Bibliotheca Piscatoria: A Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-culture, with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix of Citations Touching on Angling and Fishing from Old English Authors |
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32 Vict amend the law angler's guide art of angling baits Bill to amend Britain British fisheries catalogue Chap Charles Cotton chasse coast Collation collection Commissioners complete angler containing contemplative man's recreation discourse Dublin Edinburgh encouragement England English engravings essay Fische Fischerei fish and fishing fish-ponds Fisheries Act fisheries in Ireland fisheries in Scotland fisheries Ireland fisherman flies fly-fishing France front frontispiece gentleman George George III Henry illustrations improvement Irish fisheries Izaak Walton James James Rennie la pêche laws relating London Longman natural history oyster fisheries Paris Parliament Parliament of Ireland pêche Piscatory pisciculture plates poem ponds pseud published regulating Repealed Report reprint river river Thames S. L. R. Act salmon fisheries Scotland sea fisheries Second edition Sir John Hawkins sold sportsman's Thames third edition Thomas Thomas Doubleday title-page translation treatise trout viii Walton and Charles whale fishery William woodcuts
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Page 146 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 226 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers. Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 215 - The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Page 226 - WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and 61 Copperplate Illustrations.
Page 118 - Boy's Country Book : Being the Real Life of a Country Boy, written by himself ; exhibiting all the Amusements, Pleasures, and Pursuits of Children in the Country. New Edition ; with 40 Woodcuts. Fcp. 8vo. price 6s. Howitt. — The Rural Life of England.
Page 63 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Page 111 - HASSELL (J.) Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, thirty miles round the British Metropolis...
Page 364 - You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish ; what engines doth he make ? Behold ! how he engageth all his wits ; Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets...
Page 216 - THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, or the CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Page 13 - North Country Angler; or, the Art of Angling, as practised in the Northern Counties of England.