SALMONIA: or Days Of Fly Fishing, in a series of coversations with some accounts of the habits of fishes . of genus Salmo

An Angler (Sir Humphrey Davy) ftable

Verlag: Murray, London, 1828

Beschreibung

FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves. Spine with 5 gilted raised ribs and gilt 'SALMONIA' on a red leather spine label. Both hinges splitting but still sound. Water staining of both boards has bled into top corner margins of adjoining leaves and also the very outside of the front text block edge. Text & plates otherwise FINE. Binding still tight. There are also 8 in text fish wood cuts of. 'An Angler' is sir Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist. He did say his most famous discovery was his student, Michael Faraday. Davy dedicated this book to William Babington, a physician scientist contemporary. FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001170

Bibliografische Details

Titel: SALMONIA: or Days Of Fly Fishing, in a ...

Verlag: Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1828

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: 3 plates, one a fold out.

Auflage: 1st edition.