Sale 19BP02 | Lot 74

ALLERTON, REUBEN G. Brook Trout Fishing. An Account of a Trip of the Oquossoc Angling Association to Northern Maine, in June 1869.

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ALLERTON, REUBEN G. Brook Trout Fishing. An Account of a Trip of the Oquossoc Angling Association to Northern Maine, in June 1869.

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Lot 74
ALLERTON, REUBEN G. Brook Trout Fishing. An Account of a Trip of the Oquossoc Angling Association to Northern Maine, in June 1869.
First edition, a presentation copy from Allerton to James Shoemaker written in his elegant roundhand, dated January 26 1870. Publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; [59], [8] pp.; frontispiece, plates (including the fine chromolithographic folding plate, heightened by hand, of a book trout), publisher's advertisements. Light wear to extremities, generally a rather fresh copy.
"Rare" (Bruns). Contains the first description of angling at Rangeley Lake. Bruns A90; Westwood & Satchell, p. 4.


C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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