Lot Details
Lot 114
[ANGLING - FINE BINDINGS] A group of five finely-bound nineteenth century angling and hunting books.
Comprises AN ANGLER [=DAVY, SIR HUMPHREY]. Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations with Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo. London: John Murray, 1832. Third edition. Three-quarters green calf gilt, marbled paper boards, top edge gilt. 6 3/4 x 4 inches (17 x 10.5 cm); xi, [3], 335, [1] pp., engraved plates, in-text illustrations. Light wear to extremities, spine faded to brown, small insect hole in the first few gatherings. Westwood & Satchell p. 77; together with FRANCK, RICHARD. Northern Memories, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland; To Which is Added, the Contemplative and Practical Angler. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1821. Three-quarters green calf gilt, cloth over boards, top edge gilt. [4], 379, pp., with 1 p. of ads at rear. Wear to edges and along joints, spine toned brown, front joint cracked, front flyleaf pasted down to endpaper, contents with intermittent spotting. Westwood & Satchell p. 100; HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. Contemporary tan calf with gilt and blind ruled boards, spine decorated in gilt, dark brown spine label, all edges marbled. xvi, 455 pp.; half-title, plates and illustrations. Some wear to extremities, front hinge starting, contents with infrequent pale spotting. Westwood & Satchell, p. 115; BROWN, JOHN J. The American Angler's Guide; or Complete Fisher's Manual, for The United States... New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876. Fifth edition. In later three quarters black morocco gilt, with marbled paper over boards, spine gilt lettered and decorated with a fish motif, top edge gilt, binding signed Bennett, NY. 428 pp., engraved frontispiece, in-text illustrations, and marginal vignettes throughout. Light rubbing to edges and corners, some offsetting from frontispiece. Bruns B253; and A finely bound two volume work about hunting. The lot comprises six volumes altogether, sold as-is. (6)
C Property from the Collection of Alastair Bradley Martin
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