8820
Three Rare Books on Fishing
Sold
$250
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing May 30th, 2023
Category
Description
Comprising: Thaddeus Norris, THE AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK: EMBRACING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SPORTING FISH, AND THE ART OF TAKING THEM (Philadelphia: Butler, 1864) small 4to, pictorial cloth; Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR, CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION ... 2nd ed., improved (London: Bagster, 1808) 8vo, three-quarter morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers (later 19th century), and a slipcase; and The Same, (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1976) 4to, full leather.
Provenance
From the private library of Anton Vishio, Sr., scholar and mentor, who for 45 years taught Latin and Classical Greek at The Gilman School in Baltimore.