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Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, second Bagster edition, London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. Large paper edition in full calf (as found) with gilt angling motifs, marbled endpapers and all page edges, armorial bookplate for Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall. Together with a standard copy of the second Bagster edition bearing contemporary gift inscription: 'Robert John Gould, given him by his very affectionate father John Gould, 1815'. (2) [Coigney 21]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, second Major edition, London: John Major, 1824. Full green leather binding with gilt angling motifs, all page edges gilt, lilac endpapers, armorial bookplate for Richard Willan. The book includes a letter from R. L. Marston, signed, on headed paper (The Fishing Gazette, Beckenham, Kent), dated July 31 1944, explaining to Willan that this book is not a second edition but a second Major edition. Occasional spotting and light creasing to endpapers. Together with another copy of the second Major edition in worn half-calf. (2) [Coigney 25]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, Cole edition, London: William Cole, [1828]. Handsomely rebound in half-calf with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt angling motifs, oxblood morocco title label, untrimmed page edges, marbled endpapers. [Coigney 35]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, Lewis edition, London: L. A. Lewis, 1839. Bayntun half-calf binding with marbled boards, contrasting red & green morocco title labels, gilt angling motifs to spine, top edge gilt. Together with another copy of the first Lewis edition in worn contemporary boards, rebacked with recent calf spine, red morocco title labels, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. (2) [Coigney 49]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, sixth [titled fourth] Major edition, London: D. Bogue, 1844. Presentation copy signed by the editor, John Major: 'With kindest Regards, from the editor, August 18th 1846'. Association copy bearing the armorial bookplate of James Douglas, Canadian born mining engineer and businessman. Handsomely bound in green crushed morocco by Bayntun of Bath with angling motifs to boards and spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Together with another copy of the sixth [titled fourth] Major edition, featuring hand-coloured plates throughout and bearing gift inscription to a doctor from his patient (who coloured the plates as a token of gratitude in 1948), crushed green morocco binding with raised bands and marbled endpapers. (2) [Coigney 56]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first McClurg edition, large paper state (limited edition) numbered 382 of 500, Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1893. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, pictorial borders to the text throughout, contemporary owner inscription. Contents good and bright, a couple of marks to blank endleaves at rear; binding good, tight, solid, some general discolouration/spotting to the cloth. Housed in a slipcase box with crushed brown morocco spine bearing gilt title and angling motifs, and raised bands. Together with a regular state copy of the same in publisher's blue gilt pictorial cloth. (2) [Coigney 163]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, second Nicolas edition, in two volumes, London: Nattali and Bond, 1860. Publisher's red buckram with gilt title and angling motifs, pale yellow endpapers, bookplates for E. H. Flint. Contents generally good and bright with occasional foxing; bindings good and tight, a little wear to extremities, Vol.II rebacked with the original spine laid down. (2) [Coigney 78]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, ninth Jesse edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. Later fine binding, half-calf with crushed oxblood morocco title label, gilt title and angling motifs, raised bands, top edge gilt, 32 pages of advertisements at rear. Contents generally good and bright, occasional spotting; binding tight and solid. An attractive copy. [Coigney 205]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, third Nimmo edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. Publisher's gilt green cloth with illustrations of fish to upper board, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. [Coigney 143]. Together with the fourth Nimmo edition, 1896, half crushed morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt title and angling motifs to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Jeffrey Norton (with trout taking fly). [Coigney 177]. (2)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, fifth Lowell edition, in two volumes, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1892, publisher's gilt blue cloth [Coigney 156]; sixth Lowell edition, 1898, gilt olive green cloth with angling motifs to spine [Coigney 186]; eighth Lowell edition, in two volumes, [1906], oxblood cloth with title in black (not gilt as in Coigney's copy) [Coigney 233]; ninth Lowell edition, 1912, publisher's red cloth [Coigney 254] (6)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, collection of editions not listed by Coigney (or differing in some way from those listed by Coigney), comprising: Frederick Warne, "Chandos Classics", not 1888 as inscribed in pencil, doesn't appear to be recorded (no mention elsewhere of the Lansdowne advertisements to front and rear pastedown), publisher's maroon buckram with '58' blind-stamped to upper board; first Lowell edition, c.1889, Little, Brown, & Company, but unlike Coigney's [144] because the title page bears no date, publisher's red cloth; the first Cassell edition, 1886, bound together with two other Cassell titles from the same year (Sermon's on the Card and Childe Harold), not recorded by Coigney; a Cassell edition, c.1886, bound together with the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, recorded by Coigney for the first time in his addenda; an edition published in Philadelphia by John C. Winston Co., (no reference in Coigney), full leather with upper board detached; Cassell edition, 1905, in publisher's reversed calf, not listed by Coigney but referred to: 'Both Horne and Oliver list a Cassell reprint dated 1905 which they have not seen and cannot describe, the only listing which mentions it being the catalogue of C. W. Bushell's Private Angling Library (Australia), probably confused with this edition (No.226). It is therefore not listed here.'; a Davies edition not recorded by Coigney, which lists 75 Chandos Classics to front pastedown (Coigney's 103 lists 50, and his 107 lists 78); the true Japanese second edition, Tokyo, Kenkyusha, 1935, not listed by Coigney though he does say the following: 'The Kenkyusha textbook had probably two more editions between 1926 and 1936; I have not seen a copy of these' [Coigney, p.245]; a Collins edition not listed by Coigney, with seven pages of advertisements indicating that Illustrated Classics are priced at 2/6 and 5/- (Coigney 293 states 2/- and 4/-); a Nelson edition with all the main features of Coigney 390 (1954), but with gift inscription dated 1950; a Collins edition, no advertisements as in Coigney 329, binding and pages different; an edition published by Gordon Classic Library (no reference in Coigney); two copies of a Modern Library edition not recorded by Coigney, which list '362 Outstanding Books' to verso of dust-jacket (Coigney's 364 lists 341, and Coigney's 378 lists 371), along with another Modern Library edition that lists 271, one that lists 281, and one that lists 304 (17)

A very scarce English hunting book published during the reign of Queen Anne: [Smith, John]. The Experienc'd Fowler: Or, The Gentleman's Recreation, London: Printed for G. Conyers at the Golden Ring and J. Sprint in Little Britain, 1704. Text complete with publisher's advertisement for The True Art of Angling to final page. Featuring hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece and three further woodcut illustrations within the text. The book includes a manuscript footnote to p.83 regarding 'Bat-Fowling': 'This must be done in a very dark night when there is no wind'. Owner inscriptions to endleaves: 'Thomas Davenport's Book - bought March 3rd 1769 - If let loose and you it find, I pray you be so good and kind, As to restore it me again, And I will pay you for your pain'. The book provides instructions on catching birds with 'nets', 'lime-rods', 'snares and springes', low-bells', 'lights', 'trammel', 'baits', 'trap-cages'. It also explains how 'to make birds sing in Autumn and Winter'; 'to make a hen lay soon, and fast'; 'the speediest way to fatten poultry', 'to fatten herons, pewits, gulls, and bitterns'. There is a section entitled 'The Compleat Vermin-killer', with instructions for destroying weasels, moles, snakes, pole-cats, earwigs, nits, flies. For example, to kill snakes or adders: 'Take the largest Radishes, pare them small, and sprinkle them near their haunts, and eating of them they will dye. If you would handle Snakes without danger, wash your hands in the Juice of Raddish, and they will not bite you. To gather them in one place, take a handful of Onions, and about ten River Crab-fish, pound these together, and this mixture laid near their Haunts, will gather them together, so that you may destroy them.' Complete, contents with discolouration, ink stains and spill-burn; binding worn with crude old restoration as found

***RE-OFFER NEXT SALE VH  5/4/19    JMS ***Natural History / Veterinary / Agricultural / Sporting Interest. Rural Life, Described and Illustrated, in the Management of of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, with Authentic Information on All that Relates to Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling, by John Sherer, London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date [c.1868-1869]. Half-calf with marbled boards, oxblood morocco title label, marbled endpapers and page edges, extensively illustrated throughout

Angling Interest. Presentation Copy. [Marston, Edward]. An Old Man's Holidays, by the Amateur Angler, limited edition on Van Gelder's hand-made paper, numbered 148 of 250 with initials 'EM', London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1900. Octavo, publisher's quarter-vellum with green boards, gilt title to spine, top page edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. Dedication to front free endpaper, 'Arthur O. Mudie Esq, with the compliments of "the a.a.", E Marston, Oct 4 / 00'

A collection of fishing-related literature, including: Falkus [Hugh]: Sea Trout Fishing, 2nd. ed., 1978, author signed dedication to frontispiece, d.w.; two other volumes by the same author; Mansfield [Kenneth] Ed.: The Art of Angling, reprinted ed. 1957, three vols, gilt faux leather; Allcocks Anglers Guide, 1939-40; Alex Martin Anglers Guide, 1952; and two other volumes (10)

An accumulation of fishing tackle and accessories, including: fifteen modern spinning / multiplier / beachcaster reels, by Mitchell Garcia, Shakespeare, Eurostar, Macina, D.A.M., ABU Garcia, Penn etc., some in original boxes; a quantity of spinners, lures, weights, hooks, line etc., all contained in four boxes, and four framed fishing prints, after Bernard Venables, ''The Golden Age of Angling'', signed in pencil by the artist (qty)

[Fishing/Angling] Salmon Fishing with 307 illustrations Lonsdale Library 1931, Fly Fishing for Salmon illustrated, Sea Trout 1948, How to Fish by W. Earl Hodgson 1919, Greased Line Fishing for Salmon by Jock Scott, Reference book of Trout Flies, Trout Streams by Carter Platts, Fishing in Wales, Angling Methods 1935, Days of My Life by John Bickerdyke 1895, Casts from a Salmon Reel, Compleat Angler, Modern Trout Fishing (quantity)  

BOOK ANGLING FOR COURSE FISHING

SPORTING: 1- Deer Hunting in Norfolk from the Earliest Times. Norwich Mercury, 1910, 1st. Covers faded and with a couple of small stains; 2- Bowlker, C: The Art of Angling,…. Ludlow, 1839. Rebacked; Edge- wear and some staining to boards; 3- Yarrell, W: A History of British Fishes in Two Vols. Van Voorst, 1841, 2nd. edn. Original cloth; 4- Bothma: Game Ranch Management,… Pretoria, 1989, 1st; 5- Everitt: Shots from a Lawyer's Gun. 1901, 1st. PLUS 25 OTHER sporting books. (30)

An Angling ledger with silver corners - 28cm x 40cm - a cash ledger and a desk tidy

MILLAIS (J.G. et al) The Gun at Home and Abroad: British Deer & Ground Game, Dogs, Guns & Rifles. limited edition 557/959, prelims. foxed, original morocco gilt,1913; with AUSTIN (A.B. & Norman Wilkinson, illus.) An Angler's Anthology, original cloth. 1930; with MARTIN (E.G. & John Irving) Cruising & Ocean Racing, d/w, original cloth, The Lonsdale Library.; plus a quantity of vol.,angling and various other sports.

COLQUHON (John) Sport and Natural History in the Scottish Highlands. 36pp. rebound in grey boards. 1876. * modern book label of Alan John Jarvis; "Yellow Body". Angling Days on Scotch Locks. gilt pictorial cloth, sm. 8vo. Edinburgh & Dundee, 1884. * inscribed by author (David Hodge) at front. 1700

Angling - five cases containing a quantity of fishing flies.

Angling - a lot to include quantity of fishing equipment to include fishing bag Nevis, baits, boots, daiwa reel and similar.

Angling - a lot to include Veniard Trout Fly Tying outfit (unchecked for completeness), fishing line, feathers and similar.

Angling - a lot to include quantity of vintage angling equipment to include two Mitchell reels, fishing line, weights, floats, bead net, feathers for construction of flies, rod marked Rosslyn Angel Jerate and similar.

Angling - two hard backed volumes of the Fishing Gazette from 1938 and 1939, also included in the lot a quantity of Fishing Gazette magazines from 1959 and 1960.

A quantity of angling related literature to include Fly Dressers' Guide and Further Guide To Fly Dressing by John Veniard, Fishing guides, five fish flies, mounted and framed under glass,fishing line, rod rests and a JW Young and Sons vintage fishing reel in original box.

Angling - a lot to include vintage fishing rod, six vintage reels to include an Allcocks Popular, a JW Young & Sons, Rapidex, Trudex, Jecto Mark 1 and similar [7].

Angling - Lot to include a Shakespeare Premier Carp rod, a Shakespeare Quo Multi feeder rod and a Fox Warrior ES rod with a Shimano Baitrunner Aero reel. (2) Est £30 - £50

[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Rev. John F.Bigge with the Author's compliments" at head of Preface and numbered 33 in circle, with 2 A.Ls.s. from Crawhall to Bigge mounted facing title and on verso of title, hand-coloured coat-of-arms mounted on leaf facing Preface, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 31 engraved plates on india paper and mounted (one in hand-coloured and uncoloured state), 6 hand-coloured, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, with 9 original watercolours by Crawhall on text versos or bound in including one full-page of trout, the last heightened with gum arabic, some foxing, bookplate of Edward E.Bigge, angling engraving captioned "Vernon Gallery. The Enthusiast" in ink manuscript on plate trimmed and mounted on front free endpaper (frayed at edge and detached with title and letters), some other ephemera loosely inserted, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rubbed, spine faded, [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859].⁂ The author's first book, published anonymously. "A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection...only forty copies were struck off for private circulation." W & S. Copies appear to vary as to contents.

Crawhall (Joseph, editor) A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, [one of 50 large paper copies with additional illustrations], half-title, title in red and black with woodcut device, etched or wood-engraved plates on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, woodcut or wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments, a few plates and illustrations hand-coloured, a good clean copy, bookplate of Nicholas Johnson Robinson of Preston Tower with 4pp. 'Newcastle Fisher's Garland' by Joseph Watson and single sheet poem 'Rothbury' by Watson tipped in, both with signatures and manuscript notes in red & black ink by N.J.Robinson, handsomely-bound for Robinson in contemporary panelled calf, gilt, ?by Waters of Newcastle, upper cover with panel containing title & owner's name & decorations in gilt with small illustrations in black after Crawhall, lower cover with onlaid snakeskin panel, spine gilt with red and green labels and fish motif, g.e., [Westwood &Satchell p.69], 4to, Newcastle, George Rutland, 1864.⁂ N.J.Robinson was evidently a member of the Newcastle Angling Club. One of his notes reads, " I first caught a trout with rod & line, and at same time threw a line for the first time in Bonnie Coquet's streams, (and at Rothbury) in 1865".

Crawhall (Joseph) The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, second edition, one of 100 copies, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed "Henry Moore Esq. with the Author's compliments" at head of first page of text, woodcut and wood-engraved vignettes and illustrations by the author, Joseph Crawhall III, James Guthrie and W. Chapman throughout, some hand-coloured, colophon printed in red and black, occasional foxing, contemporary calf, by A. Reid of Newcastle, t.e.g., a little worn, covers detached, [Westwood & Satchell p.69], Newcastle upon Tyne, printed by Andrew Reid for the Author, 1881; Chaplets from Coquet-side, one of 100 copies, woodcut vignettes, initials and ornaments, a few hand-coloured, original roan-backed boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., rubbed and a little damp-stained, [W & S p.69], [Newcastle upon Tyne, Robert Robinson], 1873; Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke, first edition, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, some light offsetting, original boards, uncut, rubbed, corners and spine ends a little worn, Field & Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1885, 4to & 8vo (3)

Angling.- Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," by an Old Man, first edition, first issue, half-title, tipped-in black and white frontispiece, lacking chromolithographed plates as usual, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, scattered faint spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876.⁂ The first issue of this title was issued without the colour chromolithographed plates.A very good copy of one of the classic angling books. The manuscript on which Aldam based his text surfaced at public auction in 1999, revealing the author's name to be Robert Whitehead, about whom nothing else is known. The flies include two mayfly patterns, which are tied on very early eyed hooks specially made by Bartletts.

Angling.- Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," by an Old Man, first edition, second issue, inscribed by editor (Aldam) to title head, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece and plate, 25 flies with dressing materials in 22 sunken mounts on 6 thick card leaves, spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, 1876.

BROOKES R.  The Art Of Angling. Eng. frontis & many text illus. Calf, rubbed. 1793; also McClelland, The Trout Fly Dressers Cabinet of Devices, 1899 & 3 others, angling.  (5).

Armstrong, Walter, The Thames From its Rise to the Nore, profusely illustrated with engravings and etchings, 2 vols, London: Virtue & Co. (c1880?), decorated green cloth 4to; to/w Shaw Sparrow, W, Angling in British Art, 1st, London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1923, blue cloth 4to (3)

Fishing and Angling. Includes, fly-tying, etc. (28)

Fishing and Angling Miscellany. (2 cartons)

Fishing and Angling. (28)

Richard Carter Traditional Angling handcrafted 'centre pin' reel with certificate of authenticity

Box mixed Angling, Rugby & Cricket Books

Rare and fine Malloch Perth Patent Sun and Planet gun metal salmon reel - 4" dia - face plate engraved "D.A.C. Wm. Worrall 1883" and stamped Malloch's Patent - stunning handle - retaining much of the original finish - DAC is possibly an angling club presentation reel

Bowlker, Thomas - "The Art of Angling or Compleat Fly-Fisher" 1788, 5th Ed, published Birmingham, engraving frontis plate, in original full calf binding, overall a good example

"The Arte of Angling 1577" 1st facsimile 1956, published New Jersey, in good condition

Best, Thomas - "The Art of Angling" London 1814, 10th Ed, engraved frontis, full leather binding, some wear to spine, intact, overall good condition

Bowlker, Thomas - "The Art of Angling or Compleat Fly-Fisher" 1788, 5th Ed, published Birmingham, engraving frontis plate, bound with "A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling" confirmed by actual experience and minute observations to which is added the compleat fly-fisher, 2nd ed engraving frontis, by Thomas Best, Gent. rebound in leather boards, overall a G example

Marston, R.B. - "The Fishing Gazette" Vol XXXIV and XXXV January to December 1897 in 2x Volumes, devoted to Angling, River, Lake and Sea Fishing and Fish Culture, with illustrations, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, both bound in cloth boards with gold gilt text, with some minor wear to covers, internally clean, overall G examples (2)

Sotheby's Sale Catalogue of Alfred Denison - contains 242 lots, July 1933, books relating to Angling, in good condition

Harris, G. & Morgan, M. - "Successful Sea Trout Angling" 1989, 1st Ed, London, with dust wrapper, in good condition

Francis, Francis - "A Book on Angling" London 1872, 3rd Ed., frontis, hand coloured plates of flies, attractively bound in half green morocco, a nice example

Best, Thomas - "A Concise Treatise On The Art Of Angling" 6th ed 1804, engraved frontis of a lady and gentleman fishing, contains the table of sun rising every third day in the year, adverts, old style half calf binding.

"Songs of The Edinburgh Angling Club" 1879 Edinburgh, printed privately for members of the club, half morocco binding, good condition

Angler's Annuals 1958 onwards - five further copies 1960 to 1964. Articles by leading anglers of the day, plus selection of 1960's magazines including Angling, Creel, Fishing Gazette, Fishing, Midland Angler. Quantity.

Venables, B - "Guide To Angling Waters" 1st ed 1954, H/b, "The Second Angling Times Book" 1st ed 1962, H/b, D/j and Bates, LV - "Sporting Tactics For Coarse Fish" 1st ed 1962, H/b. (3)

Marston, R.B. - "The Fishing Gazette" Vol XXIV January to June 1892, devoted to Angling, River, Lake and Sea Fishing and Fish Culture, with illustrations, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, July 9 Index page loose, o/w all intact, internally clean and well presented, all bound within marbled boards overall A/G condition

Hardy Fishing Catalogues & Literature Selection to include Hardy's Guide to Reservoir Angling, Book of Flies, To Cast a Trout Fly, Hardy's Aid to Angling Salmon and Trout, 1980s to modern 2000s sales catalogues included, condition overall A/G (20)

Milward's Angling Books "Flycraft" No1 booklet, c.1930, illustrated, card covers, 24pp, in good condition overall

Sparrow, W. Shaw - "Angling in British Art" 1923 1st Ed, 200 illus., including 39 in colour, blue cloth binding, internally clean

Sheringham, H.T. - "Elements of Angling" 1908, 1st Ed, London, original red cloth binding, good overall condition