SCARCE (1950): JAMES HORNELL: ‘Fishing in Many Waters’ Vg Hardcover w DJ

by James Hornell

$107 · Offered by eBay

JAMES HORNELL: FISHING IN MANY WATERS. Published by The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1950 (1st edition). Hardcover with dust jacket, quarto, xvi, 210 pages with numerous diagrams in the text plus 36 black-and-white photographic plates. Published posthumously, Hornell’s wide-ranging study of traditional fishing methods and material culture, drawing particularly on his work and travels in India, Ceylon, the Far East and the South Seas. An important illustrated work combining fishing history with ethnography. VERY SCARCE with the original dust jacket. FREE LOCAL PICKUP in Adelaide.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1950
• Condition: Very Good

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