Lot 452
Ireland--Newland, Henry
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£1,315
Description
The Erne, its Legends and its Fly-Fishing. London: Chapman & Hall, 1851, first edition, 8vo, half-title, additional hand-coloured engraved title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, folding map, 4 wood-engraved plates, publisher's pictorial maroon cloth gilt, spine faded, light waterstains to upper cover, head of spine very slightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: A scarce work, relating tales concerning all aspects of angling on the River Erne, in Ireland. The author was the vicar of Westbourne.
Provenance: Edward Nicholas Hurt, armorial bookplate; A. Adair Roche, 1926, neat inscription on endpaper.