2251. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Bay, Kenneth E.

How to Tie Freshwater Flies. A Step-by-Step, Fully Illustrated Guide for the Beginning Fly-Tier. Photographs by Matthew M. Vinciguerra.

New York, Winchester Press, 1976. 26cm x 18.5cm. vii, 151 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2252. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Brabazon, Wallop [Rath House, Drogheda] / Cooper, William / [Provenance: William Le Fanu]

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with suggestions for the working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated by William Cooper. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. [With 21 Plates]

Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby, James McGlashan / Simpkin, Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons, 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece, X, 111 pages with 21 plates (original Lithographs often large folding). Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth, embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu, with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp “Board of Public Works” to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition.

2253. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Brooks, Joe.

Complete Book of Fly Fishing.

Revised and Updated Edition. U.S.A., Outdoor Life, 1968. 23.2cm x 15.6cm. 405 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Collector’s – Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2254. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Childerhose, R.J. / Trim, Marj.

Pacific Salmon & Steelhead Trout.

Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 1979. Quarto. 158 pages with 14 colour plates of salmon and steelhead trout, many photographs and diagrams. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by the author to J.Ronald MacLeod (Roddy).

2255. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – [Connemara / Fly Fishing in 19th century Ireland] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

2256. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Cutting, Charles Latham.

Fish Saving – A History of Fish processing from Ancient to Modern times. [With plates, including portraits, illustrations and maps].

London, Leonard Hill, 1955. Octavo. xv, 372 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition.

2257. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Farlow/ Hardy Brothers.

To Cast a Trout Fly. A Step-by-Step Guide for the Modern Angler. In conjunction with Scientific Anglers Inc., of America.

England, Farlow’s and Hardy Bros. (Alnwick) Ltd., 1960. 21.8cm x 14cm. 36 pages.With illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to the covers.

2258. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Harris, J.R.

An Angler’s Entomology.

London, Bloomsbury Books, 1990. 16cm x 24cm XV, 268 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

2259. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Horsfall Turner, Eric.

Angler’s Cavalcade.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1966. 24cm x 17cm. xi, 131 pages. With 9 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2260. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Houghton, Rev. W.

British Fresh Water Fishes. Illustrated with a coloured Figure of each Species drawn from Nature by A.F.Lydon and numerous Engravings.

London / Edinburgh and Dublin, William Mackenzie, (1879). Folio. XXVI, 204 pages with 41 stunning full-page lithographs in colour. Wonderful, recent half leather binding with new endpapers applied. Excellent condition. Extraordinarily beautiful publication with quite some romance applied to the pages juxtaposed to the colourful illustrations. Here we find the localities where one was able to catch the illustrated fish, beautifully depicted by skillful 19th century artists.