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London: Knight and Compton. Very Good+. 1801. Hardcover. Clean late 19th century leather binding. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature with an armorial bookplate. (i-viii) 268pp. Pictorial frontispiece. New edition, corrected. Illustrated with 135 cuts. The whole Forming a Sportsman's Magazine Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the art of angling. Sports, Fishing, Sea Fishing, Method of Fly Making, Fishing Tackle; Drawing Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 268 pages .
THE YOUNG ANGLER'S POCKET COMPANION; OR A NEW AND COMPLETE TREATISE ON THE ART OF ANGLING, AS MAY BE PRACTISED WITH SUCCESS IN EVERY RIVER IN ENGLAND; DURING BOTH THE WINTER AND SUMMER SEASON; by Cole, Ralph - 1795
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THE YOUNG ANGLER'S POCKET COMPANION; OR A NEW AND COMPLETE TREATISE ON THE ART OF ANGLING, AS MAY BE PRACTISED WITH SUCCESS IN EVERY RIVER IN ENGLAND; DURING BOTH THE WINTER AND SUMMER SEASON;
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London: R. Baffam. Very Good+. 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Tiitle con't "DIRECTING, BY PLAIN AND EASY METHODS THE YOUNG ANGLER TO PERFECT HIMSELF IN THIS ART, IN A LITTLE TIME; EITHER AS TO PASTE OR BAIT-FISHING OF ANY SORT; OR FLY-FISHING, NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL; AND BOTH IN A MOST CURIOUS MANNER. ALSO THE ART OF MAKING ARTIFICIAL FLIES, WHIPPING LINES AND RODS; AND THE TRUEST METHOD OF CATCHING MOST SORTS OF LARGE FISH. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, A NEW AND MOST SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF TROLLING AND LAYING TRIMMERS; WITH A COPPER-PLATE, SHEWING THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF BAITING THE GORGE-HOOK, THE BEAR HOOK, THE LIVE-BAIT AND TRIMMING HOOK. TOGETHER WITH THE BEST METHOD OF SMELT-FISHING: BOTH WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN TREATED ON". Includes 'Smelt Fishing and Trolling and Laying of Trimmers', which are found only in the first edition. (v) , vi, 7-108pp. In an early nineteenth century brown crushed morocco fine binding by Caro Weir Ely. The spine has four raised bands with gilt title in one compartment & fish/aquatic designs embossed in other compartments & on both covers. All 3 engraved plates as called for in triple page fold-out frontispiece. Text is tight, clean and intact. Sports, Fishing, Rare; 108 pages .
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THE ART OF ANGLING IN TWO PARTS: 1.AN ACCOUNT OF FISH AND PONDS - THE METHOD OF FLY MAKING.. 2. THE VARIOUS MODES OF ROCK AND SEA FISHING
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THE ART OF ANGLING, ROCK AND SEA-FISHING: WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RIVER, POND AND SEA-FISH ILLUSTRATED WITH 133 CUTTS
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London: Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Very Good. 1740. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in somewhat scuffed brown calf with professionally rebacked spine with black & gilt spine label. Tape reinforced internal hinges. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Small text engraving illustrating each of the fish described. ([xv], 249, 6pp index, 5pp ads). Front endpaper has two tiny nicks on fore-edge. Sport, Fishing ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 249 pages .
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SCENES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF FLY-FISHING IN NORTHUMBERLAND, CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND
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London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good+. 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown pebble cloth with bright gilt title on spine. Lightly rubbed front corners. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with woodcut head and tail pieces and vignettes. Sports, Fly- Fishing, Angling ; Engraved illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 212 pages .
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A TREATISEON THE MANAGEMENT OF FRESH-WATER FISH, WITH A VIEW OF MAKING THEM A SOURCE OF PROFIT TO LANDED PROPRIETORS
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London: John Vanvoorst. Very Good. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green paper covered boards, title label on front cover. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. No foxing. Spiegel or Mirror Carp wood-cut illustration on title page. Appendix containing 23 German Recipes for cooking fresh water fish. Building and stocking fish ponds. Prior owners book-plate. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Agriculture Pisciculture; Wood-cut; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pages .
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A TREATISE ON THE ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF FISH, WITH THE DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF SUCH KINDS AS ARE THE MOST SUITABLE FOR PISCICULTURE `
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Cleveland: Tho. Brown. Good+. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: "Giving the Author's First Experiments Contained in a Paper Read Before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. Also Directions for the Most Successful Modes of Angling for such Kinds of Fish as are Herein Described." Clean black embossed cloth with gilt title on spine. Text tight and intact. Light foxing through-out. Engraved Illustrations. The hatching and rearing of Speckled Trout; Black Bass; Large Mouth Bass; White Bass; Grass Bass; Rock Bass; Pickerel; Yellow Perch; Sun Fish and Eel. Agriculture, Pisciculture; Engraved Illustrations; 8vo; 142 pages .
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THE ART OF ANGLING IN TWO PARTS: 1.AN ACCOUNT OF FISH AND PONDS - THE METHOD OF FLY MAKING.. 2. THE VARIOUS MODES OF ROCK AND SEA FISHING
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London: Knight and Compton. Very Good+. 1801. Hardcover. Clean late 19th century leather binding. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature with an armorial bookplate. (i-viii) 268pp. Pictorial frontispiece. New edition, corrected. Illustrated with 135 cuts. The whole Forming a Sportsman's Magazine Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the art of angling. Sports, Fishing, Sea Fishing, Method of Fly Making, Fishing Tackle; Drawing Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 268 pages .
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THE ART OF ANGLING, ROCK AND SEA-FISHING: WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RIVER, POND AND SEA-FISH ILLUSTRATED WITH 133 CUTTS
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London: Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Very Good. 1740. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in somewhat scuffed brown calf with professionally rebacked spine with black & gilt spine label. Tape reinforced internal hinges. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Small text engraving illustrating each of the fish described. ([xv], 249, 6pp index, 5pp ads). Front endpaper has two tiny nicks on fore-edge. Sport, Fishing ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 249 pages .
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SCENES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF FLY-FISHING IN NORTHUMBERLAND, CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND
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London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good+. 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown pebble cloth with bright gilt title on spine. Lightly rubbed front corners. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with woodcut head and tail pieces and vignettes. Sports, Fly- Fishing, Angling ; Engraved illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 212 pages .
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A TREATISE ON THE ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF FISH, WITH THE DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF SUCH KINDS AS ARE THE MOST SUITABLE FOR PISCICULTURE `
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Cleveland: Tho. Brown. Good+. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: "Giving the Author's First Experiments Contained in a Paper Read Before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. Also Directions for the Most Successful Modes of Angling for such Kinds of Fish as are Herein Described." Clean black embossed cloth with gilt title on spine. Text tight and intact. Light foxing through-out. Engraved Illustrations. The hatching and rearing of Speckled Trout; Black Bass; Large Mouth Bass; White Bass; Grass Bass; Rock Bass; Pickerel; Yellow Perch; Sun Fish and Eel. Agriculture, Pisciculture; Engraved Illustrations; 8vo; 142 pages .
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FISH IN RIVERS AND STREAMS: A TREATISE ON THE PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FISH IN FRESH WATERS,BY ARTIFICIAL SPAWNING, BREEDING AND REARING: SHOWING ALSO THE CAUSE OF THE DEPLETION OF ALL RIVERS AND STREAMS.
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London: John Van Voorst. Very Good. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with paper label on front cover. (viii) 38pp and three pages of advertisements. Yellow endpaper, interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Bookplate of George Page Ely's private library. Artificial Spawning, Breeding, and Rearing of Fish. Covers are lightly color faded at edges. Management of Fish. Agriculture; 8vo; 38 pages .
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The young angler's pocket companion; or, a new and complete treatise on the art of angling, ... By Ralph Cole, ..
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The Young Angler's Pocket Companion; Or, a New and Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling, ... by Ralph Cole,
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Outdoor Life Cyclopedia
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Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1942 by arrangement with Outdoor Life. Prepared by the Editorial Staff of Outdoor Life with Photographs, Working Drawings, and Diagrams. Hardcover, embossed cloth boards with dust jacket. Single volume, 334pp. Overall, the book is in very good condition, however the dust jacket is in good condition. The dust jacket is intact and colors bright, but showing wear with some tears. It is encased in a removable mylar cover. The book has slight damage to the lower edge of spine. Page edges and end papers showing age toning and foxing. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Last Casts & Stolen Hunts The World's Best Hunting & Fishing Stories!
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Camden, SC: Liveoak Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped orange dust jacket with black lettering to front and white lettering over blue blocking to spine; color illustration of a grizzly bear, Canada geese, and a lunar eclipse to front cover; jacket like new; postcard with B&W bighorn sheep illustration by Dan Metz laid in, with note addressed to previous owners from Metz; signed and inscribed by editor Chuck Wechsler on half title page: "For Pat & Charlie
The Best in the Outdoors! Chuck Wechsler"; signed and inscribed by artist Dan Metz on frontispiece: "For Pat & Charlie - Only the best. Blue Waters - Dan Metz"; else interior book clean and unmarked; tight binding; B&W illustrations by Dan Metz at the beginning of each chapter. Last Casts & Stolen Hunts is an anthology of sporting stories, both fiction and nonfiction, released by Sporting Classics Magazine; authors featured include Aldo Leopold, Zane Grey,…
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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The Wind in the Willows (The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf)
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. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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Cecil Aldin The Story of a Sporting Artist
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Exeter, England: Webb & Bower. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped tan dust jacket with red and black lettering to front and spine, and color reproduction of a hunting scene by Cecil Aldin to front; not price-clipped; corners slightly bumped; spine slightly faded; else fine; pale green boards printed with B&W drawing of a man fishing from a boat wrapping around front, spine and back; black lettering to spine; corners slightly bumped; else fine; card w/ previous owner name and inscription affixed to first free end paper; signed and inscribed by author on half-title page: "All good wishes - Roy Heron"; else interior book clean; tight binding; numerous color and B&W illustrations throughout. Roy Heron was a British journalist, author, and avid collector of Cecil Aldin's books and prints. Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935) was a British artist, illustrator, sportsman, and member of the Royal Society of British Artists, renowned for his paintings…
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THE FISHING GAZETTE & SEA ANGLER; July, 7, 1962- Dec. 29, 1962, 26 Issues
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Croydon, Surrey: The Fishing Gazette Limited, 1962. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. July 7, t Dec 29, 1962. pict. papre wraps, stapled at spine, 26 issues, in clean, bright condition, extra post required, Size: 4 to.,.
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