Angling And Fishing from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Boston. Printed for Subscribers. 1902. Hardcover. 4to, 26cm, 2 volumes, xxvii,313 & xi,368pp., limited to 350 copies, this being #273, colour plates, printed on hand made paper, text illustrations, rebound in green buckram with black labels, damp stained, good thus. (ds1) Wetzel. (Ltd edition) p.166 Lacks the portfolio of 12 extra plates (as usual). The original binding was suede… Read more about this item

Ottawa. McGahern Stewart Publishing; in co operation with Temagami Community Foundation. 2016. Soft cover. New. 8vo, 23cm, xvi,296p., illustrated wraps over boards, hardcover, new. Much of the social history of the Temagami region is recorded in bits and pieces in obscure places. A frequently referenced document is King of the Woodsmen by Hal Pink about a legendary Temagami… Read more about this item

Newcastle-on-Tyne. George Rutland. 1864. Hardcover. 12mo, 19.5cm, xv,312p., woodcut illustrations, in half crushed green morocco, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt (fishing) device decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, very good to fine copy. Contains songs issued by the Newcastle-on-Tyne Typographical Society. The illustrations are from Thomas Bewick's "Select Fables" in 1820.

London. W.W. Robinson. 1846. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, xvi,339pp., appendix, original blind decorated web grain green cloth, gilt spine title & pictorial (fishing) decorations, spine darkened (titles clear), some splashing on the upper board, edges worn, small stain at the gutter of the front endpaper, internally clean, a very good copy thus. Westwood & Satchell p33. The first of a… Read more about this item

London. Sold for the Author by T. Tegg. 1816. 14.5cm, first abridged edition, xvi, 80p., frontis engraving, title-page vignette, 20 text wood-cuts, appendix, glossary, marbled endpapers & leaf endings, dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title, fine. Westwood & Satchell p187. An exceptionally fine copy of Salter's juvenile version of "The Angler's Guide, or Complete London Angler." (1814). A… Read more about this item

London. John W. Parker and Son. 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 20cm, first edition, xii,552p., index, in the original blind decorated dark green cloth, gilt spine titles, wanting the front free fly else very good to fine copy. W&S p20, Heckscher 108. A fascinating item on the history of fish of all types, fish markets, tackle, cookery etc. gleaned from… Read more about this item

Carleton, Publishers. 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, The First Edition. 304,[8]p., ads., with numerous woodcuts text illustrations, original wavy grain tan/plumb cloth, gilt spine titles faded, top and bottom spine edges worn, bookplate, a very good sound copy. Bruns R-106. Wetzel, p205."First known treatise recommending silk waterproofed fly lines". Sage, p172. Heckscher 1663. W&S. P179. ~ Personal recollections… Read more about this item

Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood and Sons. 1883. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18mo, first edition, vi,[1],152p., half title, in the original dark blue green cloth, gilt spine titles, blind stamped block titles and angling motif decoration on the upper cover, triple ruled blind stamped borders on bevelled boards, a fine copy. Fly fishing in Ireland, Bavaria, Germany, Normandy, Switzerland,… Read more about this item

London. George Routledge & Sons. 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16cm, first edition, ix,112p., frontis & 17 plates, index, original full stiff dark green fabrikoid, gilt titles on the spine, a fine bright copy. Hampton p. 68.

London. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sm4to, 25.3cm, the First Edition, xii,289, [1]p., ad., frontis & 25 plates (6 hand coloured plates), text illustrations, in the original dark olive green cloth, gilt titles and borders on the spine and upper cover, bevelled boards, t.e.g., spine cap is mainly faded, hinges slightly shaken but sound,… Read more about this item

London. Richard Bentley. 1834. Hardcover. 22cm, xv,336 & vii,348pp., with 2 engraved frontis & 2 title vignettes, 13 text illustrations, bound in full blue morocco, marbled boards, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt (fish) decorations in the panels, a very good set. Westwood, p.150. Sage, p.142.

London. Routledge & Toronto. Musson. [1908]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 23cm, first edition,xviii,249p. with 97 illustrations mainly from photographs, rebound inhalf green calf, marbled boards, gilt and blind ruled raised bands, gilttitles, t.e.g., a fine copy attractively bound. (atl) Includes chapterson fishing, hunting sailing the Labrador coast and a birch-bark canoetrip.

London. Printed for J. Hodges, at theLooking-Glass on London Bridge. 1740. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo, 17cm, first edition,viii,318, [x],p., (index inc errata), with copper engraved frontis & 3fine folding copper engraved plates, (plate three supplied from anothercopy), expertly rebacked in restoration style matched brown calf and theoriginal marbled boards, gilt titles along the spine in decorated frameborder,… Read more about this item

Liverpool. Longman, Rees, Orme, .1834. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 21.7cm, 3rd edition, viii,162p., with 8 hand colourengraved plates, (inc. frontis), in the original decorated green clothboards, early rebacked (amateurish) in quarter black cloth with titles,an original paper label on the upper cover, hinges linen guarded,endpapers acidic, some transfer on the tissue guards, fly annotations inpencil and ink on… Read more about this item

Toronto. Doubleday Canada. 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to, 28cm,[14],240,[1]p., the first edition, limited edition 150 numbered copies& signed by the author & illustrator, this being #56, many sketches,illustrations and plates by Ed Sutton, & numerous plates andillustrations from photographs including some in colour, maps, bound infull speckled beige Bangladesh goat (kid), titles and fly devicedecorations stamped in… Read more about this item

NewYork. E.P. Dutton and Company. 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 28cm, in 2 volumes,viii,219p., v2. (being 9 recessed plates), with photogravure frontis portrait of Edgar Williamson & 9 colour chromo-lithographic plates of fishing flies, 18 plates of colour charts, 16 photogravures of fish and fishing spots on india paper mounted, 22 text illustrations, printed on fine… Read more about this item

New York. The Derrydale Press. 8vo, 1939, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 23.5cm, The First Edition, limited to 1070 numbered copies, this being #37, xviii,[ii],195p., frontis & 26 plates and illustrations, in the original blue green mottled patterned cloth, gilt decoration and gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, a fine copy.

London. John Major. 1824, 1824. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 17cm, 2nd edition, lviii,416p., two engraved frontis portraits, 77 text illustrations, 13 copper-plates notes, in contemporary half dark brown morocco, gilt spine title, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., first frontis portrait foxed, a very good to fine copy (ands) ~ First published in 1823, the John Major edition is the… Read more about this item

London. Printed for F. and C. Rivington. 1792, 1792. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 17.3cm, the 5th edition, with appendix, 2 volumes in One, lxxxii,267,[iv] & xxiv,111,[x]p., with engraved frontis portrait and engraved plate, 10 engraved plates (2 of music), 21 engraved text illustrations (inc. 1 full page; repaired), 2nd title page with engraved vignette initials, slight internal damp staining… Read more about this item