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1. "Ephemera." The Book of the Salmon.... London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. xvi, 242 + 2, 32 ad pp. With 9 steel-engraved plates, 8 of them hand-colored; tissue guards. 12mo. 19th century pigskin gilt. Spine broken with text block split through in two places, pigskin darkened. First edition. "Highly esteemed" (Westwood & Satchell p 86). 2. [Chetham, James.] The Angler’s Vade Mecum…. London: Thomas Bassett, 1681. Lacks 6 text leaves (2 from preface). 8vo. Modern calf with old calf covers laid down. Incomplete, L7 defective and lacking text, reinforcement to title-page verso. First edition. Litchfield 2; Heckscher 447; Westwood & Satchell pp 59-60; Wing C3788. 3. Markham, Gervase. Cheape and Good Husbandry for the Well-Ordering of all Beasts. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for John Harison, 1631. Small 4to. Modern calf. Lacking text leaves F2 & F3. Fifth edition. 4. Scrope, William. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray 1843. [iii]-xvii, 298, + [2] ad pp. Half-title. With additional duotone lithographed pictorial title; 9 tinted lithographed plates; 3 hand-colored lithographed plates; 9 wood engravings in the text. 8vo. Original green cloth. Marginal foxing to plates (and in image of 1 lithograph), text block cracked, spine browned and chipped. First edition. Westwood & Satchell p 191. 5. Bates, Joseph. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, [1966]. Illustrated with line drawings by Milton Weiler; 8 color plates of flies; tipped-in color transparency from a photograph as frontispiece. 8vo. Full green morocco gilt; mahogany slipcase with streamer fly encased on cover. Lower panel of slipcase water-damaged, morocco sunned to brown where exposed in slipcase. Limited edition, letterpress colophon reading 1 of 24, but this lined through and annotated by the author that this is one of the 10 presentation copies. Signed by the author. Together, 5 volumes.