Old and Collectable

G Robertson Sydney 1900. Folio oblong, 58p. Green hide grain cloth cover with gilt edges and titles.  Includes seventeen colour plates by the author. As well as his interest in his art Murray has been able to incorporate his other love, for fishing, into several  sections of the publication.  He refers to bream and trout fishing in the Derwent, the Huon and the Great Lake.   Several pages separating from  the spine but overall this is  Good condition.   

 

 

                

 

 

 

Anglers Club New York.  Assorted collection of seven issues for the years 1942, 1961 and 1962.    Articles by Dana Lamb, Stanley Babson, Sparse Grey Hackle and others. - Very Good

John Van Voorst   London 1851, 8vo Illust including 5 full page hand coloured plates of flies by Paul Jerrard, 74p plus plates.  Original green cloth.  The first work to deal at any length with salt-water fly-fishing. Fishing for Salmon  in Scotland, Ireland and Nova Scotia, White trout , Sewin or Salmon Peel fishing in Ireland, Wales and Ireland, Sea fly fishing off the Irish and Scottish coast for Pollack, Bass, Mullet and Perch, Pike fishing, Trout and Grayling with recommended flies and their dressings. Text is signed off with  H H. (Horatio Gordon Hutchinson ?)   Spine has been reinforced and has small repair to top.  Corners bumped.  Slight browning and foxing. Very scarce 

John Parker and Son London 1854, 8vo 552p. Reprinted in part from Frasers Magazine. Chapter I is on Ancient and modern fishing and Chapter II On the fishing tackle of the ancients (Westwood and Satchell).- sl wear to top and bottom of spine - Good

Devonport 1987, Published privately by Tasmanian angling historian Brian Cadle. A facsimile of 1866 edition, 4to Illust 23p plus adverts.   Soft Cover edition limited to  80The original is one of Australia's rarest books on fishing.  At the time of publication it was reported in the Literary Intelligencer as an 'inoffensive burlesque upon the great experiments which we in Tasmania have lately been making towards the acclimatisation of the salmon'.    – As New

 

Robertson and Mullens. Melbourne 1926, 1st edn.   8vo Illust 106p, soft cover. Three b/w photographs and 7 b/w diagrams.anf four tipped in plates.  An old master angler writes of his passion. Fly Fishing, Spinning, & Bait Fishing. What you need, where to look, weather conditions, How to do it.  Very Scarce. It is hard to get a copy in good condition but this would be one of the best I have seen.- Nr Fine 

Robertson and Mullens. Melbourne 1926, 1st edn.   8vo Illust 106p, Original decorated wrappers rebound in blue binders cloth  Three b/w photographs and 7 b/w diagrams.and four tipped in plates.  An old master angler writes of his passion. Fly Fishing, Spinning, & Bait Fishing. What you need, where to look, weather conditions, How to do it.  Sl foxing and rubbing to edges.  Very Scarce. - Nr Fine     

John Russell Smith London 1856, 16mo 335p. Includes an excellent  bibliography of angling  works in the  English language.  " I have produced these miscellaneous materials respecting fish and fishing, from a desire to place in every anglers hand something like a historical sketch of the gentle art, and of the sayings and doings about it from bygone centuries." …Preface.   Near Fine in original dark blue cloth.

Ludlow London 1854 rev. edn, 16mo hand col. engraved frontis of flies and numerous engravings, 160p plus adverts. Orig. green cloth with gilt angling motifs on spine and cover. Describes the different kinds of fish, their haunts, places of feeding, observations on the breeding of carp; and the regulating of pools or ponds, the various kinds of baits, and diversity of flies which nature produces: together with ample directions for making artificial flies and other baits Coloured plate with 30 flies. 'Modern fly dressing starts with Bowlker' (Hills) D/J sl rubbed. - Very Good

Longmans Green & Co. London 1908 1St Edn. 8vo. Illust 216p. Brown cloth pictorial covers of a fisherman and river scene in black. Thirty two coloured plates. Some fishing experiences and descriptions of scenery are related to the paintings by the author. Primarily a story of the authors fishing experiences from boyhood to later years in Galloway, Perthshire and the highlands. A bright clean copy.- Fine