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DALE R.F.S.compiled by |
Angling Notebook and Diary
May 1924 - March 1964.
The notebook/diary is actually a small folio ledger 44cm x 29cm containing 600 pages around 1/2 of the pages are blank. The fishing section covers approx. 220 pages. The diary is written in a clear neat legible hand with occasional relevant newspaper cutting tipped in. The book covers Dale's coarse fishing and match fishing in detail. Dales appears to be from the Walthamstowe area and the Walthamstowe angling club appears regularly in his notes, he fished in East Anglia and the South East including Lea, Thames, Stour, Ouse etc., The diary uses both sides of the open page giving columns for date, day, place, numbers of fish, sizeable fish, total. By the mid 1930s he added weather, best fish, swim, notes. All are in great detail i.e. 12.8.29 Sat, Waltham Powder Mill Lane about 10 yards below bridge of two bushes on opposite bank behind pav., 6 roach (4g) 9 dace (7g), dull N wind, RSAF club had special permission to fish from road to gates of Gunpowder factory was a bit of A with Ted White, weight 7 dace 3lb 6oz, total 15. As the notebook developed the remarks became longer and more detailed especially relating to his match fishing, 5 pages summarise the competitions entered, won, prize money, place etc., The diary ends at the bottom of the page Sunday 8 march 1964, the following pages are ruled and titled but unused. Dale wrote 2 articles for the Fishing Gazette in 1934 under the name "Contray" Bream Fishing in Norfolk's shallow broads followed by another article in 1935 and letters and comments to the angling press. Cuttings of the articles are tipped onto pages. There are also 7 pages on sea fishing in a similar vein. At the end of the book are 18 pages on his cacti collection also his motoring expenses + 2 pages on money matters + 5 pages on Rudge motor cycling expenses. The book is internally clean, the original 1/2 red leather is rubbed on corners and edges, the spine has split down one side and is loose but holding, the biding is tight. A unique insight into one man's fishing career painstakingly recorded over 40 years.
[14992] |
£450.00 |
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DAVIS Edward W. |
Salmon Fishing Or The Grand Cascapedia
1994.
new Edn,.
Fly Fisher''s Classic Library.
Bovey Tracey.
xxiv 159 pages, 3 colour plates of flies, 16 sepia plates, 1/4 bonded leather, gilt fish motif to upper board. A fine copy in slipcase limited to 750 copies. The first edition is particularly scarce, this edition has a new introduction by David Zincavage.
[19439] |
£30.00 |
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DAVIS Edward W. |
Salmon Fishing Or The Grand Cascapedia
1994.
new Edn,.
Fly Fisher''s Classic Library.
Bovey Tracey.
xxiv 159 pages, 3 colour plates of flies, 16 sepia plates, 1/4 bonded leather, gilt fish motif to upper board. A fine copy in slipcase limited to 750 copies. The first edition is particularly scarce, this edition has a new introduction by David Zincavage.
[16471] |
£30.00 |
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DAVY Sir Humphrey |
Salmonia Or Days Of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations with Accounts of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the Genus Salmo
17869.
5th Edn,.
John Murray.
xvi 305 pages, 3 full page plates of flies + woodcut illus to text, advert leaf. Large big game angling book plate of Jack Reece to front paste down. Publishers' blue cloth, gilt centre device to upper board rubbing to head of spine.
[23430] |
£35.00 |
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DAVY Sir Humphrey |
Salmonia or Days Of Fly Fishing In A Series Of Conversations With Accounts Of The Habits Of Fishes Belonging To The Genus Salmo
1828.
1st Edn,.
John Murray.
VIII 273 pages, small 8vo, text illus, 3 full page plates of flies, a vg copy recased, retaining the original grey paper covered boards, new grey paper covered spine. Salmonia ranks high in the scale of angling literature, higher we would say (if it were not for the audacity of the dictum) that it really merits. WS 77.
[15641] |
£130.00 |
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DAVY Sir Humphrey |
Salmonia Or Days Of Fly Fishing, In A Series Of Conversations with Accounts of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the Genus Salmo
1829.
2nd Edn,.
John Murray.
XIII 335 pages, 6 engraved plates + text woodcuts, foxing to end papers, ink presentation inscription from Lady Saltou to H Gordon Cumming with armorial bookplate and Cummings signature to title page margin, recased in the contemporary cloth, spine relayed. The first and second editions were published anonymously, the 1st edition did not contain the 6 engraved plates. The paper label notes "new edition plates"
[19062] |
£65.00 |
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DAVY Sir Humphrey |
Salmonia Or Days Of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations with Accounts of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the Genus Salmo
1851.
4th Edn,.
John Murray.
XVI 305 pages, 32pp advs, text illus, brown cloth, paper label dust soiled, this edition was printed from a copy which had been revised by the author shortly before his death.
[19964] |
£40.00 |
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DAVY Sir Humphrey |
Salmonia or Days of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations with Some Accounts of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo
1828.
1st Edn,.
John Murray.
viii - 273 pages, small 8vo, 3 full page plates of flies and text illustrations of fish from the authors drawings .A vg copy bound in a later half green calf contrasting title label, over marbled paper covered boards. Spine decorated gilt compartments, evenly faded on spine edges, lightly rubbed. The 1st edition of an important work "Salmonia ranks high in the scale of angling literature, higher we would say (if it were not for the audacity of the dictum) that it really merits". Westwood Satchell 77.
[23925] |
£145.00 |
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DAWSON Major Kenneth |
Salmon And Trout In Moorland Streams
1947.
revised.
Herbert Jenkins Ltd.
155 pages, 4pp adverts frontis and full-page illustrations from photographs. Personal presentation inscription to half title si0gnend by Dawson. Also, a loose photograph of Dawson holding 2 salmon with personal note to verso initialed K.D. Publishers' green cloth VG .
[23513] |
£30.00 |
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DAY Francis |
British And Irish Salmonidae
1887.
1st Edn,.
Williams and Norgate.
VIII 298 pages, 4to., 12 full page plates 9 in colour, text illus, bookplate of Alex Allan, publishers dark blue green cloth, a vg clean copy. The plates by Miss F Woodward made after drawings by the author and coloured from nature by Miss Woodward to a very high standard.
[18281] |
£150.00 |
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DAY Francis |
The Fishes Of Great Britain And Ireland
1880-1884.
1st Edn,.
Williams and Norgate.
3 Vols, cxii 336 388 pages, lge 8vo, TEG, 180 engraved plates, occasional spotting to plates and prelims, slight tide mark to very bottom edge of first 25 plates approx 1cm x 15cm at worst, big game angling bookplate of Jack Reece to each volume. Finely bound in 1/2 dark brown morroco cloth sides by Bumpus. An excellent set of an important work.
[16876] |
£300.00 |
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DEERY Patsy |
Irish Mayflies, A Fly Fishers Guide
2007.
1st Edn,.
Ken Smith Publishing.
Yeadon.
2 Vols, XIII 166 pages, AEG, this is number 46 of a limited edition of 65 copies signed and numbered by the author. Vol. 1 contains the text and fine colour plates of flies. Vol 2 contains 30 actual specimen flies of the mayfly patterns tied by Patsy Derry, Paul Cantillon and Frankie McPhillips. Vol 2 is signed by all the tyers. Both volumes bound in full dark red goatskin and contained in original slipcase. A mint copy.
[14631] |
£875.00 |
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Dempsey Terry |
THE URBAN MYTH
2012.
1st.
The author.
384 pages, Illustrated with colour photographs, and b/w illustrations by Gareth Fareham. Publisher green boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust-wrapper. "Before the major explosion carp fishing received in the early nineties, the challenge of catching a carp was still in its infancy".
[23837] |
£75.00 |
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DENNYS J. |
Bibliotheca Curiosa, The Secrets of Angling Teaching The Choicest Tools, Baits, And Seasons For The Taking Of Fish In Pond Or River
1885.
1st Edn,.
Edinburgh.
43 64 pages, 2 volumes in 1, titles in red and black edited by (Piscator), privately printed and limited to 275 small paper copies, original cloth, paper label to spine, vg.
[9372] |
£85.00 |
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DENNYS J. |
The Secrets of Angling
1883.
rep of the 1613 Edn,.
W. Satchell.
62 page W. Satchell s, TEG, uncut, square 8vo lge 8vo, with introduction by Thomas Westwood.. Original 1/4 morroco binding rubbing to the spine good +.
[2084] |
£35.00 |
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DEWAR G.A.B. |
The Book Of The Dry Fly
1897.
1st Edn,.
Lawrence and Bullen Ltd.
x 238 pages, Frontis illus and 3 hand coloured plates, and I uncolored plate of artificial and natural flies and text drawings of knots. Publishers' olive-green cloth a very good copy. The Marquis of Granby contributed a six-page preface and J.E. Booth contributed a 22-page chapter on "The Dry Fly In Derbyshire."
[11334] |
£55.00 |
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DEWAR G.A.B. |
The Book Of The Dry Fly
1897.
1st Edn,.
Lawrence and Bullen Ltd.
x 238 pages, Frontis illus and 3 hand coloured plates, and 3 uncolored plate of artificial and natural flies and text drawings of knots ownership inscription to front end paper "J.B. Hewitt from F.M.H.1907". Publishers' olive-green cloth a very good copy, includes a double page handwritten note on printed headed paper Fronfraith, Abermule, Montgomeryshire giving a description of fishing with a pike rod tackle etc there is no identity of the writer other than the inscription on the end paper. The Marquis of Granby contributed a six-page preface and J.E. Booth contributed a 22-page chapter on "The Dry Fly In Derbyshire."
[11763] |
£80.00 |
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DEWAR G.A.B. |
The Book Of The Dry Fly
1910.
2nd Edn.
Adam and Charles Black.
xxviii -277 pages, coloured frontis of flies and 7 other plates in colour, publishers slate blue cloth gilt title and fly vignette to the spine. VG first published in 1897 the 2nd edition revised with contributions by The Duke Of Rutland and J.E. Booth,
[22280] |
£25.00 |
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DEWAR George |
The Book Of The Dry Fly
1910.
2nd and new Edn,.
XXVII, 277 pages, advs, illus 8 in colour 1 of flies, pictorial covers, an attractive book, vg-
[9968] |
£20.00 |
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DHAL Knut |
The Age And Growth Of Salmon And Trout In Norway As Shown By The Scales
nd Circa 1912.
1st English Edn,.
IX 141 pages, large 8vo, 34 figures of scales, edited by J.Arthur Hutton and H.T.Sheringham, published by The Salmon And Trout Assoc. original red paper covers.VG-
[9157] |
£30.00 |
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DICK Capt St.John |
Flies and Fly Fishing for White and Brown Trout Grayling and Coarse Fish with Hints on Using the Minnow and Grasshopper Bait
1873.
1st Edn,.
VIII 154 pages, head and tail of spine and spine edges worn, g+.
[1485] |
£40.00 |
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DICKENS Charles |
Dickens Dictionary Of The Thames From Its Source To The Nore, An Unconventional Handbook With Maps
1889.
revised Edn,.
310 pages, adverts, various full page maps, bound in 1/4 calf marbled boards, light rubbing to corners, the 1st edition appears in 1880, occasional mention of fishing etc.
[13479] |
£35.00 |
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DREWETT John F |
Hardy Brothers- The Masters , The Men and their Reels 1873 - 1939
1998.
1st Edn,.
J and J Publishing.
Wembley.
i-xiv, 586 pp, Small 4to all edges gilt, extensively illustrated throughout with coloured photographs of Hardy reels and other equipment manufactured by Hardy Bros. Archival photographs and portraits of Hardy family members and staff, a large folding reproduction of an award from the International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883 at the rear of the book. Marbled end papers with a reproduction Hardy label on silk ties as a bookmark. A special limited edition of 350 numbered copies this being no 60 signed by John Drewett with a personal message again signed by John Drewett. Bound in a red faux leather with gilt reel vignette within double ruled gilt borders to the upper cover in matching slipcase, a fine copy. chronicles the history of the Alnwick firm of Hardy Brothers from its beginning, with full detail on the personalities involved and each of the firm's numerous types of reels. This special edition was issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Hardy's.
[23711] |
£235.00 |
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DRYDEN Adam |
Hints To Anglers
1862.
1st Edn,.
Edinburgh.
40 pages, 12mo., 5 folding maps, including The Forth, Earn, Clyde, Solway Firth, Tweed, front hinge paper cracked, original publishers cloth, gilt title to upper boards.
[4381] |
£95.00 |
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DUBE Jean-Paul |
Salmon Talk
1993.
1st Edn,.
Amwell Press.
Clinton, New Jersey.
XIV 233 pages, AEG, illus with colour and b/w illus from photographs and drawings, angling bookplate of Jack Reece to verso of FEP, burgandy leather binding, gilt vignette to front and rear board. A firm copy in slipcase limited to 1000 copies signed by the author, Jean Paul Dube, Tom Hennessey and Jim Rikhoff.
[16778] |
£35.00 |
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DUNNE J.W. |
Sunshine And The Dry Fly
1924.
1st Edn,.
A and C Black.
V 136 pages, text illus, some light foxing to contents, some paper loss to upper corner of front paste down, bookplate of Lionel Creswell Burley Wharfdale to paste down. Publishers grey blue cloth, title in black, vg. An important and influential book on trout fishing at the time.
[19666] |
£20.00 |
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DURNFORD The Rev Richard |
The Fishing Diary 1809-1819 of The Rev Richard Durnford of Chilbolton, Hampshire
1911.
1st Edn,.
Warren and Son.
Winchester.
xi 112 pages, pages uncut portrait frontis of Durnford + facsimile of a diary page, plate of Chilbolton Rectory also a plate of flies. Bound in the original grey cloth binding lettered in black. vg.
[22250] |
£145.00 |
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