The Art of Angling. Now Improved with Additions and Formed into a Dictionary In Two Parts. Part 1. Containing An Account of Fish and Fish Ponds : A New Art of Fly- Making : The New Laws that concern Angling; The Secret Ways Of Catching Fish By Ointments, Pastes, and other Arts. . Part ii : Of The Great Whale and Whale- Fishery,the devouring shark; the amphibious turtle: the luscious turbot and sole; with flying fish, sea-devil, and other extraordinary productions of the sea. . Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-five cuts, exactly describing the different kinds of fish that are found in the fresh or salt waters. The whole forming a Sportsman's agazine; and comprizing all that is curious and valuable in the Art of Angling .

Published by T. Lowndes, in Fleet Street., London, 1766

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Sm. 8vo. viii, 293 pp. [11] advertisements; with fine engraved frontispiece and woodcuts in the text; a very good copy in contemporary calf,[wear] re backed. Book-plate.

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The Art of Angling. Now Improved with Additions and Formed into a Dictionary In Two Parts. Part 1. Containing An Account of Fish and Fish Ponds : A New Art of Fly- Making : The New Laws that concern Angling; The Secret Ways Of Catching Fish By Ointments, Pastes, and other Arts. . Part ii : Of The Great Whale and Whale- Fishery,the devouring shark; the amphibious turtle: the luscious turbot and sole; with flying fish, sea-devil, and other extraordinary productions of the sea. . Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-five cuts, exactly describing the different kinds of fish that are found in the fresh or salt waters. The whole forming a Sportsman's agazine; and comprizing all that is curious and valuable in the Art of Angling .
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Brookes, R., M.D.
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T. Lowndes, in Fleet Street., London
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1766
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