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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). (1864) 1994 reprint. Large 8vo (157 x 234mm). Pp701. B/w engraved plates, illustrations. All edges gilt. Gilt decorated brown bonded-leather binding, issued without a dust-wrapper. Edition limited to 2500 copies. Very good copy. "With instructions on fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is added Dies Piscatoriae; describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. with a supplement, containings descriptions of salmon rivers, inland trout fishing etc, etc. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood." This is the Derrydale reprint of this American classic, now scarce and rather expensive. Chapters include: Angling; General remarks on fish; Tackle in general; The perch family; The pike family; The carp; The herring family; Catfish and eels; The salmon family; Salt-water fish fishing; Trout fly-fishing, outfit and tackle; Trout fly-fishing, the steam; Salmon fishing; Salmon rivers of the British Provinces; Repairs, knots, loops, and receipts; fly making; Rod making; Fish breeding. Dies Piscotiariae: The 'Housless Anglers'; The noonday roast, trout fishing in Hamilton County, NY, New Hampshire, the regions of Lake superior, the Adirondacks; fly-fishing alone; The angler's sabbath; conclusion. Supplement: Address to readers; Salmon rivers, the Goodbout, Mingan and Manitou, Moisie, St. John, Natashquan, St. Margaret, Laval, Jaques Cartier, Trinity, St. Margaret, Bersimis, romaine; Account of salmon fishing in the St. John, Goodbout, Moisie, Nipissiguit, Mingan, and Manitou, in 1863; Salmon-fishing, journal of a trip to the St. John in 1863; The Moisie, score of three rods in 1862 and 1863; The Goodbout, score three rods in 1864; The Great Natashquan, journal of Dr. Fiske; The Nipissiguit, journal of the author in the years 1863 and 1864; Sea trout fishing, rivers and stations where found; Inland trout fishing, Lakes Umbagog, the true spirit of trout fishing; Striped bass fishing, the 'mode peculiar,' where to fish, and the tackle to be used. Fish breeding: Natural and artificial breeding of trout; Observations on the manner of fecundation; Stocking trout-ponds on Long Island; Stocking ponds and lakelets with black bass; Professor Agnel's experiment; Conclusion. . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54922
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