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1 [ANDERDON, John Lavicount]. The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. extra- illustrated with 40 highly finished portraits and views, including 12 beautifully colored portraits of Walton, Cotton, Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, James I, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, etc. iv, [iv], 296 pp. 12mo, London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Bound in full green morocco, gilt emblematic spine, a.e.g., by Root & Sons, London. Fine. Keynes, p. 49; William Pickering and his successors 38 & 39; Westwood & Satchell, p. 1. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and 3 Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnso- (ANGLERS’ CLUB) A Century with the Anglers’ Club. With In- niana. With 2-page ad for Pickering’s “Books on Angling” at troduction, Essays and Artwork by Club Members. With a special the front. print of 4 flies numbered and signed by James Prosek in en- velope laid in. 175, [1] pp. Printed at the Stinehour Press. 8vo, $500 New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, 2006. First edition, no. 27 of 100 numbered deluxe copies. Black morocco with onlaid Anglers’ Club logo on upper cover. Laid in cloth 2 drop box, with blue leather label on upper cover stamped in (ANDREWS, William Loring) [Berners, Dame Juliana]. gilt. Very Fine. Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Man’s favorite $1,250 recreation by William Loring Andrews. [xii], lxxxvi, [x] pp. Printed at the Gilliss Press from type cast specially for this book, patterned after the traditional old character first used 4 by Wynkyn de Worde in his original 1496 edition. 8vo, New AUSTIN, A.B. An Angler’s Anthology. Collected by … Illustrated York: Scribners, 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand- from drypoints by Norman Wilkinson. xix, [168] pp. 4to, made paper. Bound in limp vellum, gilt stamped, t.e.g. Ex London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. First edition. Bound Libris of Henry Hunt. in three quarters green morocco and matching cloth, t.e.g., by Bayntun. Fine. $1,500 $750 5 BAIGENT, Dr. W[illiam]. A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an Introduction by W. Keith Rollo. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations, together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 4to, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, ca. 1937. One of approximately 40 copies. Text in blue morocco gilt, hackles in 11 captioned mounts, in original blue morocco folding box. Circular angling bookplate of F.W. Sims. Hampton’s Angling Bibliography, p. 32. Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text, all in the original full leather folding box. A superior copy of a rare work. $8,000

 | james cummins bookseller barker’s art of angling 6 [BARKER, Thomas; Leonard MASCALL; Reginald SCOT]. The Art of Angling wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation. [with:] The Country-mans Recreation, or The art of planting, graffing, and gardening, in three books. Numerous woodcut illustrations of grafting, pruning, and planting, including 22 which are full-page. With 10 leaves of book advertisements for Peter Parker at end. pp. [xvi], 135, [1]; [ii], 54; [ii], 18 (Barker). Small 4to (18.4 x 13.5cm), London: T. Mabb for William Shears, 1653 (separate title-page for The Art of Angling: “London: Printed in the yeare, 1653”). Second edition. Contemporary calf, marbled edges (extremities rubbed, front joint tender, some light spotting). In quarter brown morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Wing B-784; Henrey I, 48; Westwood and Satchell p. 21; Catalogue of the library of Thomas Westwood (1873), no. 21; Heckscher Catalogue 126 (rebound). Provenance: J. Emmarton (flyleaf signature); Gloucester book plate. Second edition of Thomas Barker’s The Art of Angling, a rare pre-Waltonian treatise first printed in 1651, and issued here for the first time with The Country-mans Recreation (the latter also attributed to Barker by Wing; by Henrey to Leonard Mascall and Regi- nald Scot). The Country-mans Recreation had first been published in three parts in 1640, too early for the inclusion of Barker’s 1651 work; those three parts had also appeared separately. The first part is an anonymous reprint of A booke of the art and maner howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, translated by Leonard Mascall from the French of Brossard’s L’Art & manière de semer, etc. The second is an anonymous reprint of A perfite platform of a hoppe garden by Reginald Scot, (also published separately as Wing S946), with a separate title page dated 1653. The third part is a reissue of The expert gardener (STC 11562), with separate title-page dated 1654; this also has separate pagination and register. Here, The Art of Angling also bears a separate title-page, dated 1653, and has separate pagination and register. The ads at the back of this lovely copy, in its contemporary binding, clearly mention this work in its four parts on page [8]; the Huntington and Harvard copies of this edition of Barker also appear with The Country-mans Recreation; and the book clearly has no separate existence apart from it; yet in the nineteenth century, copies were routinely bound as separate volumes (e.g., the Heckscher copy), and Westwood & Satchell remark that “it is sometimes annexed to The Country-mans Recreation.” A beautiful copy of this choice seventeenth-century work. Rare in original condition. $20,000

i. angling catalogue 118 |  publisher’s copy, unique 7 BATES, Joseph D., Jr. Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing. Line drawings by Milton C. Weiler. xix, [i], 362 pp. 8vo, Harris- burg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, [1970]. With frontispiece laid in with all the printing notes and notes from author about trim and limitation page, signed by Bates. Publisher’s copy. Cloth. Very fine in slipcase. $500 one of 12 copies 8 BATES. Fishing: An Encyclopedic Guide to Tackle & Tactics for Salt Water. Illustrated. 718 pp. 8vo, New York: Outdoor Life/ Dutton, 1973. First edition. One of a deluxe edition of only 12 unnumbered copies for presentation. Inscribed to Tracey Balcom from the author, December 1973. Bound in full red bonded leather. Fine in matching slipcase. Bruns B71. Bates’ monumental magnum opus, inscribed on the limitation leaf, “My esteemed friend Tracy Balcom — with warm regards from Joe Bates Jr. December 1973” Distributed one month before the publication of the trade edition. uncommon. $1,500 9 BLACKER, W[illiam]. W. Blacker’s Art of Angling and Com- plete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours … Shewing the Different Processes of the fly before it is finished, giving the Angler a perfect knowledge of every thing requisite to Complete him in this Noble Art. Illustrated with plates and specimens of actual flies. Frontispiece (“Fly Fishing”), engraved title, 5 plates, 29 [of 31] flies mounted wilth silver paper wafers. Pp. [1, contents], [2, blank]; [2 leaves, list of rivers]; [3]-35, [36, blank], 37-48. 16mo, London: Published by the Author, March 1842. Con- temporary straight-grained red morocco wallet with folding guard flap and silk ties, with the title and author “Blacker’s Art of Fly Making” stamped in gilt on the flap, marbled endpapers, period marbled wallet-style pouches at endpapers. Flap partly separated but holding, ties worn. Some evidence of dampstaining to lower gutter of plates, two flies lacking (12 & 24), two flies supplied (18 & 20). Bookplate. A superb example. Red full morocco folding box. See Westwood & Satchell, pp. 32-3. BL shelfmark 785.d.34. An important angling book, here in a variant edition dated the same year as the first, and with the addition of actual specimens of flies at the core portion of the text, “Descrip- tions of Flies” (pp. 19-34). The first edition has 38 pages and no real flies, and has the Edinburgh printer’s imprint of Anderson and Bryce; the printer of this edition is identified as Howlett and Sons, Printers, 10, Frith Street, Soho, at the bottom of page 48, meaning that this is the complete text. The engraved title is identical to that of the 38-page edition, but the text has been reset throughout. The only other copy

 | james cummins bookseller located is in the British Library but no mention is made of the insertion of flies in that copy. The 1843 Catechism has 130 pages including the Art of Angling, which there ends on heckscher copy page 49; the 10 printer of BLACKER, W. W. Blacker’s Art of Angling and Complete System that work is of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours … Shewing the Different identified as Processes of the fly before it is finished, giving the Angler a perfect “Geo. Nich- knowledge of every thing requisite to Complete him in this Noble ols, Printer, Art. Illustrated with plates. Frontispiece of nine flies and Earl’s Court, a “picker”, engraved title, plate titled “Fly Fishing”. Pp. [i, Leicester contents], [ii, blank]; 1-38. Small 12mo, London: Published Square.” at by the Author, March 1842. First edition. Purple embossed the bottom morocco, a.e.g. Some browning at edges of plates, minor of page 129. rubbing to extremities. Both Heckscher bookplates. Very exceedingly good. Custom red morocco-backed slipcase and cloth che- rare . mise. Heckscher 201 (this copy); Westwood & Satchell pp. $8,000 32-3; Gee, Sportsman’s Library, p. 86. Heckscher copy of the rare first edition with 38 pages. Later editions of this widely reprinted work were expanded to 48 and subsequently 130 pp. $5,750

i. angling catalogue 118 |  11 CALDERWOOD, W.L. Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. Colored frontispiece, 4 tipped-in color plates 18 maps and numerous black and white illustrations. x, 442 pp. Thick 4to, London: Edward Arnold, 1909. First edition, no. 35 of 250 copies. Bound in publisher’s cream and blue cloth. Very good in half black morocco dropbox. $550

12 CARROLL, W. The Angler’s Vade Mecum, Containing A De- scriptive Account of the Water Flies, Their Seasons, and the Kind of Weather That Brings Them Most on the Water … To Which is Added A Description of the Different Baits Used in Angling, and Where Found. 12 hand-colored plates. vii, [i], [1]-128 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. First edition. Later nineteenth century half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Tout. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 50; Heckscher 359. One hundred and ninety-four examples of flies, arranged under the months from May to September and colored by hand. $1,000

13 CHATHAM, Russell. One Hundred Paintings. Essays by Jim Harrison, Chris Waddington and Russell Chatham. Illustrated in full color. 135 pp. Oblong 4to, Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. First edition, number 191 of 275 copies, signed by the author with a pencil remarque of landscape on half-title. Original tan cloth. As new in matching cloth slipcase as issued, in packing sleeve. $1,750

 | james cummins bookseller tarpon classic deluxe edition, one of 75 copies 14 15 CHURCHILL, Edward George Spencer. Tarpon Fishing in COLE, John N., & Hawk Pollard (eds.). West of Key West. Mexico and Florida. Introduction by Randy Wayne White. With Illustrated with photographs and with paintings by Captain 16 stereoscope cards at back. 73, [2] pp. of text. 8vo, London: David Wright. 10-H x 8-H inches, Far Hills, N.J.: Meadow Harrison and Sons, 45, Pall Mall, [1906]. First edition. Blue Run Press, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 75 cloth. Staining to spine and covers. Laid into a full blue cloth numbered and signed copies. Decorated paper boards, black drop box. Dimock, The Book of the Tarpon, bibliography, p. leather spine. As new, in folding cloth box with additional vi. pamphlet numbered and signed by the editors laid in. One of the great classics of tarpon fishing. The author was Deluxe edition, superbly produced, of a fine book from this Winston Churchill’s cousin and their vital dates are the same noted press. (1876-1964). $500 $1,750

i. angling catalogue 118 |  copy no. 3, inscribed 16 CONNETT, Eugene V., 3rd. Magic Hours. Wherein we cast a fly here & there As we wade along together. Two mounted black and white plates after drawings by Connett. 12mo, New York: Privately Printed [at Derrydale Press] … for the Anglers’ Club of New York, 1927. First edition, one of 100 [actually 89] copies, this being copy no. 3. Original grey paper boards, linen spine, paper label on upper cover. Some soiling, label of Crossroads of Sport on pastedown and stamp of Workers Education Bureau on front free endpaper. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Wetzel p. 124; Siegel 3; Frazier C-9-a; not in Bruns. The first work to bear the Derrydale imprint, this copy is inscribed on the first blank: “The Author, the illustrator and the printer join in presenting this little book to Spencer Miller, Jr, with their best wishes, March 17, 1927.” Siegel notes, “Connett produced Magic Hours entirely by his own hand. He intended to print 100 copies, but ran out of paper and only 89 were completed.” The inkstamp on the front flyleaf testifies to an interesting Connett association, for the recipient was founder and director of the Workers Education Bureau, a service organization for research, teaching, publication, and university extension work in labor education. In 1927, the Workers Education Bureau published The Living Constitution (Siegel B), designed by Connett. Spencer Miller, Jr., was later Commissioner of the New Jersey State Highway Department. After closing the Derrydale Press at the end of 1941, Connett worked as Miller’s executive assistant from May 1942 though October 1946. Among Connett’s recom- mendations were that the department publish its own newspaper, The Highway, and vol. 4, no. 8 of the newspaper (March 1947) reports Connett’s resignation to head the sporting department of Van Nostrand and quotes him as stating that he felt “privileged to have been closely associated with a man of the stature and ability of Commissioner Miller.” $47,500

 | james cummins bookseller 17 DAVIS, Edmund W. Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascape- dia. Photogravure frontispiece, 15 photogravure plates, and 3 color plates of flies. 152, [1] pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 8vo, New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Pri- vate Distribution to the Author’s Friends, 1904. First edition, Number 61 of 100 copies printed on Imperial Japan Paper. Original parchment-backed boards, printed paper label, mi- nor foxing to upper quarter of front cover, else a fine copy. In open-faced paper case. Bruns D25; Gee 88; Litchfield 71. A splendid work of unsurpassed, almost lyrical, prose and superb photogravures — and of predictable rarity. This is one of two versions, and, as it contains 152 pages against 143 in the other, mostly expanding the data on the Salmon, Bruns believes that this may “have been a reserved presentation copy, with additions by the author.” $4,000

inscribed presentation copy, in original wrappers 18 DAVIS, Gherardi. The South Side Sportsmen’s Club of Long Island. Illustrated with photographs, folding map. xv, [iii], 74 pp. 8vo, New York: Privately printed [by the Gillis Press], [January], 1909. First edition, one of 105 copies, printed for members only. Original dark green wrappers, printed label. Spine a bit tender (tiny chip at head). Fine, with some offsetting on last two leaves, in green cloth drop box. “With/ The Compliments/ of/ The Author” card laid in. Phillips, p. 96; Wetzel, p. 128; Bruns D26 (“very rare”); Goodspeed, Angling in America, pp. 190-7, et seq.; Heller 738. A volume of notable rarity, being the story of one of the earliest angling clubs in America, founded in 1866. Situated on a large parcel of land between Islip and Ronkonkoma, comparatively accessible to New York City, it boasted a gilt- edged roster of members, limited to 100, and remained in existence until 1963. An important historical angling work of beauty and charm. Inscribed on the title-page with this very early inscription, “John W. Cochrane/ with the author’s compliments/ February 1909.” $6,500

i. angling catalogue 118 |  19 22 Dit Boecxken. Illustrated. 4to, [Twickenham, England]: Honey ELDER, Frank. The Book of the Hackle. Illustrated and with Dun Press [Printed by Kingprint, Richmond], 1978. Number 29 real hackles tipped onto black paper at end of book. xxii, 56 of 125 copies on English handmade paper. Case-bound 140 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press [33 Mont- in quarter red morocco and marbled boards. Very fine in gomery Street], 1979. First edition, Number 77 of 85 copies original box. leather bound with real Hackles. Printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd Facsimile of the 1872 edition privately printed for Alfred noted on slip laid in. Full crimson morocco, by A.W. Lums- Denison, “A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest den. Fine in slipcase. Known Book on Fowling and Fishing Written Originally in $1,250 Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492” $500 23 ELLIS, Henry. A Catalogue of Books on Angling 1811 [With a 20 foreword by Jack Heddon]. Tipped in portrait. 8vo, [Twicken- DOWELL, James [Editor]. Norwegian Anglings and Other ham]: Honey Dun Press, 1977. No. XXIX of 50 copies, signed Sportings. With Map of Norway and Sweden … Season 1908 by the editor. Half chestnut morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g., (Tenth Year of Issue). Illustrated with colored fold-out map marbled endpapers by Aquarius. As new in slipcase. and numerous photographs. 246, [1] pp. 8vo, London: J.A. The finely produced Honey Dun facsimile of the first angling Lumley & Dowell, Lumley House, 1908. First edition. bibliography ever published, in the deluxe issue. Scarce. Original pictorial white boards. Back hinge a bit worn, else a $1,500 very nice, fresh copy of this fragile book. In drop black cloth slipcase. Hampton, Modern Angling Bibliography, p. 32 (for 1911 ed.). $500

21 DOWNS-BAIRD, Donald. Weavings Round the Creel. Illus- trated by the author. 128, [1] pp. Tonbridge, Kent: The Creel Press, 1991. First edition , Number 7 of 25 copies bound in full tan morocco in slipcase. Very Fine. $750

 | james cummins bookseller 24 [FITZGIBBON, Edward]. The Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts. By “Ephemera.” Assisted by Andrew Young. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 other hand-colored plates, one uncolored plate. xvi, 242, [2, ads] pp. Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw. 12mo, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850. First edition. Half green morocco and cloth, t.e.g., 26 by J. Larkins. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 86 (“Highly FRASER, Dr. Homer E., et al. Tuscarora Club’s Forty-Year Esteemed”); Coleby, p. 66. History, 1901-1941. With articles by Dr. Homer E. Fraser, Henry A. Ingraham, Ellis Parker Butler, and others. Illustrated with $1,000 portrait frontispiece and photographs. 8vo, Portland, ME: Privately printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941. No. 2 of a Private Edition of 100 copies. Original greenish- one of 65 copies with a hand-dressed fly gray paper over boards, white cloth spine, gilt device of the 25 Club on upper cover, slight staining on pastedown where FRANCIS, Francis. A Book on Angling Being a Complete Treatise hinged, else fine. Bookplate. Bruns T-76; Heller 755. on The Art of Angling in every Branch … FIfth Edition. Frontis- A fine copy of a rare and beautifully produced book, full of piece portrait and 16 plates (4 fly plates in color). Pp. [2], xii, chatty and often candid reminiscences concerning this club [3], 526, 12 (ads). 8vo, [Bovey Tracey, Dorset]: The Flyfisher’s of congenial anglers located at Mill Brook, New York, in the Classic Library, 1996. No. 29 of 65 copies specially bound, Catskills of Delaware County. with a fly from the book dressed by Flemming Anderson with the printed presentation slip inserted, denoting that inset in front pastedown. Full dark green morocco gilt over this is copy no. 2, prepared for howard annin. bevelled boards, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. As new in pub- Club histories are not always terribly interesting to non- lisher‘s green silk-lined buckram folding box. Westwood & members, but this is a notable exception, full of delightful Satchell, p. 98. anecdotes and vintage photographs and reading in places like The deluxe state of the 1996 re-issue of this classic work a well-written sporting story. by the angling editor of The Field. With a note by publisher $3,750 Justin Knowles. $750

i. angling catalogue 118 |  scarce de luxe edition 27 28 GREY, Zane. Great Game Fishing at Catalina. Cover photo- HEILNER, Van Campen. Salt Water Fishing. With 12 color graph of Avalon Harbor by P.V. Reyes as cover, with 15 half- plates by W. Goadby Lawrence, and photo frontispiece of tone reproductions of photos (3 by Reyes, 12 by Zane Grey), the author with Zane Grey, who wrote the Foreword. 8vo, map. 32 pp. Small 8vo, [Chicago: printed by Magill Wes- Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1937. Deluxe first theimer Co.] Published by Santa Catalina Island Company, edition, no. 5 of 199 copies, signed by the author. Original 1919. First separate edition, excerpted from Tales of Fishes, green cloth, gilt device on upper cover, a.e.g., spine slightly 1919. Pictorial wrappers. Fine copy with tipped-in signature dulled with two tiny nicks, front inner hinge repaired, faint “Zane Grey” in ink on notebook leaf. Custom cloth colding foxing to upper margin of title, otherwise fine and attractive. case. Not in Bruns. Bruns H132; Biscotti P-7-D. Scarce promotional pamphlet on the appeal of Santa Catalina Classic work on salt-water angling by one of the great fisher- as a deep sea fishing destination, excerpted from Grey’s Tales man of the pre-war period. With an additional inscription by of Fishes, published in the same year by Harpers. With two the artist on the limitation page, “With best wishes to Mr & loosely inserted signed cheques from Zane Grey to photogra- Mrs Hudson by W. Goadby Lawrence.” pher P.V. Reyes (whose work illustrates this book), endorsed $1,500 by Reyes on verso. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller 29 [arrow pointing to The Engineers’s Club letterhead] for the HENDERSON, John. John Henderson’s Hackle Book. An Ac- horse show. Have a bibliography of Forester about done, count of Twenty Years Breeding Old English Game Fowls for their too much for your book. My Sect. and I have never heard of Hackles, edited by Jack Heddon. Tipped-in portrait and 3 plates, ‘Trouting Along the Catasauqua.’ He wrote Trout & Trout 40 mounted specimen hackles. 4to, Twickenham: Honey Fishing in Grahams Magazine 1851 … Glad to write you a Dun Press, 1980 [1982]. No. 89 of 120 copies, signed by the few words [i.e. write a foreword]. Call me — at 10:30 a.m. editor. Publisher’s morocco-backed marbled boards, slipcase. Penn 5500 and we can arrange a meeting Wed. or Fri … Fine. Harry Worcester Smith.” And a 1 page ALS from Herbert [April 1850], reading in part, $3,000 “Dear Hirst, I return your guns & flask … & hope you will have sport. I shall be glad to see you either before your depar- ture or on your return. I am pretty busy just now for Graham connett’s own copy in special unique binding & c. … Henry Wm. Herbert.” 30 With 4 pp. advertisement [HERBERT, Henry William]. Trouting along the Catasauqua With review from Newark Evening News, Saturday 3, 1927, by Frank Forester; with a foreword by Harry Worcester Smith. remarking on publisher and author being from New Jersey. Portrait frontispiece photogravure by Gordon Ross, signed & dated by the artist below in pencil [not signed in regular $3,500 copies]. 4to (7-H x 10 inches), New York: Privately Printed by Eugene V. Connett for the Angler’s Club of New York [by The Derrydale Press}, 1927. First Derrydale edition, unnumbered copy of 423 copies printed on Umbria paper. Bound in three quarters green morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, spine in six compartments with gilt fish and creel in each, bound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. Some minor toning to spine, faintest traces of rubbing. Fine. Siegel 7; Frazier H-9-a. Provenance: The Library of Eugene Connett III, sale at Oinonen Book Auctions, Sale 198, Lot 89 May 24, 1994. A handsome, early Derrydale, privately printed by Eugene V. Connett for The Angler’s Club of New York. Gordon Ross’s portrait of Forester is considered the finest ever done. With a 2 page ALS from Harry Worcester Smith dated Oct. 22-26, reading in part, “My dear Sir [Eugene Connett]: Here i. angling catalogue 118 |  31 HEWITT, Edward Ringwood. [Collection of pamphlets and ephemera relating to angling and Ringwood Manor]. 8vo and smaller, v.p.: 1933-1947. Condition generally fine. Half green morocco drop box. Bruns H174, H175, H176, H177, H178. Choice group of material by the celebrated angling author Edward Ringwood Hewitt (1867-1957). Comprising: 1. Hewitt’s Handbook of Fly Fishing, 1933. Limp green pictorial cloth. With loosely inserted [8] pp. “Hewitt” Trout Fishing Specialties, undated, self-wrappers. 2. Hewitt’s Nymph Fly Fishing, 1934. Wrappers. Siegel copy with his bookplate. 3. Hewitt’s Handbook of Stream Improvement, 1934. Green cloth. 4. “Hewitt” Trout Fishing Specialties (n.d., 1934). Tan wrappers. 24 pp. Lists no. 5 as “To be published in January.” 5. Hewitt’s Handbook Trout Raising and Stocking , 1935. Green cloth. 6. Ringwood Manor. The Home of the Hewitts, 1947. Green wrappers. $575

32 JENNINGS, Preston J. A Book of Trout Flies: Containing A List of the Most Im- portant American Stream Insects & Their Imitations. Two photographic plates, and eleven by Alma W. Froderstrom of which seven are hand-colored; Vol. II contains 12 wet-flies and 18 dry- flies, tied by the author. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. Limited edition, no. 10 of 25 De Luxe copies, signed by the author, illustrator, publisher, and author of the foreword. Original three quarter green morocco (vol. I) and half green morocco (vol. II) by James MacDonald, panelled spines gilt, t.e.g.; vol. II housing the flies. Cloth slipcase. Custom half morocco slipcase with cloth chemise. Wetzel p. 165; Siegel 88; Frazier J-1-D; Bruns J-16. One of the most beautiful, sought- after, and rarest productions of The Derrydale Press. $70,000

 | james cummins bookseller i. angling catalogue 118 |  presentation copy 33 JOHNSON, Eldridge Reeves. Tarpomania. The Madness of Fishing. Illustrated with photogravures from Julian Dimock. 27 pp. 8vo, New York: Frederic William Stack Book-Craft, 1908. First edition. “Very Limited Edition” [no limitation specified]. Printed on rectos only. Bound in full crushed green levant with white leather inlay of tarpon on the line on front cover, t.e.g., green silk doublures. Faded to brown (as always), almost fine. Bruns p. 243 J 32; Ken Callahan’s “A Partial Tarpon Bibliography” at end of 1990 edition of The Book of the Tarpon, p. xiii. Ken Callahan, in his bibliography, comments that this book “Gives a very good account of the excitement of tarpon fishing.” Eldridge Johnson was the president of the Victor Talking Machine Co. and a book collector, the owner of Lewis Carroll manuscripts and books. with fine presentation inscription on introduction page: “To Mr. L. R. Streeter, Eldridge Johnson, 1909.” $3,750

 | james cummins bookseller fine in deluxe binding 35 34 KELSON, George M. The Salmon Fly. [With:] Tips. With 8 JOHNSON, Frank M. Forest, Lake and River. The Fishes of plates of hand-colored flies in the first title. 2 vols. 4to, Lon- New England & Eastern Canada. Chromolithograph frontis- don: The Author, 1895 & 1901. First editions. Original purple piece by A.D. Turner in vol. I, portrait frontispiece to vol. II; cloth over bevelled boards. Some spotting to upper covers three color plates of flies (Salmon, Trout, Bass), two color of first volume, else fine; second volume fine. Black quarter plates of fish, numerous reproductions of fish, and black- morocco drop box. Hampton’s Angling Bibliography, p. 171. and-white lithographic plates, with decorative ornaments $2,750 and vignettes throughout. xxvi, 313, [3]; xi, 368 pp. Printed at the University Press. 2 vols. 4to, Boston: For Subscribers, 1902. First edition, one of 350 copies on Ruisdael hand made 36 watermarked paper, this a presentation copy signed “and pre- LAMBERT, Samuel W., Jr. The Oquossoc Angling Association sented to his friend W. Fred Reynolds Bellefonte, Pa. Boston 1870-1970. Illustrated. 84 pp. 8vo, [Meriden, Ct.]: Privately Oct. 20/04.” Bound in publisher’s full brown morocco, with Printed for the Association [by Meriden Gravure], 1970. embossed colored flies on the upper covers and an embossed First edition, one of perhaps 150 copies. Green cloth-backed circular stamp with title and author on upper cover of vol. I boards, map endpapers. Fine copy in green board slipcase. and circular blind embossed river scene with gilt stamped sky Heller 744. Not in Bruns (see note at p. 343 for 1871 charter). above on upper cover of vol II., moire silk endpapers. Very fine. Bruns B-33. The Oquossoc Angling Association was formed in 1870, after R.G. Allerton’s 1869 trip to the Rangeley lakes region The recipient was Col. W Fred Reynolds, who was instru- chronicled in Brook Trout Fishing (1869). The base is Camp mental in locating the Diamond wooden match company Kennebago, Indian Rock, Maine. Charles Woods’ copy, sold in Bellefonte, Pa. His house is now The Reynolds Mansion at Swann in 1986, is recorded as one of 150 numbered cop- Hotel. ies; the present copy is unnumbered. With a gift inscription $1,750 from Lambert on half-title, “For Julia, with the best wishes of Samuel W. Lambert, Jr.” uncommon. $1,000

i. angling catalogue 118 |  Dette, Winnie Dette, Mary Dette, and Eric Leiser. Original full imported calfskin. Book only, as new, without black walnut slipcase. Out of series copy from the Meadow Run Press limited issue of 26 copies (without the slipcase and flies). Uncommon. $750

39 LEISER, Eric. The Dettes. A Catskill Legend. With three mounted flies. 268 pp. 8vo, Fishkill, New York: Willowcreek Press, 1992. Limited edition, no. 157 of 200 copies, signed by Walt Dette, Winnie Dette, Mary Dette, and Eric Leiser. Original calf-backed cloth. As new in matching slipcase with three mounted flies tied by the Dettes in window, in original shrink wrap. $900

one of 10 copies, signed 40 LYONS, Nick. Two Fish Tales. With five etched chine collé plates and illustrations in the margins by Nathan Wagoner, with an extra suite of plates, plus an original watercolor and original pencil remarque drawings by the artist. 78, [4] pp. signed 4to, [Pine Plains, NY]: Kevin Begos Jr, [1991]. Copy I of 10 37 copies lettered A-J, signed by the author, artist and publisher. LANMAN, Charles. Adventures in the Wilds of the United Bound in full brown Oasis goatskin, white printed paper States and British American Provinces. Illustrated by the author label on cover. Housed in a tan linen-covered box. Fine. and Oscar Bessau. 6 plates in each volume. xiv, 514; 517 pp. 2 rare. vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1856. First American edition, enlarged. Original red cloth, a moose on upper cover $1,000 in gilt and lower in blind, spines titled in gilt. Some fading and soiling to covers, but generally a near fine set. Signed in each volume by the author on the front flyleaf. Bookplate of John M. Schiff and another. Westwood & Satchell, p. 130; Howes L87; T.P.L. 3672; Sabin 38913; Heckscher 1199. Written by a New York businessman who ultimately opted for the wilds, this edition contains several of the author’s earlier separate publications with new material added, including a “Tour to the River Restigouche.” Although the author recounts various angling experiences throughout the book, chapters 23 to 28 deal specifically with fishing: for salmon, trout, bass, pike, and others. Uncommon signed and in such nice condition. $1,750 signed by all 38 LEISER, Eric. The Dettes. A Catskill Legend. Photographs by Mathew Vinciguerra. Darwings by Ernest Lussier. 268 pp. 8vo, [Fishkill, New York]: Willowcreek Press, [1992]. Limited edition, one of 26 copies, out of series copy, signed by Walt

 | james cummins bookseller 41 MACDONALD, Lady Agnes. On a Canadian Salmon River. Lady Agnes Macdonald’s Account of Fishing the Restigouche in 1887. Edited, with an Introduction by Peter Thomas. Frontispiece, illustrations, folding map. 60 pp. 8vo, Cambridge, Massachu- setts: Privately Printed for Charles Wood III, 2003. One of 50 copies printed by the Ascensius Press on handmade paper. Bound in quarter green oasis and paste paper boards, spine titled in gilt, by Gray Parrot. As new in matching slipcase. Reprints Lady Agnes Macdonald’s account of fishing the Res- tigouche from Murray’s Magazine, 1887, with an introductory essay by Peter Thomas, author of Lost Land of Moses: The Age of Discovery on New Brunswick’s Salmon Rivers. An engaging fishing story and a superbly produced book. $1,200

42 MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs through It and Other Sto- ries. 8vo, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1976]. First edition (less than 1200 copies printed). Original blue cloth, original dust-jacket. Fine copy. Bookplate. Written in the form of a novella, Norman Maclean’s auto- biographical title story of fly fishing and life is drawn from his early years spent mostly in the Rocky Mountain region. Though critically acclaimed, the work received little attention until its adaptation as a major film, after which it achieved tremendous popular success. In addition to the title story, this collection includes “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’” and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky.” A lovely copy of the first edition of the author’s first book. $3,250

i. angling catalogue 118 |  43 MARBURY, Mary Orvis. Favorite Flies & Their Histories. Illus- trated with 32 color plates of flies, engravings of natural insects & 8 photos. viii, [ii], 521 pp. Thick 8vo, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. First edition, first issue, with date “1892” on title-page. Bound in three quarters morocco and marbled boards. Ownership of Alfred A. Kiggins. About fine. Wetzel ,p. 180; Goodspeed, p. 276 et seq.; Bruns M40. The classic work of late nineteenth century American fly fishing. An interesting and attractive book, “an important work on the flies in use during the latter past of the nineteenth century … exquisite colored plates …” (Wetzel), which went into several editions. It was written (and compiled from her father’s correspondence) by the daughter of Charles F. Orvis, famed American tackle-maker and author of Fishing With the Fly (1883). Goodspeed notes that while Mrs. Marbury was “not herself a fisher-woman,” she was an expert at making flies, which she tied without the aid of a vise. Much of the book consists of the replies her father received from anglers to whom he had posed questions concerning the sport. $1,250

44 MARBURY, Mary Orvis. Favorite Flies & Their Histories. Il- lustrated with 32 color plates of flies, engravings of natural insects & 8 photos. viii, [ii], 521 pp. Thick 8vo, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. First dition, second issue without date on title page. Original two-toned green cloth. Abercrombie & Fitch label. Very good at least. Wetzel, p. 180; Goodspeed, p. 276 et seq.; Bruns M40. Another copy, this one in original cloth, of the classic work of late nineteenth century American fly fishing. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller 45 MAXWELL, The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert. Fishing at Home & Abroad. Illustrated with 6 photogravure plates, 7 full-page color plates, and 56 monochrome and half-tone illustrations in the text. xii, 413 pp. Printed by the Arden Press, Letch- worth. xii, 413, [1] pp. Folio (12-H x 10 inches), London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1913. First edition, one of 750 copies. Original full dark brown pebbled morocco, t.e.g. Near fine. Dedicated to His Majesty King George V, printed on handmade paper and lavishly illustrated, Sir Herbert Maxwell’s book is perhaps the most distinguished single volume publication of its kind, and successfully realizes the author’s goal of providing “in a single work information about fishing in all parts of the world” (Preface, p. v). With chapters on salmon, trout, sea fishing, fishing techniques, fly patterns, local angling peculiarities, etc. and Theodore Gordon’s contribution, “American Trout Fishing.” $500

46 MAYER, Alfred M. (Ed.) Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters. With 11 Japan-mounted proofs by Elbridge Kingsley, J.H.E. Whitney, R. A. Müller, J. Harrison Mills, R.C. one of 67 copies Collins, etc. and numerous full page and text illustrations. 47 888 pp. 2 vols. 4to, New York: The Century Company [by the MCGUANE, Thomas. Live Water. With two drawings and 12 De Vinne Press], [1883]. First edition. Bound in half modern tipped in color plates reproducing watercolors by John Swan. brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine. Bruns M-86; Phil- 116, [1] pp. 8vo, Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1996. De lips, p. 256; Goodspeed, pp. 277-78. Luxe Edition, one of 67 copies for sale, signed by author and A physically imposing and important book. Among the artist. Original beige cloth, blue morocco spine, fore edges contributors are Dan Beard, John Burroughs, George Bird uncut, as new, in matching cloth folding box with morocco Grinnell, James A. Henshall, John Muir, Thaddeus Norris, spine label, by BookLab in Austin, Texas. Charles E. Whithead, and others. Topics range from bow- A superb book, a collection of observations, reflections and shooting and taxidermy to all forms of angling, game and experiences by one of the great angling writers of this or wildfowl shooting, nature appreciation, and personal experi- any generation. McGuane’s diverse pieces on fish and fish- ences (Charles Dudley Warner writes, engagingly, on “How I ing range geographically from his beloved Montana, to the Killed a Bear”). A sumptuous volume, beautifully illustrated Andes, to the Russian Arctic, and in subject from equipment and bound. (“A rod better have a great reason for being over nine feet or $500 under eight. Nine is a wonderful length for a trout, tarpon, and billfish rod. It’s a length the human body likes”) to picturesque angling companions and the enduring challenges of the sport. John Swan’s watercolors are a worthy enhance- ment This de luxe edition was sold out, and it is easy to see why. $1,250

i. angling catalogue 118 |  signed by harry middleton 48 MIDDLETON, Harry. The Starlight Creek Angling Society. Illustra- tions by Peter Corbin. [viii], 57, [2] pp. 8vo, [Stone Harbor, NJ]: Meadow Run Press, [1992]. First edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Original black cloth, gilt and blind lettered. As New in publisher’s slipcase. “Among the many things the Starlight Creek Angling Society believed in were dreams and possibilities. There was no place that wild water and wild trout could not haul you, even to the edge of the universe.” Published in an edition of 500 copies just before the author’s untimely death. A splendid and evocative book, now very scarce. $1,250

deluxe issue, with hand-tied fly 49 O’BRIEN, Donal. A Monster Salmon from the Fishing Log of …. Frontispiece tipped in. 14, [2] pp. 8vo, [Cambridge, Mass]: Pri- vately printed by Charles B. Wood III [at the Ascensius Press], 2006. First edition, large paper issue, Number 15 of 25 numbered copies printed on handmade Velké Losiny Prague paper, specially bound, and housed in a custom half-morocco folding box by Gray Parrot with a mounted no. 6 Green Stone Fly tied by river guide Stan Harrison, whose fly caught the fish in the story. Light blue wrappers and brick endleaves, sewn. As new. Account of how O’Brien, for many years the chairman of the At- lantic Salmon Federation, caught and released a 50-pound salmon on the Grand Cascapedia river at the end of July 2004, with reflections on the measurement of salmon, and the author’s earlier catch of a 47-pound salmon on the same river in 1982. A beautifully designed production for an essay of enduring interest, with a hand-tied fly by Grand Cascapedia River guide Stan Harrison. $1,000

50 PALMER, Bradley W. Moisie River [and] Moisie River: Portages, Lakes, Heights of Land. The first volume illustrated with 28 photographs on 14 plates, and 5 hand-colored plates after old prints and a photograph, with folding map tipped in on rear pastedown; the second contains a hand colored plate, a hand- colored photograph, and six illustrations in black and white, after old prints. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: Privately Printed by Geo. H. Ellis Co, [1938; 1939?]. First edition, edition of 30 copies, both volumes numbered in ink “Eleven.” Both volumes in the original dark blue grained leatherette, title gilt on upper cover. Fine copies (second work with slight irregularity in color at head of upper cover). Bookplate. First title not in Wetzel; Bruns: “Not seen”; second title unrecorded. In his Foreword to the first volume, the author states: “These sketches were written for the members of the Moisie Salmon Club. The sole purpose was to give information to them of the

 | james cummins bookseller waters and conditions of the Moisie River and its branches above the places customar- ily fished by them …” The Moisie is one of a network of navigable rivers running about 110 miles northward from the St. Lawrence, in eastern Quebec; old and well worn portage paths testify to the antiquity of the route along which, for hundreds of years, Indians have hunted and fished. For salmon and sea trout, it is one of the richest areas known. It is not suprising that the Moisie Salmon Club was founded to reap the benefits of this bounty; what is surprising is that so much care, attention, and expense has been lavished on a book limited to only 30 copies. The text consists primarily of the author’s descriptions of areas north of the more usual fishing sites, based on his explorations as a sportsman, with guides. In addition to five colored plates, which tend to establish the romantic mood of the region, there are 28 superb reproductions of sepia photographs, printed on special photographic-type paper to convey both the look and the actual feel of the originals. The book’s 78 pages conclude with an Index, and inside the back cover is mounted a folding map of the area described. The second volume (gilt-titled on upper cover “Moisie River 2”) is unrecorded in sporting literature and known to us in only one other copy. It consists of 20 pages of text, plus 10 of pre- lims including a Forword emphasizing the crucial nature of the Labrador portages in providing — albeit with difficulty — access to the area’s lakes. “… [W]e have had to do with many…portages and we must give them due consideration, for in our pursuit of aport and adventure portages hold a place of primary importance.” The book’s chapters include: Portage vs. Airplane, Trip to Lake Nipisso, Trip to Lake Ashouanipi, Lake Kaopasho, Skatchewan, Lakes, Flies (piscatorial), and Nets. There is the intrigu- ing suggestion that Mr. Palmer intended to write more: his final lines in this companion volume read, “The author craves reprieve until his unfinished story can be completed. Hasta mañana”. extraordinarily rare and desirable. $15,000

i. angling catalogue 118 |  51 Nick Lyons (with his note). Full red Niger goatskin, spine PICKARD, F. W. Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland. Illus- titled in gilt, boards with rule border in gilt and in black, trated with photographs by Mrs. Pickard; with a folding map marbled endsheets, with correspondence in a matching of Ireland in pocket at end. 140, [1] pp. Sm 8vo, New York: morocco-backed portfolio. Fine as issued in a red leather- G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. No. 69 of an edition of 150 copies, backed clamshell box. signed by the author. Original gray boards, gray cloth spine, Collection of essays about flyfishing for trout in the Pacific bottom and fore-edges uncut, covers toned, spine slightly northwest and British Columbia, salmon in Scotland and sunned, else fine. Canada, and for bonefish off Turneffe Island, Belize, and Christmas Island (Kiribati), and a wide range of other angling $400 topics. With four typed letters from Steve Raymond regard- ing the book’s production. inscribed $1,000 52 PICKARD, F.W. Trout Fishing in New Zealand in War Time. Illustrations from photographs by Mrs. Pickard. 180 pp. 8vo, 54 New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940. No. 103 of 225 copies. RHEAD, Louis (editor). The Speckled Brook Trout … With an Original cloth-backed boards, faded. Very good. Inscribed by Introduction by Charles Hallock. Color plate frontispiece, illus- the author to Mr. John F. Dana. trations by Louis Rhead. [xvi], 184 pp. Large 8vo, New York: R.H. Russell, [1902]. First edition, deluxe issue. Bound in full $500 vellum, yapp edges, t.e.g., with other edges uncut, paper title label. Spine a bit faded, slight rubbing at foot, else very good. Half black morocco and cloth dropbox with gilt emblematic the publisher’s copy spine. Bruns R50; Wetzel 303. 53 A large paper copy, measuring 6-G” x 9-I” RAYMOND, Steve. Rivers of the Heart. A Fly-Fishing Memoir. $900 Original watercolor drawing by August C. Kristoferson, signed and dated in pencil by the artist. With illustrations throughout after line drawings by Kristoferson. 8vo, New York: Lyons Press, [1998]. Deluxe edition of 25 numbered copies, printed on Arches paper. This copy number P2 of two publisher’s copies, signed by author, artist, & by publisher

 | james cummins bookseller 55 RITZ, Charles. A Fly Fisher’s Life. prepared in collaboration with John Piper. Illustrated. 8vo, New York: Crown, 1972. Revised and Enlarged edition. Original light blue cloth, fine in near- fine dust-jacket. From the library of Jane Engelhard. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Bruns R 65. Inscribed to Jane Engelhard by rodmaker S.E. Bogden, with an ALS. thanking her for “the wonderful times I had at Camp Chaleur with you and your wonderful daughters. It was the highlight of my life.” With a distinguished sporting provenance: Charles and Jane Engelhard, of Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey, were owners of Camp Chaleur, one of the now legendary fishing camps on the Grand Cascapedia river. Charles Engelhard, a minerals multimillionaire, was the model for Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger. $400

56 SCHALDACH, William J. Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etch- ings, Drawings and Watercolors of Trout and Salmon. [Sports- man’s Introduction by Gifford Pinchot. An Etchers Introduction by John Taylor Arms.]. Etched frontispiece, “Salmon”, signed by Schaldach plus 60 plates. 4to, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. DeLuxe Edition, no. 120 of 157, signed by Schaldach. Full gilt-stamped vellum. Fine copy. Bruns S47; Ordeman pp. 102, 108. A superb book, in wonderful condition. Laid in is an original etching of a sailfish for the 1937 Christmas card of Prescott le B. Gardner. $1,000 57 SCHMOOKLER, Paul. The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traherne (1826-1901): Their Descriptions and Variations As Pre- sented by George M. Kelson in the Fishing Gazette, Land and Water and the Salmon Fly. Introduction by J. David Zincavage. Illus- trated with photographic portrait frontispiece photograph, 27 color photographic plates of salmon flies by Ingrid Sils. xii, 124 pp. Oblong 4to, Millis, Massachusetts: The Complete Sportsman, 1993. Special edition, number 102 of 300 copies designed by editor and tier, Paul Schmookler. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Slipcase. Very fine, with signed prospectus. $1,500

i. angling catalogue 118 |  one of 100 copies 59 SCHULLERY, Paul. American Fly Fishing. A History. Fron- tispiece by Louis Rhead. Illustrated. x, 278 pp. 4to, [New York: Nick Lyons Books] [American Museum of Fly Fishing, 58 Manchester, VT, 1987]. Number 64 of 105 copies (100 for SCHMOOKLER, Paul, and Ingrid V. Sils. Rare and Unusual sale), numbered on frontispiece and colophon, and signed by Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History treating both standard the author. Bound in quarter green niger goatskin, spine gilt and rare materials, their sources and geography, as used in classic, with raised bands, with tan paper sides, french tips, in match- contemporary, and artistic trout and salmon flies, displayed in ing quarter morocco folding box with title and Museum logo photographs, and in the paintings and engravings of history’s stamped on spine, all by Gray Parrot. Fine. greatest ornithological and zoological illustrators. Volume I - Birds & Volume II Birds and Mammals. Abundantly illustrated with The finely produced deluxe edition of this substantial and photographs and drawings. xviii, 286; xxiv, 347 pp. Printed interesting history. in Hong Kong by Norman Graphic Printing Co., Ltd. 2 vols. $1,250 Folio, Millis, Mass.: The Complete Sportsman, 1994 & 1997. First edition. Limited edition number 157 of 250 copies printed on 157 gm Glossy Art paper and hand bound, signed van winkle copy by Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils. Quarter blue morocco 60 and marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine in slipcase. (SCHUYLKILL FISHING COMPANY) A History of the $3,750 Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1732-1888. Illustrated. 446 pp. Press of Bando Printing & Publishing Company. 2 vols. 4to, Philadelphia: Published by the Mem- bers of the State in Schuylkill, 1889. First edition. Bound in three quarters brown morocco, gilt-stamped tooling on spine, t.e.g., wrappers bound in, by Whitman Bennett, some soiling internally else, Very fine. Bookplate of William Van Winkle. Bruns S74; Howes M636. $750

 | james cummins bookseller 63 SIMON, Michael C. “Brook Trout and Trillium”. Original watercolor on paper, signed “MC Simon — 2013.” 16 x 12 in, [Richmond, VA]: 2013. Fine. A fine watercolor by Michael Simon, one of the pre-eminent angling artists working today. “Brook Trout and Trillium” was specially commissioned by James Cummins Bookseller for the cover of our Catalogue 118. $1,000

64 [SMITH, John]. The Complete Fisher: Or, The True Art of An- gling: A clear and speedy Way of taking all Sorts of Fresh-Water Fish … Revised and Corrected by W. Wright and other experienc’d Anglers. Woodcut vignette frontispiece, woodcut vignettes in text. Pp. [ii], 1-164. Narrow 24mo, London: Printed for J. Hazard and J. Wright … and Sold by John Herro in Bell-Yard Temple-Bar [Price 6 d.] Where may be had Right Kirby’s Hooks …, [ca. 1740]. Contemporary calf, preserved in a calf- backed solander box. Rare. Westwood & Satchell, p. 184 (no. 11). Heckscher 1798 ($52.00, copy lacking frontispiece). Sage 376. “We have often admired it… we therefore… recommend it 61 as the most practical book for all young anglers ”(from the SCHWIEBERT, Ernest. Death of a Riverkeeper. Illustrated by testimonial on title page verso). the author. 8vo, New York: E.P. Dutton / Meadow Run Press, 1980 (1998 Deluxe Edition). No. P/2 of 5 presentation copies, $5,000 of the deluxe edition produced by Meadow Run Press (also 35 numbered copies). Black morocco spine over paste-paper covered boards; signed by the author, together with the author’s colored lithograph of a speckled brook trout, partially hand-tinted by the artist, in custom cloth box containing a mounted “Evening Star” salmon fly tied by Schwiebert. As new. $1,000

62 SHERINGHAM, Hugh and John C. Moore. The Book of the Fly Rod. Illustrated with four color-collotype plates, and eight plates hand-colored, by George Sheringham. xv, [i], 174 pp. 4to, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931. First Edition, No. 11A of 195 copies, of which 1A-70A reserved for USA, signed by George Sheringham. Original green cloth, vellum spine, t.e.g., spine a trifle soiled, else fine. Slipcase. $750

i. angling catalogue 118 |  rare 65 STURGES, Lee. Salmon Fish- ing on Cain River, New Bruns- wick. With 7 etched plates by Sturges, each with lettered tissue guards, numerous text illustrations. Frontispiece etching signed lower right in pencil. Unpaginated, [40] pp. 8vo, [Chicago: Privately Printed [by Ralph Fletcher Seymour], 1919. One of 50 copies printed. Original gray boards, upper board titled in gilt and stamped in blind. Spine professionally restored, preserving original backstrip. Bookplate. Custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Wetzel, p. 220; Bruns S328. A beautifullly produced volume, privately printed for Lee Sturges (1865-1954), a well known Chicago artist and industrialist. Bruns recounts how the author picked up the edition of 50 copies from the printer, leaving them on the kitchen table, and how, that night, the house burned down, with Sturges manag- ing to rescue either four or five copies. Bruns, writing in 1975, was able to account for four copies, and possibly the fifth. Unquestionably rare. $11,000

 | james cummins bookseller state of the art, 1600 66 TAVERNER, John. Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite: Practiced by John Taverner, Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of others. Woodcut device on title, printed mostly in black letter. [6], 38 pp.; lacking the initial and final blanks A1 and f4. Small 4to (7-G x 5-J inches), [London]: Printed for William Ponsonby, 1600. First edition. Bound in full red morocco, a.e.g., by Riv- iere. Bookplates of Henrick Cunliffe Armiger & Arthur Howard Thompson. In red cloth slipcase and chemise. STC 23708; Westwood & Satchell, p. 205; Heckscher lot 1895 ($125.00, 1909); Gee, Sportsman’s Library, p. 102; Kress 237; Robb, Notable Angling Literature, pp. 90-91; Litchfield p. 1. The rare first edition of Tav- erner’s practical work, based upon his own experiments in stocking a fish pond. The work, seemingly Taverner’s only publication, is dedicated to Sir Edmond Anderson, to whom Edward Churchey’s translation of Dubravius was dedicated in 1599. Taverner assumes that “any practiser of these delights, I meane making of fishponds, or planting of fruite, I doubt not but you shall in this little treatise, find somewhat your delight that way augmented.” $15,000

i. angling catalogue 118 |  67 landmark of norwegian angling TAVERNER, Eric. Trout Fishing from All Angles. With 250 69 tipped-in half-tone illustrations from photographs and 30 TOLFREY, Frederic, editor. Jones’s Guide to Norway, and hand-tied flies in mount on lower pastedown. 448 pp. 8vo, Salmon-fisher’s Pocket Companion. Additional lithographed London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 196 Shaftesbury Street, title, lithographed frontispiece, and 8 hand-colored engraved 1929. First edition, no. 197 of 375 copies, signed by the plates of flies by J. and H. Adlard. 16mo, London: Longman, author. Original full blue morocco gilt, spine gilt, with arms Brown, 1848. First edition. Original green cloth gilt. Pencil of Lonsdale Library on upper board, t.e.g., fine. Bruns T10; ownership inscription of J. Stewart Hardy (presented to him Litchfield, p. 86. on July 21, 1864, by J. Walton Roberts). Spine very slightly $4,000 faded, small brown spot on a few leaves at front. Fine, fresh copy in superior condition. Preserved in solander box. West- wood & Satchell, p.210. 68 The very scarce first edition of the finest British work on [TIMKEN, Jane]. An Angler’s Alphabet. Color pochoir stencils Norwegian angling. Issued at the instigation of J. Jones, a by Jane Timken, text printed from wood type. Title page, 26 tackle dealer of Jermyn Street, who wrote the introduction. an outstanding copy pictorial leaves, colophon. 4to, New York: Timken Editions, . 2000. Copy no. K of 26 copies, signed by the artist. Black $15,000 cloth spine, yellow pictorial boards by Carolyn Chadwick. As new in terra cotta board slipcase. Lovely, stylish alphabet with superb color illustrations. $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller the five “lifetime” editions of the compleat angler: fearing - sage - heckscher provenance 70 WALTON, Izaak. A Fine Set of the First Five Editions of The Compleat Angler. 5 vols. 12mo, London: 1653-1676. First through Fifth editions. First edition in early 19th century green morocco; others variously bound in green morocco (fifth ed. in 19th-century brown calf). Custom pull off cases. Provenance: Daniel Fearing; Yale Kneeland. An outstanding group of the first five editions of Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler, a landmark of English literature and the cornerstone of an angling collection, here with superb American provenance, from the library of collector Daniel B. Fearing (1859-1918), who was one of the great angling collectors of the first part of the twentieth century. This set includes copies from the libraries of Fearing’s fellow collectors Dean Sage and J.G. Heckscher; it was sold to bibliophile Yale Kneeland before 1918 (as recorded in correspondence to this effect from Fearing’s widow to the widow of Yale Neeland); upon Fearing’s death, his other set of the Compleat Anglers (uniformly re-bound by Riviere) went to Harvard. A. 1653, issue with “contention” (140 x 84 mm). Attractive binding: early 19th century green straight-grained morocco, spine titled in gilt with simple rules, boards with single rule border, a.e.g. Contents: some old light-medium damp-staining, repaired tear to outer blank margin of the second leaf and to an old worm hole at inner top margin B4-D4 (none of the repairs approaching text). Provenance: 1. Compton family, Minstead Manor, nr. Lyndhurst, Hampshire (18th century armorial bookplate); 2. Scrope Berdmore, warden of Merton College, Oxford (armorial bookplate dated 1790, the date he became warden); 3. Daniel B. Fearing, Newport, R.I. (bookplate signed “S.[idney] L.[awton] S.[mith] Feb. 1899,” label with red ink note of purchase in New York on 19 March 1909 for “$STOO” written by Fearing). B. 1655 (138 x 74 mm). Contents: close shaved, occasionally touching the headlines, generally attractive. Late-19th/early 20th i. angling catalogue 118 |  century French binding by Marcelin Lortic (signed “Lortic fils” and therefore after 1891): green morocco gilt. Provenance: 1. W.B. Tarbutt (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (Tiffany & Co. bookplate dated 1899, featuring a leaping Tarpon, ex-lot 2010, sale Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 3. Daniel B. Fearing (bookplate). C. 1661 (141 x 83 mm). Contents: small repair to upper outer corner of title (no loss to text). Mid-19th century green morocco, spine gilt with fishes, attractive binding. Provenance: 1. Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856, booklabel, typical ms note dating purchase to 1836 purchase, noted bibliphile); 2. Edward Hailstone (1818-1890, booklabel, Walton Hall Library sold at Sotheby’s, Feb., Apr.-May 1891); 3. Dean Sage (of Albany, NY. ms note by Heckscher noting purchase from Sage in Jan 1891); 4. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2011, sale Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 5. D.B. Fearing (bookplate). D. 1668 bound with Cotton 1676 (142 x 85 mm). Contents: O6 with lower outer corner repaired with some loss: 6 words with some characters supplied in ms facsimile, pp.214-215 music slightly shaved (as often). Green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son. Provenance: 1. J.B. Fisher (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2013, sale Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909 ); 3. Daniel B. Fearing (bookplate). E. 1676, 3 parts in one (as issued) (146 x 88 mm). Contents: with blank V4 at end of 1st part. Binding: 19th-century brown calf, spine lettered in gilt, joints repaired. Provenance: 1. W. Wright (signature); 2. R. Hindley (signature). $125,000

 | james cummins bookseller superb binding by rimell marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by Matthews. Fine copy. Coigney 71 88. For Matthews, c.f.: Binding in America 1680-1910, p. 96; WALTON, Izaac. The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man’s Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings through 1876, Recreation … with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris pp. 176-7. Provenance: bookplate of famous bookseller and Nicolas. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates from designs angler Charles E. Goodspeed. by Thomas Stothard and J. Inskipp, two pages of music and Of the 100 copies printed. Horne reports that nearly two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 por- half were destroyed in a fire at the bindery, confirmed by traits of Walton. Pp. [16], ccxii, [2], 129; [2], [131]-436, [32]. Coigney’s smoke-stained third copy. In a superb, restrained 2 vols. Large 8vo, London: [C. Whittingham for] William American binding by William Matthews (1822-1896), New Pickering, 1836. First Nicholas edition. Bound in elaborate York bookbinder of Scottish origin, who won the highest gilt cottage-roof design, all edges elaborately marbled and award at the International Exhibition in 1853 and became gilt by Riviere (ca. 1910) for West End bookseller J. Rimell. head of the bindery for Appleton, maintaining the highest Very small nick at head of spine of vol. I, else a very fine set. standards in hand bookbinding during the rise of commercial Coigney 44; Horne 43; Oliver 41. machine binding. “In spite of Appleton’s huge operation, One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever pub- Matthews never ceased to do fine hand binding” (Spawn). lished. In its production, Pickering employed 27 of the most “It is often said that bookbinding as a fine art did not exist in prominent artists, painters, and engravers of the day. America before the time of William Matthews” (from the 1907 Grolier Club catalogue, 1907, cited by Spawn & Kin- $4,000 sella). With excellent American provenance: from the private collection of Charles E. Goodspeed (d. 1950), bookseller of Boston, collector of Angling literature, and author of Angling 72 in America (1939), where he noted the cuts done for the 1866 WALTON, Izaac, and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, edition by “Henry Marsh, a wood-engraver whose talents or the contemplative man’s recreation … edited by John Major. Il- have never received their due credit, Marsh’s work has been lustrated with 12 steel engraved plates (including facsimile of though by some to equal, if not actually to surpass, in qual- the 1653 title page), title leaf vignette and 74 wood engrav- ity, that of the English engraver” (p. 176). A lovely book. ings by Henry Marsh in text. Title page printed in red and $2,250 black. xiv, 445 pp. 8vo, Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1866. First Little, Brown edition, one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge. Full green morocco gilt, spine extra gilt, boards with six rule border and filigree cornerpieces, turn-ins elaborately gilt, i. angling catalogue 118 |  first little, brown edition cipher; neatly rebacked preserving the original spines. Some 73 minor traces of rubbing. A fine set. Coigney 44; Oliver 41; WALTON, Izaac. The Complete Angler, or the contemplative Keynes, p. 94. man’s recreation … edited by John Major. Illustrated with 12 One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever pub- steel engraved plates (including facsimile of the 1653 title lished. For it, Pickering used 27 of the most prominent artist, page), title leaf vignette and 74 wood engravings in text. Title painters, and engravers to illustrate it. It has always been, as page printed in red and black. xiv, 445 pp. 8vo, Boston: Little, Coigney notes, the “favorite of the extra-illustrator” — but Brown & Company, 1866. First Little, Brown edition, one of this set stands head and shoulders above others we have seen. 100 copies pinted at the University Press: Welch, Bigelow & It is extra-illustrated with the addition of 613 inserted Co., Cambridge. Full black morocco, elaborate gilt turn-ins, plates relating to Walton & Cotton’s Angler, including hun- a.e.g. by Pawson & Nicholson. Some traces of rubbing. Fine. dreds of fine engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and even origi- Coigney 88. nal drawings. Many of the illustrations are proof or early This copy in a choice black morocco binding of deceptive and rare impressions of the plates, many on India paper, and simplicity and broad, richly gilt turn-ins, by Pawson & Nich- include portraits of statesmen, artists, authors, and contem- olson, the foremost bookbinder of Philadelphia in the latter poraries of Walton and Cotton, as well as superb views, by half of the nineteenth century. Pawson was renowned for his Hollar, Stothard, Hogg, Scott, Sanders, Howitt, Audinet, edge-gilding; Nicholson wrote the influential Manual of the Vertue, Greig, et. al. — indeed, the list of artists and engrav- Art of Bookbinding (1856). ers is a virtual pantheon of book illustration in Great Britain. In addition, each volume contains a printed Index of the $2,500 extra-illustrations. To mention only a few, highlights include: canterbury cathedral, engraved by Hollar; john donne, engraved by Duncan (India proof); walton’s house in fleet large paper, magnificently extra-illustrated street, by Giller (proof); tower of london, by Hollar; lon- 74 don before and after the great fire, by Hollar; portrait of WALTON, Izaac. The Complete Angler … by Izaak Walton walton by Charles Rolls (India proof); portrait of erasmus and …Charles Cotton … With Original Memoirs and Notes by engraved by Boulonois after Holbein, and much, much more Sir Harris Nicolas. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates, A list of the subjects illustrated would comprise a veritable two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, encyclopedia and history of the classic sports of Great Britain 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. 4 vols. 4to (10 M x from the 16th to the 19th centuries: the people, the places, 7 H in.), London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edi- and the times are richly documented in this magnficient tion, large paper copy, with illustrations on India paper. Full homage to the father of angling literature, Izaak Walton. crimson crushed red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, wide $5,000 gilt dentelles utilizing a border of sporting medallions and blue morocco onlaid cornerpieces with the Walton-Cotton

 | james cummins bookseller the rare second edition 76 75 WESTWOOD, T[homas] and T[homas] SATCHELL. Bib- [WALTON, Izaak]. [The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative liotheca Piscatoria, a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries Man’s Recreation…The Second Edition much enlarged]. Engraved and Fish-Culture, with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix. piscatorial vignette on title-page and ten small copperplate xxiv, 397, [1] pp. 4to (11-H x 9-G inches; 285 x 220 mm), engravings in the text. 12mo (5-L x 3-G in.), [London: London: W. Satchell, 1883. First edition, Large Paper Issue. Printed by T.M. for Rich. Marriot, 1655]. Second edition. Full Original green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Bookplate of Walter dark green straight grained morocco, blind-tooled spine in LeRoy Heiberg and his pencil ownership signature dated six compartments, titled in gilt, turn-ins stamped in blind, 1932. Annotated in pencil, chiefly records of bibliographical a.e.g. Spine ends slightly rubbed. Signature of Lt. Col. F. points or auction prices circa 1900. With a pencil notation op- Grant on binder’s leaf, with note “title modern”: title page posite title, “100 copies on large paper of which 50 were for supplied in nineteenth century facsimile of first edition title sale.” Spine ends bumped, else fine. page, date corrected to 1655 in ink, verso with small stamp The essential, classic angling reference work, in its rarest of with Bartlett collection, Harvard, and release stamp; A2 state. Walter L. Heiberg was a career naval officer and served stained, with old marginal repairs, A3 with short paper flaw as U.S. Naval attaché in Sweden during World War II. near gutter, marginal stain; last two leaves with marginal $3,000 repairs. Some leaves closely trimmed. Bookplate of Lt. Col. F. Grant; and label of Jeffrey Norton. Very good. Coigney 2. Rare. Sir John Hawkins in the Preface to his first edition of the Angler (1760), said “The Second Edition I have never seen.” This copy has had its facimile title page for almost 140 years, with its own distinguished chain of owners, and is overall an appealing copy. It is recorded in this condition in Justin Winsor’s Bibliographical Contributions, no. 51 (1896), “The Bartlett Collection,” p. 151, with shelfmark *Ang. 6.55. $3,750 i. angling catalogue 118 |  77 WETZEL, Charles M. American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America. Illustrated. 235 pp. 8vo, Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, no. 35 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author, from a total edition of 200. Original three-quarter black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices, a fine copy. Bookplate of Joseph Delaplaine Bates. Bruns W-73. the most important bibliography of american angling, and a must for any angling collection. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller II. SHOOTING, FIELD SPORTS, ETC.

very rare large paper issue 78 ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface; each plate with letterpress text leaf; leaf with printed list of engravings at end. Folio (14 x 10 inches), London: Thomas M’Lean, 1825. First edition, large paper issue of the Royal Octavo Edition. Bound in near contemporary full crimson pebble-grained morocco gilt floral ornamental border within triple gilt fillets, spines in compartments decoratively tooled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., by E. Riley & Son. Slightly rubbed at extremities; a few surface marks to covers. Armorial bookplate of John C. Deverell on front pastedown; traces of removal of smaller Maclay book label. Cloth slipcase. Tooley 43; Siltzer p. 72; Schwerdt IV, p. 5; Fitz Eugene Dixon sale 79 (1937);Five Centuries of Sport, Maclay sale, 1945, lot 29 ($300, this copy); Mellon/ Podeschi 121. Very rare issue of the Royal Octavo Edition, with different plates than the edition published in 1820-21. Published at 6 guineas. $11,000

catalogue 118 |  fitz eugene dixon copy of the classic sporting periodical 79 The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects and fancy pursuits; containing every thing worthy of remark on hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, cocking, pugilism, wrestling, singlestick, pedestrianism, cricket, billiards, rowing, sailing, &c. &c. Accompanied with striking representations of the various subjects. Illustrated with 152 plates, many of them hand colored, by Henry Alken, Samuel Alken, Robert Cruikshank, Thomas and Edwin Landseer, etc., and 214 woodcuts in the text and including wood-engraved additional titles. 13 vols. 8vo (8-H x 6 inches; 215 x 150mm), London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822-28. First edition, with rare number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in volume II. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, volume number and date lettered direct to the fourth compartment, the others with various large single sporting motifs with a hunter, horse racer, hunting horn and fish and fishing tackle in gilt, purple label “Sold by Hodgsons, Bookseller and Stationer … Belfast”, entirely uncut, each volume within a later individual red morocco slipcase by H. Zucker of Philadelphia, spines decorated in gilt with tooling similar to the spines of the set (occasional abrasion and surface damage to leather, upper joint of vol. I repaired.). Schwerdt I, pp. 32-5; Tooley 64; Podeschi A12; Dixon sale, lot 130 (this copy, $1700). Provenance: Daniel Cooper (armorial bookplate in each vol.); Fitz Eugene Dixon (with his armorial bookplate in vol.I ). One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting, shooting, and the turf, but its reach extends to such less fashionable pursuits as swimming and gymnastics; the angler will find much of interest here. A superb, prime set of this important sporting journal, complete in 13 volumes, with the rare june 1828 number, (the last issued, of which only a small number were published), the January to June title page for 1828, half titles where called for, and the errata page in Vol. 2. PLUS The Turf Herald and Turf Guides for 1824-1827. A crisp, clean set, beautifully bound. a cornerstone of any sporting library. $17,500

 | james cummins bookseller 80 82 Big Game Hunting and Angling, Compiled and Edited by “The BISCOTTI, M.L. A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, Sportsman”. Illustrated with photogravure Frontispiece 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill. With black and white fron- entitled “His Majesty King George V with H.H. The Maha- tispiece by John Rice. 8vo, Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, rajah of Nepal…” xiii, 593 pp. Large Folio, London: British 1997. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Hand bound in forest Sports and Sportsmen, 1914. Full blue morocco. Czech, p. green silk cloth and tan boards, chestnut morocco spine 151 (“a massive tome…with an article on selecting rifles by label, sage green silk pastedowns, in matching forest green Selous. There is also valuable series of brief biographies of silk cloth backed folding box with chestnut morocco spine prominent big game hunters …”); Not in Heller, Phillips or label. As new. Schwerdt. A continuation of John Phillips’s A Bibliography of American With 13 chapters on fishing in fresh and salt water after Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains salmon, trout, tarpon, etc. some 5,000 detailed entries by author and—most happily— an alphabetical index by titles (which Phillips did not have). $1,250 Approved by the Boone and Crockett Club, this is a book no serious sporting book collector can afford to be without. Unique copy specially bound for the publisher. 81 BISCOTTI, M. L. American Sporting Book Series. Illustrations $850 by T. O. Duncan. With an original woodcut by the author’s son, Matt Biscotti laid in. xiv, [2], 325, [3] pp. 4to, Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1994. Deluxe edition, letter “T” of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Three- quarter polished brown calf over marbled paper boards. Housed in a crimson cloth clamshell box with paper labels on spine and upper cover. Fine. A highly useful bibliography, this is also a leaf book. In addition to the tipped-in leaves gathered from imperfect copies, this deluxe edition contains at least three tipped-in leaves with color illustrations, as well as the original woodcut In- scribed by the author to Bill Trego. $600 ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  83 edition, De Luxe Edition, no. 117 of 135 copies, of which BISCOTTI, M. L. Paul Brown Master of Equine Art … with 125 are for sale. Original publisher’s vellum, blocked in gold a chapter “Paul Brown as a Book Illustrator” by Robin Bledsoe. with pattern of geese in flight on upper cover, t.e.g., others With 8 color plates and numerous illustrations in text. Pp. [1, uncut. Minor soiling, tape offsetting on ffep otherwise fine. limitation leaf (verso blank)], [i, portrait of Paul Brown], [ii, Bookplate. frontispiece of Brown before his house], [iii, title page], [iv, The frontispiece is an original etching, “Trumpeter Swan”, copyright page], v-x, 1-149. Tall 8vo, Lanham [Maryland] and titled and signed by the artist. Laid in are two signed Christ- New York: The Derrydale Press, [2001]. No 25 of 25 deluxe mas cards done by Bishop for Brannan Reath. copies, signed by the author on the title page. Original full $1,000 black morocco, spine and upper board titled in gilt. As new, a beautifully produced volume with substantial content. In inscribed copy of a landmark work, in rare dust-jacket custom cloth slipcase. Short biography and detailed bibliography of the great 85 equine artist Paul Brown (1893-1958) by noted sporting BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Introduction by Duke P. Ka- dealer and bibliographer Duke Biscotti. Warmly inscribed on hanamoku. With 46 captioned illustrations from photographs the title page by the author to sporting publisher William D. on 36 plates. [16], iv, 5- 95 pp. 8vo, Honolulu: Paradise of the Trego. Pacific Press, 1935. First edition. Original tapa-cloth binding, issue $450 without surfers on upper covers (no priority). Lacking front free endpaper, first leaf reattached, externally 84 fresh and clean. In very good yellow BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Birds. Etchings of Water-Fowl pictorial dust-jacket with two or and Upland Game Birds. Foreword by Colonel Harold P. Sheldon. three short tears without loss, small With an original signed etching and 73 etchings reproduced chips at spine-ends and corners, in aquatone. 4to, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. First surface wear at foot of spine panel. Custom slipcase. DeLa Vega B28. First edition of the first title devoted to surfing. Tom Blake (1902-1994) was a twentieth-century surfing and health food pioneer who conceived and developed the hollow surf board. Inscribed on front pastedown “To Dan, Donna & Garrett & Chris- tine Close, Tom Blake 1902-1993”, and also inscribed on one of the plates. The first definitive book on surfing, by the sport’s greatest in- novator and the first person to surf Malibu Point along with Sam Reid in September of 1926. “The most important publication in the surfing canon” (DeLa Vega, 200 Years of Surfing Literature). $15,000

 | james cummins bookseller 86 CARPENTER, R.R.M. My African Safari. Frontispiece map and 10 photographic ililustrations. 34, [1] pp. 12mo 17x13 cm (6-3⁄4 x5- 1⁄4 inches), East Aurora, NY: Done into this book by the Roycroft- ers, 1937. First edition. Original brown grained leatherette. Fine in cloth drop box. Czech p. 32 (“a very small quantity”). Carpenter’s account of his 1936 safari to Kenya, where he hunted rhino, buffalo, oryx, waterbuck, lion, and antelope with Donald Ker of Ker & Downey as Professional Hunter. $1,000

87 CATESBY, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. With an Introduction by George Frick (Coordinator of the Winterhur Program at the IUniversity of Delaware) and notes by Joseph Ewan (Prof. of Bi- ology at Tulane University). With 50 loose full-page color folio plates, each in its own folder. xvi, xvi, 2, 2, 107, [3] pp of bound volume. Folio, Savan- nah, Georgia: The Beehive Press, 1974. One of 500 copies. Designed and Printed by the Stinehour Press, with facsimiles by Meriden Gravure. Red cloth, laid in green buckram drop box. Fine. $750

88 CLARK, Roland. Gunner’s Dawn. Original signed etching, 5 color plates and 14 in black and white by the author. 125 pp. 8vo, New York: The Der- rydale Press, 1937. First edition, number 473 of 950 copies. Original red simulated leather. Bookplate of Charles H. Milburn. Very fine, in original glassine and red paper over boards, box with printed label with number. Siegel 118; Frazier C-6-a; Biscotti p. 85. $750

89 CLARK, Roland. Pot Luck. With black and white text illustrations and six color plates by the author; and with an original signed etching as frontispiece. 8vo, West Hartford , VT: The Countryman Press, 1945. Special edition, no. 22 of 150 large-paper deluxe copies, signed by the author. Original red boards, black morocco spine. Fine copy in original black paper slipcase. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Six stories of upland game bird shooting, with Clark’s splendid illustrations. $750 ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  90 CLARK, Roland. Roland Clark’s Etchings. Original etched frontispiece, signed by the artist, and 69 full page wildfowl plates by Clark. Folio, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, No. 137 of 800 copies. Original red cloth, gilt, with beige cloth spine and corners, about fine, with later glassine. In original printed and numbered box (with some wear). Siegel 139; Frazier C-7-a. A superb record of Roland Clark’s work, beautifully produced, and the largest of the Derrydales. Set as the frontispiece is Clark’s etching “The Morning Flight,” printed from the plate and signed in pencil below. $1,000

91 CLARK, Roland. Stray Shots. With 13 drypoint etchings, the first, frontispiece, signed by Clark. ii, 124, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. First Edition, one of 535 copies. Bound in full black morocco, gilt dentelles. Fine. Siegel 58; Frazier C-5-a. Roland Clark’s matchless drypoints, printed from the plates on fine watermarked deckle edge paper, are luminous—one doesn’t have to be a devotee of wildfowling to appreciate their artistry. If one is a devotee, this book is profoundly satis- fying. Frazier acknowledges this: “One of the most beautiful of the Derrydale Press books in every phase. In my opinion this one will continue to go up in value forever.” $2,000

92 [CROSS, Gorham L.]. Partridge Shortenin’, being an instructive and irreverent sketch commentary on the Psychology Foibles and Footwork of Partridge Hunters. By G. Grouse. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 8vo, n.p: Privately published, 1949. First edition, one of 100 copies only. Original green cloth, title and device in gilt on upper cover. Fine, spine faded, in green cloth drop box. Biscotti p. 174. Not in Bruns. A rare and delightful collection of sporting reminiscences which, despite the specificity of the title, involve a wide spectrum of activities: speed-boating, slingshot making, fishing for salmon and muskellunge, wildfowling for partridge, woodcock, duck and other quarry, lists of favorite sporting books, discussion of sporting gear, equipment, etiquette—all enlivened with interludes of family gossip and some slightly rowdy song lyrics. A rich and memorable book Inscribed on ffep “Presentation to/ Jeremiah M. Evarts/ Bird Shooter & Gentleman/ Superindendant of Partridge/Shortenin in rugged Vermont./ ‘Grampa Grouse’/ Gorham C. Cross/ Marion, Mass 1951.” $1,000

 | james cummins bookseller 93 94 DALE, T[homas] F[rancis]. Polo At Home and Abroad. Edited DAVIS, Edmund W. Woodcock Shooting. Photogravure by T.F. Dale (Stonecline). 5 mounted color plates after watercol- frontispiece and 38 photogravure plates. 124 pp. 8vo, New ors by G.D. Armour, including frontispiece (done expressly York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution for this book), 45 photographic plates. List of subscribers. xii, to the Author’s Friends, 1908. No. 29 of 100 copies, printed 346, [1] pp. 4to, London: The London & Counties Press As- on Imperial Japan paper. Recent half ivory calf and blue sociation Ltd. 39 King St. Covent Garden, 1915. Subscribers paper covered boards, spine rulled in gilt with red morocco edition, no. 17 of 150 copies. Original three quarters pebbled label, t.e.g. Fine. Riling 1652; Phillips, p. 96. Not in Pettingill, burgundy morocco, matching cloth sides, a little rubbed at Frauglione. extremities, else fine. A splendid work of unsurpassed, almost lyrical, prose and Polo at Home and Abroad is generally regarded as one of the superb photogravures — and of predictable rarity. most important books on the sport. Dale and his conribu- $3,250 tors provide a history of polo, the techniques of play, and the role played by the breeding and training of the polo pony. Additionally, as its title suggests, the book surveys the game in Britain and Ireland, as well as in India, the United States, 95 South America, Europe and Australia. Further, E.D. Cum- HAGERBAUMER, David and Sam Lehman. Selected ing’s chapter, “The Literature of Polo” is the earliest known American Game Birds. 26 plates. Oblong 4to, Caldwell, Idaho: comprehensive piece on the subject, and as such represents Caxton Press, 1972. First edition, number 27 of 50 copies an invaluable source to all polo bibliophiles. Finally, the with 5 etchings signed and numbered 27/500 enclosed in appendices contain an extensive listing of polo clubs world- an archival quality envelopes. Full brown pebbled bonded wide as well as tournaments, rules and the like. Besides its leather. Very fine in very fine custom orange cloth drop box, significance in terms of both polo play and history, the book’s with paper label. stunning watercolor reproductions and black and white $750 illustrations materially enhance the work throughout. (The foregoing was supplied by Mr. Dennis J. Amato, polo aficio- nado and bibliophile.) $2,500

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  the alfred b. maclay copy 96 [HENDERSON, Charles Cooper]. Fores’s Road Scrapings [cover title]. With 12 handcolored plates drawn and etched by C.C.H. (signed in the plate with monogram). Oblong folio, London: Published by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, n.d. [1840-41]. First edition. Quarter red staight grained morocco and pictorial boards. Fine in brown cloth drop box. Alfred B. Maclay copy with his small leather booklabel. Siltzer p. 138; Maclay sale (1945) lot 225; not in Abbey. Rare and beautifully executed series of coaching scenes and vignettes, superbly colored, and with impeccable provenance. $6,000

 | james cummins bookseller unrecorded deluxe binding, from the library of tsar alexander ii 97 HERBERT, Henry William [“Frank Forester”]. Frank Forester’s Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of North America. Illustrated. x, [11]-360; vi, [7]- 367, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Stringer & Townsend (late Burgess, Stringer & Co) 222 Broadway, 1849. First American edition. Publisher’s deluxe full gilt morocco binding, spines gilt with crossed rifles, stag’s head and power horn, boards elaborately gilt with single rule border and ornamental cornerpieces and central vignettes of hunting trophies, turn-ins gilt, white glazed endsheets stamped in gilt, a.e.g. (vol. I in black; vol. II in dark brown). Spine of vol. II slightly faded, else very fine bright copies in custom cloth slipcase. Phillips, p. 171: “Copyright and preface dated 1848.” Van Winkle pp. 25-29; Wetzel p. 157; BAL 8112. Provenance : Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881), book labels with his monogram and crest, shelf labels. One of the great mid-century American sporting books by the English expatriate sportsman and author whose books and writ- ings under the pen name “Frank Forester” enjoyed transatlantic fame and put American sport on the map, but who died debt- ridden and almost friendless in Newark, New Jersey, in 1857. Van Winkle notes that the book was published in London on 13 September (with title page dated 1848) and in New York on 23 October (with the title page dated 1849). Van Winkle notes that it was announced for 1 October in American periodicals (BAL records that Stringer & Townsend succeeded Bruges, Stringer in 1848). BAL also notes that the title pages for each volume are cancels and printed on paper unlike the rest of the text stock. This copy conforms with the BAL description of the earliest located issue. A classic sporting work in an unrecorded deluxe American binding with imperial Russian provenance, in superb, bright condition. $6,750

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  98 pioneering work on american sport, in original condition HICKS, F. C. Forty years among the Wild Animals of India. 100 With 103 plates (of which 67 are colored), 25 sketch maps, [KESTER, Jesse Y.] The American Shooter’s Manual, compris- numerous illustrations in text. vi, 667 pp., plus [3] ff. ads. Tall ing, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce The 8vo, Allahabad: Printed at the Pioneer Press, 1910. First edi- inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to The Dog, tion. Recent full green pebbled morocco, contrasting spine and the correct use of The Gun; also a description of the Game of label. Signed by the author on title page, “No. (62) F.C. Hicks, this Country, by a Gentleman of Philadelphia County. 3 full page 9-7-10”; with two later owner signatures in top margin. Fine. illustrations plus tail pieces and half page illustration with Czech Asia, pp. 104-5. ads at rear. 8vo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. First Colossal and comprehensively illustrated record of the edition, second issue. Original boards, unopened and uncut. author’s sporting life in India, with accounts of hunting tiger, Some minor rubbing, boards a bit soiled, occasional light fox- panthers, buffalo, bison, antelope, and a variety of smaller ing; a fine and unopened copy in a morocco backed clamshell game. box and cloth chemise. With the bookplate of John M. Schiff uncommon. and another. Howes K108; Henderson, p. 39; Phillips, p. 211. The first illustrated American sporting book, the first sport- $2,000 ing book written by an American, and the second sporting book to be published in America, preceded only by The Sportsman’s Companion (1783), written by a British officer. At 99 the end of the book is a series of five advertisements, the lon- HIGHTOWER, John. Pheasant Hunting. With a Foreword gest of which is for the Tackle Store of William B. Scull, of by Dave Newell. Color plates from paintings, line drawings, 96 North Third Street, Philadelphia, who offers a wide range and photographs by Lynn Bogue Hunt. x, [2], 227 pp. 8vo, of products including “Superfine best Blue Steel, best Kirby, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition, No. 124 of and Sea Fish Hooks of all sizes, Lines of all lengths fitted for 350 signed copies on special paper, with an extra color plate. sea or river … artificial Flies for trouting … walking Stick, Original pale blue boards with design in blind on upper fly, and bottom fishing Rods, from two to six joints … with cover, dark blue cloth spine, gilt, in original cream dj and every variety of articles applicable to fishing and fowling, all slipcase. of which he offers wholesale or retail.” This is, of course, the Delightful reminiscences and practical advice on taking this first angling advertisement to appear in a sporting book writ- “noisy, gaudy, tough, hard-flying game bird”; with excellent ten by an American. illustrations by Hunt (including a photograph of the artist a rare and highly desirable work, in superb, original himself). condition. $500 $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller biscotti’s copy 101 KNIGHT, John Alden. Ruffed Grouse. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs, and six color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke. xii, [1]-271, [1], iii, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi, 1947. First edition, no. 150 of 210 copies, signed by the author and with an extra loose plate inserted. Black three quarter morocco, gilt spine, tan cloth sides, t.e.g., a fine copy, in original numbered slipcase. Bookplates of Alan L. Harvie and M.L. (Duke) Biscotti. The natural history of the grouse, with methods of hunting and the author’s experiences with guns, dogs and people. An important, very scarce, and very sought-after volume, in fine condition. “Ruffed Grouse, like its companion volume Woodcock, was the first work devoted entirely to that game bird. Both titles enjoy high demand from hunters, naturalists and collectors.The deluxe edition is the most sought after of the four Knopf titles produced with deluxe editions. This is the case not just because of its content, or from a supply standpoint; the deluxe edition of Ruffed Grouse is a magnificent example of bookbinding. Sales records indicates only 165 copies of this limited edition were actually sold” (Biscotti). $850

signed by the translator, grafin koenigsmarck 102 KOENIGSMARCK, Hans von, Count. The Markhor. Sport in Cashmere … Translated from the German by Norah Bash- ford. Frontispiece reproducing painting of markhor on mountain peak; 8 plates after photographs. xv, 151 pp. 8vo, London: Keagan Paul Trench Trübner, 1910. First edition. Original sea green cloth, stamped in silver, upper board pictorial. spine ends lightly bumped, small scuff to lower outer corner of rear cover (repaired), else very good plus. A bright copy. Czech (Asia) p. 122. A German officer’s account of his experiences in India while guest of a British regiment, translated by his wife. Czech notes that von Koenigsmark hunted in the Himala- yas above Srinagar, bagging goral and bear; the final third of the book concerns hunting the markhor in Kashmir. The German version first appeared the following year. The markhor (Capra falconeri) was adopted as the national animal of Pakistan. Decidedly uncommon. This copy is signed by the translator at the foot of the introductory verses “Norah Gräfin Koenigsmarck née O’Nolan-Martin” (she has corrected the spelling of her printed name to Norah). $2,000

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  103 (MEADOW RUN PRESS) Archive of Meadow Run Press Sporting Book Publisher (1989-2010), including the publisher’s own copies of the books, original artwork, correspondence, typescripts, proofs, ephemera, editorial foul matter, etc. Approx. 60 linear feet (31 file boxes and 1 box of oversize material). Stone Harbor and Far Hills, New Jersey: 1989-2010. The Archive of Meadow Run Press, sporting book publisher 1989-2010. For two decades William D. Trego’s Meadow Run Press set the standards for American sporting book publishing and issued a series of finely produced original works by new and established authors as well as sporting club histories, privately printed angling volumes, and a select group of reprints of neglected classics. The books, among them Sea Level and Marquesa by Jeffrey Cardenas, The Henryville Fly Fishers by Ernest Schwiebert, Live Water by Tom McGuane, and the cult classic, The Starlight Creek Angling Society by Harry Middleton, are notable for their content and for a consistent attention to design, illustration, and the form of the finished book. Many of the titles were also issued in limited deluxe editions with special bindings and additional material by the artists and authors; several were printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson of Austin, Texas. The books were uniformly well received by reviewers and readers alike, and several were reprinted on multiple occasions. The publisher, Mr. William D. Trego, variously of Stone Harbor and Far Hills, New Jersey, was educated at the Philadelphia Col- lege of Art (now the University of the Arts), Temple University, and Villanova University. He established the press as his interests in collecting evolved from American literature to American sporting books and to the outdoors. From modest beginnings in 1989 with a reprint of a classic American angling work, he undertook to publish original works and commissioned suitable illustration art from living American artists including Peter Corbin, John Swan, John Rice, and others. The Meadow Run Press books re- flected the publisher’s style and something of his character as well: Tom McGuane, now a legendary figure in American outdoor writing, wrote to Mr. Trego, “The books are beautiful and you’ve done such a fantastic job on this project — in every way! I’ve been writing for a living for almost three decades and this is, by far, my most pleasant publishing experience” (autograph letter, signed, dated 27 December 1996, in the archive). The Archive includes editorial, business, and production correspondence relating to the books and to their sale to mail-order and trade customers, with significant exchanges with authors Tom McGuane, Ernest Schwiebert, Tosh Brown, David Swanson, John Cole, and others, as well as with the artists commissioned by the press. Mr. Trego views The Starlight Creek Angling Society as one of the most significant accomplishments of the press, and this is documented in the original typescript of the book, as well

 | james cummins bookseller as in the extensively edited drafts and abundant correspondence with the author, who died untimely, not long after the book was published. The other important discovery of the press was Jeffrey Cardenas, whose first book, Marquesa, has become a modern salt water angling classic. M.L. Biscotti’s A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1926-1985 (1997) is a significant addition to the tradition of sporting reference works. Mr. Trego is himself a well-regarded writer and one large archive box relating to his earlier articles is present. The archive also includes a variety of submission manuscripts for works that the press declined to publish. A bookman, Mr. Trego is known for his meticulous insistence on condition; all of the publisher’s copies of books are in superb condition, most with warm inscriptions from the authors and often with original drawings by the artists. Much of the smaller format artwork has been put into boxes to accompany notable typescripts, such as the raw, unedited typescript of Schwiebert’s Henryville Fly Fishers, or the substantial archive of Harry Middleton material. Generally the condition of materials in the archive files is fine; some of the correspondence is on thermal fax paper and thus may present conservation issues in the longer term. Mr. Trego is at work on a book on Harry Middleton and Starlight Creek, and retains all publishing rights to the Middleton material (suitable acknowledg- ment of the owner of the archive will be made when the book is published). A full description of the contents is available. A substantial archive and a rich glimpse into American sporting publishing at the close of the twentieth century. $100,000

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  hand-colored issue somewhat soiled and stained, spine darkened with small start 104 at top of front joint, edges bumped. Very good. Custom half MARKLAND, [A. B.]. Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting-Flying. morocco slipcase and chemise. Riling 1505; Czech p. 133; With a foreword by Col. H. P. Sheldon. Hand-colored illustra- Lockot 17578. tions, half-title and title page, and head- and tail-pieces by The English naturalist Richard Lydekker’s copy, signed by Robert Ball. x, 29 pp. 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. him above the presentation statement on the blank opposite Deluxe edition. Number 30 of 200 copies colored by hand (of the half-title. “One of the rarest of all African big game hunt- an entire edition of 500 copies), signed by the artist. Three- ing books” (Czech). quarter white paper over blue paper boards, hand-colored $7,500 printed paper label on upper cover, a fine copy. Siegel 56. A lovely work, with charming hand-colored illustrations. 106 $500 PRESCOTT, Marjorie Wiggin. Tales of a Sportsman’s Wife. [With:] Tales of a Sportsman’s Wife. Shooting. [With:] Tales of a Sportsman’s Wife. Fishing. Two etchings signed by the author/ lydekker’s copy artist in pencil at the bottom right in the first volume, 2 more unsigned in the second and none in the third. 18; 57, [3]; 105 79, [3] pp. 8vo, [Boston]: Privately Printed [by D.B. Updike, POTOCKI, Count Joseph. Sport in Somaliland, Being an Ac- The Merrymount Press, December 1936, 1937 & 1939]. First count of a Hunting Trip to that Region. Color portrait frontis- editions, each one of 150 copies. Three quarters cloth and piece; 18 photogravure plates; color text illustrations; folding Cockerel marbled boards, spines sunned (as usual), else fine. map. Title-page in red and black. [vi], 140 pp. Folio, London: In custom green cloth slipcase. Rowland Ward, “The Jungle”, 1900. Number 12 of 200 copies, signed by Rowland Ward “Presentation Copy/ No. 12/ The first volume with a laid-in card from the Prescotts offer- With Kind Regards/ Rowland Ward.”. Original gilt stamped ing it as an Christmas present. illustrated buckram, imitation snakeskin endpapers. Boards $750

107 PYE, Henry James. The Sportsman’s Dictionary; containing Instructions for various Methods to be observed in Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Hawking, Breeding and Feeding Horses for the Road and Turf, the Management of Dogs, Game and Dunghill-Cocks, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Doves, Singing-Birds, etc. Frontispiece, 16 plates (some toning and offsetting). [viii], 547 pp. 4to, London: Stockdale, 1807. Fifth edition. Bound in contemporary diced calf, neatly rebacked, with bookbinder’s label on front pastedown, “Bound by/ T. Sowler/ 15 St. Ann’s Square/Manchester.” Very Good copy. Westwood & Satchell p. 201; Huth 31; Schwerdt Vol II, p. 220. $500

 | james cummins bookseller 108 REEVES, Richard Stone. Thoroughbreds I Have Known. With foreword by Whitney Tower and commentary by Juno Cole Weyer with an introduction by the Artist. With 52 full color plates and other illustrations by the author. 304 pp. 4to, South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes, 1973. Unnumbered copy from a deluxe issue of 60 copies, signed by the author. Original full burgundy morocco, gilt bor- ders and ornaments on upper cover, panelled spine with emblematic devices, t.e.g. Fine copy in publisher’s original morocco-backed folding box. Lacking the portfolio of 4 collotype reproductions. A splendid collection of thoroughbred portraits by America’s foremost painter of horses. $1,000

109 RICHARDSON, Charles, et al. Racing at Home & Abroad: Vol. I: British Flat Racing and Breeding; Vol. II: British Steeple- chasing and Racing in Ireland; Vol. III: Racing and Breeding in America and the Colonies. Profusely illustrated, with the frontispiece of Vol. I being an original, signed, etching by Alick P.F. Ritchie. 3 vols. Large 4to, London: The London & Counties Press Association, 1923-31. First edition, No. 127 of only 475 complete sets. Original dark brown morocco, almost fine. Loder 1162. An imposing, substantial study of flat racing, steeplechas- ing, breeding, training, stable management, and sporting history contained in three massive volumes printed on heavy rag paper, totaling over 1200 pages with 229 superb plates, and representing an extraordinary production which would be impossible to duplicate today. $1,500

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  111 SCROPE, William. The Art of Deer-Stalking; illustrated by a narrative of a few days’ sport in the Forest of Atholl, with some account of the Nature and Habits of Red Deer, and a short description of the Scotch Forests. Illustrated by engravings and litho- graphs after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and by the author. xix, [1, plates], [1]-440 pp. Printed by A. Spottis- woode, New-Street-Square. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1839. A New Edition (second edition). Bound in full brown gilt morocco, with original green cloth, bound in at back, t.e.g., by Tout. Bookplate of Sir David Salomons Bart. Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. Minor fading, else very fine. Schwerdt II, pp. 154-5. The second edition of “a famous book, showing how this fascinating sport was carried on with the aid of deerhounds before modern rifles were introduced. It seems a pity that such noble animals as Scotch deerhounds and Irish wolf- hounds cannot now be put to their natural use”—Schwerdt. $750

the ara in southern waters: cruising & deep sea & fishing 112 (VANDERBILT, William K., II) [Photograph album of yachting and deep-sea fishing cruises with manuscript titles:] Southern Cruise of the Yacht “Ara” [to the Bahamas and 110 Cuba], Feb. 1925 [and:] Southern Cruise of the Yacht “Ara” SCHREINER, William H. Schreiner’s Sporting Manual. A from Miami (Fisher’s Island) Fla. [to Haiti, Jamaica, and Complete Treatise on Fishing, Fowling and Hunting …. Wood- Cuba] on March 6th to April 2nd, 1930. With 155 photo- engraved frontispiece, and other illustrations. 147 pp. 12mo, graphs (86 3-1/2 x 6 inches; 69 3 x 4-1/2 inches) corner Philadelphia: [Stereotyped by S.D. Wyeth], 1841. First edi- mounted on album leaves, 2 to 4 per page, captioned in ink tion. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Some by Muriel Vanderbilt. 94 numbered pages, of which pages 49- rubbing to spine ends and lower joint, minor foxing, chiefly 80 additionally contain 63 mounted post cards (10 real photo at first and last leaves. Very good plus, bright copy. Bookplate. post cards, 32 printed color cards, 21 black & white cards). Cloth folding box. Gee, p. 80; Henderson, p. 218; Phillips, p. With 5-page typescript log of 1930 cruise inserted at p. 28. 334; Westwood & Satchell, p. 189; Goodspeed, p. 158. Oblong 4to, 1925; 1930. Black leatherette album, with leaves The work is divided into two parts, the first concerning fish- on two posts, tied with cord. Condition generally very good ing and the second dealing with shooting, hunting, dogs, etc. to fine, some photos with fading or silvering. For the Ara cf. A scarce book, especially in the original cloth. It is, as Good- Toy 608 & 758 (for 1924 & 1926 cruises); Morris & Howland speed points out, “the first of our sporting books to treat p. 148. of the angler’s needs in a systematic way”. He goes on to A private family album documenting two of the tours of say, “In orthodox fashion Schreiner begins with an eulogy on the celebrated yacht Ara, owned by William K. Vanderbilt II. sport, but on the unusual ground of its therapeutic value — Although Vanderbilt published numerous volumes recording ‘It is a well established fact that by a judicious indulgence in his cruises, these voyages do not appear among his published the favorite sciences of fishing and gunning, many important logs. The photographs are captioned by his daughter Muriel, diseases may be removed; among which are cited indigestion, who records numerous details in a neat hand. nervous derangement, nervous pains, and debility, rheuma- The cast of characters in 1925 includes “Pops” (Wm. K. tism, and spinal affections, and even the indomitable, though Vanderbilt II), “Self” (Muriel), her sister Consie (Consuelo), very prevalent and alarming complaint of the lungs.’” a Muriel’s fiancé Freddy (Frederic C. Church, Jr., whom she fascinating contribution to the popularization of sport in married in July 1925 and divorced in 1929), Ellen, & Dick. america. Muriel’s uncle Harry (Harold S. Vanderbilt) makes a walk- $3,000 on appearance in Key West. Among the party’s activities was fishing, with more than a dozen photographs showing the sisters working the rod, members of the party with the morning’s catch (variously tuna, barracuda, shark, and a sea turtle), and portraits of the three young ladies, Dick, and  | james cummins bookseller Freddy, each holding a trophy catch. The 1930 cruise to Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba, with a party including Muriel, “Pops”, Rosie (his second wife, Rosamund), and Tony, comprises views from the yacht and at ports of call, as well as many scenes of rafting on the Rio Grande River and a few snapshots of fishing on the Demaji River (where the log details three days of successful tarpon fishing, not illustrated). The group of post cards includes scenes in Cuba, Haiti, Lake Tahoe, and the Monterey coast in California, including several real photo cards of the Pebble Beach area, among them a shot of woman golfer Marion Hollins on the 7th Green. A window into a lost world of private travel and an excellent visual record of two Vanderbilt family cruises, with good sporting content. $5,000

ii. shooting, field sports, etc. catalogue 118 |  inscribed to his daughter consuelo 113 VANDERBILT, William K. West Made East with the Loss of a Day … An Account of Adventures in Navigation Diversions, Picturesque Scenes, the Everyday Life of Remote Places, and the Taking of Specimens for the Vanderbilt Marine Museum. 7 color plates of fish after water colors by William E. Belanske, numerous photos, charts, drawings, etc., in text. xx, 280, [1] pp. Folio 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25.5. cm), New York: Privately Printed [by Edmund Garrett], 1933. First edition. Printed by Edmund Garrett, New York. No. 69 of 200 on Rives in half levant. Half blue levant and grey-green boards, spine titled in gilt, upper cover titled in gilt above the U.S. Naval Reserve banner of the Alva, t.e.g. A few faint traces of rubbing. Fine. Toy 474; Morris & Howland p. 149. One of the most lavishly produced yachting books ever, documenting “the first circumnavigation of the Globe under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant, July 7, 1931 to March 4, 1932,” with Vanderbilt commanding. Vanderbilt cruised throughout the 1920s in his celebrated yacht Ara. He took an active part in the design of her successor, the Alva (named for the author’s mother), designed by Cox & Stevens and built in Kiel. This extensively illustrated volume records the initial cruise from Keil to Miami and the circumnavigation by way of the Panama canal, the Galapagos, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, northeast Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, and up the Red Sea to the Suez canal and the Mediterranean, and a return home passing through the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands. Inscribed from William K. Vanderbilt to his daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl, who had been a regular aboard the Ara, and who joined the Alva at Panama : “Dearest Consuelo, with best wishes, affectionately, Father, June 7 1933.” $2,250

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