Lot 27
  • 27

Younger, John

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

On River Angling for Salmon and Trout: More Particularly as Practised in the Tweed and its Tributaries. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1840



16mo (5 x 3 in.; 127 x 76 mm). Table of salmon flies bound in at the end. Publisher's limp brown ribbed cloth, title stamped on front cover, coated yellow endpapers; a little fading and water-staining. Half morocco folding case.

Provenance

Harry Parker (gift inscription from a Miss Pratt)

Literature

Heckscher 2318;  Westwood & Satchell 240; not in Litchfield 

Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue, with 90 pages and the table. Rare, only one other copy of the first issue has been sold at auction in the past three decades.