Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1865. Not least, fish and fishing. 'The alimentary virtues of Horse-Flesh and Fungi are discussed with a half-earnest levity ... but with the sea as our fish-pond, and pisciculture capable of endless developement alike in salt-water and fish, it is marvellous that multitudes should be pining with hunger..... More
Cassell, London, [1887]. With the ownership sigature (dated March 1888) of Evan Kyffin Thomas (1866-1935), a South Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor (being part-owner of 'The Register'), also the great-nephew of Robert Thomas, South Australia's first printer (ADB). Evan has added, 'Reviewed'. These bush 'notes are rather those of an..... More
![The American Lobster. A Study of its Habits and Development. [Contained in] 'Bulletin of the...](/pictures/thumb/109281_01.jpg?v=1550894369)
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1896. Francis Hobart Herrick (1858-1940) was for many decades Professor of Biology at Western Reserve University, Ohio. His 'scholarly publishing career spanned over 50 years, 1883-1937. His early research focused on the American lobster in New England. His work revealed that over-harvesting egg-producing adult lobsters was..... More
![The Russian Fur Seal Islands. [Contained in] 'Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission',...](/pictures/thumb/109280_01.jpg?v=1550894367)
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1897. 'The following treatise is based upon observations gathered during two different visits to the Commander Islands, off the coast of Kamchatka, the first undertaken in 1882-83, during the palmiest days of the fur-seal industry, the latter being last year (1895) ... to study the recent..... More
London, Horace Cox, 1911. The forty-fifth edition. The author was also author of 'The Gamekeeper's and Game Preserver's Account Book and Diary'. More
Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, 1913. More
London, Seeley, Service, [1935]/ 1931. Volume X in the Lonsdale Library. Loosely inserted are three illustrated advertising items; The Angler's Weekend Book, staple bound, 8 pages, fine; Greased Line Fishing for Salmon, a 2 page flyer folded in the middle, excellent [and] The Lonsdale Library 'bookmark' (printed on both sides)..... More
Melbourne, The Author, 1950. More
Melbourne, The Author, 1950. More
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1953. The ownership signature of Trevor Scott, curator of fishes at the South Australian Museum, is on the top right of the front cover. More
London, British Museum, 1953. More
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1956/ 1954. More
Brisbane, Jacaranda, 1963. More
Port Moresby, Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, 1967. More
Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1969. More
New York, Weathervane Books, [1970s, facsimile edition]/ 1931 [first edition thus]. More
London, Collins, 1970 (revised edition)/ 1956 and 1970/ 1959. Numbers 34 and 37 of 'The New Naturalist - A Survey of British Natural History' series. More
London, Black, 1972/ 1970 (fourth edition)/ 1952. More
[Lucas Heights], AAEC Research Establishment, June 1974. The four reports are by D.A. Pollard, M.S. Giles, D.R. Davy and N.F. Conway, and D.R. Davy, respectively. Pollard's contribution is 'The Freshwater Fishes of the Alligator Rivers "Uranium Province" Area ... with particular reference to the Magela Creek Catchment (East Alligator River..... More
London, Angus & Robertson, 1977. More
London, Michael Joseph, 1979 [fourth impression]/ 1978. More
London, Angus and Roberston, 1983/ 1980 (fourth revised edition). More
[Manchester, Vermont], The Orvis Company, 1983 [third edition, with a new supplement]/ 1980. Extensively illustrated in colour. Plus two 15-page supplements. More
Rosny Park, Tas-Trout Publications, 1988/ 1983. With the ownership signature of Audrey Abbie. More
[Lyon], Derrydale Press, 1993 [facsimile]/ 1845 (third edition). Number 832 of 2500 numbered copies. With the blank, unpeeled adhesive Derrydale bookplate loosely inserted. More
Melbourne, Innovator Tackle, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1961. More
Lockleys, Wilmar Library, November 1993 (second, corrected, edition)/ February 1993. The autobiography of a professional fisherman, born on Yorke Peninsula in 1921, the son of a Gallipoli veteran who first took his son to sea when he was aged two. The introduction to this volume lists the pages where the..... More
Kingscote, The Author, October 1998. An extraordinary work, long out of print, and rarely seen on the open market these days. This is number 214 of 250 copies of the leather-bound limited edition signed by the author (on stiff card tipped in on the title page, as issued). The trade..... More
Melbourne, Victorian Fly-Fishers' Association, 2007. One article selected from the February 2003 newsletter ('Tiger Attack' by Bill Thomas, pages 139-142) gives a detailed personal account of what happens when one is bitten by a large tiger snake; four pages is more than enough. More
This issue contains two other R.H. MATHEWS articles: The Aboriginal Fisheries at Brewarrina (11 pages with a plate and a diagram) and Notes on Some Native Dialects of Victoria (11 pages with a plate). More
