Author:
DAVY Sir Humphrey
Title:
Salmonia or Days of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations with Some Accounts of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo
Price:
£145.00
Year:
1828
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
John Murray
Summary:
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.
Ref:
23925
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