Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo.

by an Angler by Sir Humphrey Davy

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Illustrated with 3 full page wood engravings, including folding plate. viii, 273, 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half crimson contemporary calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. Two bookplates. Westwood & Satchell, p. 77; Heckscher 593. Item #314120 A rare copy of the first edition of a book which, Westwood & Satchell state, “ranks high in the scale of angling literature”.

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