Angling + Fishery
in Books , Prints + Drawing of the 18th + 19th Centuries
P(etrus!). Fisher (= William Andrew Chatto). The Angler’s Souvenir. Assisted by several eminent Piscatory Characters. With
31 copperplates
by Henry Beckwith and Topham. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1845. Sm. 8vo. Engraved title, X, 192 pp. Contemp. calf by Hersant on 4 ribs with book-plate, double gilt lines and cornerfleurons, blindstamped line, gilt standing edges, blindstamped inside border, and marbled fly leaves. Gilt edges.
BMC LXXIII, 702 (differing as published 1835 in accordance with the same date mentioned in dedication and foreword here); Westwood, p. 93 ( “The work is clever and caustic, and contains a critique of several of the angling books of the day” ). – Not in Schwerdt who possessed only Chatto’s song The Old English Squire (I, 70) published under another pseudonym. – First edition. – The faded binding somewhat rubbed. The plates partly a little foxed except for a few, i. a. title and dedication, which have been struck more badly. The text, printed on especially strong paper, only just slightly touched on pages vis-à-vis of plates. – Fine item.
Offer no. 12,545 / EUR 660. / export price EUR 627. (c. US$ 871.) + shipping
Franz Edmund Weirotter (Innsbruck 1730 – Vienna 1771). On the way to Rome out of Florence. In the foreground angler with his companion on a rock. – Nagler 6, 9. – With a little wormhole.
Offer no. 5,435 / EUR 74. (c. US$ 103.) + shipping
State-in-Progress unknown to Literature
with the Two Anglers
before Completion of the Second State
Brussel, Hermanus van (Haarlem 1763 – Utrecht 1815). The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water. In rich pasture landscape with steeple in the distance of the far bank. Etching. About 1805. Inscribed above left: 3. 13.5 x 20.5 cm.
Sliggers 15, (before ?) II; Nagler 14. – Trimmed to or within platemark. – Above left tiny corner injury in the free field of the subject lining and generally slightly age-marked on the subject side and verso, and thereby less relevant, throughout age-stained resp. and with three old mounting spots.
Very fine impression of the charming sheet ,
compared with the copy of the second state in the British Museum (1856,0712.241) still showing white spots in the foliage of the left tree and likely still more delicate in the etching of the sky. However, foremost in present sheet a single large black bush right below the top as supposedly still belonging to the first state still commands the otherwise grass-grown hillock in the center of the subject. In the London copy this already is reduced distinctively and supplemented by two more bushes on top and left slope, just as they are, irrespective of further modifications, also in the third, final state (comp. ills. Sliggers 15, III, and BM 1856,1213.86). Otherwise without the two resting figures of the first state right of the left tree, yet
with the two anglers
on the bank in the subject center as well as the three additional birds and the executed sky as according to Sliggers the marks of the second state. In such a way a
desirable undescribed state-in-progress
enriching the series of the graphic œuvre’s unica .
See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,443 / EUR 430. / export price EUR 409. (c. US$ 568.) + shipping
The Fullness of Information in a Fine Library Copy
The Sportsman’s Dictionary; containing Instructions for various methods to be observed in riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, hawking, breeding and feeding horses for the road and turf; the management of dogs, game and dunghill-cocks, turkeys, geese, ducks … and the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents. Improved and enlarged by Henry James Pye. 5th ed. With
17 copperplates.
London, John Stockdale, 1807. 4to. VII, 547 pp. Fine dark-brown h. leather on 5 ribs with ruby red covers, broad leather corners, red back-plate, gilt and blindstamped lines, and coloured fly leaves. Brown edges.
Souhart 389 f. – Mr. Schwerdt possessed only three editions of different volume and size from 1735-1778 differingly titled “The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, the (Country) Gentleman’s Companion, in all Rural Recreations” and “for Town and Country” (II, 220 f.) resp. But also the edition offered here not unknown to him: “Pye (H. J.) also re-issued ‘The Sportsman’s Directory’, 1807” (II, 118). The frontispiece – a white horse before the stable held by a groom and marked with 45 numbers for his body areas.
The plates instructively illustrating angling – bird-catching + -hunting and all kinds of nets , baskets + weir-baskets for fishing , small game + wolf hunting .
Two names on the fly leaves. – The frontispiece a little waterstained but hardly impairing the picture itself. Only quite weakly waterstained also four plates, but only on two of which reaching also into the picture. A few plates and pages slightly or a little more foxed. A discoulering impairing frontispiece and the little browned title below up to maximal 6 x 10 cm touching also the extreme outer margin of the following ca. 20 ll. – One repaired tear. – The somewhat rubbed front cover with a small retouched missing place. Otherwise almost impeccable copy.
Offer no. 13,139 / EUR 765. / export price EUR 727. (c. US$ 1010.) + shipping
“ The coloured lithographs are good ”
W. Ross King. The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, or Notes on the natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of that country. With
6 chromolithographs
by W. L. Walton for Hanhart and 13 wood engravings. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1866. Large 8vo. XVI pp., errata slip, 1 l., 334 pp. Richly gilt green orig. cloth. Uncut.
Schwerdt I, 284; Sabin 37857; Westwood p. 127. – Not in Nissen, Souhart + Staton/Tr. – First edition. – Title, contents, and chapter contents in red and black, section headlines in red. – A few isolated tiny mould stains, one plate foxed verso. Standing edges and capitals slightly rubbed. Otherwise fresh and with wide margins. – With two hunting ex-libris.
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Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (The Otter have 3-4 Young Ones; get the ability to breed in the next year; growing up larger and larger.) The two old and three young ones instructively engaged by a grotto and a waterfall. Etching + engraving. (1736.) Inscribed in the plate: Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger invent. delin. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise in German/French/Latin as before. 34.7 x 42.5 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 223. – Sheet 28 of the “Study of the Wild Animals along with the Excellent Poetry of the Highly Famous Mr. Barthold Heinrich Brockes” as rich subtext in German. – The beautiful sheet in a very fine, warm-toned impression with fine little margins all around. – Quite weak brown spot in the outermost corner of the white margin below right. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,230 / EUR 757. / export price EUR 719. (c. US$ 998.) + shipping
William Hogarth (1697 London 1764). Two Anglers by a River. Round about decoration of all kind. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818), united with his son. 1808. 16.6 x 14 cm.
Frontispiece to “Kerby”. – Cook’s smaller version without Hogarth’s interpretation of his intention: to show the result of non-observance of perspective. – Trimmed inside of the wide white platemark.
Offer no. 8,987 / EUR 81. (c. US$ 112.) + shipping
Weirotter, Franz Edmund (Innsbruck 1730 – Vienna 1771). Fishermen in their boat. In the middle distance remains of an ancient bridge as well as of fortifications. Etching. 5.9 x 7.3 cm.
Supposedly from Nagler 8, the 24-sheet “Fifth Suite of Varied Regions of Old Buildings”, dedicated to Maria Christina, royal princess of Hungary and Bohemia, archduchess of Austria and married duchess of Saxony-Teschen. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,109 / EUR 79. (c. US$ 110.) + shipping
Fishing + Hunting in Great Britain
W(illia)m B(arker) Daniel. Rural Sports. 2 vols. With engraved and (1) ill. titles by Peter William Tomkin (c. 1763 – c. 1836) and
63 ( 1 double page ) copperplates
by John Scott (London about 1778 – after 1821) after Stephan Elmer (Farnham, Sussex, – 1795, 10), Sawry Gilpin (Carlisle 1733 – London 1807, 10), and others. (London,) Bunny & Gold, (1801-)02. Large 4°. 5 nn. ll., 388 pp.; 3 nn. ll., 520 pp., 2 nn. ll. Brown half leather with gilt back plate, blind stamping, broad leather edges, and marbled boards. Top edge brown, otherwise paled dotted edges.
BMC IIL, 328; Souhart 132; Schwerdt I, 133 (later edition). – First edition. – On broad Whatman-paper of 1794 + 1801. A few plates trimmed inside the white platemark, only one title within the publisher’s adress. A few marginal tears repaired. The plates mostly in the white margins a little foxed, only a few + the titles seized more. A few quires evenly slightly browned, otherwise as a whole of great freshness.
The several chapters on hounds – with 50 pages on medicines – , different game as fox, stag, hare, martin, birds (110 pp. with 19 plates), and others more. Furthermore describing origin, principles, and development of hunting laws as a whole as especially connected with fish, birds, and hounds. Finally hints on arms and ammunition. Indexes for each volume. – Of definitive thematic priority
FISHING + ANGLING,
containing on 373 pp. and 18 plts. besides numerous descriptions of species with instructions for hauling + needed flies 22 pages especially about making flies and 98 pages with descriptions of the waters, arranged to counties of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Illustrated and engraved by the best of their time. Scott had
“ the name of one of the most credited engravers of his motherland. He had also the merit of an excellent drawer, who used the graver with a mastery as to be found in first rate sheets only. He stands alone in his superior style of engraving … Some of his sheets are united in éditions de luxe, so separately they are rare or even not to be found ”
(Nagler XVI, 179). And Gilpin , “… a fine English animal painter … named: Apostle of the North” (N. V, 174) – was esteemed as “one of the most important British horse painters. But he had also done excellent with the depiction of other wild animals” (Thieme-Becker XIV, 49). – Elmer “depicted wild and house birds which earned him great applause. He was even to be put aside of the Dutch painters …” (N. IV, 110).
A fine copy of this fascinating illustrated ,
as well as textually well-founded manual .
Offer no. 13,130 / EUR 956. / export price EUR 908. (c. US$ 1261.) + shipping
John Sherer. Rural Life. Described and Illustrated, in the management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, etc., etc.: Their Treatment in Health and Disease; with authentic information on all that relates to Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling … and a complete system of modern veterinary practice. With 5 woodcuts in the text and
88 steel engravings on 64 (3 folded) plates.
London + New York, London Printing and Publishing Comp., (ca. 1870). 4to. Engraved title, XVI, 1016 pp. Black orig. leather on 4 ribs with richest ornamental back-stamping, partly repeated broad gold and blind stamped fillets on both covers and blue-green marbled fly leaves. Faded red punctate edges.
Not in Schwerdt. – Binding somewhat rubbed and timemarked, lower capital with a little leather defect on 1.5 cm length. – One quire (pp. 889-896) twofold bound in. – Frontispiece and the engraved title quite slightly waterstained. Otherwise of fine freshness except for only very isolated smallest mould stains.
The plates mostly with pictorial sceneries – among them races and huntings – , but also with anatomical and technical details. – Concentrated on
horses (364 pp.) – hunting (121 pp.) – dogs (125 pp.) .
Further articles on cattle , sheep , pigs + poultry (together 273 pp.) , bees (9 pp.) , principles and machines of modern farming (42 pp.) , gardening (68 pp.) , angling (14 pp.) and index (4 pp.) . – In such a way
the complete compendium in general .
See the complete description.
Offer no. 13,131 / EUR 765. / export price EUR 727. (c. US$ 1010.) + shipping
Benedict-Henry Revoil. Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord. New ed. With
19 woodcut plates
and 40 text ills. after Jean Edouard Dargent (called Yan’Dargent, Saint-Servais 1824 – Paris 1899). Tours, A. Mame et fils, 1870. 374 pp., 1 l. Contemp. blue h. cloth.
Compare with Howes R 228 and Souhart 402. The latter knows only the original version Chasses et Pêche dans l’autre monde, publ. Paris 1856, and 3 following editions, resp. 1869 and 1873, all at Mame, titled Chassses dans l’Amérique du nord. The edition here probably the first separate edition of the originally 2nd part. Revoil gained his prestige especially as the founder of the famous Chasse Illustrée. – Fine item in an impeccable copy. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,225 / EUR 445. / export price EUR 423. (c. US$ 587.) + shipping
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