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Hoover, Herbert - TLS With Fishing Book

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
Hoover, Herbert - TLS With Fishing Book
<Our item number 119518><B>Hoover, Herbert.</B> &#40;1874-1964&#41; 31st President of the United States &#40;1929-1933&#41;. The first known volume on the art of fishing, &#34;A Treatise on Fishing with A Hook,&#34; with a presentation TLS, on personal letterhead, 1p, 10½&#34; x 7¼&#34; &#40;Palo Alto, CA&#41;, 1937 Aug. 24. The ex President thanks Mr. William Bayard Sturgis of Chicago for a book he wrote on trout fishing and notes, &#34;<I>I am sending you a little book on fishing which somewhat anti-dates your essay</I>….&#34; The book, &#34;Treatise On Fysshynge With An Angle&#34; was authored by Juliana Berners, the Prioress of the Nunnery of Sopwell and first printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496; the book was translated into modern English by William Van Wyck and printed by the Van Rees Press, New York in 1933; it is ¾&#34; x 5½&#34;, has 54 pages, and green cloth covers with a gilt rendition of the original frontispiece from 1496 &#40;also used as the frontispiece of this editi on&#41;. Hoover&#39;s business card is affixed to the inside cover; the flap of the envelope with Hoover&#39;s letter is affixed to the first fly leaf, with the remainder of the envelope loose. Fine. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;500-700. <BR><BR>Our item number 119518<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/43jpegs/119518.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>