[Rarebooks] FS: 1853 Gone Fishing w/Color Plates

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

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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