Lot 183
Angling
Collection of works, finely bound, 19th-early 20th century
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
all 8vo, including:
Beever, John. Practical Fly Fishing. London: Methuen and Co., 1893. One of 56 copies on Dutch handmade paper, contemporary green crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Robert Tyndall Hamilton-Bruce, with his heraldic device and thistle motifs gilt to covers, green silk doublures, top edge gilt, original cloth covers bound in, spine and top of rear board sunned;
Hills, John Waller. A History of Fly Fishing for Trout. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923. First edition, one of 50 copies signed by the author, contemporary green half calf by Bayntun (Riviere), angling motifs gilt to spine;
Ransome, Arthur. Rod and Line. Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition, first impression, later red half morocco, angling motifs gilt to spine;
Braithwaite, Cecil. Fishing Vignettes. London: Home Words Ltd., [1923]. Contemporary black crushed half morocco by Best & Co., annotated ‘This edition is limited, copy no 33’ on front free endpaper;
[Penn, Richard]. Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing … to which are added, Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player. London: John Murray, 1833. First edition, contemporary tan calf gilt by F. Bedford, 12 lithographic plates on india paper, mounted, engraved armorial bookplate (Charles Tennant);
Rooper, George. Thames and Tweed. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c.1900. Contemporary straight-green green morocco gilt for Hatchards;
Ronalds, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. Fourth edition, contemporary dark green calf, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates;
[Tweed Fishery Commissioners]. Reports on the Natural History and Habits of Salmonoids in the Tweed and its Tributaries. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1867. First edition, contemporary blue half morocco, spine sunned;
Venables, Robert. The Experienced Angler. London: T. Gosden, 1827. Near-contemporary green half morocco; and 15 others similar, all leather-bound (24)