Lot 22

Canada.- [Adamson (William Agar)] Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident, first edition, extra illustrated, 1860; and 8 others (9)

Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Hammer Price: £460.00

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Canada.- [Adamson (William Agar)] Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, extra illustrated with an additional set of the illustrations stuck down to blank leaves interleaved (to face illustrated pages), contemporary dark green half morocco, spine gilt with salmon devices, spine sunned and with some minute rubbing, modern slipcase, 1860 § Hewitt (Edward Ringwood) Secrets of the Salmon, first edition, one of 780 copies, numerous plain photographic plates, illustrations and diagrams, modern dark green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt, edges uncut, New York, 1922 § La Branche (George M. L.) The Salmon and the Dry Fly, colour frontispiece, original calf-backed marbled boards, slipcase, Boston and New York, 1924 § Cronyn (Verschoyle P.) The Fly Leaf, ?one of 25 copies, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, with two later reprint copies of the same, together housed within custom-made modern morocco-backed drop-back box, privately printed, [1959-68], [together Wood BSS 59, 97, 106 & 73]; and 6 others, including another copy of the first mentioned, a first edition in original cloth, 4to et infra (9)

⁂ A splendid group of works on salmon fishing in Canada, including some classics in the development of American 'how-to' literature of salmon fishing.

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