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Animal StoriesFly-Fishing, Too!
Aelianus, Claudius.  [4 lines in Greek, then] Aeliani de natvra animalivm.... Londini: Gulielmus Bowyer, 1744. 4to (26.2 cm, 10.4"). 2 vols. I: xiv, xxvii, [35 (index)], 603, [1] pp. II: [605]–1128, [88 (index and addenda)] pp.
$500.00

The Philosophical Angler
“Angler, An” [i.e, Humphry Davy].  Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 12mo (17.1 cm, 6.75"). 312 pp., 3 plts.
$187.50
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In the Dutch National Library Not Reported Elsewhere
(Chinoiserie). Verhalen uit China. Met platen. Leiden: P.J. Trap (pr. by H.R. De Breuk), [ca. 1825–45]. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). vii, [1], 135 (lacking pp. 33/34 & 39/40), [1 (blank)] pp.; 5 col. plts.
$485.00


Buccolic Life & Death
Gratius, Faliscus, & others.  Poetae latini rei venaticae scriptores et bucolici antiqui. Lugduni Batavorum & Hagae Comitum: apud Jahannem Arnoldum Langerak, J. Gosse & J. Neaulme, Rutg. Christoph. Alberts, & J. Vander Kloot, 1728. 4to ( ). Frontis., [30] ff., 583, [1] pp., [8] ff., 335, [1] pp.
$375.00
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The Wonder ofBIRDS
Rennie, James.  Natural history of birds. Their architecture, habits, and faculties. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. 12mo. 308 pp., illus.
$40.00
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Remembrances ofIdyllic Youth
Sassoon, Siegfried.  Memoirs of a fox-hunting man. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Tall 8vo. Frontis., [8], 9–284 pp.; 8 plts.
$95.00


Guidebook from the Leader of the Boy Scouts
& the “Woodcraft Indians”
Seton, Ernest Thompson.  The book of Woodcraft. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., © 1921. 8vo. xxvi, 590 pp.; illus.
$30.00

Isn't Rustlings in the Rockies” a GREAT Title??
Shields, G.O.  Rustlings in the Rockies: Hunting and fishing by mountain and stream. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontis., xvi (vii/viii bound in after xvi),9–306, [6 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$100.00


A Hunting Accident Followed by aReligious Experience
The wagon-boy; or trust in Providence. New York: J.S. Redfield, [1845?]. 16mo. 16 pp.; illus.
$40.00


Willis “Pitched His Tent” by theSusquehanna River
Willis, Nathaniel Parker.  A l'abri, or, The tent pitch'd. New York: Samuel Colman (pr. by Scatcherd & Adams), 1839. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.6"). 172, 12 (adv.) pp.
$150.00
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