Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16-17 March 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/912
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    221 222 223 224 227 228 229 230 Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, engraved and printed titles, no half titles, tinted plates, calf, g.e. 8vo. 1843 [Smith (George)] The Angler’s Magazine, two folding tables, calf, rebacked 8vo. 1754 Sparrow (W. Shaw) Angling in British Art, with foreword by H. T. Sheringham, illustrations, PRESENTATION COPY from the Author to H. T. Sheringham, with 4 A.L.s and Manuscript Notes, original buckram 4to. 1923 Sportsman’s Dictionary (The); or the Gentleman’s Com- panion for Town and Country, 17 plates, half calf 4to. Fielding and Walker, 1778 Steele (Sir Richard) and J. Gillmore.. An Account of the Fish-Pool, rrrst Epition, half calf 8vo. H. Meere, 1718 Thornton (Col. T.) A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England, etc. 16 plates, inserted are three extra plates and book-plate of the Author; bound in at end ts “The Memorial of Col. Thornton,’ Exeter, 1795, calf, re- backed 4to. 1804 [Venables (Robert) The Experienced Angler: or Angling Improved], wanting the title and all preliminaries before A8 (collation A8; B to H3 in eights) possibly a copy of the lost second edition which was destroyed in the Great Fire, or may be a variation of the third edition, calf, g.e. sold not subject to return 12mo. [? 1666] Venables (Robert) The Experienced Angler: or Angling Improved, fifth edition, engraved and printed titles, wood- cuts, calf, g.e. 12mo. 1683 Venables (Robert) The Experienced Angler: or Angling Improved, [with Memoir], facsimile and engravings, calf gilt, t.e.g. 12mo. S. Prowett and T'. Gosden, 1825 Waller (Sir W.) Divine Meditations upon several occasions (including a chapter on fishing) portrait, calf gilt, 1680— Fairfax (T.) The Complete Sportsman, wanting the frontis- prece, old calf, n.d.; and others 8vo. (5) [Waller (Sir William) ] Divine’ Meditations upon several occa- sions with a Daily Directory. By a Person of Honour, a few small rust-holes in title, some head-lines shaved, leaves browned, old calf 12mo. 8B. Griffin for B. Alsop, 1682
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