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We accept American Express, Master Card and Visa. : Monday - Friday : - : Front cover: Doughty, Cabinet of Natural History … , 1830-33 (no. 88) Inside front cover: Walton, The Compleat Angler …, 1888 (no. 360) Inside back cover: Crawhall, The Compleatest Angling Booke , 1859 (no. 72) Rear cover: (Gosden binding) Woolley, Experiments and Secrets in the Art of Angling, 1675 (no. 114) I. ANGLING, etc. the survey of the adirondacks 1. (ADIRONDACKS) Colvin, Verplanck. Report on a Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York for the Year 1873 ... Transmitted to the Legislature April 21, 1874. With 12 lithographic plates (1 folding) and 8 folding maps, some in color, and numerous text illustrations. 306 pp. Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1874. First edition. Senate Document 98. Original green cloth. Fine. Adirondack Bibliography 1119. $700 This a beautiful copy of Colvin’s second survey of the Adirondacks to the Senate, and a magnificently illustrated book. the adirondacks in the 1850s 2. (ADIRONDACKS) Osborne, Edward B. Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses, Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest, Lake and Random Rhymes]. Frontispiece portrait, five plates from pho- tographs. 182 pp. 12mo, Poughkeepsie: [Privately Printed], 1893. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board stamped in silver. Almost fine. Phillips, p. 282; Plum 1047; Bruns O-21 “important and rare work”; Heller 708. $300 The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting, fishing, and outdoor life in the Adirondacks, Michigan, and Canada in the 1950 and 1860s. 3. AFLALO, F[rederick G[eorge], editor. Sport in Europe. Illustrated from drawings by Archibald Thorburn, E. Caldwell, and E.F.T. Bennett and from photographs. 4to, London: Sands and Co, 1901. First edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth, t.e.g. Spine slightly sunned, else fine. $550 Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books 4. AFLALO, F[rederick G[eorge], editor. Sunshine and Sport in Florida and the West Indies. Photographic frontispiece and illus- trations. xv, [i], 272 pp. 8vo, London: T. Werner Laurie. Colston and Cov. Printers, Edinburgh, n.d. [ca. 1907]. Second edition. Original green cloth, gilt with white lettering. No fading at all on this notoriously fragile book. The best copy we have seen. Bruns A-54; Callahan, A Partial Tarpon Bibliography, p. ii (men- tioning only the first American edition). $500 Tarpon and other game fishing. Preface signed Devon, Midsummer 1907. on the restigouche, 1881-4 5. AKROYD, Charles H. A Veteran Sportsman’s Diary. Frontispiece portrait. [viii], 335 pp. 4to, Inverness: Robert Carruthers & Sons, “Courier” Office, 1926. First edition. Original blue cloth. Some minor foxing. Very good. Wetzel, p. 95; Bruns A-60. $600 Eton; Fishing in Norway, Ireland, Canada, Rockies; Golf and Grouse in Scotland; winter shooting in Kerry. Chapters IX & XI (1881-1882) & XV (1884) deal with a prolonged journey to Canada and include accounts of fishing on the Restigouche, with interrup- tions including a poaching warden, enforced pauses while the lumber drive passes through, and bear hunting. “I bitterly regretted leaving the life I had led for the last three years. As I have mentioned earlier, my first intentions were to have gone out for six weeks’ salmon fishing on the Restigouche in June 1881, and now in October 1884 I was still in Canada. The Call of the Wild had fairly got hold of me ...” (p. 141). very fine copy 6. ALDAM, W.H. A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making,” By an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published, the Original Spelling and Language Being Retained, with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies, and Samples of the Materials for Making Each Fly. Two chro- molithograph plates after James Poole, 2 completed flies and 23 flies with dressing materials displayed in 22 sunken mounts on six leaves. Title page printed in red and black, title and text print- 2 I. Angling, etc. ed within double red rules. xiii, [xiv, blank], [xv, errata], 91 pp. 4to, London: John B. Day, 3, Savoy Street, Strand, 1876. First edition, second issue. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Magnificent copy. Heckscher 18; Litchfield 49; Gee 84; Kerridge 79; Westwood & Satchell 3; Flyfisher’s Journal, Summer 2000, pp.31-36. $7,500 The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author’s name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. Both issues of this scarce work bear the date 1876 on the spine; a very few are recorded with a title page date of 1875, but it appears that no copies were actually sold until the Spring of 1876. Approximately 200 copies were sold over a period of several years. A beauti- ful production, in brighter than usual condition. 7. ALEXANDER, Colonel Sir James Edward. Salmon Fishing in Canada. Illustrated. xiv, [ii], 350 pp. Sm 8vo, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Half green polished calf, spine with red leather lettering-piece, label chipped, spine faded to brown. Bruns A-65; Westwood & Satchell, p. 3. $300 inscribed fine copy 8. [ALFRED, H.J.]. The Modern Angler, containing Instructions in the Art of Fly-Fishing, Spinning and Bottom-Fishing fully describing the Tackle and Other Requisites ... By Otter. Lithographic title and frontispiece and ten lithographs on green tinted paper. iii, [i], 103, [5], [1, ad] pp. 12mo, London: Alfred & Son 54, Moorgate Street, 1864. First edition. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, a.e.g. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 165. $450 Inscribed, “C.J. Hall Esq. with the Author’s kind regards.” with the fine chromolith of a trout 9. ALLERTON, R.G. Brook Trout Fishing. An Account of a Trip of the Oquossoc Angling Association to Northern Maine in June, 1869. 3 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books Illustrated with wood engravings. Illustrated with wood engrav- ings, and with the frequently missing chromolithographic fold- ing plate (“The Angler’s Pride, Brook Trout”) from the painting by Helen Findlay, facing p. 18 (“The fish literally sparkles with some ingenious form of embossing” — Bruns). 59, [9] pp. 12mo, New York: Printed by Perris & Brown for the Publisher, R.G. Allerton, 205 Broadway, 1869. First edition. Original embossed dark blue cloth, upper board titled in gilt. slight darkening spine, else fine. Bruns A-90; Westwood & Satchell, p. 4. $2,000 “The book contains some important historical information ... Rare” (Bruns). one of six folio copies 10. [ANDERDON, John Lavicount]. The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles Cotton at Beresford Hall, in Staffordshire. Extra-illustrat- ed with 99 Engraved Portraits, Views and Other Plates wood- engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the mar- gins. [iv], 241 pp. Folio(15J x 11G inches), [N.p.: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 6 folio copies. Bound in full green morocco, t.e.g. Fine, spine slightly sunned. Bookplate of Arthur Howard Thompson. Westwood and Satchell p. 1 (mentioning only the L.P. of 25 copies); Heckscher p. 11. $12,500 A conversation on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana. Anderdon’s library included the 1653 Compleat Angler, and this discourse between Angler, Painter, and Host is both an homage to the seventeenth-century masters, and an attempt to elucidate some of their sources and influences. The author intend- ed it “for the entertainment of a few gentlemen fishers,” the work being based on a tour he made along the Dove. There were 3 versions of this book: this, one of 6 copies in folio; a large-paper edition, limited to twenty-five copies, which appeared in 1845; and a trade edition in small 8vo format, pub- lished by Pickering two years later. “Anderdon was an enthusiastic fisherman, and a walking tour through Dovedale, the country of Charles Cotton, one of the earliest professors of the art of angling, gave him the idea of compiling a volume on The River Dove: with some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. Printed in 1845 for private circulation and for sale two years later, it contained many 4 I. Angling, etc. anecdotes of Cotton and his country life, with advice on successful fishing” (ODNB) 11. _____. The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. iv,296 pp. 12mo, London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition (see above). Bound in full green morocco, a.e.g., by Bumpus Ltd. Binders Oxford St. Spine faded to brown, minor rubbing, else fine. Keynes, p. 49; William Pickering and his suc- cessors 38 & 39; Westwood & Satchell, p.