15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 380/0237

With Hand-Coloured Plates

Fishing: Ronalds (Alfred) The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, roy 8vo L. 1836. First Edn., hf. title, hd. cold. frontis & 18 plts. complete, t.e.g., orig. cloth B.P. of Edwin F. Snow. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 381/0237

Fishing: Medwin (Thos.) The Angler in Wales, or Days and Nights of Sportsmen. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1834. 2 engd. frontis, vignette titles, & text illus., soiled thro-out, quarter mor. (2)

Lot 382/0237

Irish Fishing: Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, roy 8vo L. 1913. Second. fold. map frontis, plts. thro-out, uncut, orig. vellum backed boards; also The Salmon Rivers of England & Wales, roy 8vo L. 1913. Second, fold. map frontis plts. thro-out, orig. cloth. Both v. good. (2)

Lot 383/0237

With Fine Coloured Plates

Fishing: Cholmondeley – Pennell (H.) The Sporting Fish of Great Britain, sm. folio L. 1886. First Edn., 18 cold. plates (include frontis) orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 384/0237

Sporting: Johnson (T.B.)ed. The Sportsman’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, Vols. I & II, 2 vols. L. 1833, engd. plts. etc., cloth; & 2 others sim. As a coll. (4)

Lot 385/0237

Fishing: Dewar (Geo. A.B.) The Book of the Dry Fly, roy 8vo L. 1897. First Edn., frontis & 5 plts. (some cold.); and The South Country Trout Streams, L. 1899, illus.; Senior (W.) Waterside Sketches. A Book for Wanderers and Anglers, L. 1875. First, frontis; Rooper (Geo.) Thames and Tweed, L 1894. All orig. cloth, clean lot. (4)

Lot 386/0237

With Fine Coloured Plates

Fishing: Cholmondeley Pennell (H.)ed. The Fisherman’s Magazine and Review, Vols. I & II, 2 vols. L. April 1864 – Oct. 1865, 19 plts. (some coloured), cont. hf. mor., much of Irish interest; The Angler Naturalist: L. 1863. First Edn., illus. pouch cloth; also Fishing Gossip, or Stray Leaves from the Note Books of Several Anglers. Edin. 1866. First; and The Modern Practical Anglers, L. n.d. [1870] Cold. frontis & other plts. cloth. (5)

Lot 387/0237

[Young (Arthur)] A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 8vo L. 1772. Third, engd. frontis + 2 plts. (1 fold.), adverts. at end, uncut, orig. boards, new paper spine & label. (1)

Lot 388/0237

Fishing: Great International Fisheries Exhibition 1883. The Official Catalogue, 8vo L. 1883, with folding map, and plan, adverts etc., cont. hf. mor.; also 2 vols. containing 6 handbooks issued in connection with the Exhibition, all L. 1883. Illus. etc., hf. mor. & hf. cloth. As a coll., w.a.f. (3)

Lot 389/0237

Fishing: Spackman (W.H.) Trout In New Zealand: Where to Go and How to Catch Them, 8vo Wellington (George Didsbury) 1892, First Edn., 3 plts. (one fold. in ptd. cold.) 1 lg. fold. map, publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover. Scarce. (1)

Lot 390/0237

Fishing: Stoddart (Thos. Tod.) Angling Reminiscences of the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, L. 1887; Calderwood (W.L.) The Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, thick roy 8vo L. 1909. First Edn., cold. & bl. & white plts. 18 maps; Out-Door Sports in Scotland, Deer Stalking, Grouse, Shooting, Salmon Fishing, Golfing, Curling, etc., L. 1890. Second, frontis, all orig. cloth, good. (3)

Lot 391/0237

With Fine Coloured Plates

Fishing: Kelson (Geo. M.) The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and How to Use it, 4to L. 1895. First Edn., port. frontis, 8 lg. coloured plates, adverts etc. title inscribed G.B. Tunstall-Moore, Castleconnell, 1906., orig. cloth, gilt. V. good. (1)

Lot 392/0237

Fishing: D[enny’s] J[ohn], Esq. The Secrets of Angling, A Reprint, with introduction, by Thomas Westwood. 4to L. (Satchell & C.) 1883; Barnes (Dame Juliana) An Older Form of the Treatyse of Fysshynge with An Angle, 4to L. (Satchell & Co.) 1883. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies, uncut, both uniform mor. backed cloth boards. (2)

Lot 393/0237

Political & Economic interest: Hardcastle (J.A.) An attractive bound volume of, Articles contributed to the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews 1871 – 1888 by J.A. Hardcastle, 8vo c. 1900. Contains 13 articles in all, together with a tipped-in printed broadside titled West Dorset Tracts No. 1, and a signed m/ss note from Frank Parnell, 1919, relating to the above volume. A.e.g., in fine crushed dark green mor. by Zaensdorf, gilt lettered spine & raised bands. V.g. As a binding, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 394/0237

Binding: A good early Victorian crimson morocco 4to Album (never used,completely blank) with coloured leaves, a.e.g., & with attractive blind and gilt tooled covers. As a binding, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 395/0237

Binding: Sidney (Sir P.) The Defence of Poesy, to which are pre-fixed Several Copies of Verses by Edward Lord Thurlow. 4to L. 1811. First Edn., hf. title, a.e.g., silk ends, finely tooled doublours, full str. grained tan mor. with blind & gilt tooled borders, professionally rebacked with orig. spine laid down. (1)

Purchased at Sale of Andrew Lang’s Books, Sothebys, London 1912.

Lot 396/0237

Cathedral Binding: Dassance (M. l’Abbe) trans. L’Imitation de Jesus-Christ roy 8vo Paris 1836. Engd. frontis hd. cold. add. decor. t.p., a.e.g., attractive cont. French Cathedral type binding tooled gilt line borders & corner decor. Good. (1)

Lot 397/0237

Fishing: Houghton (Rev. W.) British Fresh-Water Fishes, folio L. 1895. Second Edn., frontis & 23 plts. text illus., t.e.g. orig. mor. backed cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 398/0237

Fishing: Malone (E.J.) Irish Trout and Salmon Flies, 1984; O’Reilly (P.) Trout & Salmon Rivers of Ireland, 1991; & Trout and Salmon Loughs of Ireland, 1987. Signed Pres. Copy; Fallon (N.) Fly-fishing for Irish Trout, 1983; Fahy (Ed.) Child of the Tides, – A Sea Trout Handbook, D. 1985; Lane (Joscelyn) Lake and Loch Fishing for Trout, L. n.d., d.w.; & 1 other. (7)

Lot 399/0237

Early American Book Sale Catalogue

Bangs & Co. Auctioneers, N. York: Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts etc of the late George T. Strong, Esq. Comprising Manuscripts – Missals – Psalters, etc., richly Illuminated in gold and colours – Fine Specimens of early Printing – Rare, Curious and Standard Books – Early English Poetry and the Drama – Choice Editions of The Greek and Latin Classics – etc. etc… To be Sold Monday Nov. 4th 1878 and following days. Roy 8vo N.Y. 1878. Sole Edn. Over 1760 lots for sale, some m/ss prices added in pencil, wrappers, & cont. hf. crimson mor., tooled gilt spine. V. good. Rare. (1)