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Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling, with Notes On Their Haunts, Habits, and History.
by Hamilton, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+; Moderate rubbing but tight and clean.
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Good+; Moderate rubbing but tight and clean.. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titled on spine and front board with an emblem of three fish intertwined on front board, vii, [1], [1], 190p. Illustrated by a mezzotint engraving by Francis Seymour Haden and other woodcuts. **Inscribed: "For C. H. Cook Jr, with the author's kind regards, Augt. 1888." Charles Henry Cook wrote under the pseudonym of John Bickerdyke. ; Signed by Author .
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- HJHurley
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240
- Title
- Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling, with Notes On Their Haunts, Habits, and History.
- Author
- Hamilton, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+; Moderate rubbing but tight and clean.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1884
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fly Fishing, Trout, Salmon, Natural History, Angling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Angling;
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- Rubbing
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- 12mo
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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