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 about Fishing under Sail. Edited from the original manuscript by Glen Ralph
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1956/ 1954. More about Tench. How to Catch Them
[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 about Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment Lucas Heights. The Alligator Rivers...
London, Angus & Robertson, 1977. More about Business in Great Waters. The Story of British Fishermen
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 about Contributions to Natural History, chiefly in Relation to the Food of the People. By a Rural D.D
Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1969. More about Trout Quest
London, Angus and Roberston, 1983/ 1980 (fourth revised edition). More about Big Fish and Blue Water. Gamefishing in the Pacific
[Manchester, Vermont], The Orvis Company, 1983 [third edition, with a new supplement]/ 1980. Extensively illustrated in colour. Plus two 15-page supplements. More about Index of Orvis Fly Patterns
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 about The Open Sea. Part I: The World of Plankton. [Together with]: .. Part II: Fish and Fisheries
[Lyon], Derrydale Press, 1993 [facsimile]/ 1845 (third edition). Number 832 of 2500 numbered copies. With the blank, unpeeled adhesive Derrydale bookplate loosely inserted. More about Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing Guide of the United States and British Provinces of North...
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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 about The American Lobster. A Study of its Habits and Development. [Contained in] 'Bulletin of the...
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 about Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer of the Rivers and Lakes of the World; to which...
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 about Gum Boughs and Wattle Bloom gathered on Australian Hills and Plains
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 about Language of the Bungandity (Booandik) Tribe, South Australia. (Contained in) Journal and...
Port Moresby, Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, 1967. More about The Fishes of New Guinea
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 about Geehi to Great Lake. An Anthology of Victorian Fly-Fishers' Association Newsletters
New York, Weathervane Books, [1970s, facsimile edition]/ 1931 [first edition thus]. More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Melbourne, Innovator Tackle, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1961. More about Fly-Fisher in Tasmania. An Acquaintance with the Trout of the Rivers and Lakes of Tasmania,...
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 about Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. Volume 1: Families from Asymmetrontidae through...
Rosny Park, Tas-Trout Publications, 1988/ 1983. With the ownership signature of Audrey Abbie. More about The Truth About Trout. Observation, Presentation and the Functional Fly
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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 about The Russian Fur Seal Islands. [Contained in] 'Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission',...
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 about Salmon Fishing
