| Starting bid | £100 |
| Estimate | £200 - £300 |
| Absentee deadline | Dec 3, 2025, 5:00:00 PM |
ANGLING - Henry van DYKE (1852-1933). Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Frontispiece, half title, and 7 plates by F. Walter Taylor. Fine original decorated cloth gilt. Provenance: "Herbert Smith from Mr Alden, Boston, U.S.A., Xmas 1913" (inscription on the front free endpaper); "The Old Corner Book Store, Inc. Boston" (small bookseller's label on the front free endpaper). Reprint. With 7 other books of related interest, namely W. C. Stewart's The Practical Angler or the Art of Trout-Fishing ... Eighth Edition (Edinburgh, 1883, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt), George A. B. Dewar's The South Country Trout Streams (London, 1898, 8vo, plates, original cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION), The Trout by the Marquess of Granby ... New Edition (London, 1899, 8vo, plates, original half green pictorial morocco gilt, rubbed, part of the "Fur, Feather, & Fin Series edited by Alfred E. T. Watson"), Arthur Tysilio Johnson's In the Land of the Beautiful Trout (London, 1907, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt, yapp edges, FIRST EDITION), Frederic M. Halford's The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook (London, 1913, large 8vo, plates, original black cloth, rebacked, FIRST EDITION), Harry Plunkett Greene's Where the Bright Waters Meet (London, 1924, large 8vo, plates, original blue cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION) and A Treatise on Fishing with a Hook Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, Printed in the Book of Saint Albans by Wynken de Worde, Mcccclxxxxvi and Rendered into Modern English by William van Wyck (New York, 1933, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, pencil annotation to the first two pages). (8)