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THE ART OF ANGLING, CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR FLY-FISHING, TROLLING, BOTTOM FISHING, MAKING ARTIFICIAL FLIES, &C.
by BOWLKER, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- General Wear./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Ludlow: Richard Jones , 1839. Edge worn, paper spine damaged with about 60% remaining. (See photos). Hand-colored frontispiece plate showing 30 different flies. Chapter head vignettes in black and white. Protected in a custom box, lined in watered silk. Chapters on trout, pike, perch, carp, tench, gudgeon, eel. Also fly-fishing, fly-making, worm and maggot fishing (including how to preserve maggots!), and much more. 154pp. . New Edition.. Printed Paper-Covered Boards. General Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001093
- Title
- THE ART OF ANGLING, CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR FLY-FISHING, TROLLING, BOTTOM FISHING, MAKING ARTIFICIAL FLIES, &C.
- Author
- BOWLKER, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Publisher
- Richard Jones
- Place of Publication
- Ludlow
- Date Published
- 1839
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Angling, Fishing, Hand-Colored platesS
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- California Virtual Fair 2021;
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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