[Rarebooks] FS: ANGLING CATALOGUES

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

(Denison, Alfred, et al). Sotheby & Co. CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED 
COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO ANGLING... FORMED BY THE LATE ALFRED 
DENISON [WITH] EMINENT COLLECTION OF ANGLING BOOKS, THE PROPERTY OF 
J.C. LYNN [WITH] VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING TWO COLLECTIONS OF 
BOOKS ON ANGLING...[THREE VOLUMES]. London: Sotheby & Co., 1933, 
1959, 1968. 31; 58; 110 pp. Illus. with 8, 3, & 9 b/w plates. 8vo. 
Paper wrappers. First edition.

(1) Catalogue of the celebrated collection of books relating to 
angling: and of a small general library formed by the late Alfred 
Denison. Monday, the 17th of July, 1933. 31 pp., [8] leaves of 
plates; Sales code: Olymplus. 239 lots. Most prices and buyers noted 
in pencil; includes five books inscribed by Walton. One of the great 
angling collections

(2) Catalogue of the eminent collection of angling books, the 
property of J.C. Lynn, Esq. of Compton Down, Winchester. Tuesday, the 
20th October, 1959. 58 pp., 3 leaves of plates. Sale code: Angler. 
264 lots. Includes :The boke of St. Albans, 1496 (the White 
Knights-Ashburnham- Gilbey copy) and other rare early editions of The 
treatise of fysshynge with an angle; the first and other early 
editions of Walton's Compleat angler; John Dennys's Secrets of 
angling [1613], one of only three known copies; Samuel Gardiner's 
Booke of angling or fishing, 1606, one of four copies; William 
Gilbert's The anglers delight, 1676; Die Kunst wie man Visch, c.1530; 
the only recorded copy of the first edition of the Livret nouveau, 
the first book on fishing in French; Leonard Mascall's Booke of 
fishing with hooke and line, 1590; the ms. of Robert Noble's De arte 
piscatoria, c. 1669; Oppian's Halieutica, 1478; John Taverner's 
Certaine experiments concerning fish, 1600; Robert Venables' The 
experienced angler, 1662; and other rarities, many copies being of 
distinguished provenance from the libraries of Thomas Gosden, Thomas 
Westwood, Alfred N. Gilbey, C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, Alfred Denison, the 
Marquess of Blandford." Buyers and prices paid laid in loose

(3) Catalogue of valuable printed books comprising two collections of 
books on angling and a collection of English literature...14th- 15th 
October, 1968. 110 pp. [9] plates. Sales code: Fish. 546 lots. " 
Including Absolon's water-colour drawings for Walton's Compleat 
angler, Anderdon's River dove, 1845, one of six copies and extra- 
illustrated, the Ashendene Press Treatyse of fysshynge, 1903, Juliana 
Barne's Gentlemans Academie, 1595, Mrs. Bowdich's Fresh water fishes, 
original drawings, 1828, Cox's Gentleman's recreation, 1674, 
Dubravius's Good husbandry, 1599, Mascall's Book of fishing, 1590, 
Taverner's Experiments concerning fish, 1600, the first five editions 
of Walton's Compleat angler and a fine series of later editions 
including the Denison-Burns extra-illustrated edition, 1796, 
Apperley's Life of a sportsman, 1842, Latham's Falconry, 1618, 
Salvin's Falconry, 1855, Bancroft's Epigrammes, 1639, Cranshaw's 
Steps to the Temple, 1646, Hobbes's Leviathan, 1651, Chapman's Homer, 
1640, Lyly's Euphues, 1636, Philips's Female poems, 1679, works by 
Anstey, the Brownings, Bryon, Chatterton, Charles Churchill, Gay, 
Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Shenstone, Southey, Sterne, Swift, 
Walpole, etc." List of buyers' names and prices paid laid in loose.

  One volume with paperclip stain on wrapper and heavily annotated in 
pencil; spine worn on one with some creasing; some notation on last 
volume, but overall still very good.  [34737] $300.00 
    
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Kaaterskill Books
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