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

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

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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