Lot 210
Angling manuscript & angling books
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
Autograph Manuscript "Notes on angling" by W.M Cormick, Kirkaldy, 168pp. + index, ink with watercolour illustrations of fish, hooks and flies, black ink with red ink titles and sub-titles, with notes on salmon fishing, trout flies, minnow fishing, rivers Cairn, Lochs Freig, Ossian, Sting, Ballo, salmon fishing on Tay &c., cloth binding, [c.1890]; Wilson, James The Rod and the gun. 1844. 8vo, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth; Akerman, J.Y. Spring-tide or the angler and his friends. 1850. First edition, 12mo, frontispiece & 6 etched plates, original cloth, neatly rebacked retaining original spine; Hi-Regan How and where to fish in Ireland. 1887. 8vo, folding map, illustrations, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Davy, John The angler in the Lake District. 1857. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, emblematically tooled in spines; Tayler, James Red Palmer: a practical treatise on fly fishing. 1888. 8vo, original cloth; Thorne, James Rambles by rivers. 1844. 12mo, wood-engravings, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed; Maxwell, Herbert British fresh-water fishes. 1904. 4to, plates, original cloth; and 1 other (9)