JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 118 Angling, Shooting & Field Sports james cummins bookseller catalogue 118 Angling, Shooting & Field Sports To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 e-mail: [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com please note: an associated list of additional angling and sporting titles is available at our website at www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/catalogue118supplement hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 63 inside front cover: item 74 inside rear cover: item 112 rear cover: item 97 terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. I. ANGLING 1 [ANDERDON, John Lavicount]. The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. extra- illustrated with 40 highly finished portraits and views, including 12 beautifully colored portraits of Walton, Cotton, Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, James I, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, etc. iv, [iv], 296 pp. 12mo, London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Bound in full green morocco, gilt emblematic spine, a.e.g., by Root & Sons, London. Fine. Keynes, p. 49; William Pickering and his successors 38 & 39; Westwood & Satchell, p. 1. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and 3 Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnso- (ANGLERS’ CLUB) A Century with the Anglers’ Club. With In- niana. With 2-page ad for Pickering’s “Books on Angling” at troduction, Essays and Artwork by Club Members. With a special the front. print of 4 flies numbered and signed by James Prosek in en- velope laid in. 175, [1] pp. Printed at the Stinehour Press. 8vo, $500 New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, 2006. First edi- tion, no. 27 of 100 numbered deluxe copies. Black morocco with onlaid Anglers’ Club logo on upper cover. Laid in cloth 2 drop box, with blue leather label on upper cover stamped in (ANDREWS, William Loring) [Berners, Dame Juliana]. gilt. Very Fine. Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Man’s favorite $1,250 recreation by William Loring Andrews. [xii], lxxxvi, [x] pp. Printed at the Gilliss Press from type cast specially for this book, patterned after the traditional old character first used 4 by Wynkyn de Worde in his original 1496 edition. 8vo, New AUSTIN, A.B. An Angler’s Anthology. Collected by … Illustrated York: Scribners, 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand- from drypoints by Norman Wilkinson. xix, [168] pp. 4to, made paper. Bound in limp vellum, gilt stamped, t.e.g. Ex London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. First edition. Bound Libris of Henry Hunt. in three quarters green morocco and matching cloth, t.e.g., by Bayntun. Fine. $1,500 $750 5 BAIGENT, Dr. W[illiam]. A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an Introduction by W. Keith Rollo. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations, together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 4to, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, ca. 1937. One of approximately 40 copies. Text in blue morocco gilt, hackles in 11 captioned mounts, in original blue morocco folding box. Circular angling bookplate of F.W. Sims. Hampton’s Angling Bibliography, p. 32. Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text, all in the original full leather fold- ing box. A superior copy of a rare work. $8,000 2 | james cummins bookseller barker’s art of angling 6 [BARKER, Thomas; Leonard MASCALL; Reginald SCOT]. The Art of Angling wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very neces- sary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation. [with:] The Country-mans Recreation, or The art of planting, graffing, and gardening, in three books. Numerous woodcut illustrations of grafting, pruning, and planting, including 22 which are full-page. With 10 leaves of book advertisements for Peter Parker at end. pp. [xvi], 135, [1]; [ii], 54; [ii], 18 (Barker). Small 4to (18.4 x 13.5cm), London: T. Mabb for William Shears, 1653 (separate title-page for The Art of Angling: “London: Printed in the yeare, 1653”). Second edition. Contemporary calf, marbled edges (extremities rubbed, front joint tender, some light spotting). In quarter brown morocco slip- case and cloth chemise. Wing B-784; Henrey I, 48; Westwood and Satchell p. 21; Catalogue of the library of Thomas Westwood (1873), no. 21; Heckscher Catalogue 126 (rebound). Provenance: J. Emmarton (flyleaf signature); Gloucester book plate. Second edition of Thomas Barker’s The Art of Angling, a rare pre-Waltonian treatise first printed in 1651, and issued here for the first time with The Country-mans Recreation (the latter also attributed to Barker by Wing; by Henrey to Leonard Mascall and Regi- nald Scot). The Country-mans Recreation had first been published in three parts in 1640, too early for the inclusion of Barker’s 1651 work; those three parts had also appeared separately. The first part is an anonymous reprint of A booke of the art and maner howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, translated by Leonard Mascall from the French of Brossard’s L’Art & manière de semer, etc. The second is an anonymous reprint of A perfite platform of a hoppe garden by Reginald Scot, (also published separately as Wing S946), with a separate title page dated 1653. The third part is a reissue of The expert gardener (STC 11562), with separate title-page dated 1654; this also has separate pagination and register. Here, The Art of Angling also bears a separate title-page, dated 1653, and has separate pagination and register. The ads at the back of this lovely copy, in its contemporary binding, clearly men- tion this work in its four parts on page [8]; the Huntington and Harvard copies of this edition of Barker also appear with The Country-mans Recreation; and the book clearly has no separate existence apart from it; yet in the nineteenth century, copies were routinely bound as separate volumes (e.g., the Heckscher copy), and Westwood & Satchell remark that “it is sometimes annexed to The Country-mans Recreation.” A beautiful copy of this choice seventeenth-century work. Rare in original condition. $20,000 i. angling catalogue 118 | 3 publisher’s copy, unique 7 BATES, Joseph D., Jr. Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing. Line drawings by Milton C. Weiler. xix, [i], 362 pp. 8vo, Harris- burg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, [1970]. With frontispiece laid in with all the printing notes and notes from author about trim and limitation page, signed by Bates. Publisher’s copy. Cloth. Very fine in slipcase. $500 one of 12 copies 8 BATES. Fishing: An Encyclopedic Guide to Tackle & Tactics for Salt Water. Illustrated. 718 pp. 8vo, New York: Outdoor Life/ Dutton, 1973. First edition. One of a deluxe edition of only 12 unnumbered copies for presentation. Inscribed to Tracey Balcom from the author, December 1973. Bound in full red bonded leather. Fine in matching slipcase. Bruns B71. Bates’ monumental magnum opus, inscribed on the limita- tion leaf, “My esteemed friend Tracy Balcom — with warm regards from Joe Bates Jr. December 1973” Distributed one month before the publication of the trade edition. uncommon. $1,500 9 BLACKER, W[illiam]. W. Blacker’s Art of Angling and Com- plete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours … Shewing the Different Processes of the fly before it is finished, giving the Angler a perfect knowledge of every thing requisite to Complete him in this Noble Art. Illustrated with plates and specimens of actual flies. Frontispiece (“Fly Fishing”), engraved title, 5 plates, 29 [of 31] flies mounted wilth silver paper wafers. Pp. [1, contents], [2, blank]; [2 leaves, list of rivers]; [3]-35, [36, blank], 37-48. 16mo, London: Published by the Author, March 1842. Con- temporary straight-grained red morocco wallet with folding guard flap and silk ties, with the title and author “Blacker’s Art of Fly Making” stamped in gilt on the flap, marbled end- papers, period marbled wallet-style pouches at endpapers. Flap partly separated but holding, ties worn. Some evidence of dampstaining to lower gutter of plates, two flies lacking (12 & 24), two flies supplied (18 & 20). Bookplate. A superb example. Red full morocco folding box. See Westwood & Satchell, pp. 32-3. BL shelfmark 785.d.34. An important angling book, here in a variant edition dated the same year as the first, and with the addition of actual specimens of flies at the core portion of the text, “Descrip- tions of Flies” (pp. 19-34). The first edition has 38 pages and no real flies, and has the Edinburgh printer’s imprint of Anderson and Bryce; the printer of this edition is identified as Howlett and Sons, Printers, 10, Frith Street, Soho, at the bottom of page 48, meaning that this is the complete text. The engraved title is identical to that of the 38-page edition, but the text has been reset throughout. The only other copy 4 | james cummins bookseller located is in the British Library but no mention is made of the insertion of flies in that copy.