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Sage, Dean
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888
Folio (12 3/4 x 9 in.; 324 x 299 mm). Aquatint title-page printed in red and black after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 engraved plates on japan paper after and by Stephen Parris, Mrs. A. L. Merritt, C. A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others, 63 engraved head- and tailpieces, historiated initials, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam and others, double-page lithographed map on japan paper after and by J. Bartholomew; light, occasional foxing, chiefly marginal, offsetting from one plate to a text leaf. Publisher's coarse green cloth, front cover wtih gilt vignette of a hawk snatching a salmon from the water, green leaf-patterned endpapers; rubbed, spine slightly faded, upper cloth hinge starting.
Folio (12 3/4 x 9 in.; 324 x 299 mm). Aquatint title-page printed in red and black after G. Reid by Annan and Swan, aquatint frontispiece after Reid by Annan and Swan, 16 engraved plates on japan paper after and by Stephen Parris, Mrs. A. L. Merritt, C. A. Platt, H. Sandham, and others, 63 engraved head- and tailpieces, historiated initials, and other ornaments after and by Merritt, Platt, J. Adam and others, double-page lithographed map on japan paper after and by J. Bartholomew; light, occasional foxing, chiefly marginal, offsetting from one plate to a text leaf. Publisher's coarse green cloth, front cover wtih gilt vignette of a hawk snatching a salmon from the water, green leaf-patterned endpapers; rubbed, spine slightly faded, upper cloth hinge starting.
Literature
Bruns S4; Heckscher 1681; Litchfield 58; Phillips 328
Catalogue Note
First edition, copy 75 of 105 copies. "The finest salmon book ever produced" (Litchfield). " A sumptuous volume on angling, delightfully written [and including] an appreciative discussion of the feelings and moods of the sportsman enjoying both hunting and fishing" (Phillips).