'A Gentleman' The Gentleman Angler: Containing Short, Plain and Easy Instructons, whereby the most ignorant Beginner may, in a short time become a perfect Artist in the Angling for Salmon, Salmon Peal, Trout, Pike, Carp, Perch ..., Bettesworth and Hitch, 1736, second edition, ownership inscription (1795), foxing, calf
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Anon. The Jolly Angler or Waterside Companion. Containing an Account of All the Best Places for Angling, the means used to obtain Permission, as well as an Account of the ..., Effingham Wilson, 1833, first edition, frontis, engraved title, illustrated with eighty wood engravings, ?original cloth-backed boards
Adamson (Charles Murray). Some More Scraps about Birds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Bell & Co., 1880-81, vignette title, 4 autotype engravings, numerous lithograph illustrations from sketches by the author, some spotting, mainly at front and rear and to fore-edges, hinges cracked after endpapers, contemporary green half calf, rubbed, spine darkened, corners showing, 8vo, (limited edition, one of 120 copies), together with: Some More Illustrations of Wild Birds, London: Gurney & Jackson, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, 1887, vignette title, 24 photo-lithograph illustrations from pen and ink sketches by the author, small wormtrail to gutter of front endpapers, with single wormhole to gutter throughout, contemporary cream half sheep, somewhat soiled and rubbed, with some scuffing to edges, printed paper label to front cover, oblong 8vo, (limited edition, one of 200 copies), plus: Berners (Dame Juliana), A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496, with an introduction by Rev. M. G. Watkins, London: Elliot Stock, 1880, half-title, woodcut illustration of fisherman as headpiece, woodcut illustrations of fishing hooks and other implements in text, title lightly spotted, some spotting and toning to endpapers, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, soiled, darkened spine with small loss to front joint centrally, slim 4to, with: Phillips (Henry), The True Enjoyment of Angling, subscriber's copy, London: William Stevens, 1843, engraved portrait frontispiece (spotted), title with ink monogramme stamp, subscribers list, pictorial bookplate 'Arvid Eriksson', front hinge cracked, contemporary cloth, rebacked, gilt-lettering to front cover, a little fading and marks, somewear to extremities, 8vo, (limited edition, one of 100 copies), and 14 others travel and natural history, including: Journal of Travels, Twenty Thousand Miles, by sea and land, over Europe, Asia and Africa, by G. E. Winants, 1872; Journal of Travels Around the World, by the same author, 1877; Another Book of Scraps, by Charles Murray Adamson, 1882Qty: (18)
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.XLVI (46 stamped 43!). From July 3 to December 25, 1875. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Full green blind-stamped over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including very early Lawn Tennis events one year after the game was invented, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.63? From January 5 1884 to June 28, 1884. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Quarter-bound boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear to spine, overall good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference, no index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including very early Lawn Tennis events and an impressive page of Lawn Tennis Advertisements, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.XLVII (47). From January 1 to June 24, 1876. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Full green blind-stamped over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including very early Lawn Tennis events, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.XLIX (49). From January 6 to June 30, 1877. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12”, superbly professionally rebound, quarter-bound green leather spine and board corners, full blue blind-stamped over boards, gilt lettering to spine, superb condition. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including announcement of 1st. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship event, extracts from The Annals of Tennis - Julian Marshall, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.XLII (52). From July 6 to December 28, 1878. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Green over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including reports on the 2nd. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship event, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.LIII (53). From January 4 to June 28, 1879. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Full green over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall good Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including very early Lawn Tennis events, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.LIV (54). From July 5 to December 27, 1879. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Full green blind-stamped over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including notes on the 3rd. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship event, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.LV (55). From January 3 to June 26, 1880. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12”, loose boards, no spine poor but very readable condition, appears to be complete. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes, including Lawn Tennis, Shooting, Travel (The Tay Bridge Disaster) and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.LVI (56). From July 3 to December 25, 1880. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12” Full green blind-stamped over boards, gilt lettering to spine, some wear, overall very good. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes including the Wimbledon Championship and very early Lawn Tennis events, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations.
The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper, Bound Volume No.60?. From September 16 to December 30, 1882. London, Field Office, 346, Strand. Elephant folio 18” x 12”, loose boards, no spine poor condition, but appears to be complete. Invaluable Victorian historical reference containing a full index. A fascinating time capsule with intricate detail on sporting and field events ranging from Angling to Yachting, with multiple references to Cricket, Football, Pastimes, Shooting, Travel and Horse Racing. Also contains illustrations. Supplied with loose index.
NO RESERVE Sports and pastimes.- Taylor (Samuel) Angling, first edition, half-title, lacking frontispiece, publisher's advertisements and index, some damp staining and soiling, 20th century calf-backed boards, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800 § Radcliffe (F. P. Delmé) The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, engraved frontispiece and additional title, plates and illustrations, previous ownership signature to title, partially removed, some browning and spotting, 20th century calf-backed boards, 1839; and 25 others, sport, v.s. (27)
An angling interest postcard album with examples from c. 1900 to modern day including 'Fishing for Jack' 1906, 'The Catch of the Season 1914', 'The River Mole' 1908, 'Selecting the Fly' 1907, Guiness for Strength 1980s, Korky the Cat 1970s, H. C. Earnshaw examples, etc, approximately 150 total with small number of multiples. Additional InformationMajority used, some unused including Guiness and Korky, older examples with usual wear.
MAPS & ATLASES: 1- Up and Down the River. Bennet's Map & ABC Guide to the River Thames from Oxford to Gravesend with Useful Notes for Boating & Angling. no date, c1895. PP; 20, plus folding colour map (slight wear to first fold) in the original pictorial covers and adverts. 2- Gall & Inglis: Map of 60 miles west of London. nd, folding colour linen backed in original covers; 3- Walker’s map of Kent. nd, c1840 folding coloured in original covers (upper detached); 4- Harmsworth Atlas Motor Map of The British Isles and Central Europe & Algeria. nd, c1920. two folding colour maps each in an envelope & both in a slipcase; 5- Gardiner’s School Atlas of English History. 1891. Colour maps. Original cloth; VG; 6- Historic Towns, vol. 1. 1969, dw. (6)
BEALE DR. Dialogues (on astronomy). 6pp manuscript "extract" in a square 128pp 18th cent. notebook & another similar with many other manuscript transcriptions, poems, literature & science incl., inter alia, The Splendid Shilling, an Imitation of Milton; A Defence of Angling; A Parody on News-Papers; Against Life; Orthodox Advice; Epitaph on a Miser; other epitaphs; To the Printer, the Self Tormentor; Positive Egotism Full Ridiculed; Prologue to the Fashionable Lover, On a Gentleman Treppaning a Highwayman; The Farmers Ingle; A Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon; Obituary of 1785 etc. etc. Final leaf of one vol. inscr. Aberdeen June 1758. (2)
Trout and Salmon and general fishing books, to include Grimble- The Salmon Rivers of Scotland 1913 previous owners signature on front paste down, Bridges- Modern Salmon Fishing 1939 re cased, Wanless- The Science of Spinning for Salmon & Trout. 1946 DW, Calver- Bank Fishing for Reservoir Trout 1979 DW (price clipped) Lawrie- International Trout Flies 1969 DW (some wear/damage) previous owner’s signature, Carter Platts- Trout Streams 1977 DW, Pearce The Confident Fly Fisher 1978 ree print DW, Marks – Ivan Marks on Match Fishing 1975 DW, Harwood - The Hardy Book of the Salmon Fly 2006, Wanless- Angling Methods 1935.
Eight fishing books, to include Broughton Grayling, the fourth game fish. 1989 dw price clipped, The Compleat Angler Walton dw Weathervane books New York copy of Rackham edition, Fishing reels Waller vols i & ii reprint 2001 paperbacks, Barker- the Art of Angling modern paperback, Where to fish 1967 1968, Armistead Trout Waters 1920, Hughes Fly and Bait Casting 1924
JOHN BICKERDYKE: ANGLING FOR COARSE FISH, London, L Upcott Gill [1895], 12pp publishers adverts at end, original pictorial wraps + JOHN STEPHENSON: 2 titles: UNDERSTANDING THREADLINES, A COLLECTORS GUIDE TO THE EARLY FIXED SPOOL FISHING REELS, 1992 [1000], 1st edition, signed, original pictorial wraps; ROSEWOOD TO REVOLUTION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTREPIN FISHING REEL, ND, lacks title page, signed on contents page, original pictorial wraps (3)
Three intrepid rim fly trout reels, two regular, one king size, each boxed with makers guarantee; together with a number of trout and sea-trout flys, mostly retailed by Sharpe of Aberdeen; various tapered leaders; and several publications to include 'To Cast a Trout Fly' (Farlow's Hardy Brothers), Hardy's Aid to Angling, The House of Hardy Anglers Catalogue 1969, Fly Fishing and Fly Tying catalogues 1969-70, together with 'The Truth about Tackle' and 'A Choice about Tackle', each by Dermot Wilson, and a Brochure for Garynahine Isle of Lewis
A carved and stained walnut and beech wall panel, 20th century, with a leaping salmon and smaller fish, each carved in high relief and applied to the rectangular backplate, 38cm high, 92cm wideProvenance: acquired by the present vendor from the Angling Collection of George Miskin, Dreweatts 03/05/2012, lot 555 (£460)
Angling poem.- L[luelyn] (M[artin]) Men-Miracles. With other Poems, first edition, title within double-rule border with woodcut ornament, woodcut intials, head- and tail-pieces, closely trimmed at head, occasionally touching headlines, a very good, clean copy, bookplate to pastedown, 20th century calf, morocco labels to spine, spine a little rubbed, g.e., [Keynes p.227; Wing L2625], small 8vo, [Oxford, by H. Hall], 1646.⁂ A rare collection of poems by the (likely) Welsh poet and Royalist Lluelyn. Includes his "Song against Fishing" with the chorus: "Break thy Rod about thy Noddle/ Through thy wormes and flies by the Pottle." We can trace only 1 copy at auction in the last 70 years. Provenance: Henry A. Sherwin (bookplate).
A defective 17th Century antiquarian cookery book, chapters on preserving and conserving, candying, oils and powders, seperate title page 'New and Excellent Experiments and Secrets in the Art of Angling', dated 1683, very worn, lacks title page and preliminary pages, lacks leaves at end, dilapidated calf binding, plus an 1890 'Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery and Housekeeping book (2)
Trout and Salmon and general fishing books, to include Grimble- The Salmon Rivers of Scotland 1913 previous owners signature on front paste down, Bridges- Modern Salmon Fishing 1939 re cased, Wanless- The Science of Spinning for Salmon & Trout. 1946 DW, Calver- Bank Fishing for Reservoir Trout 1979 DW (price clipped) Lawrie- International Trout Flies 1969 DW (some wear/damage) previous owner’s signature, Carter Platts- Trout Streams 1977 DW, Pearce The Confident Fly Fisher 1978 ree print DW, Marks – Ivan Marks on Match Fishing 1975 DW, Harwood - The Hardy Book of the Salmon Fly 2006, Wanless- Angling Methods 1935.
Eight fishing books, to include Broughton Grayling, the fourth game fish. 1989 dw price clipped, The Compleat Angler Walton dw Weathervane books New York copy of Rackham edition, Fishing reels Waller vols i & ii reprint 2001 paperbacks, Barker- the Art of Angling modern paperback, Where to fish 1967 1968, Armistead Trout Waters 1920, Hughes Fly and Bait Casting 1924
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