic figure seemingly continually falling short of his own expectations of himself and who only seemed to find any sort of steady personal voice in his works under the Forester pseudonym discussing the finer arts of shooting fishing and woodland stalking. A sort of lost genetic remnant of several aristocratic British bloodlines but frequently financially wobbly and unable to get a steady footing Herbert seems to have alienated most people in his circle at one time or another and eventually shot himself in a full length mirror after having thrown a party to which many were invited but none attended. Although his output included a slew of adventure novels and various other literary exploits he is chiefly remembered for his wistful keenly observed and evocative accounts of woodland sporting activities. Scarce and collectable. G.B. Zieber & Co unknown
1855rif. k2305London: William Blacker. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Inner hinge cracking; fep and frontispiece nearly loose. Previous owner stamps to prelims and final page. Ink spot to edge-block. 1855. Second Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". xi iv 259pp plates. 21 plates 17 hand-coloured. . With Descriptions of Flies for the Season as they Came Out of the Water. . William Blacker hardcover
1808rif. L0566Liverpool: Samuel Bagster. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Rebacked with brown cloth spine. Some foxing. 1808. First Edition. Brown hardback paper cover. 150mm x 200mm 6" x 8". 28pp plates. 12 b/w plates. . containing useful instruction on every approved method of angling and particularly on the management of the hand and rod in each method; Howitt's Angler's Manual. Embellished with Twelve Etchings. . Samuel Bagster hardcover
1881rif. jc-07Newcastle upon Tyne: Crawhall. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Heraldic plate of the Duke of Gloucester to front patedown. Minor wear to leather along lower front corner. 1881. Second Limited Edition. Black hardback half-leather cover. 290mm x 250mm 11" x 10". 236pp. Hundreds b/w woodcuts. Limited edition of 100 copies. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . [Crawhall] hardcover
1912rif. 54150n.p.: John W. Bowman 1912. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 9 in. 64 pp unpaginated. thick brittle paper stock mounted on white linen hinges neatly written title page in bold clear manuscript w/ 191 tipped-in photographs sized from 2 x 4 in. up to 6 x 8 in. many albumen most silver gelatin all annotated in manuscript below images and carefully drawn manuscript borders in ink on each page nearly all with bright strong contrast some sepia-tinted. Burgundy-coloured simulated half-calf over beige cloth beveled boards minor soiling rubbing to covers some minor chipping to corners & fore-edges of pages some darkening 1 leaf loose still a VG exemplar. This splendid Edwardian photo album documents the salmon fishing adventures and scenic excursions by the photographer through the pastoral Wye Valley just a few years before the outbreak of World War I. At the beginning of the 20th century the Wye River was considered to be one of the best rivers for salmon fishing in the United Kingdom outside of Scotland and this fishermen definitely enjoyed the beauty and catch to be found. These images capture a largely undeveloped and pastoral Symonds Yat and Wye Valley as it winds along the borders of Herfordshire Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. Bowman has included images of side-trips along the River Monnow views of mills Llandogo the Hutsham Bridge Grosmont Castle Tintern Abbey the Devil’s Chimney at the Yat Wye Valley ruin of the Llancault Church the oldest house in Monmouth winter floods at the junction of the Monnow and the Wye Rivers winter rapids and more. Also included are scenes of salmon from the Wye the rod and reels used photos of fisherman casting into the Monnow River landing a salmon and even image of fisherman holding two large salmon while braced against a roadside hedge. The salmon fishery on the Wye held up through much of the 20th century before a precipitous decline in the 1980s and 1990s however due to extensive habitat improvement work carried out by the Wye & Usk Foundation to restore spring salmon runs the run has once again climbed but not to the levels of the early 20th century. John W. Bowman, hardcover
rif. DADAX1892469146New unknown
rif. 707721907: Utah. Photograph. Good . 43 silver gelatin prints mounted with adhesive to loose album leaves some accompanied by handwritten captions in pencil. Most images measure 14 cm x 8 cm. Ten of the images depict the streets of Salt Lake City including the courthouse after a freak storm in the month of May blanketed the area in snow. The rest of the images relate to the hunting and fishing exploits of a group of men in the Salt Lake City area including images of fishing on the Bear and Jordan Rivers the training of hunting dogs one captioned "we got forty dollars for the lower one" a hunting lodge in the woods plus images of a duck hunting roost showing hunters hanging out on a porch alongside freshly killed game hanging from the eaves and from their automobile. A sign on the roost lists the nicknames of members of the hunting lodge. Images quite clear and sharp album leaves creased toned and foxed. Images peeling off of album leaves. A handful of images chipped and torn at the edges. One image completely detached. Utah unknown
1899rif. grl08London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co Ltd. VG : in very good condition. Rebound copying original bindings and title panels. Slight staining to prelims of volume II. 1899. Limited Edition. Pale blue hardback boards with cream cloth spines. 290mm x 230mm 11" x 9". xxv 278pp; xiv 286pp; xvi 226pp; xiv 290pp plates & maps. 56 b/w plates 4 duo-tone maps. With original prospectus. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd hardcover
1682rif. L0565London: Thomas Helder. G : in good condition. 19th century binding. Cover rubbed and darkened. 1682. First Edition. Green hardback leather cover. 150mm x 90mm 6" x 4". 78pp. Fishing. Rivers in England include: Avon Cham Swift Ouse Humber Trent Tine Tyne Tweed Severne Thames Chester Dove Medway Tame Thame. . Thomas Helder hardcover
rif. DADAX0964804719New unknown
1912rif. 58322Squirrel Lake Oneida County WI: Hanson’s Squirrel Lake Resort D.E. Kennedy photographer 1912. Oblong folio. 15 x 8 in. 86 pp unpaginated. on thick gray paper stock. With 102 tipped-in silver gelatin photogaphs sized from 4.2 x 6.25 in. up to 6.5 x 8 in. 1 hand-coloured most sized approx. 4 x 6 in. couple pages show residue from previously removed or moved images. Contemporary flexible black cloth gray paper endpapers minor wear rubbing some fraying to spine minor wear & slight bumping to corners front inner hinge & title w/ minor tear repairs edgewear small tear at lower gutter margin still a VG exemplar with manuscript presentation inscription & title from artist to Henry Hanson dated July & Sept. 1912. This exceptional photo album documents the camping boating fishing & hunting activities of visitors to Henry Hanson’s Squirrel Lake Resort in the early 1900’s after the opening of the Wisconsin Northwoods to tourists. The “Good Roads” movement and encouragement of improved highways and railroad expansion opened the area featuring fabulous fishing beautiful forests mild summer weather and stunning fall colours drawing in Presidents movie stars gangsters and families to Squirrel Lake resorts with resorts such as Hanson’s offering cabins for rent by the week hot meal dining boat rentals dock usage and hunting & fishing guides. This album opens with images of the resort including one handcoloured featuring waving stars & stripes flag boat sheds and canoes pulled up on the beach. Many of the images feature iconic Progressive Era views of families setting on the rustic cabin porches standing beside camp tents and rowing on the lake. Also featured are views of rowers seated in boats proud women & men holding their large Pike Bass & Muscallonge fish caught women & men hunters with shotguns picnic scenes and the bucolic backdrop of the resort. A series of photos reveal the transport of the Squirrel Lake Resort visitors from train station in horse-drawn covered wagon and automobile with one image showing three generations seated on their luggage at the depot. The names of the rustic cottages included “Skin Walk Cottage” and “Ma-Ow-Is” while the erected tents provided extra space. Hanson 1858-1951 moved to Minocqua WI in 1893 where he drove a livery team and by 1912 had established his resort on 37 acres on the shores of Squirrel Lake featuring a main lodge and adding cabins and other buildings from time to time set amidst a rustic setting of Pine Hemlock and Birch Trees on the East Shore of the Lake able to house up to 35 guests. His cabins were lighted by electricity supplied with running water shower baths and the excellent cuisine was furnished by the onsite orchards gardens and Jersey dairy cattle with large poultry supply as well. Initially named “Forest Home” by 1912 it had become Squirrel Lake Resort and he would continue operating it until 1936 when he sold the resort to Ed Perreault. Although we were unable to find a reference to the photographer D.E. Kennedy in local Minocqua WI directories or Wisconsin & Illinois photography references a few of the photos in this album are similar to a couple of the contemporary unsigned real photo postcard images in institutional and private holdings. See: Jones McVean et al History of Lincoln Oneida and Vilas Counties Wisconsin 1924 pp. 257-258; Early Squirrel Lake Resorts 1907-1970 Squirrel Lake Memories 2021; C.B. Stewart Squirrel Lake Storage Reservoirs and Their Relation to Stream Flow Preliminary Report on Storage Reservoirs at the Headwaters of the Wisconsin River 1911 pp. 20-21. Hanson’s Squirrel Lake Resort, D.E. Kennedy photographer, hardcover
1879rif. 1496London: William Mackenzie 1879. Book. Good. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 11.25 x 15"; 204pp; pink marbled boards with leather corners and spine with gilt; front board and spine detached; water stains to contents affecting edges of some prints; 41 wonderful colour prints; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return;. William Mackenzie Hardcover
1948rif. 185551948. Walton Izaak. The Compleat Angler 1948 presents a twentieth-century fine press edition of the seventeenth-century English classic first published in 1653 a foundational text in angling literature and pastoral prose. Walton's work combines practical instruction on fishing with reflective dialogue poetry and meditations on nature shaping early modern recreational literature and influencing centuries of sporting and environmental writing. Revised repeatedly by Walton over a quarter century the text became a touchstone for anglers and readers drawn to its blend of craft knowledge and contemplative philosophy. This Limited Editions Club printing situates the work within mid-twentieth-century book arts culture reaffirming its status in Anglo-American literary tradition. Walton Izaak. The Compleat Angler; or The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1948. Large-format volume in slipcase. The edition includes numerous black-and-white illustrations depicting fish species anglers beside lakes and rivers pastoral landscapes and narrative scenes drawn from Walton's prose and verse. First issued in London by Richard Marriot in 1653 and expanded through subsequent editions The Compleat Angler endures as a central text in the history of leisure environmental sensibility and English vernacular prose. Light staining to some pages; text and illustrations crisp and clear; minor wear and fading to edges of slipcase. Overall very good condition. Substantial illustrated edition of a canonical work in recreational and natural history literature. unknown
1805rif. e5259Dublin: M N Mabon; Longman Reesm Hurst & Orme. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Light foxing throughout. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1805. First Edition. Marbled hardback boards with grey cloth spine. 240mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xx 311pp plates. 2 b/w fold-out plates. Pages unopened. . M N Mabon; Longman, Reesm Hurst & Orme hardcover
1998rif. 69181Hatje Cantz Verlag. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 360 pp. With 484 ills. 352 col. . 29 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1998. Hatje Cantz Verlag hardcover
rif. DADAX1571883223New unknown
1903rif. e3163Chelsea London: Ashendene Press. VG : in very good condition. 1903. Limited Edition of 150 copies. Vellum/gilt. 200mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 48pp. Full page woodcut and 6 small woodcuts. 'Set in type by St John Hornby and Meysey Turton & printed by the fist named at the Ashendene Press Shelley House Chelsea in the year 1903 after the text of the Boke of St Albans emprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the Woede the yere of thycarnanacion of our lorde MCCClxxxxvi'. . Ashendene Press hardcover
1876rif. L0859London: John B Day. G : in good condition with brown card slipcase. Covers rubbed with edge-wear. External joint split. Page edges browning. Slipcase case rubbed with tape repairs. 1876. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 230mm 12" x 9". pp91. Two chromo-lithographic facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole on card. Llugwy North Wales; Offerton Stepping Stones. Printed from an old ms. never before published the original spelling and language being retained with editorial notes and patterns of flies and samples of the materials for making each fly. A Quaint Treatise on Flies and Artificial Flymaking by an old Fisherman. Lists 26 flies with 22 examples on hard card with the made up fly and the materials used to create it: March Brown Dottril Dun Little Chap Watchett Oringe Brown Granum Black Gnat Tailey Tail Green Drake Oringe Headed Dun Light Dun Bigg Dun Crossing Brown Spider Flee Black Ant Large Red Ant Small Common Ant Small Caterpillar Bank Flee Little Sky Blue Stream Flee Willow Flee White Mout Brown Mout. Appendix: Indian Yellow Eden Fly Summer Dun March Brown Green Drake Grey Drake. Bookplate of William Charles Everley Taylor of Scarborough. Inscribed in pen on fep. . John B Day hardcover
1885rif. 29717London: Field and Tuer Leadenhall Press 1885. First Edition and one of only 100 Large-Paper Copies of a total edition of only 600 copies. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND SPECIALLY BOUND MOST PROBABLY FOR PRESENTATION. With a profusion of hand-colored woodcut plates after Joseph Crawhall in chapbook style and with bound-in cloth pockets labeled in black. 8vo in very beautiful contemporary full red-orange calf likely a binding for presentation purposes the boards are elaborately decorated with a very wide and exquisitly detailed borders of stylized thistles the spine with central gilt tooling gilt depicting fish and tackle bags within double-gilt ruled compartments separated by gilt ruled raised bands two compartments with gilt lettering board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled in floral motif page edges untrimmed green endpapers. 112 8 pp. A very handsome copy of an especially elusive book lavishly bound likely a presentation copy and unique thus the binding well preserved and sturdy with some light evidence of age or use some general mellowing the text retains the original pockets and black leaves all as pristine. A bit of mild offsetting from the cloth pockets. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF CRAWHALL'S FINEST PRODUCTIONS IN ITS BEST AND MOST LIMITED FORMAT. This abridged edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER contains 36 songs and poems taken from the text of the fifth edition. The prospectus promises that this collection will 'rank amongst the quaintest and most covetable' and we have to agree. The book includes small cloth pockets for the owner's own use. They have whimsicle labels such as "Fysshe Tales I believe" a very small one and the much larger "Fysshe Tales I don't believe". Also for the owner's personal use are 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' bound in at the rear for the owner to write in his own stories. These leaves are un-used. Field and Tuer, Leadenhall Press hardcover
1851rif. 28907AB1851. London and other places of print Harper Collins / William Mackenzie / John Van Voorst and others 1851-1999. Octavo. More than 3000 pages with many illustrations for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Angler. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Many of the publications with some signs of wear but overall and especially the collector's items in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The historical publications are true gems for the collector and this collection would be the perfect foundation for a meaningful Fly-Fishing-Library. This collection is the perfect gift for the Fly-Fisher. Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express. paperback
