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The Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:3,150.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD
The Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved
<B>Col. Robert Venables: An Interesting Discourse on Fishing: <I>The Experience'd Angler or, Angling Improv'd. Being A General Discourse of Angling.</B></I></B></I><I> Imparting the Aptest Ways and Choicest Experiments for the taking of most sorts of Fish in Pond or River. By Col. Robert Venables. The Fifth Edition much Enlarged.</B></I> (London: Printed by B.W. for B. Tooke, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Tho. Sawbridge at the three Flower de Luces in little Britain, 1683). Fifth edition. Small octavo (5 ¾” x 3 5/8”). Seventeenth-century leather boards rebacked to style, and with a new leather spine lettering label. xiv , 96, 6, table pp. Engraved frontispiece and several engravings of fish in the text. Boards are a bit worn, but appropriately so for their age and still attractive. Front free endpaper has a tear at the bottom. Minor browning and foxing, mostly around the sheet edges. Small ink stain to fore-edge. A very good, handsome copy, housed in a custom cloth chemise and quarter morocco book-backed slipcase.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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