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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... encouragement and for the amelioration of the condition of those engaged in them . These papers consist of Petitions , Statistical returns , Reports of Cominittees and Bills . The last in many , or most instances , became Acts of ...
... encouragement and for the amelioration of the condition of those engaged in them . These papers consist of Petitions , Statistical returns , Reports of Cominittees and Bills . The last in many , or most instances , became Acts of ...
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... encouragement and the possession of waters abounding in fish , the pursuit never seems to have taken much root in Ireland . We have added , as an appendix , a collection of citations from the elder Poets , Dramatists , & c . , in which ...
... encouragement and the possession of waters abounding in fish , the pursuit never seems to have taken much root in Ireland . We have added , as an appendix , a collection of citations from the elder Poets , Dramatists , & c . , in which ...
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... encouragement . With an amusing complacency , the writer assures us " There will not be found any similarity between the five books of the Halieutics of Oppian and his poem , any more than between it and " The Secrets of Angling , " a ...
... encouragement . With an amusing complacency , the writer assures us " There will not be found any similarity between the five books of the Halieutics of Oppian and his poem , any more than between it and " The Secrets of Angling , " a ...
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... encouragement ... With an exact map of the coasts of Great Britain , in which all the fishing stations , and those parts where the Dutch fleets fish for her- rings , are describ'd , etc. London , A. Miller , at Buchanan's- Head ...
... encouragement ... With an exact map of the coasts of Great Britain , in which all the fishing stations , and those parts where the Dutch fleets fish for her- rings , are describ'd , etc. London , A. Miller , at Buchanan's- Head ...
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... encouragement of the fishery . 1670 . Bill for the preservation of the piscary in the Severn , Avon and Thames , 1673 & 1675 . Petition of Sir Thomas Monnis , water - bailiff of the Severn . 1675 . Bill for preservation of the fishing ...
... encouragement of the fishery . 1670 . Bill for the preservation of the piscary in the Severn , Avon and Thames , 1673 & 1675 . Petition of Sir Thomas Monnis , water - bailiff of the Severn . 1675 . Bill for preservation of the fishing ...
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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...