The Compleat Angler in two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton, and Charles Cotton, Esq ; I. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. II. Instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream. Correctly and very accurately published. (With Draughts, of all the Fish ; ornamented with a Number of Copper Plates, and a great Variety of useful and copious Notes.) By Moses Browne, Author of Piscatory Eclogues, &c. [Disbound, complete]

Walton, Isaac, Charles Cotton and Moses Browne

Edité par Henry Kent, 1759

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London: Henry Kent, 1759. The second Moses Browne edition. Part I. title page as pictured, 12mo. Part II, as pictured, "The Third Edition", 1759. 340 pages plus an 8 page index. DISBOUND, COLLATED COMPLETE with original boards and remnants of leather. No spine. No former owner marks. Illustrated. Text is good with only occasional foxing and closed edge tears and corner wear. Engraved frontispieces and text illustrations of fish by H. Burgh. The second Moses Browne edition has an additional 28 pages. Notes are expanded, the preface has been rewritten, four new plates have been added and the other six have been re-engraved. "With the Laws that concern Angling And an Appendix which shews at one View.all that is Valuable, Instructing, or Curious that has appeared on the Subject." TEXT is COMPLETE (in signatures, with endpapers), will need to be resewn and rebound.

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• Titre: The Compleat Angler in two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton, and Charles Cotton, Esq ; I. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. II. Instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream. Correctly and very accurately published. (With Draughts, of all the Fish ; ornamented with a Number of Copper Plates, and a great Variety of useful and copious Notes.) By Moses Browne, Author of Piscatory Eclogues, &c. [Disbound, complete]
• Éditeur: Henry Kent
• Date de parution: 1759
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fair
• Poids: 24 onces
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  • Nature/Wildlife/Animals/Outdoors