The angling library of Jeffrey Norton : British and European. Part I (A-K) [with] Part II (L-Z). [ Bloomsbury Book Auctions, auction catalogue, sale dates: 12 December, 2001 and 2 May 2002. ].

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Verlag: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 12th December, 2001and 2nd May 2002, 2001

2 vols, laminated wrappers, 4to, 82 + 103 pp, plates, ills. 340 + 406 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Agassiz's Histoire Naturelle des Poissons d'Eau Douce de l'Europe Centralc, 1839-45 (lot 6); Aldam's Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art A Artyfichall Flee Making" By an Old Man, 1876, containing actual flies (lot 10); Baigent's Notes on the Tying of Certain Flies, 1943 (lot 27); Bainbridge's The Fly Fisher's Guide first edition, 1816 (lot 29); Arundo's" Practical Fly-Fishing., first edition, 1849 (lot 38); Best's A Concise Treatise On the Art of Angling, several editions including the first, 1787 (lots 53-8); Blacker's Art of Fly Making &c., 1855 (lot 64); Bowlker's The Art of Angling Improved, first edition, c.1746 (lot 78); Chetham's The Angler's Vade Mecum, three editions including the first, 1681 (lots 125-7); Couch's A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, first edition, 1862-5 (lot 146); Cox's The Gentleman's Recreation, first edition, 1674 (lot 148); Donovan's The Natural History of British Fishes, 1802-08 (lot 177); Elder's The Book of the Hackle, limited edition, containing actual hackles, 1979 (lot 194); The Gentleman Angler, first edition, 1726 (lot 242); Giovio's De Romanis Piscibus Libellus., 1531 (lot 245); several volumes by Grimble, including first and large paper editions (lots 257-61); many volumes by Halford, including limited, deluxe, large paper and first American editions, some containing mounted actual flies (lots 266-74); Hills' A Summer On The Test, one of only 25 copies, 1924 (lot 286); Houghton's British Fresh-Water Fishes, [1879] (lot 298); Howitt's The Angler's Manual., 1808 (lot 299); Howlett's The Angler's Sure Guide., 1706 (lot 301); Huish's The Improved British Angler., with frontispiece, 1838 (lot 305); Kelson's The Salmon Fly., first edition, 1895 (lot 328); Leighton's Trout Flies of Shropshire and the Welsh-Borderlands, 1987 (lot 10); Liger's Traitte de Toute Sorte de Chasse., 1714 (lot 13); Malone's Irish Trout and Salmon Flies, first edition, 1984 (lot 29); Maxwell's Fishing At Home and Abroad, first edition, 1913 (lot 71); Neil's New and Complete Angler, 1804 (lot 91); Newland's The Erne, It's Legends and It's Fly-Fishing, 1851 (lot 93); Nobbes' The Compleat Troller., first edition, 1682 (lot 96); O'Gorman's The Practice of Angling, first edition, 1845 (lot 104); Oppianus' De Piscibus Libri V., 1517 (lot 110); Pritt's Yorkshire Trout Flies, first edition, 1885 (lot 127); Ronalds' Fly-Fisher's Entomology, first, fourth, ninth and deluxe editions, 1913 (lots 149-151,153); Rondeletius' Libri de Piscibus Morbus. f/ first edition, 1554 (lot 154); J.S.'s The Innocent Epicure., first edition, 1697 (lot 163); Salter's The Modern Angler., first edition, 1790 (lot 164); Sandeman's Angling Travels in Norway, large-paper copy, 1895 (lot 171); Scotcher's The Fly-Fisher's Legacy, large-paper deluxe edition, 1974 (lot 178); Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, first edition, 1843 (lot 184); Shaw's Experimental Observations on.Salmon-Fry, 1840 (lot 191-2); Shirley's The Angler's Museum., first edition, 1784 (lot 199); Skues' The Way of a Man With a Trout, deluxe signed edition, 1977 (lot 201); Smith's The True Art of Angling, 1770 (lot 208); Snart's Practical Observations on Angling, first edition, 1801 (lot 209); Taverner's Trout Fishing From All Angles, large-paper copy, 1929 (lot 241); Venables' The Experienc'd Angler, fourth and fifth editions, 1683 (lots 266-67); Wallwork's The Modern Angler, 1847 (lot 284); Woolley's New and Excellent Experiments., 1683 (lot 381); Coigney's Izaac Walton., deluxe signed edition, 1989 (lot 400); and a collection of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton's The Compleat Angler, including the second, fourth and fifth editions, second Bagster large-paper edition, 1815, first Nicolas edition, 1836, first Bethune edition, 1847, first Marston deluxe edition, 1888 and first Rackham edition, 1931 (lots 286-350). Neatly but regrett. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-57227

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Titel: The angling library of Jeffrey Norton : ...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 12th December, 2001and 2nd May 2002
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage