[Rarebooks] FS: 1853 Gone Fishing w/Color Plates
Joslin Hall Rare Books
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Tue Feb 28 11:45:53 EST 2017
From our new Recent Acquisitions catalog-
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5. [Gone Fishing] Giraudiere, [Hyppolite] de Chavannes de la.
Souvenirs d’un Vieux Pecheur. Published in Tours by A. Mame et cie in
1853 (2nd edition). First published in 1852 with a different cover
design. A delightful and extremely enthusiastic excursion for a juvenile
audience into the world of fishermen, male and female, in all sorts of
places and for all sorts of “fish”, illustrated with 8 wonderful colored
lithographic plates. The plates include coastal gatherers of the
rock-bound mussel, hardworking river fishermen using nets and basket
traps, Chippewa indians spear-fishing in a carved canoe, men and women
in the shallow tide flats of Brittany gathering fish with brooms and
baskets, Chinamen fishing using neck-ringed cormorants, hardy sailors on
the high seas hunting baleen whales, cod fishermen using nets from their
dories off Newfoundland, and boys and girls gathering shellfish in the
tidal flats.
The author was born in 1804 in Flanders, his grandfather having been
exiled there by Louis XVI after having the temerity to try to collect a
large debt allegedly owed him by Louis XV. He returned to France on a
government trade mission to promote silk culture, on which subject he
wrote several books. He then fell in with the publisher Touraine Mame
for whom he produced a prodigious number of titles, many of them, such
as this one, aimed at a juvenile readership, on a variety of historical,
travel-related, and other practical topics. A member of the Societe des
Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres d’Indre-et-Loire, and the Sociéte des
Phalansteriens, Giraudiere’s liberal politics made him the target of
police observation from time to time, and his sons, successful
machinists, would pick the short-lived Communard cause in the wake of
the Franco-Prussian War and suffer imprisonment and exile. But that’s a
story far removed from this rather charming and awesome little book.
Publisher’s decorated board covers. 5”x8”, xi + 177 pages, plus 8
colored lithographed plates with blue paper guards. The covers are
elaborately decorated with colorful scenes of fish, fishermen, foliage,
nets, and so on. Covers with some wear and soil, front top corner
damaged. Pages with some scattered foxing and light soil. [43043] $200
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