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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... collection , it does not contain two thirds of the works ( that is to say editions ) included in our list , and our labour has been principally spent in searching for other books , the existence of which was all but certain , though we ...
... collection , it does not contain two thirds of the works ( that is to say editions ) included in our list , and our labour has been principally spent in searching for other books , the existence of which was all but certain , though we ...
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... collection ) which is a competitor , for priority , with our own " Treatyse of Fysshynge ; " the poem of Richard de Fournival ( " La vieille , ou les derniers amours d'Ovide " ) belonging , probably , to a yet earlier epoch - the Ode of ...
... collection ) which is a competitor , for priority , with our own " Treatyse of Fysshynge ; " the poem of Richard de Fournival ( " La vieille , ou les derniers amours d'Ovide " ) belonging , probably , to a yet earlier epoch - the Ode of ...
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... collection of citations from the elder Poets , Dramatists , & c . , in which the sport is dealt with . To Sir Harris Nicolas is due the honour of this initiative , though only in a very limited degree . Thus his quotations from ...
... collection of citations from the elder Poets , Dramatists , & c . , in which the sport is dealt with . To Sir Harris Nicolas is due the honour of this initiative , though only in a very limited degree . Thus his quotations from ...
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... collection , principally of old English books , gathered with patient care , during the past fifty years , and remarkable for the multiplicity of editions and the condition of the books themselves , has been always open to us , and has ...
... collection , principally of old English books , gathered with patient care , during the past fifty years , and remarkable for the multiplicity of editions and the condition of the books themselves , has been always open to us , and has ...
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... Collection yielded 1685 , the British Museum 482 , and other London collections 348. We have accepted 104 on the authority of various friends , possessing or having access to the works described , and have taken 187 , principally of ...
... Collection yielded 1685 , the British Museum 482 , and other London collections 348. We have accepted 104 on the authority of various friends , possessing or having access to the works described , and have taken 187 , principally of ...
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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...