Item #122856 The Modern Fisher; or, Driffield Angler; containing, Descriptions of the Different Kinds of Fresh Water Fish, and the Best Methods of taking them in Rivers, Lakes, and Fish-ponds; with Full Directions for Baits, and the Manner of making Artificial Flies for Every Month of the Season. To which are added, Instructions for Shooting and Coursing: with Rules for the Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers, Spaniels, and Greyhounds. Alexander MACKINTOSH.
The Modern Fisher; or, Driffield Angler; containing, Descriptions of the Different Kinds of Fresh Water Fish, and the Best Methods of taking them in Rivers, Lakes, and Fish-ponds; with Full Directions for Baits, and the Manner of making Artificial Flies for Every Month of the Season. To which are added, Instructions for Shooting and Coursing: with Rules for the Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers, Spaniels, and Greyhounds

The Modern Fisher; or, Driffield Angler; containing, Descriptions of the Different Kinds of Fresh Water Fish, and the Best Methods of taking them in Rivers, Lakes, and Fish-ponds; with Full Directions for Baits, and the Manner of making Artificial Flies for Every Month of the Season. To which are added, Instructions for Shooting and Coursing: with Rules for the Breeding, Breaking, and Management of Pointers, Spaniels, and Greyhounds

Derby, Henry Mozley, 1821.

Duodecimo, xii, [13]-250 (last blank), [2] (index, colophon) pages with a frontispiece.

Early plain cloth a little marked, sunned, and bumped at the extremities, with minor wear to the ends of the spine; front inner hinge neatly reinforced; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.

Provenance: the verso the front flyleaf is inscribed to 'Dr W Angove from [indecipherable] Jany 1911'. Dr William Thomas Angove (1854-1912) founded Angove Family Winemakers in Adelaide in 1886.

Item #122856

Price (AUD): $300.00

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