Fishing Angling (9 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condition: New. Mitchell, Charles B.; Tianis, John (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 4 1/2"), original publisher's green decorative gilt-and-blind-stamped cloth with cover displaying the title & subtitle with a bright gilt-title and -engraving of a friar catching a cat [!] not a catfish ".by hook and by crook," illustrated with frontispiece repeating humorous gilded cover art of friar fishing, opposite extra-illustrated title page with eight engraved oval vignettes bordering that has been printed on heavy stock, plus an undecorated title page, further illustrated with seven [7] full-page engraved plates [unsigned with style resembling Doyle rather than Cruikshank], 166 pages. Engaging brief presentation on front free endpaper "To a learned angler" by another who to his friend quotes [supposedly] "'These are not Anglers but Angels' Pope Gregory." VERY SCARCE Illustrated and amusing poetic send-up of fishers [of fish, men, & accidentally cats]. The gilt impress on the front cover of the fishing friar is wonderfully bright; likewise the frontispiece and facing decorative engraved title page on heavier stock. Light and uniform age-toning to pages and plates (slightly more apparent around their margins) but without (or very little) foxing or noticeably affecting the full-page still crisp engravings. Wear to spine cloth with upper cap gone and fraying to the foot of the spine. Covers are quite clean and bright with slight fading and some wear showing at edges and corners. References: Westwood & Satchell, The Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler".,(1883): with anonymous author not identified, page 15. Heckscher Sale Catalogue(s), 83. None [Clear archival polyester sleeve added].

A nice slice of London ephemera. The three items are in good condition, lightly aged. They were clearly all sent together. ONE: ALS from Westley ('W. Westley | Hon. Sec.') to unnamed recipient. 2pp, 12mo. In answer to an application he is sending 'one New Programme showing Waters &c', pointing out that not all are 'Trout Waters', and that 'about 30% of the Members only take part in competitions'. He explains that they have had good (he mistakenly writes 'few') membership over the previous two years, 'but at the present time there are a few members'. TWO: Printed 'C.L.P.S. / Programme 1935-36'. 10pp, 16mo. Attractive little item in grey cloth covers, with title printed in black on front. In good condition apart from rusty staples. Lists committee and officers, fishing waters, outings and meetings for season 1935-36 (including sea outings), regulations governing fresh water competitions, prizes for 1935-6, perpetual challenge cups, fish, general notices. THREE: Printed 'Application for Membership'. Not filled in. 1p, 12mo. Includes questions such as 'Has your application for membership of an Angling Club or Society ever been declined?'.

Original First Edition. 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. Sprache: english.

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. Sprache: english.

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.

12mo, 1 p. On bifolium. Thirteen lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged and creased paper, with slight rust marking from hooks. Semi-literate, and redolent of the area and period. He asks Devon (not Captain Thomas Barker Devon, RN, who had died in 1846) to 'pardon the Liberty I have taken in writen [sic]' to him. He knows 'the Great difficulty that Gentlemen have in Getting good made peal [sic] Flys and firm Tied ones', and is enclosing 'a few of my Own Making & you will Greatly Oblidge me by your Trying of them'. Should they 'Answer' Devon's 'Rivers' Terlizzick would 'take it a favour by your forwarding me a report of tthe same'. The pearl fly is loosely inserted in the centre of the bifolium, its rusty hook matching one of the rust marks on the paper. Little is to be discovered concerning Terlizzick, except that he operated both parts of his business at 18 Union Street, Plymouth, in 1852.