Isbn: 9780802008695 - fishers' craft and lettered art: tracts on fishing from the end of the middle ages (toronto medieval texts and translations, 12) (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket: As Issued. First Edition, First Printing. 404 pp. "Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecologic considerations needed to examine and understand the fishing manuals. Hoffmann further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture, and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interaction between written texts and popular culture. The tracts are presented in their original languages - Spanish and German - with facing page translations. Close attention is paid to original setting, functions, and possible range of readings, with detailed explanatory notes to help modern fishers and historians." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket: As Issued. First Edition, First Printing. 404 pp. "Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecologic considerations needed to examine and understand the fishing manuals. Hoffmann further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture, and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interaction between written texts and popular culture. The tracts are presented in their original languages - Spanish and German - with facing page translations. Close attention is paid to original setting, functions, and possible range of readings, with detailed explanatory notes to help modern fishers and historians." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. Hardcover issue. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxv,404. B/w illustrations, bibliography. Brown decorative cloth, printed in black. Slight spotting to edges else fine unread copy. Hoffmann makes available early European angling texts which pre-date any of the previously known, largely English, works. "How To Catch Fish", Heidelberg, 1493; "Tegernsee Fishing Advice", ca 1500; Basurto's "Dialogo", 1539. Plenty of good recipes for boilies here. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 45.00.…