Business and Diversion Inoffensive of God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human Society. A Discourse Utter'd in Part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the Fishing-Season 1739

by Joseph Seccombe

$1,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Manuscript copy from the first edition, printed Boston, 1743, 31 leaves, in a fine regular hand, rectos only a few leaves are on the verso of a printed circular from the New-York Historical Society, 1863 . 1 vols. 4to. Some light dust soiling to a few leaves, generally fine. Dark blue morocco backed folding box. Bibliotheca Salmo salar 214. For first edition: Evans 5285. Item #351946 A nicely executed manuscript copy of the first book on angling

• Binding: Leather

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