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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... Leipzig , 1784. 8 ° . [ The first , and indeed the only writer amongst the ancients who makes mention of fishing with the artificial fly . In the 15th Book of his History , he says : " The Macedonians , who live on the banks of the ...
... Leipzig , 1784. 8 ° . [ The first , and indeed the only writer amongst the ancients who makes mention of fishing with the artificial fly . In the 15th Book of his History , he says : " The Macedonians , who live on the banks of the ...
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... Leipzig , 1862. 8 ° . Alvenstod ( Seb . Mor . ) . Das vollständigste und neueste Fisch- buch . Nordhausen , 1837. 16 ° . American . The American angler's guide ; containing the opinions and practice of the best English and American ...
... Leipzig , 1862. 8 ° . Alvenstod ( Seb . Mor . ) . Das vollständigste und neueste Fisch- buch . Nordhausen , 1837. 16 ° . American . The American angler's guide ; containing the opinions and practice of the best English and American ...
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... Leipzig , Ankstée et Merkus . 1743. 12 ° . [ A reprint of the " Amusemens de la campagne " of Liger . See Liger ( Louis ) . ] Amusements . Healthful amusements and ingenious exercises , or the nobleman's pocket companion in sports and ...
... Leipzig , Ankstée et Merkus . 1743. 12 ° . [ A reprint of the " Amusemens de la campagne " of Liger . See Liger ( Louis ) . ] Amusements . Healthful amusements and ingenious exercises , or the nobleman's pocket companion in sports and ...
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... Leipzig , The skeleton angler . See DAVIS ( E. ) The Teesdale angler . See LAKELAND ( R. ) The Thames angler . See THAMES and SMITH ( A. ) The universal angler . See WALTON ( I. ) and SAUN- The universal angler ; or , that art improved ...
... Leipzig , The skeleton angler . See DAVIS ( E. ) The Teesdale angler . See LAKELAND ( R. ) The Thames angler . See THAMES and SMITH ( A. ) The universal angler . See WALTON ( I. ) and SAUN- The universal angler ; or , that art improved ...
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... ( Leipzig , 1788-90 . Vol . II . , p . 138 ) gives two sets of plates , the one of 6 including title , the other of 7 , but these , united , correspond with the above . Bryan , in his " Dictionary of painters and engravers , " gives a set ...
... ( Leipzig , 1788-90 . Vol . II . , p . 138 ) gives two sets of plates , the one of 6 including title , the other of 7 , but these , united , correspond with the above . Bryan , in his " Dictionary of painters and engravers , " gives a set ...
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32 Vict amend the law angler's guide art of angling baits Bill to amend Britain British fisheries Chap Charles Cotton chasse coast Collation collection Commissioners complete angler containing contemplative man's recreation discourse Dublin eclogues Edinburgh encouragement England engravings Fische Fischerei fish and fishing fish-ponds Fisheries Act fisheries in Ireland fisheries in Scotland 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 Leipzig London Longman natural history Nicholas Cox 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 tackle Thames third edition Thomas Thomas Doubleday title-page trade treatise trout viii Walton and Charles whale fishery William woodcuts
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Page 148 - 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 233 - 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 217 - THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing: and they said, We also will go with thee.
Page 236 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Page 228 - 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 76 - Mountain, Meadow, and Mere : a Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History.
Page 113 - HASSELL (J.) Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, thirty miles round the British Metropolis...
Page 368 - 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 227 - The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original paintings and drawings by first-rate artists. To which are added an introductory essay; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work, and illustrative notes.
Page 317 - Provisions contained in an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth...