Lot 182
Angling, natural history, field sports
Collection of works, 18th and early-19th century
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Howlett, Robert]. The School of Recreation: or, a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting … Fireworks … Hawking, Tennis … Cock-Fighting, Fowling, Angling. London: for H. Rhodes, 1701. Third edition, 12mo, contemporary mottled sheep, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf, spine repaired, housed in a custom green cloth solander box [Westwood & Satchell p.110; Schwerdt I p.225 for the first edition, ‘a scarce and comprehensive bookplate on a great variety of British sports’];
‘A Gentleman’. The Gentleman Angler … By a Gentleman, who has made Angling his Diversion upwards of Twenty-Eight Years. London: for A. Bettesworth, 1726. First edition, 12mo, modern calf, half-title, 3 pp. advertisements to rear [W & S pp.104-5];
Shirley, Thomas. The Angler's Museum; or, the Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing. London: for John Fielding, [1784]. First edition, 12mo, contemporary red sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, front joint cracked [W & S p.194];
Carroll, W. The Angler's Vade Mecum, containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. First edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, loss to spine, a few gatherings unopened [W & S pp. 50-51];
and 9 others, including editions of Bowlker, Walton, and similar (14)