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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)

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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 photographs. 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 illustrations. 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 (mentioning 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 chromolithograph 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 beautiful 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.

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Illustrated with wood engravings. Illustrated with wood engravings, and with the frequently missing chromolithographic folding 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-illustrated with 99 Engraved Portraits, Views and Other Plates wood- engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. [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 intended 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, published 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 successors 38 & 39; Westwood & Satchell, p. 1. $350 With 2-page ad for Pickering’s “Books on Angling” at the front.

12. The Angler’s Assistant, or, A New and Complete Treatise of the Art of Angling; containing every necessary instruction to practice with success this most healthy pastime. Frontispiece of 19 fish. 31 pp., 32-36, ads. 12mo, London: W. Mason, [c. 1813]. First edition. Half morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of Edwin F. Snow. Westwood & Satchell, p. 7. $650

13. Anglers’ Evenings. Papers by Members of the Manchester Anglers’ Association. 1st - 3rd Series. Illustrated. 3 vols. 8vo, Manchester: Abel Haywood and Son, 1883, 1882, 1894. First editions of the 2nd & 3rd Series, second edition of the 1st Series. Original green cloth stamped in black and gold. Fine set. Westwood & Stachell, p. 8. $250 Papers given at the monthly meeting of the Club. A very attractive set, and very scarce in the triple decker format.

one of 50 14. (ANTICOSTI ISLAND) Schmitt, Joseph. L’Ile d’Anticosti. Whose Wild and Barbaric Charm has Attracted Ardent Fisherman from All the World. Foreword by Eugene E. Wilson. 9 mounted color plates, large folding map of the island in rear pocket. xvii, [3], 101, [3] pp. 8vo, Hartford, Ct.: Privately Printed, 1940. First edition thus, one of 150 copies (50 in full binding, and 100 in wrappers). Original full brown calf (one of 50 thus) with gilt- 5 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books stamped name “ Walter L. Heiberg” on upper cover, and Heiberg’s pencilled signature and note, “Received 12 February 1941 Stockholm, Sweden.” Spine darkened and some wear to joints. In paper slipcase, which has split at 2 edges, but is whole. Bruns W-132 (giving erroneous date of 1939). $1,250 An adaptation by Wilson of Schmitt’s Monographie de l’Ile d’Anticosti (Paris, 1904), the first three chapters being translated by two scholars; the fifth chapter compiled by Wilson “from descriptions submitted by men who long have fished and loved Anticosti’s streams”

15. [APPERLEY, Charles James]. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton ... with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. By Nimrod. With 18 hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and T.J. Rawlins. 206 pp. 8vo, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second edition. Reprinted (with considerable additions) from The Sporting Magazine. Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Fine. Tooley 68; Schwerdt I, p. 39. $1,200 The deservedly famous plates in this classic account of a celebrated life show Mytton at play: riding a bear around the dining room; stalking wildfowl on the ice clad in his nightshirt; attempting to jump a fence in a horse and car- riage; making impossible leaps in the hunting fiel; demolishing a gaming room, and curing his case of hiccups by setting his clothes on fire. “The bold- est efforts of the human imagination,” writes Nimrod, “cannot much exceed the romance of real life”

16. AUDUBON, John James. The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America, reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of 431 plates. 2 vols. Folio, New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1966. First edition. Brown cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. $250

17. BABCOCK, Louis L. The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture. 175, viii pp. 8vo, N.p.: [Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 101 of 250 copies.

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Plain green wrappers, pictorial onlay of leaping tarpon on front wrapper. Minor rubbing. Bookplate of the Angler’s Club, with their release stamp. Bruns B-5; Callahan iii. $450 Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and “A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon”, at pp. 147-150 Privately printed, and re- issued in several editions through 1951.

18. 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 (8M x 6M; 225 x 175 mm), Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, ca. 1943. First edition, one of approximately 40 copies. Text in blue morocco gilt, hackles in 11 captioned mounts, in original blue morocco folding box. Litchfield 75; Kerridge 79. $8,500 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.

19. BAINBRIDGE, George C. The Fly Fisher’s Guide. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 hand-colored plates “representing upwards of forty of the most useful flies, accurately copied from nature.” 150 pp. 8vo, Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Half calf and marbled boards. Small loss at top of last leaf, no text affected. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 20-21. $2,000 Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. “One of the text books of the fly-fisher.” (Westwood & Satchell).

20. BAKER, Sir Samuel W. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. Illustrated with 6 chromolithographs and 10 engravings on wood. xii, 410, [2]+32 pp. ads. 8vo, London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1854. First edition. Half green morocco and cloth. Fine, fresh copy. Czech, p. 19 (“a cornerstone in the Asian big game library”). $1,000

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21. BARKER, Thomas. The Art of Angling wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation. [2], 18 pp. Small 4to (186 x 114 mm), London: Printed in the yeare, 1653. Second edition. Later three quarter morocco, a.e.g. with perforated, blind and ink stamps on title, bookplates of Robert Clarke and Field Museum, else a fine crisp copy, minor rubbing at joints. Wing B-783; Westwood and Satchell, p. 21. $6,000 Second edition of Thomas Barker’s The Art of Angling, a rare pre-Waltonian treatise first printed in 1651.

22. _____. The Art of Angling. Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that Recreation [with:] The Genteel Recreation: Or, the Pleasure of Angling, A Poem, 1700. 40, [4, ads]; [xiv], 78, [2] pp. London: Printed for R.H.,1651 [but London, for J.H. Burns, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden by Johnson, Printer, Apollo Press, 1820]. One of 100 copies of this fine facsimile of the 1651 first edition. Bound in full contemporary green morocco, a.e.g. Fine. $750

23. BATES, Joseph D. The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly. 23 full- page color plates. Line drawings and color frontispiece by Henry McDaniel. 4to, Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. First edition, No. 210 of 250 copies, signed by the author and with a separate portfolio of the 23 color plates of flies. Original tan cloth, brown morocco spine label, the portfolio bound in green cloth, both contained in original slipcase. A very fine copy. $400 Brilliant copy of the first truly comprehensive history of salmon fly art, by the renowned Col. Bates. The excellent color plates reproduce more than 300 flies, and there are authentic and detailed dressing instructions for over 75 historic patterns. Laid in is the publisher’s prospectus and covering letter, noting that the book was six years in preparation and two years in production. A superb work.

24. _____. Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing. Line drawings by Milton C. Weiler. xix, [i], 362 pp. 8vo, Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole

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Books, [1970]. First edition, number 57 of 600 signed copies, with a special reproduction of a watercolor by Weiler done only for the deluxe edition as frontispiece entitled “Salmon Fishing on the Matapedia”. Cloth. Very fine in slipcase. $750

deluxe issue, one of 24 25. _____. Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing. Color tipped-in frontispiece of “Salmon fishing on the Matapedia.” Line drawings by Milton C. Weiler. xix, [i], 362 pp. 8vo, Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, [1970]. Limited edition, one of 24 “Specially Bound Presentation Copies”, this copy inscribed and signed for Bill Wigton on the colophon page. Bound in three quarter blue morocco, spine slightly toned. In special wooden slipcase with fly inset. Bruns L-68. $2,000

26. _____, editor. The Atlantic Salmon Treasury. An anthology of selections from the first quarter-century of The Atlantic Salmon Journal 1948-1974. With illustrations by Charles DeFeo, Milton C. Weiler and others. xv, [i], 386 pp. 8vo, Montreal, Canada: Privately Printed by The Atlantic Salmon Association, 1975. No. 11 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Full blue morocco-grain leather gilt. As new, in box. $250

27. BENTLEY, H. Cumberland. The Legend of the Black Loch. With 18 sepia lithographs by Wycliffe Taylor, verse text printed below. [20] ff. Oblong folio, London: Fores, n.d. [1889]. First edition. Evergreen boards, upper board pictorial. Rebacked with red cloth spine. Some edge wear. Gift inscription dated 25 December 1889. Bookplate of W. Keith Rollo. Very good plus. Coleby, Regional Angling Literature p. 32. $250 Illustrated poem on fishing a Scottish loch, a tale of one that got away. The title page is undated; Coleby reports ca. 1890; the present copy bears a December 1889 inscription. With the bookplate of W. Keith Rollo, author of Fly Fishing in Northern Streams (1924) and The Art of Fly Fishing (1931).

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in dust jacket 28. BERGMAN, Ray. Trout. With fly plates in color by Dr. Edgar Burke, photographs and diagrams by Charles S. Krug and Ivin Sickles. 451 pp. Thick 8vo, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company,1938. First edition. Original brown cloth. Fine in rare pictorial dust jacket by Edgar Burke, minor wear at head of spine. Very good plus. With signature of Walter Heiberg, Washington, DC, Nov 30, 1938 on flyleaf. Bruns B-134; Wetzel, p. 104 (“A monumental work on the subject”). $750

deluxe issue 29. _____. With Fly, Plug, and Bait. With six color plates of flies by Dr. Edgar Burke, and drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. 640 pp. 8vo, New York: William Morrow, 1947. First edition, one of 240 numbered copies signed and numbered by Bergman, this copy out of series, marked “presentation copy”. Original three quarter green morocco, t.e.g. Almost fine, minor rubbing. With the accompanying portfolio containing copies of the six Burke plates. In slightly rubbed slipcase. Bruns B-135. $750

30. [BERNERS, Dame Juliana]. The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms as printed at Wesminster by Wynkn de Worde the yeare of our Lord McCCCLXXXXVI. [Edited by Joseph Haslewood]. Printed in red and black, black letter, woodcut plate and illustrations in the text, plate of facsimiles. Folio (27 x 19cm), London: Reprinted by Harding and Wright, St. John’s Square for White and Cochrane, 1810 [1811]. One of 150 copies, the first ‘modern’ reprint of the earliest English sporting book. Bound in near contemporary red morocco, t.e.g. Signed Geo. L. Strong on first blank, struck through in pencil with note, “bought at Strong sale, Nov. or Dec. 1878.” Fine. $3,000

31. _____. The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. Illustrated. 41 pp. 8vo, London: Printed with the Types of John Baskerville, for William Pickering, 1827. First Pickering edition. Bound in 10 I. Angling, etc. full contemporary pebbled morocco, a.e.g., minor foxing and mottling to upper cover, else fine. Bookplate of Robert Castles Embleton. Westwood & Satchell, p. 28-9; Keynes, p. 53. $350 A fine copy of the celebrated Pickering edition, printed with the types of John Baskerville.

32. _____. A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle. Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England...With an Introduction by Rev. M.G. Watkins, M.A. 4to, Elliot Stock, 1880. First edition of this imprint. Original full white blindstamped parchment paper over heavy boards, about fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 29. $400 A photographic facsimile, reproduced on hand-made deckle-edge paper, with an interesting introduction. “One of the best facsimiles ever executed” - Westwood & Satchell.

33. BEST, Thomas. A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute Observations … to which is Added The Compleat Fly-Fisher, etc. Frontispiece by Wooding. [xii], 112, [4, ads] pp. 12mo, London: Printed for C. Stalker...H. Turpin, 1787. First edition, with half-title. Bound in later full polished tan calf. Fine. Westwood & Satchell p. 31. $2,500 Begins with a chapter on the natural history of fish, goes on to the best manner of making and choosing rods, lines, hooks, etc. Chapter IV provides a description of flies. “Best was Keeper of His Majesty’s Drawing-room in the Tower of London” (Westwood & Satchell).

34. [BILTON, William]. The Angler in Ireland; or An Englishman’s Rambles Through Connaught and Munster during the Summer of 1833. Aquatint frontispieces, folding map. xii, 315; v, 312 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1834. First edition. Bound in quarter contemporary morocco and marbled boards. Some foxing, else very good. Westwood & Satchell, p.30 (mispelling author’s name as Belton). $1,000

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35. _____. Two Summers in Norway. By the Author of “The Angler in Ireland”. 2 folding maps. [iv], 332; [iv], 290 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Saunders & Otley, 1840. First edition, with half-titles. Bound in half green polished calf and marbled boards, spines faded to brown, else fine. Bookplates of Henry A. Sherwin. Westwood & Satchell, p. 161. $950 Several chapters deal with angling in Norway: vol. I, chapters 1, 4, 5, 6; and vol. II, chapter 8.

36. BISSELL, Alfred E. In Pursuit of Salar. 4 tipped-in color plates by Ogden Pleissner and many halftones. 64 pp. 8vo, Wilmington, Delaware: [Printed at the Anthoesen Press Portland, Maine], 1966. First edition, probably one of 100 copies. Black cloth spine and blue boards. Fine, spine lettering faded, as usual. Bruns B-16 (“Not seen”). $2,500 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “To Bill Wigton Merry Christmas from the Author and hoping this book will bring back some pleasant memories-1967 A.E.B.”

brilliant copy 37. BLACKER, William. Catechism of Fly making, Angling and Dyeing. Comprising the Most Essential Information. Two engraved title-pages, the first on card and dated 1843 with royal crest, 6 engraved plates by Sprake (4) and others, 9 wafered flies on one leaf. 130 pp. 12mo (5½ x3½ inches; 140 x 89 mm), London: Published by the Author, 8 December 1843. Second edition of Blacker’s Art of Angling (first published L., 1842). Original full polished tan calf, a.e.g., with 2 Blacker advertisement labels tipped in on front pastedown and smaller one on flyleaf. Beautiful, immaculate copy. In original purple morocco box with “Blacker’s Art of Fly making” stamped in blind on front cover (lip split and detached, but present). Westwood & Satchell, p. 33; Litchfield 27. $7,500

presentation copy 38. BLANCHARD, Émile. Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces - moœurs -

12 I. Angling, etc. instincts - industrie - commerce - ressources alimentaires - pisciculture - legislation concernant la peche. Avec 151 figures. xvi, 656 pp. 8vo, Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Contemporary quarter brown morocco, fine. Nissen 48. $450 Inscribed, “A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d’affection de l’auteur E. Blanchard.”

39. BOCCIUS, Gottlieb. A Treatise on the Management of Fresh- Water Fish, with a view to making them a source of profit to landed proprietors. Title-page vignette. 8vo, London: John Van Voorst, 1841. First edition. Original green silk grain cloth with printed label on upper cover. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 333. $300 Includes 23 German recipes for cooking fresh-water fish.

40. BOSGOED, D. Mulder. Bibliotheca Icthyologica et Piscatoria. Catalogus van Boeken en geschriften over de natuurlijke geschiedenis van de visschen en walvisschen, de kunstmatige vischteelt, de visscherijen, de wetgeving op de visscherijen, enz. 6436 titles. xxvi, 474 pp. 8vo, Haarlem: Dr. Erven Loosjes, 1873. First edition. Three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Westwood & Satchell, p. 53 (“A very admirable catalogue. The Bibliotheca of Mr. Westwood [1861] has been incorporated with it in extenso”). $350

the rare first 41. BOWLKER, Richard. The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular Account of the several Sorts of Fresh-Water Fish, with their most proper Baits. Also The Names, Colours, and Seasons of all the most Useful Flies. With Directions for Making each Fly .... Printer’s ornaments at beginning and end of text. [4], 95 pp. Small 8vo, Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. Contemporary panelled calf, neatly recased, some worming. Signed “E. Elisha Shrewsbury” on title-page and inked below printed author name “of Ludlow Shropshire.” Laid into a full brown slipcase and chemise by Macdonald. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 39-40; Heckscher 251. $7,500 13 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker’s name appears in the first edition, in the second, his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779, Charles “was considered the most finished fly-fisher of his day.” The work went into many editions. This, the first, is a rare book indeed.

42. BOWLKER, Charles, of Ludlow. The Art of Angling; or, Compleat Fly-Fisher ... to which are added, Directions for Making Artificial Flies. Frontispiece. xi, [i], 118, [2, ads] pp. 12mo, Birmingham: Printed by and for M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1788. Fifth edition. Contemporary paneled calf. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p.39. $500

43. _____. Another edition of the above. Engraved frontispiece. viii, [ii], 170 pp. 12mo, Ludlow: Printed by H. Procter, 1814. Eighth edition. Bound in full contemporary calf. Bookplates of James Taylor, Esq. and Rev. Edward J. Taylor. Westwood & Satchell, p. 39. $300

volume 1, number 1 44. BRADFORD, Charles, editor. The Angler’s Annual. 1905. A Hand Book of Fishes and Fishing Volume 1, No. 1. Frontispiece, decorated title. xxxi, [2], 47, [3]+ 21 pp. ads. 12mo, New York: The Nassau Press, Richmond Hill, Long Island, 1905. First edition. Original printed wrappers, printed in red and green. Rear cover with ad for the Long Island Railroad Co.; inside front cover with an ad for Pflueger’s Tackle from Enterprise Mfg. Co.; and inside back wrapper with an ad for theY&EAutomatic Reel from Yawman & Erbe. Some toning to text, else fine. $300 This periodical evolved into the Angler’s Guide. The subtitle on the front wrapper reads “Disclosing the haunts and habits of the popular sporting fishes and the favorite baits, rods and tackle of the expert angler”

pioneer of american sporting journalism 45. BRINLEY, Francis. Life of William T. Porter. Portrait frontispiece. vii, 273 pp. 8vo, New York: D. Appleton, 1860.

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Original brown pebbled cloth. Original spine has been laid down, else very good. Bruns B-228; Fairfax Harrison, The Background of the American Stud Book, pp. 87-88 et passim. $350 The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical Spirit of the Times, and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the annual American Turf Register and Racing & Trotting Calendar from 1845- 1855. He was a figure of enormous influence in the history of flat racing in America. “As a sportsman Porter was never a practicing horseman: his individual interest was in angling. But as a reporter of racing none has ever surpassed him” (Harrrison). “This biography is by Porter’s brother-in-law and contains much on Porter’s angling activities. Porter has been thought of as the father of the school of American sporting literature” (Bruns).

46. BROOKS, Charles E. The Henry’s Fork. An Intimate Portrait of a Great Trout River and Its History. Photographs. x, [iii], 210 pp. 4to, New York: Nick Lyons Books / Winchester Press, 1986. First edition, number 475 of 500 signed. Burgundy leather. Fine in fine slipcase. $250

47. [BROWN, John J.]. The American Anglers Guide. Frontispiece, two woodcut plates of hooks. 224 pp + 3 leaves of ads. 18mo, New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., and for sale by John J. Brown & Co, 1845. First edition. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt fisherman on front cover. An exceedingly bright copy, with only the slightest wear at the top of the spine and small bumps to corners, very unusual thus. In brown cloth slipcase and chemise. Westwood & Satchell, p. 4; Goodspeed pp. 159-163; Henderson, p. 66-67; Bruns B-253 (“a very rare item”); Wetzel, p. 113. $2,250 Sage Sale: “Said to be the first book on angling written by an American and printed in America.” The book describes the more important American fish and how to catch them, Goodspeed noting that most interesting are “the chapters on tackle, baits, and the general practice of angling, for these tell something about American angling usages then prevalent.” As Brown was a

15 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books tackle dealer, it is not surprising that this area is among his chief concerns, and he goes into much useful and historical detail. A rare and important contribution to American angling.

48. BROWNE, Moses. Angling Sports: in Nine Piscatory Eclogues. A New Attempt to introduce a more pleasing Variety and Mixture of Subjects and Characters into Pastoral. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii, [2], 136 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. Third edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco, t.e.g. Bookplate of Arnold Wood. Westwood and Satchell, p. 43-44. $300 The author, a poetical mainstay of The Gentleman’s Magazine, was a friend of Dr. Johnson and editor of The Complete Angler.

49. BROWN, William. The Natural History of the Salmon, as ascertained by the recent experiments in the artificial spawning and hatching of the ova and rearing of the fry, at Stormontfield, on the Tay. Frontispiece. 136 pp. 12mo, Glasgow: Thomas Murray, 1862. First edition. Original green cloth, spine quite faded, some rubbing, else very good. Westwood & Satchell p. 334. $250

50. CARDENAS, Jeffrey. Marquesa. A Time & Place with Fish. Illustrated by A. D. Tinkham. 8vo, Stone Harbor, New Jersey: Meadow Run Press, [1995]. Limited edition, one of 1,500 copies. Maroon cloth gilt, slipcase with pictorial paper label. As new. $250 Marquesa is the archaic name for the Marquesas Keys, an “extraordinary place [which] rises with an elevation not much greater than a sandbar along the seam of ... the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean ... 25 miles west of Key West, this unique atoll is the most remote area of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge” (Introduction). An account of time spent by the author in this fantastic area, including accounts of fishing for Tarpon, fly-fishing, boat- ing, shark attacks and much more.

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51. CARLETON, Henry Guy. Advice to Young Anglers.38pp. 8vo, [New York: William Mills & Son], 1896. First edition. Printed tan wrappers. Sewn. Small snag at top of spine, with small chip, else fine. Not in Bruns, Sheets, Wetzel. $900 Amusing comments on various aspects of angling and camping. Carleton was a journalist, the managing editor of the old Life magazine for which he wrote the humorous “Thompson Street Poker Club” papers. He was also a successful playwright: his play “The Butterflies”, featuring John Drew, made Maude Adams a star. In this book, distributed by a fishing tackle firm, he states, “If the few little precepts I have given can be of any use to the young anglers who will read them, I shall be glad. They have been of no use to me.”

52. CARROLL, W. The Angler’s Vade Mecum, containing a descriptive 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. 128 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. First edition. Later half morocco, and marbled boards. Westwood & Satchell, p. 50; Heckscher 359. $1,250 One hundred and ninety-four examples of flies, arranged under the months from May to September and colored by hand.

53. CHANCE, Jack and Julian PAGET, editors. The Fly-Fishers. An Anthology to Mark the Centenary of the Flyfishers’ Club 1884- 1984. Written by members. Illustrated by by Rodger McPhail. xi, [i], 168 pp. 8vo, [London: The Flyfishers’ Club, 1984]. First edition, number 54 of 85 copies of the deluxe edition. Bound in three quarter green calf and green cloth, with sunken fly on front pastedown, a.e.g. Very fine in slipcase. $900

54. CHAPMAN, Abel. Wild Norway; with Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, Etc. Illustrated by the Author, assisted by Chas. Whymper and P. Ch. Trench. 358, [8, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Edward Arnold, 1897. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine. $400

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55. CHARLETON, T.W. The Art of Fishing. A Poem. 80 pp. with errata slip tipped in at end. 8vo, North Shields: Printed for the Author by J.K. Pollock, 1819. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Some rubbing, else fine. With 2 bookplates of E.W. Sergeant and Farnk E. Kearney. Westwood & Satchell p. 58. $450 “An attempt...to give a rhymed compendium of the mechanism of the art. It is smoothly written, but matter of fact.” (Westwood & Satchell p. 58). A copy of this book brought $84 at Thompson’s Sale at Sotheby (London) in 1968.

56. [CHETHAM, James]. The Angler’s Vade Mecum: or, A Compendious, yet full, Discourse of Angling; Discovering the aptest Methods and Ways, exactest Rules, properest Baits, and choicest Experiments for the catching all manner of fresh-water Fish, etc. [4] leaves, pp. [1] - 180 (mispaged ‘166’), [6] leaves. 8vo (15 x 94 mm), London: Printed for Tho. Bassett, at the George near S. Dunistans Church in Fleet-street, 1681. First edition, first issue, with the Bassett imprint. Contemporary sheep over boards, spine laid down very harmoniously. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. In a brown cloth slipcase and chemise. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 59-60; Wing C-3788; Litchfield 2; Heckscher lot 447. $10,000 First edition of this important work. Chetham’s book is an important advance over his predecessors, whom he acknowledges in his Preface, but by no means slavishly copies. “... he escapes from the category of manual mak- ers, and takes rank as one of the original writers on the sport.” (Westwood & Satchell). Two editions appeared in the same year, with variant imprints. Wing gives priority to this, the Basset imprint; both are scarce.

57. _____. Another edition of the above. With two engraved plates of fish. 16mo, London: Printed for T. Basset, 1689. Second edition “Illustrated with Sculptures: And very much Enlarged.” Bound in full contemporary calf, gilt upper and lower covers, original spine laid down, new endpapers. Nice copy, in a red cloth slipcase and chemise. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 60; Gee, p. 87; Wing C3790. $1,500

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The second edition of this seminal work, enlarged and with engraved illustrations of 12 species of fish (trout, pike, carp, bream, perch, etc.). “The kind acceptance of the First, produces this Second Edition, wherein every chapter, nay almost every Section is considerably augmented, besides the Addition of Two new Chapters; and you’ll find on comparing them, many excellent things, and more refined knacks added through the whole...” (Author’s Preface).

58. [CHITTY, Edward]. The Illustrated Fly-Fisher’s Text Book ... by Theophilus South. 23 engraved plates, nmerous woodcuts in the text. 231 pp. 8vo, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845. Second edition, with additional plates. Bound in contemporary half calf. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p. 198. $300 A nice copy of an elegant book, “one of the best of its class” (Westwood & Satchell).

59. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H[enry]. The Book of the Pike. A Practical Treatise on the Various Methods of Jack Fishing. With an Analysis of the Tackle Employed. The History of the Fish, etc. Also a chapter on Spinning the Trout in Lakes and Rivers. With a color frontispiece and 8 plates plus17 illustrations in the text. 8vo, London: Robert Hardwicke, 192, Picadilly, 1865. First edition. Original green cloth. Fine. Bookplate of Chas. J. Cross. Westwood & Satchell, p. 168. $500

60. _____. The Modern Practical Angler. Chromolithograph frontispiece, and 50 engravings of fish and tackle. xvi, 288 pp. 8vo, London: George Routledge, 1870. First edition. Bound in half green morocco, gilt spine. Minor rubbing to front joints. Bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. $250

61. _____. The Sporting Fish of Great Britain with Notes on Ichthyology. 16 chromolithographic plates, and 2 illustrations in black and white . [viii], 185, [1, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Samspson Low, 1886. First edition, one of 500 copies. Original green cloth. Fine. $350

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rare in wrappers 62. CLARKE, [Kivert] Kit. Where the Trout Hide. Illustrated. 115 pp. 12mo, New York: Brentano’s, 1889. First edition. Printed pictorial wrappers. Small chips, else fine. Bruns C-117. $250 “Material on Rangely Lakes, Androscoggin, Lake St. John, the Saguenay, etc. Very important historically. Seldom seen...” (Bruns). A very scarce book.

63. CLIFFE, John Henry. Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles among the Mountains, Valleys, and Solitudes of Wales. With sketches of some of the lakes, streams, mountains and scenic attrac- tions in both divisions of the principality. 254, [2] pp. 8vo, London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1860. First edition. Original red cloth. Very good. Bookplate of Heckscher and Charles Davison Stewart. Westwood & Satchell, p. 62. $250 Less an angling handbook than a contemplative, and very detailed, guide to the sportsman’s Wales.

64. CONWAY, James. Letters from the Highlands, or Two Months among the Salmon and the Deer. Frontispiece, vignette title-page. viii, 142 pp. 8vo, London: Bernard Lumley, 514, New Oxford Street, 1859. First edition. Contemporary half pebbled morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine. Very handsome. Bookplate of Dean Sage. $250

fearing-heckscher copy 65. COOKSON, Richard. The Goosnargh Rambler. 146, [1] pp. Printed by W. Bailey, Fishergate, Preston. 12mo, London: Simpkins, Marshall, 1850. First edition. Original cloth, spine worn. Bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. Marston, Supplement to Westwood & Satchell, p. 243; Heckscher sale lot 502 (this copy). $3,000 With an ALS from Daniel B. Fearing addressed to “Cousin Johnny” referring to this as unknown to either Westwood and Satchell or Dean Sage (see p. 127 for discussion of Walton); and with a presentation inscription on the flyleaf from Fearing to Heckscher, dated December,1900. Desirable copy of a very scarce book.

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66. COOPER, John Ashley. The Great Salmon Rivers of Scotland. An Angler’s Guide to the Rivers Dee, Spey, Tay and Tweed. Illustrated. 208 pp. 8vo, London: Gollancz, 1980. First edition, no. 24 of 30 deluxe copies specially bound, signed by the author on a printed limitation statement tipped to the front free endpaper. Quarter orange morocco and cloth. As new in matching cloth slipcase. $2,000

67. CORY, Charles B. Hunting and Fishing in Florida, Including a Key to the Water Birds Known to Occur in the State. Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs. 304 pp. 8vo, Boston: Estes & Lauriat. Printed by the Barta Press, Boston, 1896. First edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco, with the original pictorial brown cloth covers, showing a silver-embossed tarpon being hooked, bound in. Green faded to brown, minor wear, else fine. With the 3 bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher on front pastedown. Bruns C-168. Not in Callahan’s Tarpon Bibliography. $500 An interesting account of the sport and ornithology of the state, with some wonderful historic photographs. Included is a chapter on tarpon fishing, with four photographs of the contest.

68. [COTTON, Charles]. The Compleat Gamester: or, Instructions how to play at all manner of usual, and most Gentile Games, either on Cards, Dice, Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, or Chess. Also the Arts and Misteries of Riding, Racing, Archery, and Cock-Fighting. To which is Added, The game of Basset. With a Discourse of Gaming in general. The Description of a Gaming Ordinary, and the Character of a Gamester. With a song on the Game at Piquet. All Regulated by the most Experienc’d Masters. Engraved frontispiece. With the letter- press description of the frontispiece bound in before the plate. xvi, 184 pp. Small 8vo, London: Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun, 1710. Fifth edition. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked. ESTC T190403. $2,750 A classic of early English sport and games.

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69. _____. Poems on Several Occasions. [8], 729 [i.e. 719], [1] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for Tho. Bassett, Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox, in Westminster-Hall, 1689. First edition. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine, lettering label. Small snag at top of spine, else fine. Bookplates of The Right Hon. Anthony Earle of Kent, 1702, and Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, Wrest Park. Wing C-6389; Westwood & Satchell p. 66; Pforzheimer 221. $2,000 Of piscatorial interest, as it contains “The angler’s ballad”, “To my dear and most worthy friend, Mr. Izaak Walton”, “The retirement. Stanzes Irreguliers. To Mr. Izaak Walton”, and “Contentation, directed to my dear Father and most worthy Friend, Mr. Izaak Walton”

70. [COX, Nicholas]. The Gentleman’s Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Wherein these Generous Exercises are largely Treated of, and the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Also the method of Breeding and Managing a Hunting Horse ...The Fourth Edition, To which is now added, A Perfect Abstract of all the Forest-Laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this time .... Engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates. [10], 138, 91, 2-78, 71, 90; [8, tables], 101. [1] pp. 8vo, London: Printed by J. Dawks, for N. Rolls, in Petty-Canons-Hall, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1697. Fourth edition. Bound in full18th-century panelled calf, with new spine and red leather lettering piece. Very good copy. Bookplates of William Pinkerton (ink signature G.M. Rivington Wilson on bottom), and of Charles Dunlap. Wing C-6706; Schwerdt I, pp. 122-23; Westwood & Satchell, pp. 68-69; Sherwin (1946), lot 146 (part); Maclay Sale lot 173. $4,000 “Cox’s book is well composed, comprehensive, and compact. It fills a space in the not overcrowded list of old English hunting and hawking books and certainly compares favourably with John Ray’s additions to the ‘Ornithology,’ which deal with fowling and hawking” (Schwerdt I, p. 123). As for the angling section, “Nicholas Cox is of the superstitious, astrological, necromantical order of angling writers. He makes us acquainted with divers miraculous streams and unaccountable fishes.” (See long note in Westwood & Satchell, pp. 68-69.).

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71. CRAWHALL, Joseph, editor. A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. xv, [i], 312, [2] pp. 8vo, Newcastle-on-Tyne: George Rutland, 22 Blackett Street. Printed by Ballantyne & Company, Edinburgh, 1864. First edition. Bound in publisher’s quarter green morocco and crimson cloth. Bookseller label of Holde, Liverpool. Fine. Bookplate of Arthur E. William-Browne. $250

sherwin copy of a rare and beautiful book 72. _____. The Compleatest Angling Booke, That Ever Was Writ. Engraved title-page, 32 engraved plates (most on india-proof paper, several hand-colored), other wood-engraved plates, music and illustrations, many hand-colored, original double-page watercolor of a trout, woodcut device at end. 4to, [Newcastle: Joseph Crawhall, 1859]. First edition, limited to 40 copies. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, titled on the spine Angling, t.e.g. Minor rubbing, else fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. Westwood and Satchell, p. 69-70. $10,000 “A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile’s collection. It was both printed and illustrated by the author ... only forty copies were struck off for private circulation” (Westwood & Satchell).

73. _____. Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke. Illustrated with hand- colored woodcuts throughout. 118 pp. 8vo, London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. First edition, one of 500 copies. Vellum spine and corners, gilt-stamped parchment sides with the original ties, printed linen pouches mounted to the pastedowns. Ink inscription on the title-page, “Walter Heiberg in memory of the Woodstock days from his old friend and fellow disciple of [Izaak Walton, from title] Lawrence Amor 1942.” Several newspaper clippings tipped to a few of the blank leaves comprising the section for “Fysshe Stories”. Vellum spines with small tear, parchment sides lifting from vellum, but overall a very good copy. Coigney 126. $600

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36 poems and posies extracted from the fifth edition of Walton’s Angler of 1676), presented with Crawhall’s inimitable charm and whimsy. Very scarce on the market.

74. CUTCLIFFE, H.C. The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams: Comprising a Complete System of Fishing the North Devon Streams, and Their Like: With Detailed Instructions in the Art of Fishing with the Artificial Fly, the Natural Fly, the Fern Web, Beetle, Maggot, Worm, and Minnow, both Natural and Artificial. xiii, 207 pp. 8vo, South Molton: W. Tucker, Square, 1863. First edition. Contemporary half green morocco. Spine faded to brown, else fine. With the three bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. Westwood & Satchell p.72. $550

75. DANIEL, Rev. William B. Rural Sports. 2 engraved titles + 63 engraved plates. 383, [4, Index]; 520, [4, Index] pp. 2 vols. 4to, London: Bunny & Gold, 1801-1802. First edition. Full contemporary blue straight grained morocco extra, spine in gilt, a.e.g. Some minor foxing to preliminaries, some minor rubbing to binding, else fine. Bookplate of John Miller. Schwerdt I, p. 134; Heckscher, p. 77 (Supplement, extra-illustrated). $1,500 A handsome, wide-margined copy of the first edition of this sporting classic, covering a profusion of field sports, as well as game laws. This first edition was printed in 1801-2 and it went into many editions, including one in 1812. Although the book is generally assumed to deal almost exclusively with hunting and shooting, the entirety of volume II is devoted to Angling, contains angling plates and extensive discussions of the varieties of fish and where to take them, hooks and tackle, weather considerations, fish ponds, and other relevant subjects of angling interest.

76. DASHWOOD, Richard Lewes. Chiploquorgan or, Life by the Camp Fire in Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. Frontispiece. 293 pp. 8vo, Dublin: Robert T. White, 45 Fleet Street, 1871. First edition. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p. 76. $400 Restigouche and Nepsiquit fishing.

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77. _____. Another edition. Frontispiece of “Camp near Pleasant Brook, New Brunswick.” 293 pp. 8vo, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1872. “New [i.e., second] edition”. Original green cloth. Almost fine. Signed George S. Birrell on flyleaf. Westwood & Satchell, p. 76. $300

78. DAVIS, Edmund W. Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia. Photogravure frontispiece, 15 photogravure plates, and 3 color plates of flies. 152, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution to the Author’s Friends, 1904. First edition, number 76 of 100 copies printed on Imperial Japan Paper. Original parchment-backed boards, printed paper label (somewhat soiled). Slight toning to spine, otherwise a fine copy. In half morocco slipcase and inner chemise. Bruns D-25; Gee 88; Litchfield 71. $4,000 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”

79. _____. Woodcock Shooting. Photogravure frontispiece and 38 photogravure plates. 124 pp. 8vo, New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution to the Author’s Friends, 1908. First edition. Number 37 of 100 copies, printed on Imperial Japan paper. Original parchment-backed boards, french tips, paper spine label. Some toning of spine, one side of label rubbed, without loss. Near fine copy. With a loosely inserted hand-colored photogravure. Owner signature dated 2/15/09. Riling 1652; Phillips, p. 96. Not in Pettingill, Frauglione. $4,000 A beautiful companion piece to Davis’ celebrated work, Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia (see above)

80. [DAVY, Sir Humphrey]. Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. By an Angler. Illustrated with 3 full-

25 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books page wood engravings, including folding plate. viii, 273, [1] pp. 12mo, London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. Attractively bound in 19th-century three quarter calf. Front hinge starting, spine rubbed. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p. 77; Heckscher 593. $500 A rare copy of the first edition of a book which, Westwood & Satchell state, “ranks high in the scale of angling literature”

81. (DEERSTALKING) St. John, Charles. ATourin Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. Illustrated. 296; 288 pp. 12mo, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1849. First edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco over marbled boards with small blue binder’s label reading “Bound by W. George Secondhand Bookseller 26 Park Street, Bristol. Catalogues Gratis.” Bookplate of Henry Sherwin. Westwood & Satchell, p. 185. Binder not in Spawn & Kinsella. $600 Deerstalking, shooting and wildfowling, dogs, fishing and falconry.

82. [DENNYS, John]. The Secrets of Angling Teaching the Choicest Tools, Baits, and Seasons for the Taking of Fish in Pond or River: Practiced and familiarly opened in Three Books. By J.D. Esquire. Augmented with many approved Experiments. By W. Lauson. [Edited by Sir Henry Ellis]. 36, [1] pp. T. Bensley, Printer. 8vo, London: Robert Triphook, 1811. One of 100 copies. Full later calf, red leather label by J. Magrath Regent st. Warrington, with his ticket. Bookplate of John Gerard Heckscher. Westwood & Satchell, p. 73. $500 With letters from bookseller tipped in.

83. DIMOCK, A.W. The Book of the Tarpon. Profusely illustrated with photos by Julian Dimock. 256 pp. 8vo, New York: Outing Publishing, 1915. Second edition. Blue cloth with mounted half-tone plate on front cover. Very good. Bookplate of Stephen Fairbanks and his signature. $450 “These photos have never been surpassed ...” (Bruns). 26 I. Angling, etc.

84. _____. Florida Enchantments. Illustrated with photographs by Julian A. Dimock. x, 318 pp. 8vo, New York: The Outing Publishing Company,1908. First edition. Original light blue pictorial cloth, stamped in brown and gilt. Fine, spine slightly faded. Bruns D-76. $300 Alligators, dolphin, shark, tarpon, sawfish, the Everglades, and much more, including moonshine!.

inscribed 85. _____. Wall Street and The Wilds. Half-tone illustrations. 8vo, New York: Outing Company, 1915. First edition. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. Bruns D-75. $250 Inscribed, “To Melville A. Clark Dear Melville; If one must choose between the wilds of Wall Street and the gentleness of the wilds the wise man will take the woods. A.W. Dimock. The Happy Valley… NY Oct 18, 1917.”

86. Dit Boecxken. Illustrated. 4to, [Twickenham, England: Honey Dun Press Limited. Printed by Kingprint, Richmond, 1978]. Number 75 of 125 copies. Quarter red morocco and marbled boards. Very fine in original box. $500 Facsimile of the 1872 edition privately printed for Alfred Denison, “A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing Written Originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492”

87. DODGE, Richard Irving. The Black Hills. A Minute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Timber, Gold, Geology, Zoology, Etc. with An Accurate Map, Four Sectional Drawings, And Ten Plates From Photographs, Taken On The Spot. Tinted lithograph frontispiece and 9 other tinted plates, colored folding chart, and folding map (two short tears near mount, no loss, else fine). 151, [4] pp. 12mo, New York: James Miller, 1876. First edition. Original orange cloth. Spine slightly faded, Very good copy. Graff 1111; Howes D-401; Jennewein 59. $300

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complete set - the phillips copy 88. DOUGHTY, Thomas and John. The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Charles Wilson Peale and William Bartram and engraved titles to each volume, Engraved plate in Vol III, “Death of the Fox”. With 54 hand-colored lithographs. vii, [i], 298, [2, Index] ; vii, [i], 292, [2]; 96 pp. 3 vols. 4to, Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. Contemporary half calf and half morocco. Last two volumes have the bookplates of Samuel Appleton and E.O. Bangs. First 100 pages of volume I quite browned, as are the first and last leaves of volume II. Volume III very clean, the Wild Turkey plate is present and skillfully colored. Phillips p. 69; Reese, American Color Plate Books, #12; Gee, Early American Sporting Books, pp.48-49; Henderson p.37; Howes D 433. Provenance: John Phillips Sale, American Art Association, March 26, 1936, lot 55. $10,000 “A mine of informatiion on contemporary sport and natural history” (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the publication ceased with the 4th part of vol. III. Connett published a selection of articles, Some Early American Hunters (1928) as one of the early Derrydale Press titles. “This was the first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographic plates, preceded only by three minor books in the 1820s ... an amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narra- tives, and practical advice for the countryman” (Reese). This set, while not uniform, has an interesting American sporting provenance, from the collection of John C. Phillips, sportsman and author of A Natural History of the Ducks (1922-1926) and the Bibliography of American Sporting Books (1930).

89. DOWELL, James [Editor]. Norwegian Anglings and Other Sportings. With Map of Norway and Sweden ... Season 1908 (Tenth Year of Issue). Illustrated with colored fold-out map and numerous photographs. 246, [1] pp. 8vo, London: J.A. Lumley & Dowell, Lumley House, 1908. First edition. Original pictorial white boards. Very nice, fresh copy of this fragile book.

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Hampton, Modern Angling Bibliography, p. 32 (for 1911 ed.). $400

90. DOWELL, James, editor. Norwegian Anglings. Elk, Reindeer and Ryper Shootings and Other Sportings. Dowell’s List of Scottish Estates for sale...Thirteenth Year of Issue. Folding map (colored), and numerous other illustrations. 214, [1] pp. 8vo, London: J.A. Lumley & Dowell, 1911. Coronation Number. Original pictorial boards. Fine, bottom corners bumped. $250 The 1911 season guide of the sporting outfitter, Lumley & Dowell, which includes some marvellous sporting photographs. Very scarce.

91. DRYDEN, Adam. Hints to Anglers. With 5 folding maps. [iv], 40 pp. 12mo, London: Routledge, 1862. First edition. Original green cloth. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 81. $250

two in one 92. DUBRAVIUS, Janus. De Piscinis et Piscium , qui in eis aluntur, naturis, libri quinque... Cum scholis Conradi Gesneri [and:] Xenocratis de Alimento Aquatilibus. a-i8 k4, A-D8 E4 (k4, E4 blank). 12mo, [Zurich: Andreas Gessner], 1559. Second edition (First 1552). Later diced calf, with interesting notes at the back. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin and Charles Wetzel. Adams D- 1009; Bosgoed 69, Westwood & Satchell, p. 81 (1st ed., 1557). $2,500

93. DUGMORE, A. A. Radclyffe. The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou. An Intimate Account of the Life of the Reindeer of North America. Illustrated with Paintings, Drawings and Photographs from Life by the Author. Folding map at back. viii,191 pp. 4to, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Blue gilt-lettered cloth with gilt- stamped image of bucks locking horns. About fine. $250

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94. DURNFORD, The Rev. Richard. The Fishing Diary 1809- 1819. Frontispiece portrait, color plate, black and white photograph & illustration. xii,112 pp. 8vo, Winchester: Warren & Son, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Green cloth. Very good. $250

95. (EDINBURGH ANGLING CLUB) Songs of the Edinburgh Angling Club. With Illustrations drawn and engraved by Members of the Club. 15 steel-engraved vignettes by William Forrest from drawings by George Simson, R. Caunter, W. Forrest, A. Perigal, and D. Simson. xv, 88 pp. 4to, Edinburgh: Privately Printed for Members of the Club, 1858. First edition. Publisher’s green ver- tically ribbed cloth, blindstamped outer borders , gilt vignette of bird on rock in gilt on front and in blind on lower cover, spine with gilt title, fly and fish motif. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 83-84. $300

96. EDMONDS, Hartfield H, and Norman N. LEE. Brook and River Trouting. A Manual of Modern North Country methods. Frontispiece and 10 hand-colored engraved plates of flies. 106 pp. Small 4to, Bradford: Published by the Authors. 23 Bank Street, [1916]. First trade edition. Original tan buckram. About fine, spine slightly darkened and minor rubbing at joints. Robb, “Notable Angling Literature”, p. 216. $750

van winkle copy 97. ELLIOTT, William. Carolina Sports by Land and Water. Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, &c. 172 pp. 12mo, Charleston, [South Carolina]: Burges & James, 1846. First edition. Bound in later pebbled morocco over flexible boards. Bookplate of William M. Van Winkle. Some toning of paper stock, spine a bit rubbed. Fine. Phillips p. 111; Howes E112; Gee, Sportsman’s Library p. 136; Henderson p. 108; Five Centuries of Sport (Maclay Sale) lot 208; Litchfield p. 41. $2,000 A landmark of American sporting literature and an uncommon Charleston imprint.

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With an ALS from Wilmot D. Porcher of Charleston presenting this book to the Larchmont Yacht Club in Sept. 1892, and noting “... the devil-fish, alas, have never come back to our Coasts since the ‘Bombardments’ in 61 to 65, but the other sports described are still obtainable, though ‘Fish Stories’ they are true ...” With the sporting bookplate of noted collector from the interwar years, William M. Van Winkle, author of the bibliography of Frank Forester.

98. FAIRCHILD, G[eorge] M[oore], Jr. Rod and Canoe, Rifle and Snowshoe in Quebec’s Adirondacks. Illustrated. 207, [9, ads] pp. 12mo, Quebec (City): Printed by Frank Carrel. Daily Telegraph Office, 1896. First edition. Original marbled wrappers printed on front cover. splitting in middle of text block, else very good. Not in Lande; Bruns F-4. $500 Includes much on angling for salmon and ouananiche, trout, camping, hunting, folklore. A scarce work by a knowledgeable Quebec chronicler, George Moore Fairchild (1854-1912). (See Lande S-751 for another work).

99. (FALCONRY) Harting, James Edmund. Bibliotheca Accipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating to Falconry. Illustrated with Colored frontispiece and 25 other plates. xxviii, 289, [3] pp. 8vo, London: Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, 1891. First edition. Original tan cloth, brown morocco spine, t.e.g. Near fine. $700

100. [FITZGIBBON, Edward]. The Book of the Salmon: in Two Parts. by “Ephemera.” Assisted by Andrew Young. Hand-colored frontispiece, 7 other hand-colored plates, and one uncolored. 242, [32, ads] pp. 12mo, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850. First edition. Bound in three quarter tan polished calf, gilt spine, leather title labels , by Stikeman. One label missing, else fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 86 (“highly esteemed”); Coleby, p. 66. $1,000

101. FLETCHER, Phineas. The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man. Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies. [14],

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181, [3, blank], [2, second title], [2, blank], 96, 101-130, [2] pp. Collation: ¶-¶¶4 (¶3 and ¶4 reversed), A-Z4,*2 (*1 blank and *2 reversed), A-M4,O-R4. 4to, Cambridge: Printers to the Universitie, 1633. First edition. Contemporary paneled calf, spine gilt, joints cracked but cords holding, title page repaired on verso, some browning throughout, a few leaves trimmed close at upper margin, half of rear free endpaper excised, contemporary Welsh annotations to paste-downs, in custom chemise and slipcase. STC 11082; Hayward 67; Pforzheimer 376; Bibliotheca Osleriana 4810; Westwood & Satchell, p. 95. $2,000 Of the first poem, Osler remarks that it is an “elaborate allegorical description of the human body, with anatomical notes...” The “Piscatory Eclogues” have a separate title and pagination, and “the inner meaning of the poem, is rather amorous than piscatorial”, according to Westwood & Satchell.

102. [FRANCE, Lewis B.]. With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters. Frontispiece map. 151 pp. 12mo, Denver: Chain, Hardy & Co, 1884. First edition. Original green gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. $325

103. FRANCIS, Austin M. Catskill Rivers. Birthplace of American Fly Fishing. Illustrated. Maps by John Manilowski. xiii, [i], 258 pp. Printed at Meriden-Gravure on Mohawk Superfine. 4to, New York: privately printed [at the Beaverkill Press], [1983]. First edition, number 25 of 300 deluxe copies, signed by the author. Original full drum-dyed walnut calfhide, gilt pictorial device of an angler’s creel on front board, a.e.g. Fine in slipcase. $1,000 Beautifully produced deluxe issue of this richly illustrated and deeply interesting chapter of American angling history. Inscribed on the Colophon page, “Inscribed for Bill Wigton - fellow member of the Anglers’ Club, celebrated collector of angling books, and good friend - with sincere appeciation and admiration. Mac Francis December 19, 1983.”

104. FRANCIS, Francis. A Book on Angling Being a Complete Treatise on The Art of Angling in every Branch. Hand-colored frontispiece, 4 other hand-colored plates, and 10 black & white

32 I. Angling, etc. plates. 429 pp. 8vo, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1867. First edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco, a.e.g. by Rivière. Spine faded, else fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 98. $600 A fine copy of this classic work by the angling editor of The Field.

105. FRANCIS, Austin M. editor. A Company of Anglers. Selection from the Anglers’ Club Bulletin 1972-1997.SketchesbyPeter Corbin. 153, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: The Angler’s Club of New York. Privately Printed, 1998. First edition, number 20 of 75 deluxe copies, signed by the editor, artist, and designer, printed on Hahnemühler Biblio mould-made paper. Produced by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound by Priscilla Spitler in goatskin with hand-marbled papers. In cloth drop box as issued, with leather title-piece on spine and blindstamped leather square of Angler’s Club logo. Very fine, with prospectus laid-in. $1,750

106. FRANCK, Richard. Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. Wherein most or all of the Cities, Citadels, Sea ports, Castles, Forts, Fortresses, Rivers and Rivulets are compendious- ly described. Together with choice collections of various discoveries, remarkable observations, theological notions, political axioms, national intrigues, polemick inferences, contemplations, speculations, and several curious and industrious inspections, lineally drawn from anti- quaries, and other noted and intelligible persons of Honour and emi- nency. To which is added, The Contemplative and Practical Angler, by way of diversion. With a narrative of that dextrous and mysterious art experimented in England, and perfected in more remote and solitary parts of Scotland. By way of dialogue. Writ in the year 1658, but not till now made publick, by Richard Franck, Philanthropus. xxx, 304 pp. 8vo (6L x 4G inches), London: Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock [sic] at the Phenix, 1694. First edition. Nineteenth-century brown calf, edges red, by Tout. Bookplates of “Bibliotheca Piscatoria. Collection of Robert Clarke. December 31, 1892”, and of the Field Museum (with release). Ex-library, small perforated stamp, ink note, and blind stamp to title (shelfmark on verso). Traces of worming at foot of text 33 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

(from pp. x- xxx, 1-10) with minor loss of a few letters. Very good. Wing F-2064; Westwood & Satchell, p.100-101; Litchfield 2. $10,000 bissell - wigton copy 107. FRASER, Dr. Homer E., et al. Tuscarora Club’s Forty-Year History, 1901-1941. With articles by Dr. Homer E. Fraser, Henry A. Ingraham, Ellis Parker Butler, and others. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and photographs. 128 pp. 8vo, Portland, ME: Privately printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941. First edition, one of 100 copies. Original greenish-grey paper over boards, white cloth spine, gilt device of the Club on upper cover. Spine faded, staining in gutter of first two leaves, else fine. Bruns T-76; Heller 755. $3,500 A rare and beautifully produced book, full of chatty and often candid reminiscences concerning this club of congenial anglers located at Mill Brook, New York, in the Catskills of Delaware County. Club histories are not always terribly interesting to non-members, but this is a notable exception, full of delightful anecdotes and vintage photographs and reading in places like a well-written sporting story. Owner signature of Alfred E Bissell in pencil (“AE Bissell”) on flyleaf, and inscribed by him to Bill Wigton, “To Bill Wigton Come up Sometime A.E. Bissell.” (Heller notes an inserted calligraphic leaf not present in this copy).

beautiful copy 108. FRIIS, I.A. Sporting Life on the Norwegian Fields. Translated from the Norwegian of I. A. Friis; with jottings on sport in Norway, by W.G. Lock. With a folding map at the end. 375 pp. 8vo, Woolich: Published by the Author, at 14, Kidd Street [Printed by Wyman & Son], 1878. First edition. Original pebbled green cloth, with binder’s label of Wyman & Sons, 81 Gt. Queen St. W.C. Fine. $300

109. GARLICK, Theodatus. A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Certain Kinds of Fish. 4 plates. 142, [2] pp. 8vo, Cleveland, [Ohio]: Tho. Brown, Publisher, Ohio Farmer Office, 1857. Blue blindstamped cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Essex Institute label and release stamp. Fine. $350

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deluxe issue, inscribed 110. GARRISON, Everett, with Hoagy B. CARMICHAEL. A Master’s Guide To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod. Color frontispiece portrait of Garrison at work, profusely illustrated with drawings by Robert Seaman and numerous photographs by Matthew Vinciguerra and Luis Marden. 246 pp. 4to, Katonah, New York: Martha’s Glen Publishing, 1977. Deluxe edition, Number 128 of 128, inscribed on the half-title by Carmichael and with a remarque by Seaman. Full brown morocco, spine gilt, upper board with gilt rule borders about a central design of a casting angler’s hand stamped in blind, a.e.g. In three-quarter morocco drop- box with a lift tab made from a leather pouch housing a two-inch section of a Garrison rod. Mint in original glassine. $2,000 A classic work, with careful and explicit illustrations: a unique celebration of a sporting implement that attains the status of a work of art. Garrison worked extensively with Carmichael but died before the book was published. Here in the uncommon deluxe issue, which Carmichael has additionally inscribed for sportsman and collector Bill Wigton.

111. The Gentleman Angler. Containing Short, Plain and Easy Instructions whereby the most ignorant Beginner, may in a little Time, become a perfect Artist in Angling ... to which is added the Angler’s New Song ...,. [xii], 184, [8] pp. 12mo, London: A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, 1726. First edition, with half-title. Bound in nineteenth-century green polished calf, gilt spine. Spine sunned, else about fine. Bookplates of Mr. J.F. Jones, Samuel Houston MacFarland & an early armorial one of Thomas Middleton. Westwood & Satchel, pp. 104-105. $2,000 First edition of this manual, one of the earliest of its kind. It has been attributed to one George Smith, and contains the first appearance of the charming “Angler’s Song” (cf. Gingrich, Fishing in Print, p. 97), as well as recipes, strate- gies for each species, fly-tying, etc. It quickly became a standard handbook of the eighteenth century, was reprinted with additions in 1736 through 1786, then again in several forms under various titles as late as 1828 in London, under the title The Angler’s Guide ... By a lover of the art.”

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fishing in minnesota, 1869 112. GIBBS, Oliver, Jr. Lake Pepin Fish-Chowder, in Letters to General Spinner. 141, [2, ads] pp. Small 8vo, New York: H.D. McIntyre & Co., 201 William Street, 1869. First edition. Brick cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover. Slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine. Near fine. Inscribed in a contemporary hand, “ L. Merrrill Noyes from Angus B. Ford.”. Bruns G-45 (“Rare”); Phillips, p. 135; Litchfield 46. $2,000 A series of letters on the glories of Minnesota fishing from this former Civil War officer to the U.S. Treasurer, General Spinner. First printed in Porter’s Spirit of the Times to meet a growing post-war market of tourists and travel- ers eager to find the best fishing spots, Gibbs’ little book spread the word about the joys of fishing Minnesota’s lakes and rivers. It has never been reprinted, and is now rare on the market.

113. GLAZIER, Willard W. Headwaters of the Mississippi; comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of the true source in a lake beyond Itasca. Numerous illustrations after photographs by F.J. Trost. 527 pp. 8vo, Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1893. First edition. Blue pictorial beveled cloth. Fine. $250

hannah woolley on angling - gosden copy 114. (GOSDEN, Thomas, binder) [WOOLLEY, Hannah]. New and Excellent Experiments and Secrets in the Art of Angling. Being Directions for the whole Art. 2 engraved plates. Title leaf, [33] pp. Comprising [K6]-L11, plates and text leaves inlaid. Extracted from the first edition of The Accomplisht Ladys delight,8vo, [London, 1675]. Full green, early 19th-century straight-grained morocco, boards with borders and angling motifs tooled in blind and a central tool of an angling fly with crossed laurels in gilt, spine tooled in blind, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. by Gosden, with his bookplate and three others. Some rubbing of spine. Fine. Westwood & Satchell p. 128. $4,500

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one of 25 115. GREY, James T., Jr. Handbook for the Margaree. A Guide to the Salmon Pools of the Margaree River System. Illustrations and photographs by the author. 199 pp. 8vo, Yardley, Pa.: 1976. First edition, number 22 of 25 signed copies, dated 7/76. Original quarter red morocco and cloth. Fine in slipcase, with color plate attached. $450

116. _____. Another edition. 258 pp. 8vo, Yardley, Pa.: 1981. Second edition, number 34 of an unspecified deluxe edition, signed and dated April, 1981 by author. Original green faux leather. Fine in cloth slipcase. $300

117. GREY, Zane. An American Angler in Australia. Illustrated with 35 photographic illustrations, including frontispiece. vi, [ii], 115 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition, code “B-M”. Green cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket, with small loss at bottom of front panel and some minor edge wear. Bookplate. $1,500

118. _____. Tales of Fishes. Illustrated with photographs by the author. 267 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1919]. First edition, with “F-T” for June, 1919. Original blue cloth, photographic plate mounted on upper cover, very slight fading to spine. Almost fine. Bruns G-175; Callahan, A Partial Tarpon Bibliography, p. x. $750 Sailfish, swordfish, tarpon, tuna, and other game fish, in Gulf and California waters.

119. _____. Tales of Fresh-Water Fishing. With 100 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. [xii], 277 pp. 8vo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition, with code “F-C”. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. About fine, minor foxing, one corner slightly bumped. Bruns G-177 (“scarce”). $650 37 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

120. GREY, Zane. Tales of Southern Rivers. Photographic illustrations. ix, [i], 249, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition, code “H-Y”. Original olive pictorial cloth, with inset photo on upper cover. Spine slightly faded, at least very good. Bruns G178; Callahan, A Partial Tarpon Bibliography, p. x. $250 Hunting, fishing, and exploring in the southern states and Mexico.

121. _____. Tales of Swordfish and Tuna. With 90 illustrations from photographs taken by the author and from drawings by Frank E. Phares. 203 pp. 4to, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition, code “H-B”. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. About fine. Bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson on pastedown. Bruns G-179. $500

122. _____. Tales of Tahitian Waters. Profusely illustrated with 25 photographs taken by the author. vi, 303 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First edition, code “I-F”. Original olive cloth, gilt, fine in almost fine pictorial unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. Bruns G-180 (“scarce”). $1,750

123. _____. Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado: New Zealand. With over100 photographs by the author and illustrations by Frank E. Phares. viii, [ii], 228 pp. 4to, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926. First edition, so stated on copyright page (with publisher’s code “G-A”). Original dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine and upper cover. Fine copy in clipped pictorial dust jacket which is fine with only the slightest sunning to the spine. Bruns G-181. $2,500 A scarce and desirable Zane Grey work and very much so in a really top dust jacket.

124. GRIMBLE, Augustus. The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales. Folding map in each volume, illustrated throughout with sepia plates. xiv, 280; 225 pp. 2 vols. 4to, London: Kegan, Paul, Trübner & Co., Ltd, 1904. First edition, 38 I. Angling, etc. one of 350 copies. Quarter vellum and grey boards, paper title labels. The labels and spine are a bit grubby, corners are bumped, internally fine. Henry Portong bookplates. $750

125. _____. The Salmon Rivers of Ireland. Illustrated, maps. 2 vols. 4to, London: Kegan, Paul, 1903. First edition, one of 250 copies. Quarter vellum and gray boards, with paper labels, some scuffing to labels, corners bumped, else fine. $1,250

126. _____. The Salmon Rivers Of Scotland. Folding map as frontispiece, 3 maps, illustrations by Archibald Thorburn, etc. xii, 400 pp. 4to, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co, 1902. First one volume edition (originally issued in four volumes). Bound in later vellum and cloth. Very good. $450

127. GRISWOLD, F. Gray. The Cascapedia Club. Illustrated with 6 halftone plates and a map. 27 pp. 8vo, [Norwood, Mass.]: Privately Printed [by the Plimpton Press], 1920. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt, fine. Very scarce. Bruns G-184; Heller 741; Woods, Bibliotheca Salmo Salar: The literature of Salmon Clubs, part II; cf. also Carmichael, The Grand Cascapedia River, pp. 59-114. $1,000 Presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper: “George E. McCallam from F. Gray Griswold 1922” Private sporting club on the Grand Cascapedia, initially limited to eight members, later reduced to seven. Griswold became a member in 1920.

128. _____. The Life-History of the Canadian Salmon Salmo Salar. Map and illustrations. xiii, 95 pp. 8vo, 95 pp, [Norwood, Mass.]: Privately Printed [by the Plimpton Press], 1929. First edition. Bound in original salmon-colored wrappers, with inset illustration of colored fly. Fine. Wetzel, p. 149; not in Bruns. $400 Includes chapters by W.J.M. Menzies on the Moisie, and W.L.Calderwood on the Grand Cascapedia. A very scarce Griswold title.

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129. GRISWOLD, F. Gray. The Memoirs of a Salmon.44pp. 12mo, [Norwood, Mass.]: Privately Printed [by the Plimpton Press], 1931. First edition. Original red calf, gilt device on upper cover. Covers a little rubbed, else fine. Bruns G-186. $350 Inscribed, as usual, on the first leaf, “Merry Christmas F. Gray Griswold”

130. _____..Salmo Salar. 28 pp. 8vo, n.p: Privately Printed, 1929. First edition. Original full red limp morocco, gilt, very slight wear, else fine. Bruns G-188. $500

131. _____. Salmon Score of F. Gray Griswold for Ten Seasons 1920- 1929. [16] pp. 8vo, Grand Cascapedia River, Canada: [Privately Printed], 1929. First edition. Original salmon-colored wrappers, slightly soiled, some minor edge wear, else very good. $400 Signed in pencil on title page, “F. Gray Griswold,” and with author’s pencil corrections for the year 1922, which were incorporated into the 1930 edition.

rare 132. _____. The Tarpon. 35 pp. Printed on deckle edge mould- made paper. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [by the Gilliss Press], 1922. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Minor spotting on front cover, some toning at edges, else fine. Bruns G-194 (“probably the rarest” of Griswold’s works); Callahan, A Partial Tarpon Bibliography, p. x. $2,250 Signed on the title page, “F. Gray Griswold.” Bruns reported a copy in wrappers; we have seen one copy of this work bound in limp red morocco (as noted by Callahan).

133. GRISWOLD, F. Gray and R.D. HUME. The Life-History of the Atlantic and Pacific Salmon of Canada. Map and illustrations. xiii, [i], 179 pp. 8vo, New York: Duttons, 1930. First edition. Original green boards, gilt, green cloth spine, a very fine copy. Bruns G-190. $250 A beautiful copy of a rare book, an expanded version of the privately printed pamphlet of 1929.

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134. GWYNN, Stephen. River to River: A Fisherman’s Pilgrimage. Illustrated by Roy Beddington with 12 tipped-in color plates and 16 in black and white. 210 pp. 4to, London: Country Life, 1937. Large paper edition, no. 73 of 250 copies, signed by author and artist. Original green cloth, slight cover soiling, else fine. Bookplate of Edgar G. Wandless. $500 A knowledgeable and highly readable tour of the rivers of the British Isles, embellished with Beddington’s remarkable watercolors. The regular edition, smaller in size, contained only one plate in color.

signed limited 135. HAIG-BROWN, Roderick L. Return to the River. A Story of the Chinook Run. Illustrations by Charles DeFeo, color frontispiece. 259, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: William Morrow, 1941. First edition, no. 389 of 520 copies. Original cream cloth, red leather spine, t.e.g. Fine copy, pastedowns darkened, in almost fine slipcase. Bruns H-15 (“Scarce”); Cave A29. $500 Signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page.

136. HALE, Capt.J.H. How to Tie Salmon Flies. A Treatise on the Methods of Tying the Various Kinds of Salmon Flies with Illustrated Directions and containing The Dressings of Forty Flies. 70 text illustrations from engravings. xi, 123 , [4, ads] pp. 12mo, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, Limited, 1892. First edition. Maroon beveled cloth. Spine faded, some wear to covers, stains to lower front edge of binding and extending into 2 leaves, else very good. $300

137. HALFORD, Frederic M. An Angler’s Autobiography. With an Introduction by William Senior Editor of the “Field.” The Halford Dry-Fly Series, Vol. IV. Portrait frontispiece and 27 mounted India proof photogravures, with tissue guards. xxiv, 286 pp. 8vo, London: Vinton & Co., Limited 9, New Bridge Street Ludgate Circus, 1903. First edition, edition deluxe, no. 17 of 100 copies, signed by the author on the title-page. Original green morocco,

41 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books t.e.g., rest uncut. Spine toned to honey color, else fine. Bookplate of Henry Portong. $5,000

138. _____. Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. Frontispiece and 25 plates. xii, 289, [1, ad] pp. 8vo, London: Sampson, Low, 1889. First edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco and green cloth boards, with four gilt stamped flies on the spine, t.e.g., by Bayntun. Very fine. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 246. $850

139. _____. The Dry-Fly Man’s Handbook. A Complete Manual. Including The Fisherman’s Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery. With 44 plates, mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper, and additional illustrations in the text. 416 pp. 4to, London: George Routledge, 1913. First com- bined edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco and green cloth boards, with gilt emblematic tooling on the spine, t.e.g., by Bayntun-Rivière. Very fine. $750

140. _____. Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. With 10 hand- colored lithographic plates of flies, showing 90 specimens, plus other text illustrations. [x], [1]-136, [32, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886. First trade edition, with P.S. inserted in Preface and tipped in on separate small leaf. Original cloth. Fine, small tear at bottom of title- page. Bookplates of John Wilson and Henry A. Portong. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 246. $850

141. _____. Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The new dry fly patterns, the manipulation of dressing them, and practical experiences of their use. Illustrated. viii, 219 pp. 8vo, London: George Routledge, [1910]. First trade edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco and green cloth boards, with gilt emblematic tooling on the spine, t.e.g., by Bayntun. Very fine. $850

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142. HALLOCK, Charles. An Angler’s Reminiscences. A Record of Sport, Travel and Adventure. With an Autobiography of the Author. Notes & Introduction by Fred Pond. Illustrated with photos. viii, 85 pp. 8vo, Cincinnati: Sportmen’s Review Pub. Co, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Fine copy. Very scarce. $250

143. HALLOCK, Charles. Camp Life in Florida; A Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers. Folding map at p. 248. vi, [7]-348, [12, ads] pp. 8vo, [New York]: Forest and Stream Publishing Company. American News Company, Agents, 1876. First edition. Original blue cloth, about fine. Bruns H-34. $275 A compilation of reports, originally appearing in the journal Forest and Stream, concerning Florida wildlife, travel and sport.

144. _____. The Fishing Tourist. Angler’s Guide and Reference Book. Illustrated, frontispiece entitled “On the Restigouche.” xii, [13]-239 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. First edition. Original burnt orange cloth. Fine copy. “Very scarce” (Bruns). Bruns H-35; O’Dea, Bibliography of Newfoundland, 801. $250 Chapters on Angling Writers, and American Angling Literature, Salmon on the Restigouche and the Miamichi and much more. “One of the definitive books, a standard. Very scarce” (Bruns).

145. HALLOCK, Charles. The Salmon Fisher. Frontispiece (“Gaffing a Salmon”). 126, [6, ads] pp. 12mo, New York: The Harris Publishing Company, 10 Warren Street, 1890. First edition. Original black cloth. Some spotting to front covers, else fine. Bruns H-40. $250 Marked on title-page “Editor’s Library”

146. HAMILTON, Edward. Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout & Grayling with Notes on Their Haunts, Habits, and History. Illustrated by a mezzotint engraved by Francis Seymour Haden

43 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books and 6 other woodcuts. viii, [iv], 190, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Building, Fleet Street, 1884. First edition. Green beveled cloth. Fine, minor rubbing at spine ends. Bookplate. $250

147. HAMILTON, G.D. Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland.2 color plates of flies and lures and 24 other illustrations. ix, 428 pp. 8vo, Wellington: GPO, 1904. First edition, with slip laid in at front to be placed “to face p. 168”. Original green cloth. Fine. $350

148. HANSARD, George Agar. Trout and Salmon Fishing in Wales. Title-page woodcut vignette of the “Salmon Leap at Pont Aberglasllyn.” 221, [1], [16, ads, dated 9/39] pp. Small 8vo, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. Paternoster-Row, 1834. First edition. Original green cloth, printed paper label. Label shows wear, rubbed away name on pastedown, else very good. Westwood & Satchell, p.112. $250 “The book ‘is a perfect gazetteer of every lake and stream in the Principality ... no angler should go into Wales without taking [it] in his pocket,’ says Mr. Chatto in his Angler’s souvenir” (Westwood & Satchell) With a note on the front flyleaf, “the paragraph marked by inverted commas are taken verbatim from Scotcher’s Fly Fisher’s Legacy.”

149. HARDY, Captain Campbell. Forest Life in Acadie. Sketches of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion. Illustrated with color frontispiece, title page vignette and 10 black-and-white engraved plates. viii, [ii], 371 pp. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. First edition. Original green cloth. Very fine, name eradicated from title-page. Bookplate of Johns Ostrom Enders. Bruns H-70; Westwood and Satchell, p. 112; Sabin 30349; Lande 1822; Watters, p. 686. $400

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150. _____. Sporting Adventures in the New World; or Days and Nights of Moose-Hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia. Tinted lithographed frontispieces after drawings by the author. xii, 304; viii, 299, [1] pp. 2 vols. 12mo, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1855. First edition. Original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt vignette of moose on upper covers, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; binder’s ticket “Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge.” Superb copy. TPL 3555; Sabin 30350; Bruns H-70; Phillips, p. 159 ; Field 651; Gagnon I, 1606; Lande 1821. $1,250 Written by an officer in the Royal Artillery who was stationed in the Maritime provinces for over 10 years. Text contains lengthy narrative about the Micmac Indians: “some particulars regarding the numbers and characteristics of the aborigines of the provinces that have not been printed elsewhere,” as well as moose hunting (relatively new to Europeans), salmon fishing on the Ristigouche, ample observations of the flora, fauna, and geography of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

151. HARGREAVES, T. Sidney. The Fishes of British Guiana.14 sketches of fish. 36, 8 pp. 8vo, Demerara: “The Argosy” Company, Limited, 1904. First edition. Cloth spine and boards. Fine. Rare. $275

152. HARRIS, William Charles, editor. The Angler’s Guide Book and Tourists’ Gazetteer of the Fishing Waters of the United States and Canada, 1886. xliii, [1], [15]-249, [1], xix, ads pp. 8vo, New York: The Anglers’ Publishing Company ... The Western Anglers’ Publishing Company. Chicago, [1886]. First edition. Brown gilt stamped original cloth. Fine, with small snag at top of spine. Bruns H-79 (for 1885 edition). $400 Bruns cites only the editions of 1885 (“very scarce”) and l896. This is an expanded version of the first edition of 1885, to which “nearly one thousand waters have been added” (from the Introduction).

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Rhead. 8vo, New York: R.H. Russell, [1905]. First edition. Original pictorial boards in speckled bass skin pattern. Minor rubbing, else fine in very scarce blue-gray dust jacket with pictorial onlay, front joint starting. Bruns R-46. $500

154. HARRIS, William. The Fishes of North America that are Captured on Hook and Line. 40 chromolithographs after Harris by J.L. Petrie. 138 pp. Folio (18½ x 12¼ inches), New York: The Fishes of North American Publishing Company, 1898. First edition. Original half morocco. Spine perished, covers detached. Internally fine. Bruns B-80; Litchfield 65. $8,500

fearing-wagstaff copy of a classic 155. HAWKER, Peter, Lt. Col. Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with directions for the choice, care, and management of guns; hints for the preservation of game; and instructions for shooting wildfowl. To which is added, a concise abridgement of the Principal Game Laws. xv, [i], 150 pp. C. Wood, Printer, Poppin’s Court, Fleet Street. 12mo, London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1814. First edition. Bound in contemporary quarter mottled calf and marbled boards. Bookplate of Daniel B. Fearing and David Wagstaff. Schwerdt I, p. 234. $7,000 One of the great shooting classics, originally written and printed for private distribution and rare in any condition. This is a beauty with a wonderful provenance.

first american edition 156. _____. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting ... To which is added the Hunting and Shooting of North America, with Descriptions of the Animals and Birds ... by Wm. T. Porter. Illustrated. 459, [1], [16 ads] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1846. First American edition, from the ninth London edition. Gilt-decorated red cloth. Head of spine slightly rubbed, some foxing, else fine. Van Winkle, p. 114; Phillips, p. 163. $750

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The First American edition of this classic work, with additional material on American sport collected by William T. Porter, editor of The Spirit of the Times. It also includes Frank Forester’s “The Game of North America”, pp. 181-3, “The Woodcock” pp. 184-6, “The Quail”, pp. 187-9, “Quail Shooting”, pp. 190-8, and “English and American Game”, pp. 439-456, as well as two articles on Texas hunting by George Wilkins Kendal (“ The ‘Buck Ague’ “ and “Buffalo Hunting in Texas”). Notes Van Winkle: “This work is so much enlarged that it is a quite different book from the English edition of the same title.” Inscribed on the flyleaf, “Presented to Geo Eder Wythes by his esteemed friend Alexander Hamilton Sibley.” Alexander Hamilton Sibley (October 17, 1817-July 10, 1878) was the son of the first mayor of Detroit, Solomon Sibley, and the president of the Silver Islet Mining Company which operated the first silver mine in Ontario. From 1870-1878 he lived in Detroit and spent summers at the Mine He was the brother of the first governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley, who wrote two of the articles herein on “Buffalo Hunting” and “Hunting on the Western Praries.”

157. HEAD, George. Forest Scenes and Incidents, in the Wilds of North America; being a Diary of a Winter’s Route from Halifax to the Canadas. And During Four Months’ Residence in the Woods on the Borders of Lakes Huron and Simcoe. v, [iii], 362 pp. 8vo, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1829. First edition. Bound in half contemporary calf. Very good. Lande 1833; TPL 1050; Matthews 554; Morgan, p.180; Sabin 31143; Story, p. 351; Gagnon I, 1639; Dionne III, 1171; Decker 148. $350 The author, a British army officer and veteran of the Peninsular Wars, was the elder brother of Sir Francis Bond Head. In 1814, he was consigned to Canada to examine the defences of the Lake Huron naval establishment. This is the record of his ten month stay in Canada, from November 1814 to August 1815, describing his 1200 mile overland journey from Halifax to Lake Huron.

158. HEADLEY, J.T. The Adirondack; or, Life in the Woods.8 engraved plates. xi, 288 pp. 8vo, New York: Baker and Scribner 145 Nassau Street and 36 Park Row, 1849. First edition. Original cloth, gilt portage scene on upper cover, unusually fine copy, minor wear at joints. Phillips, p. 167. $300

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Fine description of hunting in the Adirondacks, in letter form (see also Items 1&2)

159. HENDERSON, William. My Life as an Angler. Woodburytype portrait frontispiece and 68 woodcuts engraved by Edmund Evans after various artists. xvi, 312 pp. 8vo, London: W. Satchell, Peyton & Co, 1879. First trade edition. Original pictorial green beveled gilt cloth, a.e.g. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 114. $450

160. _____. Notes and Reminiscences of My Life as an Angler ... With an Appendix containing a Description of the Caves of Adelsberg and the Proteus Anguinus. Woodburytype frontispiece portrait of the author in wading boots tipped in. Wood engraved plates and text illustrations by Clement Burlison, engraved by Edmund Evans. xiii. [i], 324 pp. 8vo, London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. for Private Circulation, 1876. First edition. This is one of the royal 8vo copies issued for private circulation only,with tipped in presentation slip. Original burnt orange cloth. Bookplate of Edward Hamilton. Adhesion to pastedown torn away, else very good. Tipped in printed slip “From Wm. Henderson ...”. Westwood & Satchell, p.114; Heckscher 939. $400 With notes in pencil identified as from Henderson on the front flyleaf.

161. HENSHALL, James A. Book of the Black Bass. Comprising its Complete Scientific and Life History together with a Practical Treatise on Angling and Fly Fishing and a Full Description of Tools, Tackle, and Implements. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. [i]-viii, [9]- 463, [464, blank] pp., + 4 pp. ads (fishing tackle; sporting books and journals), 8 pp. publisher’s catalogue of Robert Clarke (dated July, 1881). 8vo, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1881. First edition. Original green cloth, upper board with gilt vignette of leaping bass, spine gilt with a vignette of a wading fisherman, lower board stamped in blind. Fine copy, minor spotting on fore-edge of boards. Bruns H-148; Westwood & Satchell, p. 115 (citing a New York ed.). $300

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Beautiful copy of a landmark book that “drew the attention of the world to this great fish” (Bruns). The Book of the Black Bass is usually encounted in well-read condition; this copy is fresh and bright.

162. HENSHALL, James A. Camping and Cruising In Florida. xii, 248, 4, 12, ads pp. 8vo, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1884. First edition. Brown pictorial cloth, spine faded, very good. Bruns H-149. $350

163. HENSHALL, James A. More about the Black Bass. Being a Supplement to the Book of the Black Bass. Fully illustrated. 204 pp. 8vo, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1889. First edition. Original green cloth, with bass in gilt on upper cover. Fine. $250

164. HERBERT, David, M.A. Fish and Fisheries. A Selection from The Prize Essays of the International Fisheries Exhibition Edinburgh, 1882. Illustrated with 3 mounted sepia photographs of paintings of whaling in the Faroe Islands and other plates, including 3 color folding charts folding of the Firths of Forth, Tay, and Cromarty, 3 chromos of Peat Ice-Houses. xlviii, 352 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: Wlliam Blackwood, 1883. First edition. Bound in contemporary polished brown calf, red and black labels, gilt spine. Fine. Bookplate of Henry Sherwin. $250

165. [HERBERT, Henry William, “Frank Forester”]. Frank Forester’s Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of North America. Illustrated. 360; vi, [7]- 367, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Stringer & Townsend (late Burgess, Stringer & Co) 222 Broadway, 1849. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt and blind. Very good, some minor wear at top of spines. Van Winkle, pp. 25-29; BAL 8112 (possible second issue or printing, with “Winser, Stereotyper” listed as the printer for both volumes); Phillips, p. 171 (“Copyright and preface dated 1848”). $350

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166. _____. Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America. [with]: Supplement To.... Illustrated from nature by the author. Second title with hand- colored lithograph as frontispiece. 359 (+16 ads); 86 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1850. First American edition. Original blindstamped blue cloth, with gilt center orna- ment of three fish. Both fine copies. Van Winkle 34. $500

167. HEREBACH, Conrad. The Whole Art of Husbandry Contained in foure Bookes. Viz: I. Of the Farme or Manssion House, Offices and Accommodations of earable ground, pasture and medowe. II. Of gardens, orchards, and woods. III. Of breeding, feeding, and curing of all manner of cattell. IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish, and bees, with the whole art (according to these last times) of breeding and dyeting the fighting cock, and the art of angling; first written by Conrade Heresbatch, a learned nobleman, then translated by Barnaby Googe Esquire, and now renewed, corrected, enlarged, and adorned with all the experiments and practises of our English nation, which were want- ing in the former editions. By Captaine Garvase Markham. All the new additions you shall find to begin with this marke [pointing hand] and to end with this *. [viii], 385, [1] pp. Small 4to, London: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for Richard More, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1631. First Markham edition. Bound in early full sprinkled calf, title label, edges red. Laid into a brown cloth slipcase, with cloth inner chemise. Westwood & Satchell, p. 117. $2,500 “In the editions edited by Markham, seven or eight pages on angling are added to the brief treatise on fish-ponds of the original work” (Westwood & Satchell). An influence on Walton in the composition of his Complete Angler.

168. HEWITT, Edward Ringwood. Secrets of the Salmon. Illustrated with the author’s photographs and drawings. 155 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. First edition, no. 545 of 780 copies. Original green boards, green cloth spine. Almost fine, last text leaf poorly unopened with half inch tear. Bruns H-179 (“Scarce”). $275

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169. A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1732-1888. [and:] A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1888-1932. Illustrated. 446; 517, [1] pp. 2 vols. 4to, Philadelphia: 1932. First edition. Bound in three quarter red morocco, gilt-stamped emblematic tooling on spine, t.e.g. Very fine. Bruns S-74; Howes M-636. $750

170. [HODGE, Davies (Yellow Body)]. Angling Days on Scotch Lochs. viii, 112 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: John Menzies & Co, 1884. First edition. Original green gilt pictorial cloth. Fine. $250

171. HOFLAND, Thomas C. The British Angler’s Manual, or, the Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland: With Some Account of the Principal Rivers, Lakes, and Trout Streams in the United Kingdom; with instructions in fly-fishing, trolling and angling at the bottom and more particularly for the Trout. Frontispiece and 13 plates engraved by W.R. Smith after the author (some browning of plates), woodcut illustrations engraved by Landells, Vasey, Thompson and others after the author and a few others. Pp. xvi, 410. 12mo, London: Published by Whithead and Comp. and R. Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Bound in contemporary three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Very good. $250

172. HOLBERTON, Wakeman. The Art of Angling. How and Where to Catch Fish. Illustrated with vignettes. 96, [4, ads] pp. 12mo, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [1887]. Original blind- and gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Fine. Bruns H-209; Wetzel, p. 159. $300 A nice copy of a scarce work, dealing with fresh and salt water fishing. With 4 pages of interesting ads at the back.

173. HOLDER, Charles F. The Game Fishes of the World. Illustrated. xvi, 411 pp. 4to, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. First edition. Green cloth, gilt stamped. Signatures on flyleaf, minor spots, else fine. $300

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174. HORNADAY, William T. Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. With 2 maps and 70 half-tones after original photographs by John M. Phillips. xvii, 353, [4, ads] pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. First edition. Original blue ribbed cloth, with photo on upper cover, t.e.g. Fine. Phillips, p. 183. $250 “Sheep, bear, goats and natural history notes” - Phillips.

175. HOUGHTON, Rev. William. British Fresh-Water Fishes. With 41 color-printed wood-engraved plates drawn from nature by A.F. Lydon printed by Benjamin Fawcett, numerous wood engravings in text. [i]-xxvi, [1]-92; [2], [93]-204 pp. 2 vols. Folio, London: William Mackenzie 69, Ludgate Hill, [1879]. First edition. Original brick-textured cloth over beveled boards, stamped in black and gilt and in blind, piscatorial vignettes and motifs on boards, a.e.g. A very bright, fine copy of this rare work. Litchfield 52; Nissen ZBI 2009; Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 247. $3,000

176. HOWITT, S[amuel]. The Angler’s Manual; or, Concise Lessons of Experience, Which the Proficient in the Delightful Recreation of Angling Will Not Despise .... With twelve etchings by Howitt, signed in the plate. 28 pp. Oblong 8vo (6 x 8 in.), Liverpool: Printed by G.F. Harris for Samuel Bagster, Strand, London, 1808. First edition. Contemporary mottled brown calf, neat new spine. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p.10; Heckscher 1055. $800 Westwood & Satchell’s comment, “The etchings good, the text trivial” is not unjustified - the text is more general than useful — but it would be hard for any writing to upstage Howitt’s charming images.

byrons newstead abbey 177. HOWITT, William. The Rural Life of England. Title vignettes by S. Williams. xx, 396; xii, 386, [2, ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838. First edition. Original grass green blindstamped cloth, covers

52 I. Angling, etc. decorated in blind, spines in gilt, yellow endpapers. Mild darkening of spines, else very good. $350 The second part of the first volume is devoted to the Forests of England, the third part to the people, including social conditions, holiday celebrations, sports and pastimes and a history of wrestling. The second volume describes the country house and its gentry, scientific farming, gardens, the agricultural population, gypsies with their history, a detailed visit and history of Hardwicke Hall, Annesley Hall, and Byron’s Newstead Abbey.

178. [HOWLETT, Robert]. The Anglers Sure Guide: or, Angling Improved, and Methodically Digested ... by R.H. Frontispiece and plate illustrating fish. vii, [1], 296 pp. 8vo, London: Printed by J.H. for G. Conyers at the Ring and T. Baillard at the Rising Sun, in Little-Brittain, 1706. First edition. Bound in full polished calf with heraldic stamp in gilt on upper and lower covers, neatly rebacked. Westwood and Satchell, pp. 110-111; Heckscher 1059. $2,000 “Generally attributed to Robert Howlett”

179. (HUNT, Lynn Bogue) Holland, Ray P. Shotgunning in the Uplands. With a Foreword by Dave Newell. Frontispiece and 7 color plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt, plus line drawings in black & white. 213 pp. 4to, New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, [1945]. DeLuxe edition, No. 73 of 250 copies signed by author and artist. Original tan cloth, gilt. Fine, in fine slipcase. $350

180. HUNT, Richard Carley. Salmon in Low Water. With hand- colored plates of flies after watercolors by Edgar Burke and decorative initials by John Atherton. 87 pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed by The Anglers Club of New York, 1950. First edition. No. 159 of 500 numbered copies. Original green cloth, printed labels on upper cover and spine. Fine, in slipcase. Bruns H-292 (“Very scarce”). $500

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inscribed 181. Innerleithen And Traquair, Past and Present with an Angler’s Guide tothe Tweed and Its Tributairies. 152 pp. 12mo, Innerleithen: Robert Smail, 1863. First edition. Three quarter brown morocco and boards. Almost fine, minor rubbing. Bookplate of Dean Sage and Edgar G. Wandless. $1,250 Inscribed at head of title-page, “With the Author’s kind regards.”

182. [IRELAND, William Henry]. The Fisher Boy. A Poem Comprising His Several Vocations During the Four Seasons of the Year ... by H.C. Esq. Engraved title and 4 engraved plates. vi, 116 pp. Printed by W. William, Printer. 12mo, London: Printed for Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, [1808]. First edition. Later quarter calf. Engraved title faint, else very good. $250

with ten hand-colored plates 183. JACKSON, John, of Tanfield Mill. The Practical Fly Fisher; More Particularly for Grayling or Umber. Illustrated with 10 hand- colored plates. iv, 58, [3, list of subscribers] pp. 8vo, London: Charles Farlow. Leeds: J. Swallow, 1854. First edition. Original blue cloth. About fine. Westwood and Satchell, p. 122. $1,250 The plates depict 62 flies, displaying real and artificial ones side by side for comparison.

184. JOHNSON, Frank M. Forest, Lake and River. The Fishes of New England & Eastern Canada. Chromolithograph frontispiece, 12 colored plates, numerous reproductions of fish. xxvi, 313, [3]; xi, 368 pp. Printed at the University Press. 2 vols. 4to, Boston: For Subscribers, 1902. First edition, no. 78 of 350 copies. Reversed calf, with circular onlay of color fly on front covers, silk endpapers, some foxing. About fine, but, as usual, missing the wraparound bands. Bookplate of Henry A. Portong. Bruns B- 33. $1,000 An unusually nice copy.

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185. KEANE, Martin J. Classic Rods and Rodmakers. Illustrated. 246 pp. 4to, [New York]: Winchester, [1976]. First edition. Boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. $350

186. Kedgemakooge Rod and Gun Club of Nova Scotia, Ltd. Illustrated from photos throughout. 27 pp. (final 7 pp. ads). Tall 8vo, [Privately printed, n.d., ca. 1910]. Illustrated green wrappers. Fine, with an application for membership laid in. Not in Heller. $1,500

187. KEENE, J.H. Fishing Tackle, Its Materials and Manufacture. A Practical Guide. With 254 illustrations. viii, [9]-230, [10, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Ward, Lock & Co, [1886]. First edition. Original pictorial red cloth, stamped in black, yellow and gilt. A very fine copy. $500

188. _____. Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. 2 plates with 37 mounted pieces of fly-tying material. 113, [1], [14, ads] pp. 12mo, New York: O. Judd Co., David Judd, Pres’t, 751 Broadway, 1887. First edition. Original gilt pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, beveled edges, gilt spine. Fine copy of a rare book. Bruns K-9 (never having examined a copy of the first ed.). $750

a beauty 189. _____. The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making. Frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and text illustrations. 482, [19, ads] pp. 8vo, London: “The Bazaar” Office, 1881. First book edition. Original brown cloth gilt, a.e.g. A wonderful, very fine copy. Westwood & Satchell, pp.125-6. $600 Osmund Lambert in his Angling Literature in England says that this work “cannot be too highly spoken of. It contains some of the most beautiful drawings of fish ever painted.” First issued in parts (Westwood & Satchell).

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190. KELSON, George M. The Salmon Fly. How to Dress It and How to Use It. With 8 color plates illustrating over 50 flies, numerous text illustrations. xiv, 510, xlv pp. 4to, London: Published by The Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Limited, 63, Carter Lane E.C, 1895. First edition. Original beveled purple cloth titled in gilt, t.e.g. Unusually fine copy with only minor fading to spine. Heckscher 1150; Hampton, p. 57. $2,000 Lovely copy of this classic, justly prized for the beauty of its color plates.

191. _____. Tips. 25 illustrations. [xiv], 168, [11, ads] pp. Ad tipped in between pp. 86 -7 and 158-9. 4to, London: Published by the Author c/o Dangerfield Printing Company, 1901. First edition. Original beveled purple cloth titled in gilt, t.e.g. Unusually fine copy. $950

192. KEMP. Shooting and Fishing in Lower Brittany. A Complete and Practical Guide to Sportsmen. Folding map. 8vo, London: Longman Green Longman & Roberts, 1859. First edition. Original blue cloth. Extensive notes in pencil on front and back endpapers. Very good. $300

193. [KENNEDY, Philip Pendleton]. The Blackwater Chronicle. A Narrative of an Expedition into The Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia ... By “The Clerke of Oxenford”. Frontispiece, engraved title-page. Illustrations by Strother. 223, [1], [16, ads] pp. 12mo, New York: Redfield, 1853. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine. Spine a bit dull, traces of rubbing at head. Near fine. Howes K-90; Sabin 37405; Streeter Sale 4087; Phillips, p. 209; Clark III, 338; American Sporting Books, p.209. $750 A “charming tale of a hunting [and fishing] expedition to the crest of the Appalachians” (Streeter).

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194. KENNEDY, Captain W. R . Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies. Illustrated by the author, folding map at the back. 399, [1] pp. 8o, London: Blackwood, 1885. First edition. Original blue cloth. Very good. `. $300

195. _____. Sporting Notes in Newfoundland. 103, 5 pp. 12mo, St. John’s Nfld: J.C. Withers, Queen’s Printer, 1881. Second edition, enlarged. Blue printed wrappers, removed. Very good. Not in Lande; Riling; Phillips. $400 RARE See p. 74 for the author’s feelings about mills dumping their detritus into salmon rivers, which is still happening 125 years later.

inscribed 196. KERRIDGE, Philip Markham. An Address on Angling Literature, Including Some Mysteries and Personal Observations as Well as Some Comments on Pistoria Californiana and Hints for Collectors of Angling Bbooks. Illustrated. 92, [2] pp. 8vo, Fullerton CA: The Sultana Press, 1970. First edition, no. 223 of 350 copies. Original beige cloth, brown calf spine, Coachman fly embedded in plastic set into the front cover. Fine in matching beige cloth slipcase. Bruns K-39. $300 Originally delivered at an angling dinner, this talk has been embellished with illustrations from the author’s celebrated collection of angling books, now at the library of California State College, Fullerton. The bibliographical check- list (pp. 65-92) is authoritative and describes the essential core of an angling library.

197. [KESTER, Jesse Y.]. TheAmericanShooter’sManual, Comprising, Such Plain and Simple Rules, as are Necessary to Introduce the Inexperienced into a Full Knowledge of All that Relates to the Dog, and the Correct Use of the Gun: Also a Description of the Game in This Country. By a Gentleman of Philadelphia County.3 plates by Kearny. 249, [1] pp. plus 4 pages of ads. Errata leaf. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. First edition, second issue, with “ribbon” spelled correctly on page 235. Original 57 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books speckled calf, finely rebacked preserving original spine, red morocco label. Frontispiece with archival tissue repair along gutter margin. Old owner name “Hudson,” with circular mark, on front board. Fine copy in fleece-lined cloth box. Henderson, p. 39; Rink 1620; American Imprints 27838; Rilings 415 “First comprehensive treatise on the subject”; Phillips, p. 211. $1,000 First edition of the second book on shooting printed in America and the first comprehensive manual of its kind.

198. KING, W.Ross. The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, or Notes on The Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of that Country. 6 chromolithographs and numerous text illustrations. xv, [3], 334 pp. 8vo (26.5 x 18 cm), London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Streeet, 1866. First edition, with tipped-in errata slip. Original green cloth with gilt moose on upper cover. Fine. Signed, “With J.B. Keith’s best wishes. June/66.”. Bruns K-49; Gee p. 61; Lande 1886; Sabin 37857; TPL 6220. $650 A detailed and useful guide to Canadian sport. Four of the 12 chapters are devoted to fishing: “The Fisheries of Canada” (concerning salmon rivers, lakes and lesser waters); “The Salmon” (its location, size, etc., includes data on trout and white fish); “The Canadian Shad” (habitat, etc., including other fish); and “The Tom Cod” (annual arrival, etc., including discussion of bass, sturgeon, and others). Rare.

199. KNIGHT, John Alden. Ruffed Grouse. Color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke. xii, 271, [1], iii, [3] pp. Small thick 4to, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. No. 99 of 210 copies signed by the author, printed on Springfair All-Rag paper. With an extra color plate laid in. Original three quarter black morocco over buckram, t.e.g. Fine copy in fine numbered slipcase. $650

200. KNOX, A.E. Autumns on the Spey. 4 colored lithographs by Joseph Wolf. 171, [2, ads] pp. 8vo, London: John Van Voorst, 1872. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt vignette on upper

58 I. Angling, etc. cover. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 127; Heckscher 1175; Robb 210. $250

201. [KRIDER, John]. Krider’s Sporting Anecdotes, Illustrative of the Habits of Certain Varieties of American Game. Edited by H. Milnor Klapp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration accompanying the ads of John Krider, Gun Maker, at the end. 292 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1853. First edition. Original dark blue embossed cloth, spine faded to green, plates and front and end matter foxed, still a sharp copy, with contemporary gift inscription and sporting notes (“May 20th, 1855, shot eight woodcock ...”) in pencil and bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. Phillips, p. 214; Henderson, p. 157. $300 The subjects discussed are wildfowl and game birds. “An excellent work of the period” (Phillips).

202. LA BRANCHE, George M.L. The Salmon and the Dry Fly. Illustrated. 8vo, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1924. First edition, no. 384 of 775 copies printed. Marbled boards, original brown calf. Fine copy. Bruns L-2. $650

203. LAMB, Dana S. Bright Salmon and Brown Trout. Illustrated by Shirley Errickson. 8vo, Barre MA: Barre Publishers, 1964. First edition, no. 249 of 350 special copies from an edition of 1500 copies. Signed by the author on the half-title. Original brown quarter morocco, brown paper over boards, with gilt device on upper cover, a superb copy, as new, in original board slipcase. Bruns L-11. $450 A beautiful copy of this classic book of angling memoirs and observations, handsomely printed on special rag paper by Enschedé of Holland.

204. _____. Not Far from the River. 101, [3] pp. 8vo, Barre, Mass.: 1967. First edition, no. 64 of 200 copies on Curtis Rag Paper,

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first book 205. _____. On Trout Streams and Salmon Rivers. 95, [1] pp. Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. 8vo, Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1963. First edition, one of 1500, signed by the author. Green cloth. Fine in original glassine and slipcase. Bruns L-14. $400

206. _____. Woodsmoke and Water Cress. 89, [3] pp. 8vo, Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1965. First edition, No. 82 of 200 copies specially bound, and signed by the author, from an edition of 1500 printed by The Stinehour Press, signed. Decorated paper over boards, tan calf spine, gilt lettered, t.e.g. Fine, in original publisher’s slipcase. Bruns L-17. $650 An engaging collection of sporting anecdotes and reminiscences by the beloved angling writer.

207. LAMBERT, T.W. Fishing in British Columbia. With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina. xv, [i], 136, [4, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Horace Cox, 1907. First edition. Original green beveled cloth. Very fine. Bruns L-20. $450

208. LANDE, Lawrence. The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill. Collected, Arranged and Annotated by Lawrence Lande. With an Introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard. Illustrated. xxxv, [1], [1]-301, [1] pp. Produced at the Richard Pennington Printing Office of McGill University Press. Folio, Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1965. First edition, one of 950 copies. Half pigskin, beige buckram. Fine, in fine slipcase. $350

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209. LANMAN, Charles. Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. Illustrated by the author and Oscar Bessau. 6 plates in each volume. xiv, 514; 517 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: John W.Moore, 1856. First American edition, enlarged. Original green cloth, a moose on upper cover in gilt and lower in blind, some fading and soiling to covers, but generally a near fine set. Booklabel of G.T.W. Braman. Westwood & Satchell, p. 130; Howes L-87; T.P.L. 3672; Sabin 38913. $950 Written by a New York businessman who ultimately opted for the wilds, this collective 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.

210. _____. Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and in the United States. Frontispiece portrait of author and 8 vignettes in text. xii, 322 pp. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Later edition, first published by Bentley in 1848. Bound in three-quarters green calf, gilt spine, edges marbled. Slight toning to text. About fine. Not in Bruns; Westwood & Sachell, p. 130 (first ed.). $600 Fishing in New York State, Canada and Maine.

211. _____. Haw-Ho-Noo; or, Records of a Tourist. 266, [20, ads] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1850. First edition. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Light, scattered foxing, but a bright, attractive copy overall. Contemporary signature of James M. Poole, New Orleans, with his note below: “Bought in Marysville Kenty on 26th Dec 1850 $1”. Bruns L-33; Westwood & Satchell, p. 130; Howes L-88; Phillips, p.217. $500 Lanman was onetime secretary to Daniel Webster and a passionate angler, and there is much here on fishing. Chapters include “Salmon Fishing,” “Trout Fishing,” “Basse Fishing” (one of the earliest writings thereon), “Pike Fishing,” and “Fishing in General.”

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The Author explains the meaning of the title: “The word HAW-HO-NOO was originally applied to America by the Iroquois Indians, and signifies ‘the country upheld on the back of a turtle’; and my reasons for employing it on the present occasion are simply these - a porton of the volume is devoted to the traditional lore of the Aborigines, and the whole has reference to my native land.”

212. LANMAN, Charles. Letters from the Alleghany Mountains. 198 pp., + publisher’s 16 pp. inserted catalogue (defective). 8vo, New York: Geo. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway, 1849. First edition. Original cloth. Final 7 leaves of inserted catalogue torn away, otherwise a fine, bright copy. Howes L-89; Henderson, p.113; Phillips, p.217; Smith III, 343; Bruns L-35. $450 In a series of twenty-one letters, Lanman describes a three months’ trip through the Alleghany Mountains during the spring and early summer of 1848, with observations on the geology, wildlife, scenery and climate of the Western slope of the mountains. “Although most of the book is devoted to the natural beauty and Indian lore associated with such spots as Tallulah Falls, Trail Mountain, Smoky Mountain, the French Broad, Black Mountain, and the Valley of Virginia, Lanman in a short chapter makes a few general but pertinent comments on the lives and economy of the mountain people” (Smith). Lanman also met and befriended Will Thomas, who would lead a regiment of Cherokee soldiers in the Civil War. An important and fascinating account of the Southern Appalachians prior to the Civil War.

213. _____. Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places. Illustrated. xiii, [iii], 351, [1], [20, ads] pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. First edition. Original brown cloth. Very good. $300

214. _____. A Summer in the Wilderness; Embracing a Canoe Voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. 208, [6, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: Appleton, 1847. First edition. Original brown cloth. Fine. Bruns L-38; Westwood & Satchell, p. 130; Howes L- 90; Flake 4745. $750 Fishing and a stop at “the far-famed city of (Mormon) Nauvoo ... for a few hours and when I resumed my course, I felt like one just awakened from an incomprehensible dream...”

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215. _____. A Tour to the River Saguenay in Lower Canada. 231 pp. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. First edition. Bound in contemporary half calf and nmarbled boards, Joints rubbed, else Very good. Phillips, p. 217; Bruns L-39; Goodspeed, p. 167, et seq; Heckscher 1196. Morgan, p. 218; TPL 2853; Lande 1903; Sabin 38926. Not in Howes. $450 An account of the author’s angling excursion through the Adirondacks and White Mountains to Canada, and back through Maine, written by a profes- sional writer and one-time private secretary to Daniel Webster. An English edition was published the same year under the title of Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia, and the United States.

216. The Last Incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, of London, to Which is Annexed Several of the Most Particular Bye-laws of the Said Company; and Also a Summary of Their Meetings, Gifts, Appointments, &c. iv, [5]-[3], 23-35, [1] pp. 4to, London: [Privately printed], 1790. First edition. Bound in full contemporary tree calf, with red morocco rectangular label on the upper cover, hinges starting, spine with wear. A handsome volume which appears to be an edition binding. Bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher and Henry Sherwin.$850

inscribed to mary akeley 217. (LAURENTIAN CLUB) Connell, Herbert Stanley. Moose Hunting in the Laurentian. Lithographed title duplicating front cover preceding portrait frontispiece, and photographs. 108 pp. 4to, [New York: 1937]. First edition, no. 26 of 150 copies. Original green pictorial binding, signed lower left “HSC/1937.” Fine copy of a rare book. Heller 62; Bruns C-145. $750 Inscribed on the title-page, “To an adventurous and courageous lady, Mary Akeley, with appreciation of the accomplishments and friendly Greetings Herbert S. Connell 1934.” This is the same Mary Akeley of African fame.

sparse grey hackles copy, annotated 218. LEISENRING, James. The Art of Tying the Wet Fly. As told to V.S. Hidy. Illustrated. xvii, [iii], 81 pp. 12mo, New York:

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Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. First edition. Tan cloth. Fine. Bruns H-75. $1,500 Heavily annotated throughout by Sparse, signed by him on the pastedown, see opposite p. 5 (a full page), rear free endpaper, etc.

skues copy 219. LEITCH, A. A Scottish Fly-Fisher. Illustrated by the author. 214 pp. Square 8vo, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1911. Yellow decorated cloth. About fine. $300 Signed on flyleaf “G.E.M. Skues and dated I VI 1911.”

220. LEWIS, Elisha J. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America. Frontispiece aquatint, engraved aquatint title-page, and numerous text illustrations. xxxi, [i], [33]- 494 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1855. First edition. Original ribbed cloth, gilt stamped emblematic spine. A beautiful copy of a book that seldom comes this way. Phillips, p. 225; Henderson, pp. 162-163. $300

beautiful copy 221. LIVERMORE, S[amuel] T. Block Island from Its Discovery, in 1514 to the Present Time, 1876. Folding map and wood engravings throughout; 371 pp. 8vo, Hartford, Ct: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1877. First edition. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Fine. Howes L-394. $300

222. [LOCKE, James]. Tweed and Don; or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years. Frontispiece. Small 8vo, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1860. First edition. Bound in three quarter red contemporary morocco and marbled boards. Very good. Bookplate of Thomas Westwood, Dean Sage, and Edgar Wandless. Westwood & Satchell, p. 136. $300 With an ALS from the author tipped in to Thomas Westwood about books, angling, etc.

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223. [LONDON, M.C.S.]. Two Months on the Tobique, New Brunswick. An Emigrant’s Journal, 1851. vii, [i], 196 pp. 8vo, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1866. First edition. Original red cloth. Fine, with minor wear to head of spine. TPL 3181. $400

224. [LORD, John Keast]. At Home in the Wilderness. By the Wanderer. Woodcut frontispiece and title-page, with other illustrations. xvi, 323 pp. 12mo, London: Robert Hardwick, 192, Piccadilly, 1867. First edition. Original cloth. Sabin 42034 ; Smith 6110a; Lowther 289; Waterston, p. 129. $400

225. MACKINTOSH, Alexander. The Driffield Angler in Two Parts Containing Descriptions of the Different Kinds of Fresh Water Fish and the Best Methods of Taking Them in Rivers, Lakes and Fish Ponds With Full Directions of Many Artificial Flies for Every Month in the Season Tto Which is Added Instructions for Shooting, With Rules for the Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers and Spaniels and the Choice of Guns for Game and Wildfowl with a Description of the Forest of Blair in Perthshire Belonging to his Grace the Duke of Athol and the Manner of Killing the Deer, Also a Short Treatise on Coursing and the Training of Greyhounds. Frontispiece. x, [ii], 346 pp. 8vo, Gainsborough: Printed for the Author and sold by H. Mozley, n.d. [1806]. First edition. Bound in three quarter red morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards, t.e.g. Beautiful copy. Booklabel of Dean Sage. Westwood and Satchell, p. 138. $950 Mostly on angling, and the construction of proper flies, with sections on coursing and the taking of game birds.

226. (MANCHESTER ANGLER’S ASSOCIATION) Anglers’ Evenings. Papers by Members of the Manchester Angler’s Association. [With:] Second Series. Title-page vignette. 276; viii, 283, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Manchester: Abel Heywood and Son. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1880, 1882. First edition. Bound in

65 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books three quarter crimson morocco, gilt spine with emblematic tooling and marbled boards, t.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Alfred Denison and Henry Portong. Westwood & Satchell, p.8. $600

227. MARBURY, Mary Orvis. Favorite Flies and Their History. With Many Replies from Practical Anglers to Inquiries Concerning How, When, and Where to Use Them. With 32 colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects, and eight reproductions of photographs. viii, [ii], 522, [1] pp. 4to, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892. First edition, second issue, without date on title page. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, lighter green cloth spine, slight damage to head of spine, top fore-edge of text block rough, still a near fine, bright copy. Bruns M-40; Goodspeed, p. 276 et seq.; Wetzel, p. 180. $1,000 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 has gone 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. A useful and entertaining work.

228. [MARCH, James]. The Jolly Angler; or Water Side Companion. Containing an Account of All the Best Places for Angling, the Means Used to Obtain Permission, as Well as an Account of the Different Sorts of Fish Contained Therein; the Tackle, Baits & Other Requisites to Form an Expert Angler. Wood-engraved frontispiece dated 1833, vignette on title, illustrations in text. [6], 96 pp. 12mo, London: Effingham Wilson, [1833]. First edition. Contemporary blue cloth backed boards, later paper label. Notes on pastedown. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p. 13. $450 Lovely contemporary copy of this well illustrated angler’s companion.

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229. MASCALL, Leonard. A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line ... Reprinted from the Edition of 1590. With Preface and Glossary by Thomas Satchell. 12 illustrations from woodcuts in the text. x, [ii], 52 pp. 4to, London: W. Satchell and Co. 19, Tavistock Street, 1884. One of 200 intended copies (Elkin Mathews in ad in Dodd’s “Fishing Rhymes” says a fire destroyed many). Quarter brown morocco and brown cloth, some minor rubbing to spine and front joint, else fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 137 (citing the 1590 edition); Albee, p. 107; Heckscher Sale Catalogue Part II, lot 1344. $600

230. MASON, Captain James. Twelve Years’ Residence on the West Coast of Scotland. Illustrated. 90, [6, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Gurney & Jackson, 1894. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine. Rare. $300 About hunting and some trout fishing in Ross and Cromarty.

231. MAXWELL, Sir Herbert, editor. Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1822-1908. [and:] Further Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1908-1931, edited by R.P. Page. First volume illustrated with 40 plates, the second with 11. 4to, London: Edward Arnold; McCorquodale, 1908-1932. First edition. Original green cloth, paper labels. Volume I has some wear. Volume II is Fine. $450 A scarce and sumptuous production, printed on hand-made deckle-edge paper, with unexpectedly lively contents; it was recorded, for example, that on June 19, 1876, “Col. Wigram saw a rat swimming, threw at him and hooked him by near hind foot and landed him.”

232. _____. 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, Letchworth. Folio (12½ x 10 inches), London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1913. First edition, one of 750 copies. Bound in green buckram and green cloth. Very good, spine sunned a little. Bookplate of H. Stanton.

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Unusual in anything but the standard brown morocco binding. $500 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”

233. _____. The Story of the Tweed. Illustrated by D. Cameron with 21 brown-tone photogravures. 270 pp. Folio, London: James Nisbet, 1905. First edition, no. 42 of 375 copies. Original green cloth. Almost fine. $750

234. MAYER, Alfred M., editor. Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters. Numerous full page and text illustrations. 892 pp. 4to, New York: The Century Company (by the De Vinne Press), [1883]. First edition. Original tan pictorial cloth. Fine. Bruns M-86; Phillips, p. 256; Goodspeed, pp. 277-8. $300 A physically imposing and important book. Among the contributors are Dan Beard, John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell, James A. Henshall, John Muir, Thaddeus Norris, Charles E. Whithead, and others. Topics range from bow- shooting and taxidermy to all forms of angling, game and wildfowl shooting, nature appreciation, and personal experiences (Charles Dudley Warner writes, engagingly, on “How I Killed a Bear”). A sumptuous volume, beautifully illustrated, and in the original cloth, which is usually found shaken.

235. McCAFFERTY, W. Patrick. Aquatic Entomology. The Fisherman’s and Ecologists’ Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives. Illustrated by Arwin V. Provansha. xv, [i] , 448, [1] pp. 4to, Boston: Science Books International, 1982. First edition, no. 5 of 300 copies signed by author and artist. Brown primera leather. Fine in slipcase. $350

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236. McCARTHY, Eugene. The Leaping Ouananiche. What It Is, Where, When and How to Catch It. Illustrated. 66 pp. 8vo, New York: Field and Stream Publishing Co., 318 Broadway, 1894. First edition. Pictorial printed wrappers, original spine with a small chip and loss, small closed tear on back cover, else fine. Bruns M-98. $500 Ouananiche is the Canadian name for landlocked salmon.

salmon and trout in fortune 237. McDONALD, John, contributor. Fortune Magazine. Three complete issues (May 1946; June 1948; and May 1964), each with an illustrated article by John McDonald: “Fly Fishing and Trout Flies” (1946); “AtlanticSalmon” (1948); and a photo essay,“Gone Fishing” (1964) on private fishing clubs. With reproductions of original watercolors by John C. Atherton, and numerous photographs. Folio, New York: 1946; 1948; 1964. Original wrappers. Fine in custom blue cloth slipcase and chemise. $500 John McDonald’s landmark article on trout fishing in the May 1946 issue of Fortune Magazine was an early glimpse of his work documenting the key role that Theodore Gordon played in the introduction of dry fly fishing to America. McDonald went on to compile The Complete Fly Fisherman. The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon. (New York, Scribner’s, 1947). The June 1948 feature on the Atlantic Salmon, also by McDonald, includes a feature on the famed Restigouche River. Both articles are illustrated with brilliant watercolors by John C. Atherton. The 1964 photo essay on private fishing clubs appears to have been occa- sioned by the closing of the Southside Sportsmen’s Club in Oakdale, Long Island. Fine copies of landmark angling articles in Fortune Magazine, preserved in a handsome protective case

238. MEDWIN, Thomas. The Angler In Wales, Or Days And Nights Of Sportsmen. Two Etchings as frontispieces after Thomas Landseer, and 15 text illus. xv, [1], 336; vii, 348 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Original boards, neatly rebacked in paper, with new endpapers, with original labels. Very good. Westwood & Satchell p. 150. $450

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239. MERSHON, William B. Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing. Illustrated. iv, 259 pp. 8vo, Boston: Stratford Company, 1923. Fisrt edition. Original maroon cloth. Fine. Bruns M-164 (“very scarce”); Heller 574; Phillips, p. 260. $300 Turkey, grouse and quail, rail and ducks, chiefly in Michigan, with salmon fishing in Quebec and duck and goose hunting in North Dakota.

240. MILLAIS, John Guille. Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways. With Illustrations by the Author and from Photographs. Frontispiece, with 5 plates in heliogravure, 7 color plates and 74 plates in black and white. xvi, 340 pp. 4to, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1907. First edition. Original crimson cloth, gilt stamped. Fine, corners slightly bumped. $300

rare 241. [MILLARD, Edward Eames]. Random Cast Odds and Ends from an Angler’s Note Book. By E.M.E. 175 pp. 12mo, New York: Derby Brothers, Publishers, 20 Park Place, 1878. First edition. Grey printed wrappers, spine replaced. Very good. Bruns M- 182; Wetzel, p. 183; not in Heckscher. $750 “Rare and at one time controversial book, author being in some doubt. In his catalogue AMERICAN FISHING BOOKS, Wetezel states that Goodspeed believed Millard wrote this book” (Bruns). Genial, and frequently lyrical, recollections of angling adventures.

242. [MILLER, Alfred W.]. Fishless Days. By Sparse Grey Hackle. Illustrated by Charles De Feo. 147, [3] pp. Printed by Peter Beilenson. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1954. First edition, one of 591 copies. Original brown cloth, printed label on upper cover and spine. Fine in original slipcase. Bruns M-183. $350 “Acollection of the small lures,” notes the author on the title page, “on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools, the Long Table of The Angler’s Club”

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243. _____. Sparse Grey Hackle. His Life, His Stories, and His Angling memories. Edited by Austin F. Miller. Afterwords by Patricia Miller Sherwood and Nick Lyons. Frontispiece portrait from photograph. 169, [3] pp. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor Printer & Publisher, Austin Texas. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [by W.Thomas Taylor]. The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1993. First edition, one of 300 copies. Bound in full blue cloth, in open- faced slipcase. $300 Superbly produced posthumous volume in tribute to Alfred Miller, best known through his pseudonym Sparse Grey Hackle. An outstanding selection of his writings, with a biographical essay by Francis, and appreciations by his daughter and Nick Lyons.

deluxe edition, one of 48 copies 244. _____. Another edition. 169, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [by W. Thomas Taylor]. The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1993. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 41 of 48 copies printed on Arches paper, signed by the contributors, with an original leaf of typescript tipped in. Full dark blue morocco, gray spine label titled in silver. As new in cloth folding box. $2,500 Rare on the market in this state (for the clothbound edition of 300, see the above item).

245. [MILNOR, William, Jr.]. An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From Its Establishment on That Romantic Stream, Near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member. [Together with:] [Milnor, William, Jr.] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia. Two lithographic views, two lithographic portraits, an engraved portrait of former Governor Samuel Morris by St. Memin, and woodcut of a fox. viii, 127, [1], [8]; [iv], 56, [1] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. First edition, with the Morris portrait, and explanatory text. Original pink cloth faded to tan, printed label on upper cover, covers a little rubbed and soiled and with the usual internal foxing, but a nice, crisp copy of a rare book. Stamp of Samuel Canby. Gee, Early American 71 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

Sporting Books, pp. 46-47; Henderson, pp. 178-179; Phillips, p. 265; Howes M-636. $1,250 Milnor served for a number of years as secretary of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, America’s oldest angling group, founded in 1732 - indeed it claims to be the world’s oldest social organization - and was a member of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, the first organized hunt club in America, founded (across the river in New Jersey) in 1766. (He was also a member of Congress 1812-1820, and in 1829 was elected Mayor of Philadelphia.) His well written accounts of both organizations are full of lively anecdotes, specific incidents, and reports of various methods of hunting and fishing, not to mention a number of illustrious and interesting individuals. These two classic works are usually bound together, as is the case here.

246. MONTPETIT, A.-N. Les poissons d’eau douce du Canada. With twelve chromolithograph plates, numerous figures in text. xiv, 552, [1, errata] pp. 8vo, Montreal: Beauchemin, 1897. First edition. Later brown buckram, first two leaves loose, else fine. Bruns M-223 (“Very scarce”); Hampton, p. 68. $250 Pp. 305-330 on salmon, with pp. 307-18 on the salmon rivers of eastern Canada, including Grand Cascapedia, Ristigouche, Moisie, etc.

247. MOSELY, Martin E. The Dry-Fly Fisherman’s Entomology. Being a Supplement to Frederic M. Halford’s The Dry-Fly Man’s Handbook. Illustrated with 16 hand-colored plates and figures in the text. 109, [3] pp. 12mo, London: Routledge, 1921. First edition. Original green rexine wallet-style binding. Very fine copy of this classic. Bookplate of Samuel W. Lambert. $300

248. MURRAY, William H. Adventures in the Wilderness, or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks. Illustrated. 236, [4, ads] pp. 12mo, vi, [7]- 236p, Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1869. First edition. Original green cloth illustrated in gilt, a very nice copy. Peters 271; Sabin 51549; Phillips 271. $250 “The book that started the influx into the Adirondacks” (Wetzel).

249. NELSON, William. The Laws concerning Game. Of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing and Fowling, &c. And of Forests, Chases, Parks, 72 I. Angling, etc.

Warrens, Deer, Doves, Dove-cotes, Conies: And Also of Setting Dogs, Grey-hounds, Lurchers, Nets ... Together with the Forest Laws: ... By William Nelson ... To Which are Now Added, English Forms of Convictions, Declarations, .... xvii, [1], 255, [27] pp. London: Printed by E. Richardson and C. Lintot; for T. Waller, 1762. Sixth edition. Contemporary polished tan calf. Fine. Contemporary signature of Rowland Winn, Esq. $400

250. NETTLE, Richard. Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence and Its Tributaries. 144 pp. 12mo, Montreal: Printed by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street, 1857. First edition. Original red cloth. One half inch small closed tear backed with cellotape on top of title- page, else fine. Bookplate of Robert Wilson Reford. T.P.L.3748; Gagnon I, 2510; Bruns, p.234; Westwood & Satchell, p. 270; Wetzel, p.186; Sabin 52351. $250 With a chapter on trout and artificial fly-fishing and an important account of the salmon fisheries along the St. Lawrence.

251. (NEW YORK STATE) First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest of the State of New York-Annual Report for 1895 [1896 … 1909]. Numerous chromolithographic and engraved plates by various artists. 15 Annuals Reports in 10 volumes. 4to, Albany, New York: [1896- 1910]. First editions. Original cloth. All volumes are fine with the requisite number of plates. $2,500

252. NEWBERRY, Arthur St. John. Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things. Illustrated with many photographs, one colored photo. 281 pp. Small 4to, Cleveland, Ohio: Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company, n.d [1914]. First edition, no. 31of 75 copies presented to Elizabeth Childs Crego (crossed out) Stinson. Original gilt- stamped green cloth, with leaping fish and 2 fishermen in background. Almost fine, small stain on fore-edge. Rare. Bruns N- 19; Wetzel, p. 187. $1,500

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253. NEWBERRY, Arthur St. John. A Fisherman’s Paradise is an Excerpt from the Second Book of Arthur St. John Newberry, “Another Catch.” It Was Published After the Death of the Author, and It is Sent in Fulfilment of His Wishes to the Members of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club. Illustrated. 35 pp. Small 4to, Cleveland, Ohio: Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company, n.d [1914]. First edition, no. 35 of 150 copies. Presented to Mr. Thomas E. Price. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Almost fine. Rare. Bruns N-20; Wetzel, p. 187. $400 The St. Bernard Fish and Game Club was founded by Gen. George P. Foster and other Burlington, Vermont sportsmen.

254. NEWLAND, Rev. Henry. The Erne. Its Legends and Its Fly- Fishing. Colored frontispiece of six tied flies & colored vignette title-page (“The Fairy Fly”), fold-out map, four wood engraved plates. xvi, 395 pp. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. First edition. Original ribbed cloth, pictorial gilt stamped upper cover. Tiny nick at head of spine, else sharp and fresh. As nice a copy as we have seen. Signed H.G. Sutton Wood End 1852. Westwood & Satchell, p. 155; Heckscher 1424; Coleby, p. 89. $4,000

255. [NOBBES, Robert]. The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling. With A Description of all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials Requisite Thereto: With Rules and Directions How to Use Them. As Also a Brief Account of Most of the Principal Rivers in England. By a Lover of the Sport. Two woodcuts in text (at pp. 37 & 38). [xx], [1]- 78, [2] pp. 12mo (5⅜ x 3½ inches), London: Printed by T. James for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain, 1682. First edition. Bound in full tan calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Bedford. Back hinge off, else fine. Bookplate. Westwood & Satchell, p. 156; Heckscher 1445; Wing N-193. $3,000 Nobbes was the first to write extensively on the subject of trolling, and has come to be called “the father of trolling,” although Walton and others had mentioned it before.

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256. NORRIS, Thad[deus]. The American Angler’s Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them .... With 80 wood engravings. 604 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co, 1864. First edition. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, with a gilt stamped angling scene on upper cover and piscatorial devices on spine, spine sunned, extremities lightly worn and slight foxing to a few plates, else fine. Bookstamp and signature of Dr. J. .A. Phillips, Pittsburgh, Pa. on title-page and another signature on front flyleaf. Bruns N- 67 (“very scarce”); Goodspeed, p. 100 et seq; Heckscher 1450; Gee, p. 97. $900 An important early work, which went into a number of editions. With an ALS from Norris to Wm. Gray and another 2 pp. ALS from Norris to Dr. Phillips. With press clippings of 1871 about Dr. Phillips and The Big Springs Fishing Club in Westmoreland County, Pa., of which he was the President.

257. OGDEN, [James]. Ogden on Fly-Tying, Etc. Two mounted albumen prints: frontispiece of “The Author,” and “Anglers at the Bull Inn, Fairford” (both somewhat faded); plus 2 wood- engraved and 2 lithographic plates. iv, 89, [1] pp. Sm 8vo, Cheltenham [England]: John T. Norman, 1879. First edition, with errata. Original decorated brown cloth, near fine, inner hinge at t.p. just starting, small snag at top ofspine and added leather title label. Very scarce. Westwood & Satchell, p. 161; Heckscher 1472 (both calling for only 2 plates). $500 Practical advice, not only on fly-tying, but on rods, reels, lines, nets, and other equipment, some of it invented by the author. Besides the two albumen plates noted above, there are two wood-engravings of equipment and two lithographs of angling-associated buildings, “Coulton’s Fishing House” and “The Peacock. Rowsley, Derbyshire.”

258. OPPIANUS. Oppian’s Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients In V Books. Translated from the Greek, With an Account of Oppian’s Life and Writings, and a Catalogue of his Fishes. Engraved title vignette. [8], 232, [7, list of subscribers]. Oxford: Printed at The Theater, 1722. First edition in English.

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Bound in contemporary gilt paneled full red morocco, a.e.g. Spine faded, and slightly split. A Handsome copy. Lowndes 1726; Brunet IV: 196; Heckscher 1483; Westwood & Satchel, 164; Dean’s Bibliography of Fishes (Dean III:295) states that “of all the ancient writers on fish and fishing, Oppian is easily the most important”; Wood, p. 500. $2,000 “The labor of translating this Greco-Roman author was divided between Mr. Diaper (Pt. 1, Books I and II) and John Jones (Pt. 2, Books III to V). The latter contributor also wrote an account of Oppian”s life and writings and compiled a catalogue of his Fishes. The contests between rival factions in the sea are amusingly drawn in the lines relating to the Lobster, the Lamprey, and the Preke (octopus). The remarkable color-changes of the last named were well know to the ancients (Book II).” (Wood).

259. ORVIS, Charles F. and A. Nelson CHENEY, editors. Fishing with the Fly. Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies. With 15 full page color plates of flies. 299 pp. 8vo, Manchester, Vermont: C.F. Orvis, 1883. First edition. Original pictorial brown cloth. A very good copy, minorabrasion on spine. Bruns O-18 ; Goodspeed, p. 276. $650 This rare first edition is a compilation of short articles by a number of noted anglers - Fred Mather, Seth Green, Henry P. Wells, F.E. Pond, James A. Henshall, and others - illustrated with color depictions of nearly 150 artificial flies. Orvis was a fly-tyer and tackle maker (his daughter, Mrs. Marbury, published “Favorite Flies and their Histories,” in 1892). The book went into several editions, all enhancing the Orvis trade. States Bruns: “All copies costly. The work ... is probably the greatest tackle promotion ever perpetrated, and certainly the only one which became ‘an important American work.’“ A reprint was published in 1968.

260. PALMER, C.H. The Salmon Rivers of Newfoundland. A Descriptive Account of the Various Rivers of the Island. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs, including a fold-out map of Newfoundland showing the salmon rivers. 271 pp. 8vo, Boston: Printed by Farrington Printing Co, 1928. First edition. Original printed orange wrappers. Some very minor wear to wrappers; otherwise fine. Bookplate of The Anglers’ Club. Bruns P-12. $250

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With a “Foreword” by Sir William Lamond Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland; “Salmon Fishing” by Francis Francis and “The Pools on A Salmon Stream” by P.C. Mars.

261. PARKHURST, Rev. Charles H., D.D. “I Go A-Fishing.” A Sermon ... Delivered Sunday Morning, February 17th, 1889. Madison Square Presbyterian Church [Cover title]. 14 pp. 8vo, New York: Printed by Request [S.B. Leverich, Printer, 51 John St.], 1889. First edition. Wrappers. Some small nicks, else fine. $250 Sermon on themes suggested by John xxxi, 3 “I go a-fishing” RARE. We have never seen before.

sherwin copy 262. PEACHAM, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. Fashioning him Absolut, in the Most necessary and commendable Qualities concerning Minde or Body, that may be required in a Noble Gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a Maine Battaile or Pitched Field, eight severall wayes: with the Art of Limming and other Additions newly Enlarged. [Bound with:] The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures .... Engraved frontispiece (date altered in manuscript), woodcut illustrations of coats of arms. [xii], 255, [1]; viii, 163, [1] pp. Small 4to, London: Francis Constable, 1634. Third edition. Eighteenth-century calf, morocco spine label, neatly rebacked, some toning to text, generally fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. STC 19504; Westwood & Satchell, p. 167; Heckscher 1512; Maclay Library, Five Centuries of Sport, lot 463. $4,000 Influential manual of conduct for the gentleman or courtier, written for the eight-year-old son of William Howard, Lord Arundel, and covering a multi- tude of subjects, from heraldry and geography to law and art. Pages 207-215 address “Exercises of the body,” including running, swimming, hawking, and hunting. Westwood & Satchell record the chapter on fishing at pp. 251-255, which also includes the paragraph on “Making Flyes.” The engraved frontispiece has apparently been inserted. It has been printed from the plate used in the first edition, with date and imprint deftly altered in ink. The second part has its own title page, with the imprint “Printed for I. M and are to be sold by Francis Constable.”

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263. PEEL, C.V.A. Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides. Photogravure frontispiece of “A Shot at Barnacle Geese” by George Edward Lodge, portrait frontispiece, and 15 photographic plates and illustrations. xvi, 133, [3, ads] pp. 8vo, London: F.E. Robinson & Co. 20 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1901. First edition. Original ribbed crimson cloth, beveled boards, upper board with gilt vignette of the author and his dog in the reeds, t.e.g. Faint touch of soiling at spine ends, else a fine, bright copy of this elegantly produced volume. Chute 517. $300 presentation copy 264. [PENN, Richard]. Maxims and Hints for An Angler ... to Which are Added Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player. 12 plates by Seymour. 59 pp. 12mo, London: John Murray, 1833. F irst edition. Original green cloth. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 168. $300 Food for thought for angler and chess player, with amusing illustrations by Seymour, written by the great-grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania and inscribed by him on the front flyleaf, “Thomas Amyot (?) the gift of his friend Ricd Penn.”

presentation copy 265. PHILLIPS, Arthur S. My Wilderness Friends. Illustrated with half-tones, map. 81 pp. 12mo, Fall River: Munroe Press, 1910. First edition. Original green cloth. Slightly rubbed, spine a bit dark, else fine. Rare. Bruns P-77; Wetzel, p. 195. $300 Presentation copy: “Mr. Boardman, Compliments of A.S. Phillips,” with ink stamp of Foster Boardman. Phillips was President of the Quequechan Fish and Game Club. This is his account of hunting and fishing in the Canadian wilderness. Rare.

scarce phillips angling title 266. PHILLIPS, John C. John Rowe. An Eighteenth Century Boston Angler. 32 pp. 8vo, Boston: Privately Printed by the Cosmos Press, 1929. First edition, one of 150 copies. Half green cloth and marbled boards. Minor edge wear, else fine. Biscotti, p. 342. $650

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Selections of extracts on angling from the diaries of John Rowe (1715-1787), wealthy Boston merchant.

267. _____. A Natural History of the Ducks. Illustrated with 102 plates (74 in color) by Frank W. Benson, Allan Brooks and L.A. Fuertes. 118 maps. 4 vols. 4to, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. at The Riverside Press, 1922-1926. First edition. Linen-backed boards. Fine, in original dust jackets. Casey Wood 518; Nissen IVB 728. $2,750 “This rare work stands in the front rank of modern illustrated monographs. It is an exhaustive account of the ducks of the world, with synomymy, description, distribution, and characteristic habits, etc. of each species. The colored illustrations are also very fine, and the great number of distribution- al maps are quite a feature of the work” (Wood) With an interesting ALS from Phillips to John Groves dated 1930, laid in , “I don’t know where you can get a copy of Vol. I, of a Nat. Hist. of the Ducks. There were a few less of this Vol than of the others & I am told it is bringing a high price ...”

268. _____. Wenham Great Pond. Illustrated. xii, 108 pp. Printed by Southworth-Anthoensen Press. 4to, Salem: Peabody Museum, 1938. First edition. One of 400 copies printed on special rag paper. Original green half cloth and decorated boards. Fine. Bruns P-84. $400

269. PICKARD, F. W. Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland. Illustrated with photographs by Mrs. Pickard; with a folding map of Ireland in pocket at end. 140, [1] pp. Sm 8vo, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. No. 111 of an edition of 150 copies, signed by the author. Original gray boards, gray cloth spine, bottom and fore-edges uncut, covers toned, spine slightly sunned, else fine. Bookplate. $300

270. PICKERING, Harold G. “MERRY XMAS. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N.Y.”. Cover design by Susan Shipp Pickering, illustrations by Harry L. Timmins. 34 pp. 12mo, New York: [Harold G.

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Pickering, 1956]. Second printing, no. 53 of 200 copies, signed by Pickering and initialed on title-page. Original green printed wrappers. Siegel 160 (first edition); Frazier P-10-b. $400 Inscribed to Jim and Barbara Neefus on the front flyleaf.

271. PIRSSON, Louis V. Fly-Fishing Days or, The Reminiscenses of an Angler. Edited by Waldron Faulkner. 92 pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C.: Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Original green cloth and yellow marbled boards. Fine, spine slightly faded. Rare. Not in Bruns; not in Heller. $350 Pirsson’s unpublished fishing notes were printed after his death as a memorial volume, and edited by Waldron Faullkner, whose father was Pirsson’s roommate at Yale. Pirsson was a distinguished geologist, a professor at Yale, and a passionate fly fisher. His base was the Berkshires, with chapters on trout of the Yellowstone and Missouri, and Ouananiche, and Grayling in Montana.

272. (PISCATORIAL SOCIETY) The Book of the Piscatorial Society 1836-1936. Color frontispiece and 34 full-page black-and white-plates. [x], 128 pp. 4to, London: The Piscatorial Society 26 College Street, [1936]. First edition. Original faux morocco green cloth. Fine. Bookplate of Henry Portong. $250

273. 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/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]; 79, [3] pp. 8vo, [Boston]: Privately Printed [by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, December 1936, 1937 & 1939]. First editions, each one of 150 copies. Three quarter cloth and Cockerel marbled boards, spines sunned, else fine. $1,000 All inscribed to Lois Shaw from Marjorie Prescott.

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274. [PRIME, William Cowper]. The Owl Creek Letters. 203, [1] pp. S.W. Benedict, Printer. 8vo, New York: Baker & Scribner, 1848. First edition. Original blindstamped cloth. About fine. Bruns P-144; Sabin 65546. $300 Author’s first book.

275. PRITT, Thomas Evans. Yorkshire Trout Flies. Portrait frontispiece, 12 lithographed plates, 11 hand-coloured. v, [i], [15]-63, [1] pp. 8vo, Leeds: Goodall and Suddick, 1885. First edition, limited to 200 copies, numbered in pencil “140” on the half-title. Publisher’s green cloth. Fine, with minor foxing to endsheets. $1,750 Pritt notes in ink that “the plates in this book are my own work & I took great pains with them”

276. PULMAN, George P.R. Book of the Axe; Containing a Piscatorial Description of that Stream and Historical Sketches of All the Parishes and Remarkable Places upon its Banks. Fine folding map, 15 plates and about 80 woodcuts. vii, 906 pp. Thick 8vo, London: Longman. Green. Reader and Dyer, 1875. Fourth edition, re-written and greatly enlarged. Bound in later green morocco and green cloth baords, red title label, t.e.g. Fine. $750

277. PULMAN, G[eorge] P.R. Vade Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout. 61 pp. 12mo, Axminster: Printed and Sold by E. Wills [with 4 lines of booksellers below], 1841. First edition. Green cloth, spine rebacked in green cloth. Bookplate of Hugh Tempest Sheringham (a nice association). Drawing in pencil on back free endpaper. $1,000

278. QUACKENBOS, John D. Geological Ancestors of the Brook Trout and Recent Saibling Forms from Which It Evolved. Portrait, two plates in black and white, and eight plates of trout in color. 50 pp. 8vo, New York: Published for The Anglers’ Club of New York by Tobias A. Wright, 1916. First edition, no. 253 of 300 81 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books copies. Original green calf, gilt lettered quatrain from Tennyson’s “The Brook” on upper cover beneath an inset land- scape photograph. Spine faded as usual. Bruns Q-1. $400 A most interesting book, partly scientific, partly lyrical (the author, a distinguished physician, includes samples of his poetry) which moves from a discussion of early angling books, through the characteristics of the ideal angler, to the discovery of a new species of trout at Lake Sunapee, NH, and from there to the ancestors and lines of evolution of the Salmonid race. A rare and sought-after work, and the first book published by The Anglers’ Club of New York.

279. (QUEBEC) Pauli, Frederick G. A Record of a Trip through Canada’s Wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo and to the Great Lake Mistassini in the Summer of 1906. Illustrated with numerous photographs, printed map. Large folding map in pocket at end. 61, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [by Carroll J. Post, Jr.], 1907. First edition. Green cloth and boards, titled on upper board. Some speckling to lower board. Fine copy, inscribed by the author in ink on the first blank. Bookplate of the recipient, William D. Curtis, proprietor of the Curtis Hotel in Lenox, Mass. Phillips, p. 289; Bruns P-30; Heller 589 (“rare”). $3,000 Inscribed “To Mr. W.D. Curtis, with kind regards and compliments from the author, Lenox, Dec. 8 1908”

280. RAFINESQUE, C[onstantine] S[amuel]. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its Tributary Streams. A Verbatim et Literatim Reprint of the Original, With a Sketch of the Life, the Ichthologic Work, and the Ichthyologic Bibliography of Rafinesque by Richard E Call. Frontispiece. 175 pp. 8vo, Cleveland, Ohio: Burrows Brothers, 1899. Reprint of 1820 edition, no. 57 of 250 copies, signed by the publishers. Original blue cloth. Paper label, label toned, else fine. DeWitt Miller’s copy, signed in back, as usual. Sabin 67453 (“very rare”); Howes R-10 (“10 copies known”); Grolier/Henderson p. 33; Wetzel p. 200; Bruns R-6 (“rare and virtually unobtainable”). $450 This work, originally published in the Western Review from December, 1819 through November,1820, deals with the fish of the Ohio River: their nomen-

82 I. Angling, etc. clature, characteristics and, in some cases, their penchant for the angler’s hook. It is the production of an eccentric and enthusiastic botanist, who laid the foundations for American fresh water ichthyology. Born in Constantinople in 1783, Rafinesque emigrated to the United States, subsequently becoming a professor at Transylvania University and the author of a large number of works on a wide variety of subjects. His chaotic methods contributed to the extreme rarity of many of his writings, and he died impov- erished in 1840. His fame rests on the fact that, almost alone among his peers, he expressed radical views that have become the truisms of today. This work is one of the cornerstones of Rafinesque’s ichthyological reputation.

281. RAWSTORNE, Lawrence. Gamonia: or, the art of preserving game; an an improved method of making plantations and covers, explained and illustrated. With 15 hand-colored engraved plates after J.T. Rawlins by A.W. Reeve and others. xiv, 208 pp. 8vo, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. First edition, with errata slip at end. Original publisher’s full olive morocco, wide gilt tooled borders on both covers, with some foxing to the title, front hinge splitting. Abbey, Life 392; Tooley 393; Schwerdt II, p. 127; Chute 536. $2,500 Eric Parker, in an 1930 edition of this book, notes: “‘Gamonia’ is valuable not only for its rarity and charm...it is the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game... We can see much of what is in [Rawstorne’s] mind in the treatment of the subjects he has chosen for illustration: in the quiet ridicule of the unskilled, in the hint of knowledge of how the thing could and should be done; in the cold and snow in which he likes to set his sportsmen seeking their quarry, and in the serenity of sunlight in which in each drawing stands Penwortham, his home.”

282. Reasons for improving the fisheries, and linnen manufacture of Scotland. Wherein are shewn, the advantages that must accrue to England, by the increase of the Scots linnen manufacture. That the fishing in deep water, is equally an advantage to all the subjects of Great Britain. And that England and Scotland are now so closely united in point of interest, that severally, they must be directly affected in profit and loss, by the prosperity or sufferings of each other...Humbly submitted to the consideration of the right honourable and honourable the members of both houses of Parliament. [4]. [1]- 31, [1], [4] pp.

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8vo, London: Printed for J. Roberts, near Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1727. First edition, wih half-title. Later cloth and boards. text toned. Westwood & Satchell p, 299; Hanson 3668; Kress 3719; Goldsmiths 6505; European Americana, 727/195. $350

283. REMINGTON, Frederic. Men with the Bark On. 32 illustrations by Remington. 209 pp. 8vo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. First edition of this collection. This is a variant issue measuring I-inch across. (First issue measues M-inch across the top. Later issues measure 1J inches. Original illustrated cloth. Minor fading to spine, else a almost fine. BAL 16495; Bolton “American Book Illustrators” p. 161; Merle Johnson p. 426. $250 Most of the stories had appeared in “Harper’s Magazine” 1898-1900.

remingtons first 284. _____. Pony Tracks. 70 illustrations after drawings by Remington; ix, 269, [3] pp. Small 4to, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. First edition of author’s first book. Original pictorial orange cloth; light staining to front cover, contemporary signature on preliminary blank, else a very pretty copy in a custom cloth box. BAL 16489; Dykes, “Western High Spots,” p.184; Graff 3458; Howes R-207. $750

285. (RESTIGOUCHE RIVER) Salmon Angling on the Restigouche. From Scribner’s Magazine, 1888. [With an Introduction by Joseph Pulitzer dated May 15, 1944 , and an Afterword by Guy Cary]. 16 unnumbered pages; with seven woodcut illustrations. 8vo, [St. Louis (?): Privately printed, 1944]. First separate edition, first printing. Original printed stiff grey wrappers. Fine condition. Wetzel p. 207; Bruns p. 370, citing an 8-page copy in gray boards with no date specified; not in Thacher. $750 Notes angling authority Charles B. Wood in his article “More Privately Printed Books on Atlantic Salmon Fishing”:

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“There is a wonderful sense of privacy about the best of these little salmon fishing books which one never gets in commercially published highly edited works. Mr. Pulitzer was also responsible for another little privately printed book entitled Salmon Angling on the Restigouche (St. Louis, 1944). I have never seen a copy of this but it is listed in Bruns [the eight-page edition noted above]... Presumably Mr. Pulitzer had a very limited number of copies of this reprint done as a gift or memento for his friends on the Restigouche.” rare.

rare 286. RHEAD, Louis. How to Fish the Dry Fly Floating on the Surface … A description of the American and English Dry Flies. Also How to Fish Various Nymphs from the bottom upwards in place of Worms if the Trout do not respond to Flies early in the Season or late in the Summer. Illustrated by the author. 31, [1, ad] pp. Printed by the Brookly Eagle Press. 16mo, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.: Privately printed and issued by Louis Rhead, 217 Ocean Avenue, 1921. First edition. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Wrapper split along spine, one corner chipped, else fine. Wetzel p. 202; Bruns R49 (mistakenly dating it to 1912); Sheets (1997) R2433 (“the scarcest of Rhead’s works). $650 Rhead’s rare, privately printed, and ephemeral work, offering a synthesis of Halford and the anglophile American dry fly authors (Gill and La Branche), specifically addressed to an American audience. His American Trout Stream Insects (1916) is regarded as the first on the subject “Rhead was a better artist than Schaldach, and in fact was an all-round expert at many things. To read him is to respect him” (Bruns).

fishing the restigouche 1883-1898 287. (RESTIGOUCHE RIVER) Lansing, Abraham. Recollections. Edited by Charles E. Fitch. Frontispiece portrait, 7 other photographs, and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. [xii], 266 pp. 8vo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by the De Vinne Press], 1909. Original green cloth, t.e.g. Slight fading, else fine. Bruns L-39. $950 Scarce privately printed work with considerable sporting content. Pp. 123 to 266 comprise the Logbook of Camp Albany on the Restigouche River, with entries from 1883 to 1898 on angling, hunting, and social topics. A prefatory note quotes from Dean Sage’s classic book, and an afterword by

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Charles H. Raymond offers an appreciation of Abraham Lansing (1835-1899) of Albany, New York: “To watch his tall, graceful form while casting on the river was to see the exemplar of the accomplished fisherman; the man, the rod, the line were together but the extension and the completion of artistic and practical perfection.” Laid in a mourning card from Mrs. Lansing presenting this book to Mary Small & Katy Brinton.

an angling classic, beautiful copy 288. RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect. And Accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout- and-Grayling Fishing. Twenty hand-colored engraved plates. 115, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1839. Second edition. Original blindstamped cloth. Fine. Signed Coles Child/ Nottingham/ 1844 on front pastedown. $1,250 As nice a copy as you can get.

289. _____. The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology. Illustrated by coloured Illustrations of the Natural and Artificial Insect. And accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing. With 19 hand-colored plates. Half title present. Pp. [2, half-title], iv, [vii]-viii, 1-115, [1, imprint]. Large 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Brown, Orme, Green, and Longman, 1836. First edition. Bound in pebbled original brown cloth. Fine copy with small split only on front joint. $2,500

290. RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology. With Coloured Representations of The Natural and Artificial Insect, and A Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing. With 20 hand- colored plates. 132 pp. 8vo, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1883. Ninth edition. Original dark blue cloth, uncut, Beautiful copy; publisher’s 24-page catalogue dated November 1883 at end. Westwood & Satchell, p. 178. $1,250

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“This work...displays a rare combination of entomological and piscatorial science. The drawings of the natural fly in juxtaposition with the artificial, are of great value and nicety” (Westwood & Satchell).

291.[RONALDS, Alfred]. The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology. With Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing. With an Introduction by the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Maxwell. Frontispiece and 20 plates, some hand-colored, volume 2 containing 48 actual specimens of flies in sunken mounts. 2 vols. 4to, Liverpool: Henry Young and Sons, 1913. Number 219 of 250 copies signed by the Publishers. Publisher’s green morocco- backed cloth, upper boards with gilt roundel of a dressed fly, gilt panelled spines, t.e.g., others uncut. One tiny split at front joint of vol. II, else fine. $6,000

292. [ROOPER, George]. The Autobiography of the late Salmo Salar, Esq., comprising a narrative of the life personal Adventures, and death of a Tweed Salmon. Edited by a Fisherman.68pp.8vo, London: Day, 1867. First edition. Half pebbled crimson morocco and cloth. Fine, minorwearat head of spine. $400

293. [ROOSEVELT, Robert B.]. Game Fish of the Northern States and the British Provinces By Barnwell. 324 pp. 8vo, New York: Carleton, Publishers, 413 Broadway (late Rudd & Carleton), 1862. First edition. Original green diapered cloth, spine reads “The Game Fish of the North.”. Slight wear at back joint, else about fine. Bruns R 104; Gee p. 100; Sabin 73112; TPL 4177; cf Hampton p. 80. $300

294. _____. Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States. Numerous woodcuts. vi, [9]-304, 6, ads, [2, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: Carleton, Publishers, 413 Broadway, 1865. First edition. Original pebbled cloth, with blindstamp of publisher on both covers. Fine, smallest amount

87 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books ofrubbing at head and tale of spine. Bruns R-106; Westwood & Satchell p. 179. $250 Personal recollections of Lake Superior angling with observations on fly- tying and recipes for sporting fare and (potent) drink. . 295. ROWAN, John J. The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada. Some experiences of an old country settler. With sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Colored folding map. 440, 32, ads pp. 8vo, London: Edward Stanford, 1876. First edition. Original green cloth, some wear to extremities, pp. 11-12 poorly opened, blindstamp on title-page. Signed Fitz Grace Thomson Low Wood 1877. Bruns R-118; Phillips, p. 325; Westwood & Satchell, p. 180. $750 A guide to those seeking a sporting life in Canada: deals with duck and quail shooting in Ontario, moose, caribou and wildfowl shooting in Quebec, salmon and bass fishing in New Brunswick and angling in Cape Breton and on Anticosti Island. “A completely fascinating book; the author has humor, he is a true sportsman...a truly remarkable book. The author has a wide and accurate knowledge of the fishes, and of the animals as well. A gold mine of incredible sporting information. Very rare” (Bruns).

296. SAGE, Dean. The Ristigouche and its Salmon Fishing with a Chapter on Angling Literature by Dean Sage. Edited by Colonel Henry A. Siegel and Harry C. Marschalk, Jr. With an Introduction by Arnold Gingrich. With hand-colored frontispiece entitled “Dean Sage’s Favorite Flies” by Charles DeFeo (signed by him), an additional color plate after watercolor by Ogden M. Pleissner (signed by him), several black and white plates. 4to, Goshen, CT: The Angler’s and Shooter’s Press, 1973. Facsimile of First edition, one of 250 Copies, Signed by the Editors. Full blue crushed morocco, triple gilt fillet borders surrounding a gilt design of a bird catching a salmon on upper cover, gilt spine, t.e.g. Fine. $2,500 A facsimile of the first edition, with additional material, including the signed color plates, an introduction by Arnold Gingrich, and “A Notice of Dean Sage” by Dewitt Sage.

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297. SALMON, Richard T. Trout Flies. Foreword by Arnold Gingrich. With drawings by the author and 12 page containing numerous mounted specimens of feathers, fur, and other fly- tying components. 30, [6] pp. 8vo, New York: Sportsman’s Edge Press, 1975. First edition, No. 93 of 589 numbered and signed copies. Original dark green rexine, gilt, very fine in fine matching slipcase. $450 Reproduced from the author’s elegant calligraphic manuscript.

298. SALTER, T[homas] F[rederick]. The Angler’s Guide, Being A Complete Practical Treatise on Angling: Containing The Whole Art of Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, Fly-Fishing, and Trimmer-Angling, Founded on Forty Years’ Practice and Observation...With Very Considerable Additions, Local Descriptions, Glossary of Technical Terms, and Index. 11 wood-engraved plates (one folding), and 6 additional engraved plates of fish by R. Carpenter after C. Hardy. xxxi, [iii], 217, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for the Author by Haines and Turner. Sold by T. Tegg, 1815. Second edition. Bound in half blue moroco, spine tooled with angling devices (fish, reel, fly), t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Almost fine. Bookplate of Dean Sage and Edgar G. Wandless. Westwood & Satchell, p.186. $750 The enlarged second edition of Salter’s angling classic with fine provenance.

299. _____. Another edition of the above. 8 plates, folding map of the River Lea, and 74 vignettes. 378 pp. 8vo, London: Published by John Wicksteed 18, Duke Street, Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields, 1830. The seventh edition. Bound in three quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., gilt spine. The Denison copy. Fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 187. $550

300. _____. The Troller’s Guide, A New and Complete Practical Treatise On the Art of Trolling or Fishing for Jack and Pike...To Which is Added the Best Method of Baiting and Laying Lines for Large Eels. Frontispiece, title-page vignette, numerous wood-engravings. 107, [1, ad] pp. 8vo, London: Printed by Carpenter & Son...and 89 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

Sold for the Author by T. Tegg, 1820. First edition. Original printed boards, with calf spine. Very good, small snag at top of spine. Westwood & Satchell, p.187. $350

301. SAMUELS, Edward A. With Rod and Gun in New England and the Maritime Provinces...with Valuable Supplementary Chapters. Illustrated. 540 pp. 4to, Boston: Samuels & Kimball Publishers, 1897. Original crimson cloth, gilt pictorial cover design, a.e.g., about fine. Bruns S-29. $250

302. SANDEMAN, Fraser. Angling in Norway. with 4 coloured plates of flies, a folding table and 57 other illustrsations. x, 284 pp. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine faded, else fine. $500

303. _____. By Hook and By Crook. Frontis and 15 full-page plates, 10 in color of salmon & trout flies, 9 textual drawings. viii, [ii], 255, [1] pp. Printed by Taylor and Francis. 8vo, London: Henry Sotheran 37 Piccadilly W. & 140 Strand, W.C, 894. First edition. Original tan cloth. Spine very slightly faded, else fine. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 252. $500

heckscher copy 304. [SAUNDERS, James]. The Compleat Fisherman. The Compleat Fisherman. Being a large and Particular Account, of all the Several Ways of Fishing now practised in Europe; with abundance of curious Secrets and Niceties in the Art of Fishing, as well in the Sea, as in Lakes, Meers, Ponds, Rivers or Brooks; whether by Darts, Spears, Harpoons, Nets, Hook and Line, or any other way whatsover. More particularly calculated for the Sport of Angling. With directions for preparing the angle rods, lines, hooks, and baits, proper for every part of the sport respectively; and also for the angler’s conduct in rightly applying them. Also, an account of all the principal rivers, lakes, &c. in England; and what kinds of fish are more especially found in them. Folding engraved frontispiece. [vi], .234 pp. 12mo, London: W.

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Mears at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, S. Tooke and B. Motte, 1724. First edition. Contemporary calf, some minor wear, crisp copy. With 3 different bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. Westwood and Satchell, p. 189. $850

305. SCHALDACH, William J. Coverts and Casts. Field Sports and Angling in Words and Pictures. Illustrated by the Author with 4 color and 8 black-and white drawings. 138 pp. 4to, New York: A. S. Barnes, [1943]. Author’s Autograph edition, Number 3 of 160 signed and numbered copies. Original beveled boards, tan buckram spine, t.e.g. Fine in fine original dust jacket and slipcase. Biscotti p. 386. $400 Gunning for quail, grouse and woodcock, and fishing for bass and trout, admirably illustrated.

306. _____. Fish By Schaldach: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish. Original, signed etching “Salmon” as frontispiece, plus 60 illustrations by Schaldach. 4to, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937. DeLuxe edition, No. 20 of 157, signed by Schaldach. Original vellum, with title and gilt device of a rainbow trout rising to a mayfly on upper cover. Fine. Bruns S-47; Ordeman pp. 102, 108. $900 A superb book.

with original etching 307. _____. The Wind on Your Cheek, or more chips from the log of an artist sportsman. Illustrated by the author, with an Original Etching. 159 pp. 4to, Rockville Centre NY: Freshet Press, 1972. Number 20 of 200 copies of the deluxe edition. Original half tan leather and linen boards with mounted vignette, t.e.g. Fine in original cloth slipcase. Bruns S-48. $250 Tipped in on page [7] is an original, signed, etching by Schaldach of an angling scene, entitled “Evening on the River”

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308. SCHWIEBERT, Ernest G., Jr. Salmon of the World. Foreword by Arnold Gingrich. With 30 color plates by the author, and other illustrations. Folio, New York: Winchester Press, 1970. First edition, Number 19 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Original dark blue boards, cloth spine, fine in original slipcase. Bruns S-84. $750

309. 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 lithographs after paintings by Edwin and Charles Landseer and by the author. xix, [1], 436, [2, ads]. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1838. First edition, with errata on p. xiv. Bound in full green morocco, t.e.g., by Bayntun, spine sunned, else fine. Schwerdt II, pp. 154-5. $1,250 The first 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 wolfhounds cannot now be put to their natural use.” (Schwerdt).

310. SEABURY, George J. An Ode to the Lake Bass. Illustrated by the author. Oblong 8vo, [New York: Privately Printed, 1890]. First edition. Publisher’s cloth with bass in color leaping for a fly, author’s signature lower right. A Beauty Best Copy We Have Seen. Bruns S98 “Extremely Rare”; Wetzel p. 209 “Only a few copies printed ... Rare”. $500 Canto I, “To the Oswego or Large Mouth Bass.” Canto II, “To the Black or Small Mouth Bass.”

311. SEARS. Forest Runes. New York: Forest & Stream, 1887. First edition. Green cloth. Fine. Bruns S-101. $300

312. SENIOR, William (Red Spinner). The Thames from Oxford to the Tower. Illustrated with 30 Original Painters-Etchings by

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Francis S. Walker (1848-1916). xii, 120 pp. 4to, London: John Nimmo, 1891. First edition, number 251 of 260 copies on Superfine paper. Original blue beveled gilt stamped cloth. Almost fine, corners bumped. Two bookplates. $300

313. SHAW, Fred G. The Science of Dry Fly Fishing. Illustrated. 142, [2], xxviii, ads pp. 8vo, London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1906. First edition. Pictorial green cloth. Fine. $250

in dust jacket 314. 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. Printed in Great Britain by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 4to, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931. First Trade edition. Original green cloth, fine in originalk green dust jacket which is fine save one closed tear. In original very good slipcase. $750

315. SHIBLEY, Fred Warner. Aspinwall Island. With 12 photographic plates. 167, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [printed by the De Vinne Press], 1916. First edition. Red cloth. Fine. Bruns S140. $450 “Aspinwall Island is the the gem of ninety islands in Sharbot Lake...This lake lies in the crest of the divide between the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa.” Beautifully produced, interesting memoir of life and sport in rural Ontario, black bass fishing in Sharbot Lake, camping, and talk around the fire.

316. SHIELDS, G.O. Cruising in the Cascades. A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing. With Special Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, Elk, Antelope, Rocky Mountain Goat, and Deer; also Trouting in the Rocky Mountains; on a Montana Round Up Life among the Cowboys, etc. Illustrated 339, [1], [12, ads] pp. 8vo, Chicago, & NY: Rand McNally, 1889. First edition. Original crimson cloth. Small

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317. SHIPLEY, M[alcolm] A. Artificial Flies and How to Make Them. Illustrated. 33, [6, ads] pp. 12mo, [Philadelphia]: [Spangler and Davis], 1888. First edition. Original gilt pictorial dark maroon cloth. Fine. Bruns S-147; Heckscher 1769. $500 First edition of a book reprinted as recently as the 1960s. Shipley was the author of several books on fly tying and angling, all very scarce today.

318. [SHIRLEY, Thomas]. The Angler’s Museum; or the Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing. Frontispiece portrait, woodcut title vignette. 135, [1, ad] pp. 12mo, London: Printed for John Fielding, No. 23, Pater-noster-row, [c. 1790]. Third edition. To which is prefixed The Sermon of St. Anthony. Later half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Blackwell. Bookplate of Arnold Wood. Westwood & Satchell p.194; Heckscher 1773. $750

319. SKUES, G.E.M. Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream. Color frontispiece. xiv, 133, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910. First edition. Original olive green cloth. Almost fine, minor bumping and foxing. Hampton, Modern Angling Bibliography, p. 86. $250

320. _____. Side-Lines, Side-Lights & Reflections. Fugitive papers of a chalk-stream angler. Frontispiece and seven illustrations. With inserted slip at p. 17 crediting photographers. 473, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1932. First edition. Brown cloth. Fine. Hampton p. 86. $250 G.E.M. Skues, a London attorney, wrote a number of highly influential angling books, including “Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream” (1910), “The Way of a Trout With a Fly” (1921), “Side-lines, Side-lights and Reflections” (1932), and “Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout” (1939). He was the founder of the modern wet-fly chalk-stream school of fishing and of nymph-

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an angling classic 321. SKUES, G.E.M. The Way of a Trout With a Fly and some further Studies in Minor Tactics. Two color plates and one in black and white. xv, [i], 259, [1] pp. 8vo, London: A & C Black, 1921. First edition. Original brown cloth gilt. About fine. Hampton, Modern Angling Bibliography p. 86. $350 An English solicitor, Skues was the greatest authority on nymph fishing for trout; this book, first published in 1921, is his best known, and remains infor- mative and delightful reading.

322. SMITH, H. Perry. The Modern Babes in the Wood Or Summerings in the Wilderness... to which is added a reliable Guide to Adirondacks By E.R. Wallace. Illus. 444 pp. 8vo, Hartford: Columbian Book Company,1872. First edition. Original orange cloth. Fine and unusual in this condition. $250

323. SOLTAU, G.W. Trout Flies of Devon and Cornwall, and When and How to Use Them. Two hand-colored lithographed plates of trout flies. 100 pp. E. Nettleton, Printer to Her Majesty, Plymouth. 8vo, London: Longman & Co, 1847. First edition. Original blindstamped green cloth, gilt, about fine. Westwood & Satchell p. 197. $750 Signed on the title-page “G W. Soltau-Symons”

inscribed to his guide 324. SOUTHARD, Charles Zibeon. Trout Fly-Fishing in America. With 12 illustrations and 20 color plates by H. H. Leonard. xv, 288 pp. 4to, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1914. First edition. Original green cloth. One corner bumped, else fine. Bruns S-229; Wetzel, p. 215. $1,500 Inscribed on the front flyleaf, “To my first guide in the Rangley Region, Frank D. Huntoon with the compliments of the Author Chas Z. Southard July 1,

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1914” and right below, “I have purchased this book from Floyd and Foster Huntoon, sons of Frank D. Huntoon, and I’m now happy to present it to William Wigton. Christmas 1957 Oma Lanson Wilbur, Rangley, Maine.” The dedicatee, John Lanson Philbrick, is identified as “My father’s uncle, O.L. W.” in pen on the dedication page.

325. SOUTHARD, Charles Zibeon. Trout Fly-fishing in America. 20 color plates by H.H. Leonard. xv, 288 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Dutton, 1914. First edition, no. 85 of 100 deluxe copies, signed by the author. Three quarter dark green morocco over green cloth, t.e.g. About fine. Bruns S-229; Hampton, p. 87 (1915 London ed.); Sherwin sale lot 464 (trade ed. only). $3,000 An early and authoritative work, finely illustrated. An essential part of an American angling library, here in the deluxe issue.

326. SOUTHESK, Earl of. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains. A Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, During a Journey Through the Hudson’s Bay Territories, in 1859 and 1860. With 2 folding engraved maps on linen, colored in outline, 5 lithographpic facsimiles, and 7 wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece). 22 wood engravings in the text. Title printed in red & black. xxx, 448 pp. Edinburgh: Edmonston And Douglas, 1875. First edition, second Issue, with half-title. Bound in contemporary three quarter polished brown calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges marbled. Fine copy. Bookplate of William G. Stuart. Sabin 88549; TPL 4019; Graff 588; Peel 411n; Waterston, p. 141. $600

327. SPACKMAN, W.H. Trout in New Zealand, Where to Go and How to Catch Them. 2 folding maps, 2 plates of fish. [iv], 99, [1] pp. 8vo, Wellington: George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1892. First edition. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Title- page foxed from offsetting , else fine. Bookplate of Stephen Fairbanks. $750

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sport in the chesapeake 328. [SPANGLER, A.M.]. A Paradise for Gunners and Anglers. Folding map. Illustrated. 96 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Passenger Department, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad [Press of Allen, Lane & Scott], 1883. Blue pictorial wrappers. Some browning, bumped at head of spine, one short closed tear in map. Hand S-474. $375 Guidebook for the outdoor sports (chiefly angling, marshland gunning, and duck shooting) on the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula.

329. SPARROW, W. Shaw. Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries: Prints, Pictures, Books. With a Foreword by H. T. Sheringham. Original frontispiece etching by Norman Wilkinson, signed in pencil beneath the image. 200 illustrations, including 39 in color. Thick 4to, London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, [1923]. First edition, no. 57 of 125 copies signed by the author. Original white cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Almost fine. $650 An excellent copy of this indispensable - and fascinating - work. The first book devoted to angling art exclusively. The deluxe edition is printed on fine white handmade paper and includes an original etching of an angling scene by Wilkinson not present in the trade edition.

330. St. Bernard Fish and Game Club ... Club Book. Frontispiece and plates from photographs. 26 pp. 12mo, New York: Press of T.A. Wright, 1901. First edition. Gray printed wrappers, wear to yapp edges, else near fine. Not in Heller or Bruns. $900

c.f. orviss copy 331. STEELE, Thomas Sedgwick. Canoe and Camera: A Two Hundred Mile Tour Through The Maine Forests. Illustrated with 60 Illustrations. With Folding Map in rear pocket. 139, [1], [2, ads] pp. 8vo, Boston: Estes and lauriat 299-305 Washington Street, 1882. Second edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Fine copy. Bruns S-275. $350 A comprehensive, profusely illustrated tour of the region

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Signed “C.F. Orvis” on the front flyleaf. In 1856 Charles F. Orvis founded the C.F. Orvis Company.

332. STODDART, Thomas Tod. The Angler’s Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. Illustrated, with folding map backed and in new pocket at end. 8vo, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. First edition. Original green ribbed cloth, original spine laid down. Westwood & Satchell, p. 203. $300

333. _____. The Angler’s Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. Illustrated with 4 plates (colored plate of Tweed flies at p. 171) and map in pocket at back. 8vo, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. Second edition. Original green cloth. Minor fading to spine, else fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 203. $300

334. _____. The Art of Angling, as Practised in Scotland. Illustrated. 156 pp. 12mo, Edinburgh: W.& R. Chambers, 1836. Second edition. Three quarter green morocco and marbled boards, gilt emblematic spine. Bookplates of Dean Sage and Edgar G. Wandless. Westwood & Satchell, p. 203. $300 An early account of Scottish angling, enlivened by the author’s occasional verse. deluxe edition, with hand-tied flies 335. TAVERNER, Eric. Salmon Fishing. The Lonsdale Library Volume X. With 111 plates and 214 illustrations in text, 3 maps. 472 pp. With seven specimen flies by Hardy Bros., “illustrating the various schools of Modern Fly Dressing,” mounted at back. Thick 8vo, London: Seeley, Service, 1931. First edition, np. 253 of 275 copies, printed on hand-made paper, signed by the author. Publisher’s full blue pebbled morocco, t.e.g., others uncut. Lower cover slightly bowed, else fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Portong. Bruns T-9; Litchfield, p. 88. $4,000 The seven flies include the March Brown and Blue Charm (A.H.E. Wood); the Pink Lady dry fly (G.M.L. La Branche); Gipps (A.H. Chaytor); Sally (T.E. Price Tannatt); Black Silk (E. Crossfield); and Turkey Jackson (J. Jackson).

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336. TAVERNER, Eric. Trout Fishing from All Angles. With 250 tipped-in half-tone illustrations from photographs and 30 hand- tied flies in mount on lower pastedown. 8vo, London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1929. First edition, no. 232 of 375 copies signed by the author. Original full blue morocco gilt, spine gilt, with arms of Lonsdale Library on upper board, t.e.g., fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Portong. Bruns T-10; Litchfield, p. 86. $5,000

337. TAYLOR, Samuel. Angling in All its Branches, Reduced to a Complete Science. xv,298 pp. 8vo, London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. First edition. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 205-6. $350

338. TENNEY, Horace Kent. Vert & Venison. [xii], 155, [1] pp. 8vo, Chicago: Privately Printed [Lakeside Press], 1924. First edition. Cloth and boards. Fine. $250

339. [THEAKSTON, M.]. A List of Natural Flies That Are Taken by Trout, Grayling, and Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon. 8 plates printed verso and recto and another. 154 pp. 8vo, Ripon: Printed and Published by W. Harrison, 1853. First edition, second issue, with addenda. Original green cloth. Slightly cocked, but almost fine. Booplate of Arthur Howard Thompson. $900

340. THOMAS-STANFORD, Charles. A River in Norway. Being the Notes and Reflections of an Angler. With 10 photogravure plates and a colored plan. 168 pp. 8vo, London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903. First edition. Bound in threee quarters crimson polished calf, gilt spine. Spine faded, else fine. $250

341. THOMAS, Henry Sullivan. The Rod in India, Being Hints How to Obtain Sport, With Remarks on the Natural History of Fish, Their Culture and Value, and Illustrations of Fish and Tackle. 4 lithographic plates. xxiii, [i, errata], 319 pp. 8vo, 99 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

Mangalore: Published by C. Stolz, 1873. First edition. Bound in quartegoat and green cloth, probably an Indian binding. Very good. Signed on title-page and front pastedown, “H.O. Walkery Lieut. R.H.A” Quite rare. $800

342. TODD, John, D.D. Summer Gleanings: or Sketches and Incidents of a Pastor’s Vacation ... Collected and Arranged by His Daughter. 281, [3], [4, ads] pp. 8vo, [Northhampton, [Mass.]: 1852. First edition. Original cloth, some foxing, at times considerable, else fine. Phillips, p. 377; Plum 1095; Heller 720. $1,750

343. TOLFREY, Frederic. The Sportsman in Canada. With 12 lithographic plates. iii, [i], 283; [1], [4, ads], 286 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: T.C. Newby, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Sq, 1845. First edition. Original cloth, gilt stamped spines, sides stamped in blind. Slight sunning to spines, else a beautiful copy, stamped “Marrow Conner, 3 Croll St. Strand” on front pastedowns. Dionne II 1231; Gagnon I 3546; Lande 2255; TPL 2744; Story, p. 679. $1,000 An account of the author’s adventures when, as a military officer, he was stationed at Quebec from 1816-1820. He treats of garrison life, performances of the Quebec Amateur Theatre and other social events, horse racing, snipe shooting, and hunting and fishing in the province of Quebec, along with interesting biographical information on Governors Sherbrooke and Richmond, and other prominent individuals.

344. TOLFREY, Frederic. The Sportsman in France: A Sporting Ramble Through Picardy and Normandy, and Boar Shooting in Lower Brittany. With 12 illustrations. xii, 304; v, [i], 312 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street, 1841. First edition. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Some minor wear to spine, else Very good. $450

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345. TOME, Philip. Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunter. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome, Fifteen Years Interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake, Chiefs of the Alleghany River. Woodcut frontispiece. viii, 238 pp. 8vo, Buffalo: Published for the Author, 1854. First edition. Original brown cloth. Spine neatly recased, new endpapers. Howes T-288 “b”; Graff 4162, “Important account of pioneer life in the Old West”; Streeter Sale 4088 ($200); Henderson, p.91; Phillips, p.377; Siebert Sale 243. $3,000 “Aremarkable and accurate account of hunting elk, deer, bears, wolves, trapping and fishing from 1791 to about 1825, in the counties of Lycoming and those adjacent and in Warren County, Pennsylvaia. Much Indian material in the book” (Phillips). “Tome’s association with Cornplanter was particularly interesting; his volume is an important account of pioneer life in the Old West” (Storm, p.622). “Charles Sheldon had a note in his copy reading: ‘This is one of the prize books of my library. At present, June 10, 1914, it is the only known copy’“ (Streeter).

346. VENABLES, Robert. The Experienced Angler; or, angling improv’d. Being a general discourse of angling. Imparting the aptest ways and choicest experiments for the taking of most sorts of fish in pond and river. Engraved title-page. [12], 96, (6) pp. 93 misnum- bered 63. Sm 8vo, London: Printed by B.W.for B. Tooke, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Tho. Sawbridge at the Three Flowers de Luces in Little Britain, 1683. “The Fifth Edition much Enlarged”. Later full calf, lower margins trimmed, in some cases affecting catchword. Bookplates of J.F. Jones and Walter Le Roy Heiberg. Westwood & Satchell, p. 214; Wing V186; CBEL II, 1556. $2,250

347. VENIARD, John. Fly Dressers’ Guide. Full page illustrations in color by Eric Cumberland Owen, 2 full page color photographs and drawings. [xii], 256, [10] pp. 8vo, Thornton Heath: E. Veniard, [1952]. First edition. Green cloth. Fine in almost fine pictorial dust jacket. $250 Inscribed, “With regards John Veniard” on the front flyleaf.

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348. VESEY-FITZGERALD, Brian and Francesca LAMONTE. Game Fish of the World. 80 color plates by A. Fraser-Brunner. xvii, 446 pp. 4to, London: Nicholson & Watson, [1949]. First edition, no. 55 of 100 copies. Publisher’s blue gilt stamped pebbled morocco, t.e.g. Fine. $500 With Ernest Hemingway contribution, “Cuban Fishing.”

349. WADE, Henry. Rod-Fishing in Clear Waters By Fly, Minnow, and Worm. With a Short and Easy Method to The Art of Dressing Flies. 12 hand-colored plates. xvi, 212 pp. 12mo, Cambridge: Bell and Dalby, [1860]. First edition. Original green cloth. Small clipping out of front flyleaf, else fine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 216. $500

350. WAGNER, Henry R. The Plains and the Rockies, edited by Charles L. Camp. Profusely illustrated. 601 pp. Printed by the F.J. Herr Printing Co., Columbus, Ohio. Small, thick 4to, Columbus, OH: Long’s College Book Co, 1953. “The Third Edition, considerably enlarged and with the addition of many more plates.” No. 52 of only 75 copies. Original patterned boards and buckram spine, paper spine labels. Fine in original slipcase. $250

the fourth edition 351. [WALTON, Izaak]. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish & Fishing. Engraved cartouche on the title-page, and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. Small 8vo (5L x 3L inches; 142 x 85 mm), London: Printed for R[ichard] Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at his shop, 1668. Fourth edition. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, leather title label in red, front hinge has split, but holding. Bookplate of Leeds. Coigney 5; Horne 5;

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Oliver 5; Pforzheimer 1051; Westwood & Satchell, p. 219; Wing W665. $10,000 Excellent copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous.

the fifth edition 352. WALTON, Izaak, Charles COTTON, and Robert VEN- ABLES. The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three Books of Fishing. The First Written by Mr. Izaak Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton Esq.; The Third by Col. Robert Venables. All which may be bound together, or sold each of them severally. Three parts in one volume. Pt. I: Engraved piscatorial title-page, 10 small copperplates of fish, 2 pages of music; pt. II: engraved cipher on title-page; pt III: engraved piscatorial frontispiece by F.H. Van Houe, the same 10 copperplate illustrations as in part I. License leaf present in part II. 16mo, London: Printed for Richard Marriott; printed by B.W. for B. Tooke, 1676. Fifth edition. Bound in contemporary blind ruled calf, spine ends repaired. Bookplate of Dean Sage. In full brown morocco solander box. Coigney 6; Westwood & Satchell, p. 219; Wing W666 & C6381. $15,000 The last edition published in Walton’s lifetime and the first in which his name appears on the title-page. “In many respects it is the most interesting of the five [lifetime] editions” (Coigney). It is the first appearance of Cotton’s work.

first moses browne edition 353. WALTON, Izaac and Charles COTTON. The Compleat Angler: or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation ... Carefully and correctly published, From the best Editions, with a Number of occasional Notes. By Moses Browne. 6 copperplate engravings by H. Burgh, one page of music, one fishing scene headpiece, 15 woodcuts of fish. 12mo, Printed and Sold by Henry Kent, 1750. Seventh edition, first Moses Browne edition. Contemporary calf, worn, front hinge off, else fine. Coigney 7; Westwood & Satchell, p. 220. $1,250 “This edition, edited by Moses Browne at the suggestion of Dr. Samuel Johnson, was published seventy-five years after the Universal Angler of 1676, the last to appear in Walton’s lifetime. The Angler’s popularity dates from this edition” (Coigney, p. 12). 103 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

first hawkins edition 354. WALTON, Izaac and Charles COTTON. The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing ... To which are now prefixed, The Lives of the Authors. [Edited by John Hawkins.]. 11 engravings by William W.Ryland: 9 after S. Wale, 1 after T. Smith and 1 after P. Lely (portrait of Cotton), 1 engraved and 2 woodcut head- pieces, 2 plates of music, 3 plates of fishing tackle, 17 copper engravings of fish. 8vo, London: Printed only for Thomas Hope, at the Bible and Anchor, 1760. Ninth edition, first Hawkins edition. Later full brown calf, gilt spine, a.e.g. Fine. Coigney 9; Westwood & Satchell, p. 221. $1,250 Edited by John Hawkins, who also wrote the Life of Walton. The Life of Cotton is by W. Oldys. “This edition came into competition with that issued by Browne in the previous year, and gave rise to ‘sundry skirmishes and passages of arms between the two editors.’ Browne’s charges of plagiarism appear unfounded. The annotation is copious and has for the most part been retained in subsequent reprints” (Westwood & Satchell).

355. _____. The Complete Angler ... to which are prefixed The Lives of the Authors. Illustrated with 15 engravings. lxxviii, [ii], 302; 128, [8. index] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, (No 62), 1775. The Third Hawkins edition. Bound in full modern calf, gilt spine, leather label. Fine, frontispiece with minor repair. Coigney 12; Westwood & Satchell, pp. 222-3. $850

first bagster edition 356. _____. The Compleat Angler .... Engraved half title present. Illustrated with 32 engravings by Audinet (15 plates, 17 small fish in text), 2 musical engravings, 2 woodcuts. Printed by Mercier and Chervet. 512, [2, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition, with half-title and ads. Bound in three quarter tan calf and marbled boards. Some foxing to plates, else fine. Coigney 17; Oliver 17. $800

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first major edition 357. _____. The Complete Angler ... to Which are Added, an Introductory Essay; The Linæan Arrangement of the Various River- Fish Delineated in the Work; and Illustrative Notes. 14 copperplates, engraved or etched by H. Cook, C. Pye, E. Smith, R. Ashby, after Huysmans, Lely, Nash and Wale, including portraits of Walton and Cotton and 2 pages of music, plus 77 woodcuts. 411, [1] pp. 8vo, London: John Major, 1823. First Major edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Henry Portong. Coigney 23. $500 First impression of Major’s edition, edited by Richard Thomson and John Major.

first nicolas edition 358. _____. The Complete Angler ... by Izaak Walton and ... Charles Cotton ... With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. 2 vols. 4to (10G x 7 inches), London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. Full red pebbled morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g. Some minor rubbing to spines. Bookplate of Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Middle Temple. In open-faced cloth slipcases. Coigney 44; Westwood & Satchell, p.28; Keynes, p. 94; Oliver 41. $1,750 One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artist, painters, and engravers to illus- trate it.

the first in a foreign language 359. _____. Der vollkommene Angler ... herausgegeben von Ephemera und übersetzt von I. Schumacher. 10 woodcut engravings. xii, 308 pp. 8vo, Hamburg: P.Salomon & Co, 1859. First edition in German and first foriegn language edition. Bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate of Dean Sage (with 1942 Parke Bernet bill for lot 493 laid in). Some toning of spine, minor traces of wear. Fine. Coigney 76;

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Horne 75; Oliver 74; Westwood & Satchell, p. 233; Litchfield, p. 41. $15,000

the emerson angler 360. WALTON, Izaac and Charles COTTON. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation ... and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton. Illustrated with 54 photogravures by Peter Henry Emerson and George Bankhart, with note about whose photos are whose tipped-in; maps of the rivers Lea, Dove, Wye and Derwent; and about 100 woodcuts laid in on India paper. 2 vols. Demy 4to, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1888. The Lea and Dove (first Marston) edition, no. 27 of 500 copies of the Demi Quarto Edition, signed by R.B. Marston. Bound in publisher’s three quarter green morocco, spine gilt. Spines lightly worn, else fine. Coigney 139; Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 255; Horne 136; Olivier 125; not in Turner & Wood, P. H. Emerson (1974). $2,500 One of the most celebrated of photographically illustrated books, the “so- called 100th edition is a reissue of the first two parts of the fifth-edition of 1676, with the addition of a reprint of the 1883 edition of The Chronicle of the Complete Angler by Westwood and Satchell, and a list of Works referred to in The Compleat Angler after G.W.Bethune” (Coigney, p.125). Of the plates from photographs, 27 are by Emerson and 25 by Bankhart. Emerson, the father of “naturalist photography,” published his treatise by that title the following year. He advised photographers to imitate the effects of nature on the eye. Influenced by the Barbizon painters, he urged photographers to see the works of these and other “impressionists” then on view in London. As Coigney notes, “In recent years P.H. Emerson works have been in great demand by photography collectors, so many copies of this edition are in photographic collections and unfortunately many volumes have been destroyed by the extraction of Emerson’s photogravures.” All are present here, as are the rest of the illustrations.

first lowell, large paper 361. _____. The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation ... With an introduction by James Russell Lowell. Four etchings by Harlow signed in pencil. Embellishments printed on Japan and laid down. Numerous engravings in text. [i]-lxxvi, [1]-

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208; vi, 209-465 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1889. First Lowell edition, large paper copy, no. 128 of 150 copies. Bound in quarter blue morocco and cloth. Fine. Coigney 144. $600

the nonesuch walton 362. _____. The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. x, 631, [1] pp. 8vo, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. No. 314 of 1600 copies. Original full brown niger morocco, fine bright spine in fine original slipcase. Coigney 303; Dreyfus 61. $500 A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton’s complete writings.

superb copy of the arthur rackham angler 363. _____. The Compleat Angler. Illustrated title-page in green and black, 12 colored plates, numerous black and white illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers by Rackham. 4to, London: George G. Harrap, [1931]. First Rackham edition, no. 688 of 775 copies, signed by Rackham. Full white parchment, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., fore and lower edges uncut. Very fine copy in original printed numbered slipcase. Latimore and Haskell, p. 66; Coigney 312. $2,500 Of all the Rackham books, one of the most delightful and sought-after, and a gem for any Walton collector. A much nicer copy than ordinarily encountered and in original slipcase.

364. WALTON, Izaak. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Lg 12mo (7 x 4½ inches), London: Richard Marriott, 1678. First edition. Contemporary tan paneled calf, rebacked with new lettering piece, red edges, a fine, tall, crisp copy. Signed “John Drinkwater, 1920” on the front flyleaf. Signed “Jb. Lloyd” on title-page, back endpapers have early notes. Onset on front flyleaf “J. Crouch”.

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Pforzheimer 1053; Church II, 1115; Coigney, p. 387; Heckscher 2163. $750 A fine copy of the first edition of the last of Walton’s Lives. An unusual copy, in that it remains uncorrected by its author; it is more frequently found with five or six minor corrections in Walton’s hand. This copy has all its editorial flaws intact.

365. (WALTONIANA) Wotton, Sir Henry. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ; or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems ... By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wotton, Kt. Late Provost Eton College. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved portraits in text. 540 pp. 18mo, London: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, etc, 1651. First edition. Bound in full red morocco, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., by Stikeman & Co. Hinges neatly repaired, internally fine. The James William Ellsworth and R.B. Adams copy. Westwood & Satchell, p. 243; Heckscher 2199. $3,500 Contains a poem of 24 lines, “On a Banck as I sate a Fishing,” a description of the Spring, cited in The Compleat Angler. Printed two years before the first edition of The Compleat Angler, by the same printer. An extremely rare book, and, internally, a very fine copy.

one of 33 copies 366. (WALTONIANA) Rules and Regulations of The Walton and Cotton Club. Instituted 19th March 1817. Revised 8th April 1840. Frontispiece, decorative borders printed in red, historiated initial letters, illustrated. [24] pp. 12mo, London: Privately Printed by [C. Whittingham, Printer] for [William Pickering], 1840. First edition, one of only 33 copies. Bound in full green morocco, some fading to spine, else fine. Bookplate of Arnold Wood, Walton bibliographer. Westwood & Satchell, p.180; Coigney, p. 402. $2,500

heckscher copy 367. (WALTONIANA) Bethune, George W. Bibliographical Preface, by an American Editor, with some notices of Fishing, and books on Fishing, before Walton. A Waltonianm Library; or, A List of Such Works as relate to Fish, Fishing, Walton and Cotton. By an

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American Editor of the Complete Angler. With portrait of Dr. Bethune and Lady Charlotte Campbell, 1810, inserted. cxxii, 143-207 pp. Royal 8vo, n.p: n.d. Taken from the 1880 edition of Walton & Cotton’s Angler, published by J. Wiley & Son. Bound in half maroon pebbled morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., rest uncut, by Alfred Mathews. Bookplates of John Gerard Heckscher. Heckscher item 2171. $750

368. (WALTON, Izaak) “Izaak Walton Scrapbook” [Spine title]. With engraved portrait of Izaak Walton in 1658 by Inskipp, hun- dreds of engravings of fishes, portraits, angling landscapes and scenes, all mounted on rectos only of large folio leaves. Folio, [England: 19th century]. Modern full green morocco by Maroquain. Some minor offsetting on to opposite blanks. Fine. $1,750

369. WEBBER, C.W. Romance of Natural History; or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters. Illustrated with A.J. Miller, plates in black and white. 610 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852. Variant title reprint of “The Hunter-Naturalist” (1851). Original blindstamped brown publisher’s cloth, gilt-stamped emblematic elements on spine. Some wear at joints, but very good. Howes W-196. $350 Chapter X, “The Fox and fox hunting in America,” chapter VI, “Aububon and Boone,” chapter XII, “Hunting Peccaries in Texas ...”

370. WEST, Leonard. The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation ... Being an Angler’s Record of Insects Seen at the Waterside and the Method of Making Their Imitations. With 13 color plates and other illustrations. 144 pp. 8vo, St. Helens (England): Published by the Author, [1912]. First edition. Original olive cloth, a trifle worn, spine faded, else fine. $400

371. WEST, Charles C. Sketches of Camp Life in the Wilds of the Aroostook Woods: Aroostook County, Maine. Fishing, Canoeing,

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Camping, Shooting and Trapping. Being True Stories of Actual Life in Camp. Illustrated. 345 pp. 12mo, Boston: Trade Supplied by the New England News Company, [1892]. First edition. Original brown cloth. Almost fine. Phillips, p. 399. $400

372. WESTWOOD, T[homas]. A New Bibliotheca Piscatoria; or, General Catalogue of Angling and Fishing Literature. With Bibliographical Notes and Data. 78, [1] pp. 12mo, London: The “Field” Office, 1861. First edition. Half tan calf and marbled boards, front flyleaf loose, else fine. Bookplate of Samuel W. Lambert. Westwood & Satchell, p. 53. $250 The modest, tiny-type genesis of the greatest of all angling bibliographies.

large paper copy 373. WESTWOOD, T[homas] and T[homas] SATCHELL. Bibliotheca Piscatoria, a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture, with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix .... xxiv, 397, [1] pp. 4to (11½ x 9¼ inches; 285 x 220 mm), London: W. Satchell, 1883. First edition, large paper issue. Original green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Bookplate of Walter LeRoy Heiberg and his pencil ownership signature dated 1932. Annotated in pencil, chiefly records of bibliographical points or auction prices circa 1900. With a pencil notation opposite title, “100 copies on large paper of which 50 were for sale.” Spine ends bumped, else fine. $4,000 The essential, classic angling reference work, in its rarest state. Walter L. Heiberg was a career naval officer and served as U.S. Naval attaché in Sweden during World War II.

374. 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. 67 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author from a total edition of 200. Original three quarter black morocco, blue cloth

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375. WHITE, Stewart Edward. The Cabin. Illustrated with photos by the author. 283 pp. 8vo, Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1911. First edition. Original blue gray cloth. Fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Bruns W-85. $250

376. WHITEHEAD, Charles E. The Camp-Fires of the Everglades or Wild Sports in the South. Frontispiece, vignette title-page of a manatee, 15 plates after drawings by various artists including Paul Frenzeny, Henry Rankin Poore, Edwin Willard Deming, William Ludwell Sheppard, plus illustrations in text. xii, 298, [16, ads] pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press. 8vo, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. First edition thus. Original green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine faded, else fine. Phillips, p. 404; Bruns W-92. $400 Sporting sketches, most having originally appeared in The Spirit of the Times and published as Wild Sports in the South in 1860. A stirring book with fine new illustrations for this edition.

377. WHITNEY, John. The Genteel Recreation: Or, the Pleasure of Angling, A Poem. With a Dialogue between Piscator and Corydon. 12mo, London: [J.H. Burn], [1820]. Second [first published?] edition, being a reprint of the rare 1700 author’s printing. One of 100 copies. Bound in full pigskin for Henry Arthur Johnstone, with bookplate of Howard Gould. Westwood & Satchell, p. 240. $300 “ ... rhymes ... sufficiently ridiculous to be somewhat amusing” (Westwood & Satchell).

378. The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of all that has been Written on this Subject .... Copper-engraved frontispiece of angling scene and Windsor Castle in facsimile.

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[vi], 111, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Edmund Curll, 1714. First edition. Later full red morocco, a.e.g., by Bayntun (Riviere). Title- page with perforated library stamp and libray stamps on front pastedown. Westwood & Satchell, p. 18. $400 The oft-lacking frontispiece is supplied here in facsimile. Publisher’s preface states: “This Treatise is a Collection of all that has been writ upon the subject of Fishing digested in a better Method than any before extant.”

379. WILCOX, Walter Dwight. Camping in the Canadian Rockies. An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region About Banff, Lake Louise, and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations. Illustrated with 25 full page photogravures including Mount Assiniboine, Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise, Bow River, Lake Agnes, Emerald Lake, & Cascade Mountain. xiii, 283 pp. Royal 8vo, New York: G.P. Punam’s Sons, 1896. First edition. Original pictorial blue cloth. One signature loosening, missing front flyleaf, else a bright clean copy. Neate W-73; Lowther 1250, Whale 1693. $300

380. WILLIAMSON, John. The British Angler: or, A Pocket- Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Frontispiece (slightly cropped), 3 folding copperplate engravings (one repaired at the fold), head- pieces and tailpieces. viii, 318, [10, index] pp. 12mo, London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London [Bridge], 1740. First edition. Bound in 19th-century three quarter green morocco, gilt spine. The title-leaf is trimmed at bottom with loss of date, else a very good copy. Bookplates of Dean Sage and Edgar G. Wandless. Westwood & Satchell, p. 241; Heckscher 2273. $900 “One of the best of the manuals ...” (Westwood & Satchell).

381. WILLOUGHBY, Hugh L. Across the Everglades. A Canoe Journey of Exploration. Illustrated from photographs taken by the author. Folding map. xii, [9]-192 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: J. B.

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Lippincott, 1898. First edition. Original ribbed pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. Very fine. $600

382. [WILSON, John]. Recreations of Christopher North. 440, [1]; 433, [3] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1857. Volumes IX & X of the Works of Professor John Wilson. Original brick-red blindstamped cloth, spines decorated in blind and gilt. Minor fading to spines, else a very fine, unopened set. $300 Wilson was Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and the brother of James Wilson, author of A Voyage Round the Coasts of Scotland, published in the same year as the first edition of Recreations (1842). Professor Wilson was a regular contributor of angling pieces to the magazines, and here the first essays (“Christopher in his sporting jacket”) are delightful rumi- nations on angling and shooting. I. “Tale of expiation”; “Morning monologue”; “The field of flowers”; “Cottages”; “An hour’s talk about poetry”; “Inch-cruin”; “A day at Windermere”; “The moors”; “Highland snow-storm”; “The holy child”; “Our parish. II. May-day”; “Sacred poetry”; “Christopher in his aviary”; “Dr. Kitchiner”; “Soliloquy on the seasons”; “A few words on Thomson”; “The snowball bick- er of Pedmount”; “Christmas dreams”; “Our winter quarters”; “Stroll to Grassmere”; “L’envoi.

383. WILSON, James and [A.K. KILLMISTER]. The Rod and the Gun. Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting.8vo, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1840. First edition. Bound in full contemporary polished tan calf, gilt spine. Fine. Bookplate of W. Keith Rollo. $300

384. WILSON, Lt.-Col. Alban. Trout Fishing in Kashmir. Frontispiece, folding “Sketch Map Achabal R. Upper Water” at back and 5 other half-tone plates. 69, [5, ads] pp. 8vo, Calcutta & Siml: Thacker Spink, 1920. First edition. Original red cloth. Spine sunned, else fine. With pen notes in text kept by H.P.Kerr

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(who has signed pastedown) correcting mistakes and note on patterns laid in. $250 Angling at this outpost of Empire, to which trout were introduced in 1900.

“complete angling guide round the north of scotland” 385. WILSON, James. A Voyage Round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. Folding engraved map of Scotland by S. Hall, and 21 engraved plates. xii, 487; iv, 461, [14, ads] pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt spines. Spines faded to brown, inner hinges starting, otherwise a lovely copy. Very good. Westwood & Satchell, p. 242. $500 James Wilson was the brother of Professor John Wilson, author of Recreations of Christopher North (see above), and professor of Natural History at Edinburgh. “This work contains an account of the various fishing stations in the Western Highlands and Islands, and describes the fish, flies, etc. It forms a complete angling guide round the North of Scotland from the Clyde to the Forth” (Westwood & Satchell).

unusally fine 386. WULFF, Lee. Leaping Silver. Words and Pictures on the Atlantic Salmon. Illustrated. 149 pp. 8vo, New York: George W. Stewart, Publisher, [1940]. First edition, no. 492 of 540 signed copies. Quarter blue morocco and blue cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. $600

387. YORK, Edward, Second Duke of. The Master of Game ... The Oldest English Book on Hunting. Edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie- Grohman. With a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. With 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions, including chromolithographic frontispiece. Folio, London: Published for the Editors by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, 1904. First edition, no. 27 of 600 copies. Signed by Wm. A. Baillie-Grohman. Bound in three quarter red morocco, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine, minor foxing. Schwerdt II, p.305. $3,000

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Partially a translation from the famous 15th-century hunting book, Gaston Phoebus’ Livre de chasse, which the author wrote while in prison for an attempt to murder his cousin Richard II.

388. _____. Another edition of the above. Illustrated. xxix, 302, [2] pp. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. First trade edition. Bound in three quarter green morocco, boards, t.e.g. Some toning and small amount of rubbing. Fine, in slipcase. $250

389. YOUNG, Andrew. The Angler and Tourist’s Guide to the Rivers, Lakes, and Remarkable Places in the Northern Counties of Scotland. Folding engraved map. iv, 117 pp. 12mo, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, 1857. First edition. Original blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. With the bookplate of John Gerard Heckscher. Westwood & Satchell, p. 244. $250 A meticulous, pocket-size guide to the sport on Northern rivers. Very desirable in this condition and provenance.

390. YOUNGER, John. On River Angling for Salmon and Trout: More Particularly as Practised in the Tweed and its Tributaries. With table at end. 90, [2] pp. 16mo, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1840. First edition, first issue. Full contemporary three quarter morocco, several leaves loose at front. Westwood & Satchell, p. 244. $2,250 A diminutive but classic work by a Scottish shoemaker, “a man of original ideas and marked capacity” (Westwood & Satchell).

391. ZOUCH, Thomas. The Life of Izaak Walton; Including Notices of His Contemporaries. With 20 Thomas Gosden full-page engravings, almost all marked “Proof,” and title page and chapter-heading vignettes. ii, 93 pp. 8vo, London: Septimus Prowett, Strand, 1823. Published subsequent to the first edition of 1823, which contained 16 engravings. Bound in full contemporary polished purple calf, gilt spine with 2 leather title labels. Fine,

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392. ALVORD, Thomas G. Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods. Nine plates of line drawings, plus numerous text sketches, by the author. 137 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, second state, no. 25 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, else almost fine. Siegel 81; Frazier A-1-a. $375 The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce. 393. ANNABEL, Russell. Tales of a Big Game Guide. Illustrated from 26 photographs. 198 pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 774 of 950 copies. Polished maroon cloth, spine and corners in cream-colored linen, maroon spine label. Almost fine copy. Siegel 141; Frazier A-5-a; Biscotti p. 11. $500 An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. 394. BABCOCK, Philip. Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room. Illustrated by Aiden L. Ripley. 201 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 950 of 950 copies (Frank Lowe’s copy, he always took the last number). Original leather- grained brown cloth, gilt is not dull at all, light rubbing to spine tips, near fine. In open faced slipcase. Siegel 115; Frazier B-1-a. $300 Well-told recollections of grouse, woodcock, geese, ducks, and other quarry. 395. BAKER, Charles H., Jr. The Gentleman’s Companion. 220; 217 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, one of 1250 copies. Original red cloth, oxblood buckram spines. Fine in original red slipcase, slightly worn. Siegel 147; Frazier B- 3-a. $300 Vol. I: Being an Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon. Vol. II: Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask. One cookery/drink book that has never gone out of style, and is still very much sought after.

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396. BANDINI, Ralph. Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea. Illustrated with photographs. 222 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 459 of 950 copies. Original light green cloth, gilt, marlin device on upper cover. Fine copy. Custom half green morocco and cloth drop box. Siegel 155; Frazier B-4-a. $500 This is Frazier’s “1st state,” with the lighter green cloth. large paper 397. BARBER, Joel. Wild Fowl Decoys. 5 color plates, one of them handcolored, and 121 other illustrations. xix, [iii], 156 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. no. 14 of 55 large paper copies, signed by the author. Original red morocco gilt, t.e.g. Head of spine chipped and some minor loss at foot of spine. Custom red morocco backed folding box with cloth chemise. Siegel 85; Frazier B-5-a; Biscotti p. 24. $5,000 “One of the most important books published by Connett” (Siegel). Published in an edition of only 55 copies, this, in effect, was the Derrydale “Deluxe” edition of Barber’s book: the trade edition was published by Windward House. superb copy, inscribed 398. BARBER, Joel D. ’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Frontispiece and six full-page illustrations of ducks, decoys, and hunters by Arthur Fuller. 12mo, New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Limited Edition. Number 276 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Full red morocco gilt, uncut at fore and lower edges, a superb copy, as new in the original slightly worn glassine and the numbered publisher’s box (very slight wear to box). Siegel 151; Frazier B-6-a; Biscotti p. 24. $750 Inscribed “Joel Barber with kindest regards to David Wagstaff.”

399. BAYLOR, Armisted Keith. Abdul. An Allegory. 47 pp. Thin 8vo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1930. One of 500 copies. Original black boards, yellow marbled endpapers. Spine with some wear and loss. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Custom half black morocco and cloth drop box. Siegel 34; Frazier B-8-a. $900

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Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. “An extremely rare Derrydale book … very scarce … and very hard to come by” (Frazier). rare presentation copy in dust jacket 400. BEACH, William N. In the Shadow of Mt. McKinley. Foreward by John Burnham. Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard. Illustrated by paintings and sketches by Carl Rungius and photographs by the author, folding map. xiv, 289, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. First edition, one of 750 copies. Original blue cloth. Fine. Presentation copy in the scarce printed dust jacket (jacket with small chips and some toning to spine). Siegel 53; Frazier B-9-a. $1,750 Inscribed by the author, “To my old friend Phil Rollins with hopes that you may enjoy this chronicle Wm. N. Beach April 2 /37”

401. BOSWORTH, Clarence C. Breeding Your Own: How to Raise and Train Colts for pleasure and profit. Photographic illustrations. x, [ii], 245 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 667 of 1250 copies. Original blue cloth, cream cloth spine with blue label. Fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 144; Frazier B-13-a. $400

beautiful copy in glassine and inscribed 402. BRIGGS, L. Cabot. Bullterriers: The Biography of a Breed.66 illustrations from photographs and prints and a 7 page bibliography. 113 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First edition, no. 9 of 500 copies. Original maroon cloth, cream cloth spine and corners, fine in original glassine. Siegel 158; Frazier B- 15-a. $900 A very nice copy of a book which Frazier calls “certainly one of the finest regular editions that Connett produced in the later years of the Press.” Inscribed “To Captain Bassett, one of the two great pioneers of scientific dog breeding in America-from the author. L. Cabot Briggs. The Westminster Kennel Club Show, Feburary 11, 1942. (MS corrections by the author L.C.B.).” Corrections on pp. xviiI, 3, etc.

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deluxe issue, with original drawing 403. BROWN, Paul. Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present. Illustrated by the author and from photographs. Introduction by Henry G. Vaughn, M.F.H. xxi, [ii], 191 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 13 of 50 copies with a full page pen-and-ink drawing signed and dated by Brown. Bound in full red morocco with gilt-stamped emblematic tooling. Fine copy of a rare and desirable book. In custom quarter red morocco slipcase with cloth chemise. Siegel 35; Frazier B-17-D; Podeschi p. 375. $8,000 The magnificent deluxe issue of this classic of steeplechasing. The original illustration appears in the printed book at p. 119, the chapter on the 1929 Grand National, where Tipperary Tim “cuts across in front of the hard-gal- loping American entry.”

404. BUCKINGHAM, Nash. De Shootinest Gent’man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, no. 917 of 950 copies. Original blue cloth, with full-color reproduction of canvasback ducks by Dr. Edgar Burke inset in upper cover. Almost fine, 1934 non-authorial inscription on flyleaf. Siegel 76; Frazier B-20-a. $900 First edition of one of the most beloved books of American sporting stories.

405. _____. Mark Right! Tales. With 12 photographic illustrations, and colored upper cover vignette by Edgar Burke. 250 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, no. 789 of 1250 copies. Original red cloth, gilt, full color vignette of bobwhite quail inset into upper cover. Almost fine. Bookplates of Gerald D. Boardman and M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 102; Frazier B- 21-a. $600 The second Derrydale book of this popular author. 406. BURKE, Dr. Edgar. American Dry Flies and How to Tie Them. Frontispiece. 25 pp. 12mo, New York: Privately Printed for the Angler’s Club [by the Derrydale Press], 1931. First edition, one of 500 copies. With errata slip tipped in. Original blue printed boards. Near fine (very small snag at top of spine). In custom

120 II. Derrydale Press blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Siegel 46; Frazier B- 24-a; Bruns B-299. $850 Frazier notes the book’s “extreme” fragility and notes that it is “hard to find in fine unchipped condition.” beautiful copy 407. 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. Original black beveled cloth, title and device on upper cover in white and gold, bottom and fore-edges uncut. Fine. Siegel 58; Frazier C-5-a. $2,500 A lovely copy of a scarce volume that is less a book than a work of art. 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 profound- ly satisfying. 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.”

408. _____. Gunner’s Dawn. Original signed etching, 5 color plates and 14 in black and white by the author. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, one of 950 copies. Original red simulated leather. Fine. Siegel 118; Frazier C-6-a; Biscotti p. 85. $750 The author’s experiences duck shooting, and a handsome book. ðeluxe issue, one of 50 409. _____. Roland Clark’s Etchings. With two original signed etchings with tissue-guards, title-page vignette, and 69 plates by Clark. Folio, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, one of 50 copies of the deluxe issue. Original publisher’s deluxe binding of three quarter brown morocco gilt and marbled boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, by James MacDonald. Slightest trace of foxing to etchings. Fine copy in original numbered box (some wear to box). Custom half morocco clamshell. Siegel 139; Frazier C-7-D. $10,000 Fine copy of the largest Derrydale production, a beautiful collection of Clark’s sporting etchings.

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410. CONNETT, Eugene V., editor. American Big Game Fishing. [Introduction by Mrs Oliver C. Grinnell]. With color plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and illustrations from photographs, drawings and maps. xxii, [ii], 251 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition, one of 850 copies. Original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Fine copy. Bruns B-146; Siegel 86; Frazier C-13-a; Hampton (2008) p. 72. $850 One of the great large-format Derrydales, with a chapter on “Marlin off Cuba” by Ernest Hemingway.

411. _____. A Decade of American Sporting Books & Prints by The Derrydale Press 1927-1937. Illustrated. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 801 of 950 copies. Original red cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board with Derrydale logo in gilt. Fine copy. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Custom red half morocco clamshell. Frazier D-3-a; Siegel 133. $350 Very bright, fresh copy.

412. _____. Feathered Game from a Sporting Journal. Title-page vignette and ten color plates by Edgar Burke. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 69 of 500 copies. Original simulated mottled calf boards, black cloth spine. Unusually fine. Siegel 24; Frazier C-10-a. $650 Inscribed by the author on flyleaf “To Sam Milbank The pusson’l friend of my friend Spotty. Gene”

inscribed 413. _____. Fishing a Trout Stream. Vignette title, frontispiece, and 93 plates after photos by Lawrence B. Smith. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, number 25 of 950 copies. Original blue pictorial cloth. Spine slightly darkened and some wear on label, else fine. Bookplate. Siegel 77; Frazier C-12-a; Bruns C-148. $400 Inscribed “To my old friend Ken Lockwood Eugene Connett 3rd.”

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414. _____ (editor). Upland Game Bird Shooting in America.64 plates (5 in color) by Hunt, Burke, Schaldach, Frost, et. al. xxiv, [iii], 249 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 40 of 75 copies, with signed etching by Schaldach. Original brown morocco, gilt with decorative running border on both covers featuring birds and dogs and enclos- ing title on upper cover, panelled spine gilt with game bird vignettes and title, t.e.g., by Stikeman, N.Y., joints repaired, fine and extremely handsome. Custom brown morocco-backed folding box with inner wrapper. Siegel 45; Frazier C-11-D. $10,000 Siegel notes, “Some of America’s most knowledgeable sportsmen were con- tributing authors to this excellent and timeless work” and Frazier states, “Certainly one of the handsomest of the great big beautiful Derrydales that Connett produced…one of the most ambitious projects that [he] attempted”. One of the most highly sought-after of Derrydale titles, and magnificient in this deluxe edition.

presentation from connett, in dust jacket 415. _____. Another issue of the above. 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, one of 850 copies. Original brown cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Superb copy in original printed dust jacket (slight toning to spine panel). Siegel 45; Frazier C-11-a; Biscotti p. 92. $1,750 One of the great and most sought-after books of the Derrydale Press, with contributions from some of America’s most knowledgeable sportsmen. It fully deserves Siegel’s remark, “an excellent and timeless work.” Inscribed “To Robert L. Knight Jr., with best wishes of Eugene Connett.”

416. _____. Random Casts. Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer & Milton C. Weiler. xviii, 195 pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, [1939]. First edition, no. 440 of 1075 copies. Original blue and green marbled cloth. Fine copy, with bookplate of Owen Winston. Custom half blue morocco and cloth drop box. Siegel 153; Frazier C-14-a. $500 Inscribed by Connett on the flyleaf: “To Owen Winston the kind regards of Eugene Connett 3rd.”

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417. DE GOUY, L.P. The Derrydale Cook Book of Fish and Game. Title page vignettes in red. xx, [ii], 308; 330 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First edition, number 1101 of 1250 copies. Original maroon cloth. Fine in the original slipcase, which shows some wear. Siegel 114; Frazier D-2-a. $400

418. [DOUGHTY, J. & P.]. Some Early American Hunters. Being stories from The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, first published in 1830 at Philadelphia. Hand-colored frontispiece tipped in (as issued) of cougar. 41, [3], [3, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1928. First edition, no. 10 of 375 copies. Gray paper with ivory printed paper label and lettering- piece. Fine copy. Bookplate of Alexander R.B. Drysdale, with his signature. Half brown morocco drop box, with gilt Derrydale logo on spine and in brown morocco inset on upper cover. Siegel 18; Frazier D-6-a. $500 A fine extract from a brief, and now rare, early sporting journal, which contained the first colored sporting prints made in America.

419. EUSTIS, Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days. La Cuisine Créole à l’Usage des Petits Mènages. … Introduction, Second edition, by Harry Worcester Smith. Photographic frontispiece and 8 illustrations by Harper Pennington. 118 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First Derrydale edition (the original was published in 1903), one of 500 copies. Original pictorial boards, blue cloth spine with paper label. Fine copy with slightest rubbing, minor fading to spine label. A superior copy, brighter than usually seen. Frazier E-1-a; Siegel 12. $500

420. FERGUSON, Henry Lee. The English Springer Spaniel in America. Introduction by David Wagstaff. Illustrated with prints, portraits, drawings and photographs. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. First edition, one of 850 copies. Original brown glazed paper over boards, gilt; the head, foot of spine slightly rubbed but a very respectable copy of this notoriously

124 II. Derrydale Press fragile book. Half brown morocco and cloth drop box, with gilt logo of the Derrydale Press on spine and upper cover on inset leather label. Siegel 60; Frazier F-1-a. $450

421. FRANKLIN, Jean Dwight. Why. Frontispiece. Title page printed in black within a green border. [vi], 38 pp. 12mo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, first state, one of 100 copies on Dutch charcoal paper. Light green paper-covered boards, printed label on upper board. Spine slightly faded. Custom morocco-backed box. Exceedingly scarce. Siegel 33; Frazier F-4-D (“a relatively low distribution rate and a poor survival rate”). $3,250 Frazier’s first state, one of one hundred copies on Dutch Charcoal paper (identified by the spacing of the chain lines) and with the transposed lines on page 31 uncorrected.

422. _____. Another issue. 12mo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, one of 1000 copies, Frazier’s fourth state. Light blue paper-covered boards, printed label on upper board. Front board detached, ex-library with two small perforated stamps in margins, erasure on verso of title. Acceptable copy of a rare book. Custom blue morocco backed box. Siegel 33; Frazier F-4-c. $2,000

423. GEE, Ernest R. Gee’s Hunting Diary to record the Sport of the Season arranged for Followers of Foxhounds & Harriers. Illustrated on upper and lower covers. Oblong 8vo, New York: Published by Ernest R. Gee at His Book & Print Shop 35 East Forty-Ninth Street [Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press], [1937]. First edition. Original printed red paper over boards, cloth spine. Some very slight rubbing at edges and some cellotape ghosts, but a fine copy of this scarce and fragile Derrydale book. Bookplate of John Edward Houser. Siegel 117 (“undeter- mined number of copies”); Frazier G-3-a. $900

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424. GIBBS, George. The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island and some Related Families. Illustrated from portraits and photographs. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed (“Printed by Eugene Connett at the Derrydale Press” on verso of titlepage), 1933. First edition, one of 150 copies. Original blue cloth. Rubbed and stained on covers. In blue cloth box. Siegel 71; Frazier G-4-a. $1,500 One of the scarcer books of the Press.

425. GOSNELL, Harpur Allen. Before the Mast in the Clippers. Illustrated with plates and folding maps, color frontispiece. ix, [iii], 283 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 199 of 950 copies. Original half oxblood red cloth and brown boards. Near fine. Custom half crimson morocco and cloth drop box. Siegel 111; Frazier G-5-a. $450 A wonderful compilation of records, reminiscences and authoritative text, along with sailors’ chanties and other nautical delights.

426. GRAND, Gordon. The Silver Horn. With 6 drawings by J. Alden Twachtman. 229, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. Original red boards, gilt, about as fine as you get with this book. Bookplate of Maurice and Eva Fromke. Siegel 65; Frazier G-6-a. $300 One of the most successful Derrydale titles, and, though a collection of stories, a leading candidate for The Great American Sporting Novel.

427. GRAY, Prentiss N., editor. Records of North American Big Game. A book of The Boone and Crockett Club. Illustrated by Carl Rungius, C.W.R.Knight, and photographs. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. First edition, one of 500 copies. Original tan cloth. Very good plus. Siegel 63; Frazier G-16-a. $3,000 Notes Frazier: “This book is not only in great demand by Derrydale enthusi- asts but also by the hunting fraternity and particularly the Boone & Crockett collectors”. A very nice copy of an important work.

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428. _____. North American Big Game. Official Measurement Records, Compiled … for the Boone and Crockett Club and the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological Society. Frontispiece by Carl Rungius, 12 photographic plates, and line drawings in text. 38, [10] pp. Oblong 8vo, Bridgeport CT: Published by Remington Arms Company, printed by The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition. Original green pictorial wrappers. A fine copy, in green cloth slipcase. Siegel 79; Frazier G-17-a. $1,250 A fine, fresh copy of a rare and desirable Derrydale, of which Siegel says “The scarcity of this work is due to its extremely low survival rate. Our estimate is that fewer than one hundred copies survive today”

429. GRINNELL, George, Kermit ROOSEVELT, et. al., editors Hunting Trails on Three Continents. 15 half-tone plates. xi, 302 pp. 8vo (8⅜ x5½ inches), New York: Derrydale Press, [1933]. First edition, 111 of 250 copies printed for the Boone and Crockett Club by Eugene V. Connett. Original silver-stamped maroon cloth. Very good. Siegel 72; Frazier B-12-a “very rare”; Heller 134; Biscotti p. 172. $1,250 The seventh book of the Boone and Crockett Club, with Preface by Grinnell, articles by Roosevelt, Prentiss Gray, Henry Shoemaker, Charles P. Curtis, et al., on a wide variety of game in Europe, America, and Africa.

one of 100 copies 430. GRISWOLD, Frank Gray. El Greco. 14 plates. xii, 49 pp. with explanatory note tipped in at p. 49. Printed on Van Gelder Zonen paper. 8vo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, first issue , no. 58 of 100 copies, with errata on page 49 tipped-in. Printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press. Original gray boards, gilt, parchment paper spine and corners. Spine lightly sunned, else fine. Signed on title-page as well. Booklabel on pastedown of Josephine B. Crane Sugar Hill Dalton, Mass. Half black morocco clamshell box, with morocco label on upper cover. Siegel 23; Frazier G-18-a. $3,000

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A choice copy of a rare book. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf “To Mrs W. Murray Crane”. She was the widow of Senator Winthrop Murray Carne of Dalton, Mass., and of the paper mill family. With an ALS to Mrs Crane laid in, “It is El Greco the man that interests me. The world is all wrong about him and he could paint anything...” complete with the map 431. HAIG-BROWN, Roderick. The Western Angler. An Account of Pacific Salmon and Western Trout. Illustrated. With the folding map at p. 3 as called for in volume one. xviii, 200; x, 192 pp. 2 vols. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. First edition, no. 388 of 950 copies. Original red cloth, gilt spine, fore and lower edges uncut . Fine in original chipped glassine and numbered red paper over boards, slipcase, slightly worn and spliting. With bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. Siegel 156; Frazier H-1-a, H-1-b; Cave A21. $1,500 A beautiful and monumental work, and one of the finest copies we have seen. Notes Frazier, “Approximately one third of the 950 sets of this book were issued with the fold-out map opposite page 3 of Volume 1. The other two-thirds of this set were issued without the fold-out map.” Siegel does not explain the reason for this omission, only that it exists. a scarce and highly desirable angling derrydale.

432. HARKNESS, William Hale. Ho Hum, the Fisherman. Illustrated with photographs. 47 pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1939. First edition, no. 84 of 100 copies. Original brown leatherette. Fine copy (slightest traces of rubbing at spine ends). Siegel 150; Frazier H-3-a. $7,500 An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not for sale. “An extremely rare Derrydale…a hard book to find” (Frazier). The author was a financier and philanthropist; his father co-founded the Wrigley and Harkness Company and was a major investor in the Standard Oil Company. William Hale Harkness graduated from Yale in 1922 and received a Harvard law degree in 1925. A member of numerous clubs and organizations, he was at one time vice president of the American Geographical Society and the Boys Club of New York. He also authored Temples and Topees, published by The Derrydale Press in 1936.

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433. HART,Scott. The Moon is Waning. Six illustrations by Edwin Megargee. 134 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 668 of 950 copies. Original dark blue pictorial cloth, gilt. Fine, bright copy. Custom half blue morocco and cloth drop box. Siegel 152; Frazier H-5-a. $400

434. HATCH, Alden and Foxhall KEENE. Full Tilt. The Sporting Memoirs of Foxhall Keene. Illustrated with a colored frontispiece of Foxhall Keene by Richard B. Adam plus 13 pages of plates from photographs and drawings. xiii, [iii], 170 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, [1938]. First edition, no. 819 of 950 copies. Full blue cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 131; Frazier H-6-a. $300

in dust jacket 435. HAWKER, Peter. Colonel Hawker’s Shooting Diaries. Edited with an Introduction by Eric Parker. Illustrated. vii, [i], 300 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, n.d. [1931]. First American edition, one of 1450 copies. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine very slightly faded, but much better than usual. In a near fine dust jacket with Derrydale imprint at foot of spine panel (slight soiling). Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 48; Frazier G-7-a. $600 This Derrydale import has a tipped in title-page and was printed in England by William Clowes & Sons.

436. [HERBERT, Henry William]. Trouting Along the Catasauqua by Frank Forester; with a foreword by Harry Worcester Smith. Portrait frontispiece by Gordon Ross. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed by Eugene V.Connett for the Anglers’ Club of New York [by The Derrydale Press], 1927. First Derrydale edition, no. 322 of 423 copies. Original batik paper over boards, uncut, cream cloth spine, spine very slightly darkened and corners slightly bumped, else fine. Bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson. Siegel 7; Frazier H-9-a. $300

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A handsome, early Derrydale, privately printed by Eugene V.Connett for The Anglers’ Club of New York. Gordon Ross’s portrait of Forester is considered the finest ever done.

437. [HERBERT, Henry William]. The Sporting Novels of Frank Forester, The Hitchcock Edition. Illustrated. 4 vols. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. no. 161 of 750 sets. Original blue cloth. Fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Portong. Siegel 43; ; Frazier H-10- a. $450 Includes The Warwick Woodlands, My Shooting Box, The Quordon Hounds, and The Deerstalkers.

deluxe binding 438. HERVEY, John. Messenger The Great Progenitor. 10 plates. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, [1935]. First edition, no. 6 of 500 numbered copies, with an extra printed leaf before the half- title (which is conjugate) printed “This copy of Messenger has been printed for Henry C. Phipps. Bound in full crimson straight grained morocco, t.e.g. Very good copy (slight traces of wear at head of spine). Sporting bookplate of W. R. Peterson. Siegel 95; Frazier H-15-a. $3,000 This book was copyrighted by the Piping Rock Horse Show and in 1979 there were still boxes in the basement of Piping Rock Club containing copies in the trade issue binding, which our firm bought. We have only seen one other instance of this deluxe binding, in the same red straight-grained morocco as on the deluxe issues of Shortt’s The Hunting If (1932) and Reynal’s Thoughts on Hunting Kit (1934 ). 439. HEYWOOD, Gerald G.P. Charles Cotton and His River. Illustrated. 191 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First American issue, with “Eugene V. Connett ‘The Derrydale Press’ New York City. 127 East 34th Street” imprinted on title page beneath the “Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes” imprint. Original green cloth titled in gilt. About fine. Siegel 11; Frazier H-17-a. $12,500 Rare Derrydale imprint.

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440. HILLS, John Waller. A Summer on the Test. With 12 original drypoint etchings by Norman Wilkinson, printed from the plate, and other illustrations in the text. xiii, [iii], 198, [1] pp. Printed by Southampton Times Limited. Large 4to, London: Philip Allan & Co. 5 Quality Court, [1924]. Unnumbered of an edition of 325 copies of which 300 were for sale. Half burgundy cloth and green gray cloth, uncut edges. Spine slightly sunned, else fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Portong. Robb, Notable Angling Literature, p. 130 et seq.; Siegel, p. 178; Frazier H-18-a. $2,250 A splendid book, with Wilkinson’s evocative etchings. Major the Right Honourable John Waller Hills qualified as a solicitor but spent most of his career in Parliament as an MP, Privy Councillor, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury. In addition the present volume, and books on finance and horse racing, he wrote A History of Fly Fishing for Trout (1921) and River Keeper (1934). He died in 1938, just before he was due to receive a Baronetcy; instead, this was conferred on his five year old son, with the Major’s wife being accorded the style and title of a widow of a Baronet. Notes Robb, “This is very exceptional, if not unique ... his merit was equalled by his popularity; he was given the significant and familiar name of ‘Jack’ Hills.” In 1931 Eugene V. Connett, proprietor of The Derrydale Press, imported some unsold copies of A Summer on the Test for sale to his customers, subsequently prompting Frazier to list it in his enumeration of Press titles as “an important and beautiful Derrydale related item.” He also notes that in addition to a plain green cloth binding this book “comes in at least one variant binding in cloth which simulates a three-quarter leather binding” as in the copy offered here. Siegel notes that Connett’s copies “were not marked in any manner that would enable one to identify them as being imported for The Derrydale Press.” Not a Derrydale, but at least a distant relation, and a very nice copy of, as Robb puts it, “one of those volumes one loves to count among his trea- sures.”

441. HUNT, Lynn Bogue. An Artist’s Game Bag. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 44 black and white plates by the author. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, no. 879 of 1225 copies. Original brown leather-grained cloth, with very small wear at the spine ends, elsefine. In original very good pictorial dust jacket, with 3 closed tears and small loss at bottom of spine. Siegel 98; Frazier H-20-a. $750

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442. INGRAHAM, Henry Andrews. American Trout Streams. A Discussion of the Problems Confronting Anglers in the Preservation, Management and Rehabilitation of American Trout Waters.8vo, New York: Privately printed for The Angler’s Club of New York, 1926. First edition, no. 142 of 150 copies on Fabriano hand made paper, signed by the author. Original greenish-gray boards, cream cloth spine, printed paper labels, uncut. Slight sunning to spine, else fine. laid into a half green mporocco illfitting slipcase. Siegel 1; Frazier I-1-a. $3,500 Although it pre-dates the use of the Derrydale imprint, this book is considered the first book of the Press. The issue of 150 copies on Fabriano paper is quite uncommon.

the light blue cloth variant, in slipcase 443. JENNINGS, Preston J. A Book of Trout Flies. Containing A List of the Most Important American Stream Insects & Their Imitations. 13 plates, 7 of them hand-colored. 190 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition, no. 617 of 850 copies. Original pictorial light blue cloth. Very fine copy. Bookplate on front pastedown of M.L. Biscotti. In original board slipcase with number of copy at base of spine. Custom half blue morocco clamshell box. Siegel 88; Frazier J-1-b; Bruns J-16. $1,250 Very fine copy of this splendid book, rich in detail and beautifully illustrated, this copy in the uncommon variant light blue cloth binding. Frazier conjec- tures that about two-thirds of the edition was bound in green and one-third in blue. Copies in blue that we have seen have all borne numbers higher than 600.

and ingreen 444. _____. Another copy of the above. 13 plates, 7 of them hand-colored. xvi, [ii], 190 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition, no. 487 of 850 copies. Original pictorial light green cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Fine. Siegel 88; Frazier J-1-b. $850

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445. KETCHUM, Arthur. Roads & Harbours. Pieces in Cadence and Rhyme. ix, 111 pp. 8vo, New York: Harry Roberts, Jr. [printed by the Derrydale Press], 1927. First edition., no. 33 of 150 copies, signed by the author. Black cloth with printed label on upper cover and spine. About fine, minor wear. Bookplate and release of Philips Exeter Academy. Custom blue half morocco drop box. Siegel 5; Frazier K-4-a. $1,000 “A very rare and scarce Derrydale” (Siegel).

with original etching signed by kirmse 446. KIRMSE, Marguerite. Dogs in the Field … Foreword by John Taintor Foote. With an original drypoint etching signed by Kirmse, and 24 full-page plates. Oblong 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition, no. 50 of 685 numbered copies with an etched frontispiece, signed by Kirmse, and with the extra suite of plates. Original tan boards, maroon cloth corners and spine, paper labels. Fine copy. Siegel 91; Frazier K-6-a; Jones, Bibliography of the Dog 176. $2,500 “A magnificient Derrydale art book that keeps increasing in value” (Frazier).

447. LANIER, Henry W. A.B. Frost: The American Sportsman’s Artist. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of Frost’s work. xvi, 154 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, first issue, one of 950 copies. Original tan cloth, gilt printing on upper cover and printed brown label on spine. Fine. Siegel 67; Frazier L-1-a. $450 Fine copy of an important book.

448. LENROOT, Clara C. Will You Walk into My Garden?. Illustrated with photographs. [xii], 48, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, no. 163 of 200 copies printed. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on upper board. Spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine. Half green morocco slipcase. Frazier L-3-a; Siegel 108. $1,500

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deluxe derrydale, inscribed 449. LLOYD, Anne. Antiques and Amber. Architectural vignette in blue on title page. 103, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Deluxe edition, no. 118 of 150 copies signed, on special Ingres paper, from a total edition of 400. Original marbled boards, black cloth spine with black paper label on upper cover. Bookplate. Minor wear at corners, else fine. Half black morocco clamshell box with black morocco label on upper cover. Siegel 9; Frazier L-7-D. $800 A collection of poems on various subjects, one of the early poetry books of the Derrydale Press. Here inscribed by the author, “For Clara-who knows me inside and out-and whom I love! Anne Lloyd June 2nd, 1945.”

450. LUARD, Lowes D[albiac]. The Horse: Its Action and Anatomy. Illustrated by the author, including 12 anatomical plates in color. 122 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, no. 8 of 150 copies. Original green cloth, spine titled in red. Very good copy (some fading). Siegel 99; Frazier L-8-a. $600 A nice copy of one of the scarcest Derrydales. Notes Frazier: “Probably the finest horse anatomy book since Stubbs, and both are fine artists. This is a very rare book indeed in the Derrydale edition.”

451. MACASKILL, Wallace R. Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures. With 100 superb black and white photographs by the author. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 90 of 950 copies of the first state. Original gray and blue cloth. Fine copy in original glassine (small closed tear) and original pictorial box (slightly worn, small splits at corners). Siegel 123; Frazier M-1-a. $600 A splendid collection of captioned sailing and nautical photographs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, by the Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Halifax. A beautiful copy in the pictorial box (now uncommon) and glassine (very uncommon).

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452. MANCHESTER, Herbert. Four Centuries of Sport in America 1490-1890. Introduction by Harry Worcester Smith. Illustrated from original sources. xxiv, [iv], 245, [3] pp. Large 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Original brown cloth gilt, printed paper label on upper cover, t.e.g. Fine copy. Siegel 50; Frazier M-2-d. $275 “Ernest Gee felt that Four Centuries was one of Connett’s most important books” (Siegel).

453. MARKLAND, [A. B.]. Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting-Flying. With a foreword by Col. H. P. Sheldon. Illustrations, half-title and title-page, and head- and tail-pieces by Robert Ball. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. First edition thus. One of 300 regular copies (of an entire edition of 500 copies). Quarter parchment paper over blue paper boards, printed paper label on upper cover. Fine copy. Siegel 56. $250

454. McBAIN, Howard Lee. The Living Constitution. A Consideration of the Realities and Legends of Our Fundamental Law. [At head of title:] The World Today Bookshelf. Designed by Eugene V.Connett (on verso of title page). vii, 284, [4, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First edition, second issue. Brown cloth, paper spine label. Front board soiled. Very good plus. Siegel B; Frazier M-4-a. $2,000 Designed by Eugene Connett at just the time when he was beginning to embark upon the Derrydale Press adventure. This title was first issued by The Workers Education Bureau Press in 1927. Siegel notes that 5000 copies were printed but only accounts for 1000 copies in hardcover and 1000 copies in wrappers; the Macmillan reissue uses the same sheets, with a new title page but containing the same statement on the verso of the title page: Designed by Eugene V. Connett.

455. McCORMICK, Henry B. In Memoriam Mary Boyd McCormick. Frontispiece portrait. 62 pp. 8vo, [New York]: Privately printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1930. First edition, “fewer than 200 copies were produced” (Siegel). Purple cloth,

135 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books upper cover titled in gilt. Some dampstaining to lower portion of back cover and spine, minor wear. Good copy only. Custom half purple morocco clamshell box. Siegel 40; Frazier M-5-a. $2,000 Scarce Derrydale Press title, privately printed and bearing no indication of the press. The brief mention of the book in A Decade of American Sporting Books and Prints (p. 68) does not state the size of the edition; Siegel estimates a print run of fewer than 200 copies.

456. [MEYNELL, Hugo]. The Meynellian Science or Fox Hunting Upon System. Frontispiece portrait by Gordon Ross. Title-page vignette of a foxhound. 8vo, n.p.: Privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee[at the Press of August Becker, Brooklyn], 1926. no. 1 of 28 copies on Large Paper. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on front cover. An immaculate copy in its original glassine dust jacket (partially gone). In folding cloth box with leather label. Frazier M-6-D. $7,500 Inscribed by Gee to his best customer, the greatest American sporting book collector of all time, Alfred B. Maclay: “Alfred B. Maclay/ With the best wishes of The Publisher. Ernest R Gee. This is no. 1 of 28 copies on Large Paper.” While there is disagreement as to whether this volume is one of the Derrydale Press works Frazier states: “But the book and its design, paper, binding, and style, are so obviously Derrydale in spirit and influence, that one has only to put itside by side with Connett’s American Trout Streams...produced the same year, 1926, or Connett’s own Magic Hours, produced the following year, to see how this book and the books of the Press came together. The only question would be whether Ernest Gee had more influence on Connett in 1926, or whether Connett had more influence on Gee in this important year when, together, they formed the group that formed the press.” (Frazier) “Hugo Meynell was one of the greatest sportsmen of his day and this essay is considered the best ever written on Fox Hunting.” - Notes accompanying the entry for the first edition in the personal library catalog of Alfred B. Maclay (in our possession) where the present book is also found. Maclay paid 20 dollars for it.

“Some people consider the Mark Twain to be the first Derrydale, but I consider this one to be. They were both brought out in early 1926 and this deluxe copy [as is our copy]...is even more rare at 1 of 28, than the Mark Twain.” (Note accompanying Calderwood Books catalog where a regular copy was offered at $3000.00).

A consummate rarity of the highest order.

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457. PAGE, Rodman L., Jr. War without Fighting.60pp.8vo, New York: Privately Printed [at The Derrydale Press], Christmas, 1928. First edition, no. 68 of 100 copies. Cloth spine and boards, spine slightly soiled, minor foxing to preliminary. Custom half brown morocco clamshell box. Siegel 20; Frazier P-2-a “a very rare and hard to spot Derrydale.”. $1,750 “On June 19th, 1916, the National Guard was called into Active Service with the prospect of being sent into Mexico. I was...a member...in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry.” 458. PHAIR, Charles. Atlantic Salmon Fishing. [Foreward by Richard C. Hunt.]. Illustrated by Ogden Pleissner, Robert Nisbet, and from photographs, drawings, and maps. xx, [ii], 193 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, one of 950 copies. Original green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine slightly faded, small blemish, else fine. Siegel 110; Frazier P-5-a; Bruns P-72. $750 A beautiful and sought-after Derrydale.

459. PICKERING, H[arold] G. Angling of the Test, or True Love Under Stress: Being a Diurnal Postulation of Problems of Connubial Infelicity which will bring No Comfort to any married Male Angler. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 25 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, second issue, no. 219 of 297 copies. Original embossed black cloth, gilt, spine a trifle faded and minute abrasions on upper cover, else fine. Custom quarter blue morocco slipcase. Siegel 97; Frazier P-8-b. $1,000 Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “With the compliments of the author H.G. Pickering.” With the engraved sporting bookplate of James Wood Johnson Carpender.

460. _____. Dog-Days on Trout Waters. With illustrations by Donald Gardner. 78 pp. 12mo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, no. 151 of 199 copies. Original pink paper over boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine, a notoriously fragile book, split as usual, at top and base of spine (“to find any one of them in fine condition is not only rare but prac- tically unheard of ”—Frazier). Laid into a quarter blue morocco drop box. Siegel 70; Frazier P-7-a. $3,000 137 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

Harold G. Pickering was a past president of the Anglers’ Club of New York, and editor of The Anglers’ Club Bulletin; this was his second book. inscribed 461. PICKERING, Harold G. Neighbors Have My Ducks. Illustrated by Harry L. Timmins. 47 pp. 12mo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 200 of 227 copies, signed by the author on the title-page. Original maroon cloth, gilt design of ducks on upper cover. Fine copy. Siegel 121; Frazier P-9-a. $400 Additionally inscribed on the front pastedown, “To A.F. Nagle — a fellow angler, Pick.”

462. _____. “MERRY XMAS. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N.Y.”. Cover design by Susan Shipp Pickering, illustrations by Harry L. Timmins. 34 pp. 12mo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First edition, no. 98 of 267 copies, signed by the author. Original green cloth, blocked in silver with device on upper cover, spine very slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Custom half green morocco drop box. Siegel 160; Frazier P-10-a.$1,000 Inscribed by the author on flyleaf: “To my friends Bee & Clarence Hughes with my regards, Pick”. The last in the series of Pickering’s five delightful Derrydale Press books. With original prospectus.

scarce second issue, signed by the author 463. _____. Trout Fishing in Secret. Photographic frontispiece, hand colored by Susan Shipp Pickering (the author’s wife), and 4 black and white photos. 28 pp. 12mo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Second issue, unspecified limitation (verso of title- page blank), signed by the author on the dedication page. Original light blue paper over boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine, spot on front cover on the label and slightly beyond, slight wear to extremities, else a fine copy of a rare, fragile book often found rebound, if at all. Siegel 31; Frazier P- 6-b. $2,000 This is the reprint (unspecified number printed), noted by Frazier as invari- ably scarcer than the first issue of 99 copies.

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“a rare, lovely and valuable work”-frazier; one of 125 copies 464. POLLARD, H.B.C. & Phyllis Barclay-Smith. British and American Game Birds … With a chapter on Shooting in America by Eugene Connett. 20 color plates after Philip Rickman. 48 pp. 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, 1939. First American edition, no. 57 of 125 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist, and with a pencilled remarque. Original quarter pigksin and cloth, morocco spine label. Faintest rubbing at head of spine, else fine. A superior copy of this beautiful production. Siegel 145; Frazier P-11-a. $1,500 A very scare and desirable Derrydale.

465. POOR, Charles Lane. Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design. Illustrated with half-tones. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, (1937). First edition, no. 16 of 950 copies. Original blue cloth. Almost a fine copy. Siegel 120; Frazier P-12- a. $250 Inscribed on the colophon page “To Samuel Milbank with the best wishes of the author Chas. Lane Poor.” uncuommon inscribed.

one of 99 copies 466. REEVE, J. Stanley. Foxhunting Formalities. Illustrated by Paul Brown. 54, [4] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Large paper edition, no. 9 of 99 copies signed by the author. Original three quarterred morocco, marbled paper sides and endpapers, panelled spine gilt with emblematic devices, t.e.g., others uncut. Somewhat rubbed at the joints and tips, else fine. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. Siegel 37; Frazier R-4- D. $3,000 A delightful book, with Paul Brown’s inimitable illustrations, and one of the most difficult Deluxe Derrydales to find. Notes Frazier: “Although there are said to be 99 copies of this Deluxe edition, it never shows up and was one of the last half dozen I didn’t have before I finally got my copy.”

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467. REYNAL, Eugene S. Thoughts Upon Hunting Kit in a Series of Nine Letters to a Friend. Illustrated with 4 photographs, and a drawing by the author. 12mo, Millbrook: Privately Printed for the author [by The Derrydale Press], 1934. First edition, no. 112 of 500 copies. Red paper over boards, with white paper printed label on the upper cover. Spine very slightly faded, else fine. Siegel 83; Frazier R-6-a. $1,500 An almost unprocurable Derrydale. The book appeared in two bindings: red paper boards with a printed white label, and in full leather with gilt medallion on upper cover (see next item). Both are uncommon, and, although the number in the deluxe leather binding is not known, in fact, copies in boards are seen only rarely. Siegel states that “We understand from a reliable source that upon housekeeping after Mr. Reynal’s death, a large carton of Thoughts Upon Hunting Kit was taken to the dump ...”

468. _____. Variant issue of the above. No. 40 of 500 copies, in full straight grain morocco with gilt intaglio medallion of a hunt button on upper cover. Head and foot of spine frayed, as usual, else fine, Bookplate of Carl Ely. Custom half red morocco drop box. Siegel 83; Frazier R-6-D. $1,750 The book appeared in two bindings: red paper boards with a printed white label, and in full leather with gilt medallion on upper cover. Both are uncommon. Siegel states that “upon Connett’s death, a large carton of these were taken to the dump...”

469. RIVES, Reginald W. The Coaching Club, Its History, Records and Activities. Illustrated with photographs and old plates. 349 pp. 4to, New York: Privately printed [by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press], 1935. First edition, no. 174 of 300 copies. Original green cloth, gilt Club medallion stamped on upper cover, tan cloth spine, slight rubbing to covers, else fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 89; Frazier R-7-a. $1,750

470. SANTINI, Piero. Riding Reflections. With a foreword by Lida L. Fleitman. Illustrated with 22 photographs and 8 drawings by Vincent Fane Handley. 118, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. First edition, one of 850 copies. Original dark green pictorial cloth, gilt, fine in red pictorial dust jacket, about fine. In half red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise by Moroquain. Siegel 64; Frazier S-1-a. $400 140 II. Derrydale Press

Contains the first authentic written description of the forward seat as devel- oped by Lieutenant Caprilli of the Italian Army. “ The application of the Italian forward seat to hunting, steeplechasing, horse show and bridle path riding is discussed most interestingly” [Publisher’s Statement].

inscribed 471. SETON, Ernest Thompson. Lives of Game Animals. An Account of those Land Animals in America, north of the Mexican border, which are considered “Game,” either because they have held the Attention of sportsmen, or received the Protection of Law. With 50 maps and 1500 illustrations by the author. 4 vols. 4to, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1925-1928. First edition, no. 98 of 177 copies signed by the author. Brown cloth spine, tan cloth over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Fine. Phillips p. 339. $3,000 Inscribed “To Eleanor Deming With affectionate regards of her grandfather in the faith, Ernest Thompson Seton” with his characteristic pawprint in ink. Eleanor Deming (1879-1961), a 1903 graduate of Bryn Mawr, was director of Camp Miramichi on Upper Chateaugay Lake in the Adirondacks (1915-1935), and active in the camping movement in the 1920s. She was on the advisory council of Seton’s Woodcraft League of America — “recreation for old and young, male and female … outdoor life” — hence the inscription. In later years she remained active in the Girl Scouts in New York. With an autograph note signed from the author’s widow Julia, dated 29 October 1946, acknowledging a letter of condolence, and with a copy of the 1924 prospectus.

frank lowe’s copy 472. SHELDON, Col. Harold P. Tranquillity: Tales of Sport with the Gun. Introduction by Nash Buckingham. Five plates by Ralph L. Boyer. 216 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, number 950 of 950 copies (Frank Lowe’s copy, who always had the last number). Original red cloth, gilt. Very slight rubbing to spine tips, else fine. Siegel 107; Frazier S-2-a. $250 “A very lovely, handsome easy to recognize Derrydale Press work, Connett’s favorite sporting author — and mine” (Frazier).

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473. SHELDON, Harold P., Col. Tranquillity Revisited. With engraved title page; and 7 color plates by A. Lassell Ripley. 130 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First edition, no. 314 of 485 copies. Original red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Fine. Siegel 163; Frazier S-3-a; Bruns S-130. $350 A fine collection of shooting stories, the sequel to the author’s popular “Tranquillity” (1936). a beauty 474 SHEPPERD, Tad. Pack and Paddock. Illustrated by Paul Brown. 144 pp. Small 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 53 of 950 copies. Original 3/4 red cloth, pink paper sides, gilt red label on upper cover. Fine copy in original glassone and in original printed red paper over boards box. Siegel 138; Frazier S-5-a. $400 A book of delightful sporting verse, enhanced by Brown’s sympathetic line illustrations.

475. SMITH, May Riley. Poems ... Edited by Anna Hempstead Branch. Foreword by Anna Catherine Markham. xvi, 74 pp. 8vo, New York: The Poets’ Guild [Printed by the Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, one of 200 copies printed on Louvain book paper. Lavender marbled boards, silver labels printed in black. New spine and inner joints repaired, traces of dampstaining on top of upper cover. Half blue morocco drop box. Siegel 27; Frazier S-13-a. $3,000

476. SMITH, Jerome V.C. Trout and Angling. Being Part Two of The Fishes of Massachusetts, first published in 1833 at Boston. [Two page Publisher’s Note signed E.V.C.]. With two facsimile plates and title page vignette all colored by hand. [viii], 64, [4] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. First Derrydale edition, one of 50 large paper copies. Original half green morocco and boards, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Slightest rubbing to extremities. Fine copy of a rare and fragile book. Siegel 31; Frazier S-12- b. $5,000 A reprint of the edition of 1833, the first book on fishing to be published in America.

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477. SMITH, Harry Worcester. Life and Sport in Aiken and Those Who Made It. Color frontispiece. Illustrated. xi, [ii], 237 pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, [1935]. First edition, one of 950 copies. Original green cloth. Near fine, with some staining on top of inner gutter, in almost very good plus green pictorial dust jacket with some worming and loss on the back panel. Siegel 94; Frazier S-11-a. $375 “A very fine … Derrydale that was written by one of the early supporters of The Press, and written about other early supporters” (Frazier). Uncommon in dust jacket.

478. SMITH, Edmund Ware. The One-Eyed Poacher Of Privilege. Illustrated with 5 drawings by A. Lassell Ripley. xxv, 187 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1941. First edition, no. 566 of 750 copies. Original red cloth, gilt. Fine. Siegel 166; Frazier S- 10-a. $250 Delightful sporting stories, and one of the last books from the Press.

479. SPILLER, Burton. Grouse Feathers. Illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 207 pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, [1935]. First edition, no. 393 of 950 copies. Original maroon cloth, gilt, full-color vignette of grouse by Edgar Burke inset into upper cover. Fine, unopened. Siegel 92; Frazier S-15-a. $350 Nostalgic recollections of upland shooting by this popular writer, wonder- fully illustrated by the old master, Lynn Bogue Hunt.

480. _____.. More Grouse Feathers. Illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 238 pp. Square 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, [1938]. First edition, no. 27 of 950 copies. Original purple cloth with Hunt illustration mounted on upper cover. Fine. Siegel 136; Frazier S-18-a. $300

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481. The Sportsman’s Companion or An Essay on Shooting…bya Gentleman. ix, 52, [2, contents] pp. 8vo, New York: Privately Printed by Ernest R. Gee [at The Derrydale Press], 1930. Fourth edition and first Derrydale. One of 200 copies. Original blue paper over boards, with paper spine label and label on upper cover. Split along lower joint, else fine in custom open-faced blue slipcase. Siegel 44; Frazier S-19-a. $400 An uncommon Derrydale reprint of the earliest sporting book published in America. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “To Ronald/ with the kind regards/ of his Friend/ Ernest Gee.” Rarely seen with Gee’s presentation.

482. The Sportsman’s Portfolio of American Field Sports. Title- page vignette, 20 full page illusrations. Oblong 8vo, [New York]: [Derrydale Press] Printed for Ernest R. Gee, [1929]. Limited to 400 copies. Original cloth backed printed boards, a beautiful, fine copy of a book seldom found in even halfway decent condition. Phillips, p. 355; Henderson, pp. 228-9; Goodspeed, p. 350; Van Winkle Sale 710 - (all for first edition); Siegel 29; Frazier S- 20-a. $250 The Derrydale reprint of the first edition of 1855. “The 1855 was printed on inferior paper and is a rare item in any condition” (Siegel). Though more common, this faithful Derrydale edition is a highly desirable book, and this is the finest copy we have seen.

in dust jacket 483. STREETT, William B. Gentlemen Up. With fifteen color plates and fifteen in black and white by Paul Brown. 60, [2] pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, one of 850 copies. Original green cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket (small losses to margin at head of spine panel). Siegel 38; Frazier S-22- a; Podeschi 387; Biscotti, Paul Brown, p. 103. $750 A lively account of the great American amateur steeplechase race meetings by a gentleman rider, with Paul Brown’s inimitable illustrations.

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large paper 484. STREETT, William B. Gentlemen Up. Illustrated by Paul Brown, including 14 color plates. With an original signed drypoint frontispiece by Brown. 60, [1] pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, no. 4 of 75 large paper copies, signed by the author on half-title and here inscribed. Original half green morocco gilt by James MacDonald, raised bands, a.e.g. Hinges are worn and colored, else fine. Custom green cloth slipcase. Siegel 38; Frazier S-22-D; Podeschi 387; Biscotti p. 103. $4,500 A beautifully book, with Paul Brown’s distinctive illustrations, in the deluxe issue finely bound by Macdonald. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Mrs. E.M. Grinnell Through who’s (sic) interest and courage I came to write this book.” And on the Publisher’s Note page below the printed statement. “P.S. I want to express my appreciation to Mrs. E.M. Grinnell for her good offices in arranging with the author to permit me to publish his work and for the splendid way in which she saw the matter to a successful conclusion. Eugene V. Connett.” in dust jacket 485. STURGIS, William Bayard. New Lines for Flyfishers. Frontispiece by Ralph L. Boyer, 2 photographic plates and numerous drawings by the author. 159 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, one of 950 copies. Original green cloth. Fine, fresh copy in original pictorial dust jacket, almost fine. Bookplate of Cadwell B. Kenney. Siegel 103; Frazier S-23-a. $300

486. TAVERNER, John. Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite. [Introduction by Eric Parker.]. iv, 24 pp. Small 4to, Manchester; New York: Sherrat and Hughes; Eugene V. Connett “The Derrydale Press,” New York City, 124 East 34th Street, Telephone Caledonia 1961, 1928. One of 100 unnumbered copies. Original gray boards, cloth spine with paper label on upper cover. Some very slight soiling and rubbing to the tips, otherwise a fine copy. Siegel 10; Frazier T-1-a; Robb, Notable Angling Literature, pp. 90-91 (for first ed.). $3,000 An extemely hard book to find, particularly because it does not appear to be 145 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books a Derrydale Press item. Indeed it was printed in England and the title page has only two short lines at the bottom stating, “Eugene V. Connett, ‘The Derrydale Press,’ New York City, 124 East 34th Street, Telephone Caledonia 1961”

487. THOMAS, Joseph B. Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages...with an Introduction by the Earl of Lonsdale. Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross, in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. xviii, 272 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 40 of 50 copies printed on Van Gelder paper, with frontispiece portrait signed by Thomas. Original full red morocco, gilt decorations of stylized running hounds and foilage on upper and lower covers, title on upper cover and panelled spine, t.e.g., slight repaired blemish on spine, some faint marginal foxing of some plates, else fine and partially unopened, preserved in red morocco-backed folding box. Siegel 15; Frazier T-2-D. $7,500 An outstanding work, “the first of the big, beautiful Derrydale Deluxes. It was a model for many of the ones that followed” (Frazier). Together with fine TLS from the author to Heman Gifford of Pinehurst, NC: “It is true I have had ideals, with the end in view of attempting to make the sport better and give more fun to those who participate. In America, we are handicapped, perhaps, by being short of good countries in which to hunt and on account of our climate. These handicaps, coupled with the frightful increasing use of wire, the advent of deer, and the gradual reforestation of certain sections of the country make the incentive of attempting to run a pack of hounds rather discouraging…” He goes on to offer his hospitality and a view of the “sixty or seventy couple of hounds” which constitute “Mr. Thomas’ Fox Hounds.”

488. VAN DYKE, Henry. The Travel Diary of An Angler. Frontispiece etching signed by Ralph Boyer and 5 photogravure plates. 144, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition. One of 750 copies. Original blue cloth over light blue paper boards, gold paper title label affixed to front cover. Very fine bright copy,Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. In custom blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise, with gilt stamped logo of Derrydale Press on spine. Siegel 30; Frazier V-1-a. $450

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“This is a lovely piece of book manufacture...Connett put in a number of expensive little details such as...the engraved and signed Ralph Boyer frontispiece, and the photogravure type photos...” (Frazier).

489. VAN SINDEREN, Adrian. Canter, Please! Random Memories of Glenholme Farm and of our Playmates and Playgrounds. Illustrated with photographs throughout (especially pp. 63-93). 93 pp. 8vo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by the Derrydale Press], December, 1935. First edition. White japan vellum spine and red paper over boards upper cover titled in gilt. Fine copy (with the plain red slipcase). Custom crimson half morocco drop box. Frazier V-2-a (“my guess is that his first 1935 book had no more than a couple of hundred copies, and probably fewer”); not in Siegel. $600 The first of van Sinderen’s Christmas books, and the only one produced by the Derrydale Press. Van Sinderen was a friend of Connett and Ingraham, and the Derrydale connection is apparent from the chapter entitled “A Shelf of Books”. Subsequent books were produced by Rudge, in progressively larg- er limitations.

490. VOSBURGH, W.S., editor. Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses, from the Collection of William Woodward. With Notes by W.S. Vosburgh. With 68 engraved plates and three charts. vii, 297 pp. Large 4to, [New York]: Privately Printed, Ernest R. Gee, 1929. First edition. One of 300 copies designed and printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press. Original full red morocco, panelled spine with raised bands, t.e.g., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, a little cover wear, else fine. Siegel 22; Frazier V-4-a. $4,000 “This was Connett’s first major work in fine book production. It was con- tracted through Ernest Gee, and Mr. Woodward spared no expense …” (Siegel). The idea had come to Mr. Woodward to do a book about the portraits he owned after listening to Mr. Vosburgh regale him with stories about them one Sunday afternoon. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “To Randall Davy/ with the best wishes/ William Woodward. 147 James Cummins Bookseller Sporting Books

491. Westminster Kennel Club. Illustrated with four plates and a map. 31 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. Copy no. 42 of 100 numbered copies, reproducing the original edition of 1886, for C. Merril Chapin Jr. Pale brown gilt-stamped cloth, near fine. In half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Siegel 32; Frazier W-6-a. $2,500 “An extremely rare and hard-to-get Derrydale (Frazier).

one of 35 copies, the fearing-peterson copy 492. WHITE, Frederick. The Spicklefisherman and Others. Illustrated by A.B. Frost, Oliver Kemp and Gordon Stevenson. 112, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Deluxe edition, one of 35 on handmade paper, signed by White on dedication leaf. Original light blue marbled boards, printed label on upper cover and gilt title on japan vellum spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Almost fine copy, with some toning to spine, bump at heel. Bookplates of Daniel B. Fearing, Newport, R.I., & Walter Rutherford Peterson. In custom blue morocco backed slipcase. Siegel 19; Frazier W-7-D (“very rare”); Bruns W-84; Not in Thacher. $10,000 The deluxe edition is half an inch taller and wider than the trade. a rare book with splendid angling provenance.

493. _____. Trade issue of the above. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. One of 740 copies (total edition of 775). in light blue marbled boards, printed label on upper cover and gilt title on spine. Fine. Laid into a half green morocco drop box with the Derrydale logo on spine and a green morocco inset label on the upper cover, also with gilt stamped Derrydale logo. Siegel 19; Frazier W-7-a. $600

494. WHITMAN, Malcolm D. Tennis. Origins and Mysteries. With an Historical Bibliography by Robert W. Henderson, New York Public Library. Illustrated. 258 pp. 8vo, New York: Derrydale Press, 1932. First edition, one of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-

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inscribed to paul mellon 495. WILLIAMS, Ben Ames. The Happy End. Foreword by Kenneth Roberts. 9 plates by Churchill Ettinger. xiii, 240 pp. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. First edition, no. 177 of 1250 copies. Original blue cloth, beige linen spine with mounted label. Fine. Label fresh and bright, in original glassine, minor foxing. Siegel 149; Frazier W-9-a. $250 Sporting stories by Derrydale’s only “big name” best-selling author. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “For Paul Mellon with best wishes Ben Ames Williams.”

496. WILLOCK, Franklin J. The Dalmatian. [Foreword by Flora M. Bonney, Tally-Ho Kennels, Flushing, L.I.]. 44, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Ernest Gee, 1927. First edition, no. 125 of 200 copies printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press. Original printed pictorial white boards, about fine. Laid into white cloth clamshell box with Derrydale gilt stamped leather spine and upper cover. $1,000

497. WISE, Hugh D., Colonel. Tigers of the Sea. Illustrated. xvi, [iv], 189 pp. Sm 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 128 of 950 copies. Original sea-green cloth, gilt. Almost fine, with spine sunned at top, in original printed green pictorial dust jacket with small loss across top of spine panel, else almost fine. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Custom half green morocco slipcase and green cloth chemise. Siegel 125; Frazier W-11-a. $850

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498. WOODWARD, William. A Memoir of Andrew Jackson Africanus … In Affectionate Memory of Long and Faithful Service. Illustrated with photographs. [xii], 54, [1], pp. 8vo, [New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1938. First edition, no. 72 of 150 copies. Original three quarter red morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Inscribed with stamp to George Garrett. Bookplate. Cloth drop box. Siegel 135; Frazier W-13-a. $2,000 Fascinating horse racing recollections of a member of Woodward’s staff; with a rubber-stamped facsimile handwritten presentation on free endpaper: “With best wishes and hoping you will enjoy this memoir—William Woodward”

derrydale yachting log, “extremely rare”-frazier 499. Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition. Original white canvas cloth, with blue printing and ornaments. Laid into a half blue morocco and cloth slipcase with chemise. Bookplate of M.L. Biscotti. Siegel 75; Frazier D-5-a. $1,500 An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to “a high rate of water-damaged copies” and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the market.

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