Richard Bowden Smith (6 results)
More imagesCollection of 76 Publications / Book-titles (several of which have multiple Volumes) on Fly Fishing, General Angling [Sharks, Trout, Salmon etc.], Fishing, Fish in Culture and Zoology, Fish in Cooking and Fish-Preservation (for storage and cooking) plus one vintage metal box with 85 (!) antique / vintage Flies (Salmon-Flies / Trout-Flies), professionally tied in early 20th century Ireland (West Cork, c.1920-1940). Published between the years 1851 and 1999, this excellent and extensive collection includes for example William Houghton's 1879-edition of British Fresh-Water Fishes with all the chromolithographs, as well as the very rare, first ever publication on Salt-Water-Flyfishing, with hand-coloured plates on Connemara Fly Fishing from 185
[Fly Fishing / Angling - Collection] - Houghton, Rev. William / Bowden-Smith, Richard / Prosek, James [Walton, Isaac]/ Brooks, Joe and many others.
Language: English
Published by London and other places of print, Harper Collins / William Mackenzie / John Van Voorst and others 1851-1999, 1999
- Softcover
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, IrelandInanna Rare Books Ltd.
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Add to basketCondition: Wie neu. Octavo. More than 3000 pages with many illustrations for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Angler. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications, often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Many of the publications with some signs of wear but overall, and especially the coll…ector's items in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The historical publications are true gems for the collector and this collection would be the perfect foundation for a meaningful Fly-Fishing-Library. This collection is the perfect gift for the Fly-Fisher. [Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection]. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express.
More imagesPublished by John Van Voorst. London. 1851, 1851
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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Add to basketALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1851). 1851 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 230mm). Ppviii+72+2pp ads. Six full-page plates, 5 of them with hand-coloured flies. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some page-edges slightly rough but a very good copy. Bookplate… & accession numbers of WD's Bank, 1908, (probably Willams Deacon Bank). [SMITH, Richard Bowden. (1800-1881)]. Fly Fishing In Salt And Fresh Water. John Van Voorst, London, 1851. No author given. Illustrated with six full-page plates, 5 of them with large hand-coloured flies. [Illustrations by Georgina Bowden-Smith, nee Georgina Eleanor Long, and hand-coloured by her mother, Lady Mary Long]. viii pp + 74 pp + 2 pp advertisements. Westwood & Satchell list this as anonymous. The catalogue of the Heckscher collection of angling books gave the author as Mrs HUTCHINSON. It was believed by some authorities that the author was Richard HELY-HUTCHINSON, while others wrongly attributed it to sporting author Horace G. Hutchinson. However, we have seen a copy inscribed "This book was written by my father,Richard Bowden-Smith, and illustrated by my mother, Georgina Bowden-Smith",signed Walter Baird Bowden-Smith. Dedicated to "all true Fly-fishermen - that is, to all those who fish for salmon, trout, and grayling, as every gentleman ought to do, with the artificial fly only." It includes guidance on salmon flies, the flies to use for saltwater flyfishing, particularly for pollack, and for trout and grayling, and instructions for pike fishing with spun dead bait, fly and live-bait. .
More imagesPublished by John Van Voorst, London, 1851
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 23 x 14.5 cm. Slim octavo. viii 74pp [2 ads]. Small stamp on page vii. Complete with 6 lithographs of flies by Paul Jerrard of which 5 are vibrantly hand colored and one that is not in color of other tackle. Bound in original brown cloth. Spine is faded and head and tail of spine a…re chipped. ~ 8 cm closed tear to front free endpaper. With sections on salmon, white trout, trout, pike, grayling, sea fly-fishing and lengthy appendix including a section on angling in America. Authorship is unattributed internally but various sources give either Mrs. Hutchinson or Richard Bowden-Smith as the author. Uncommon work. References: Heckscher 1075. Westwood & Satchell p 95.
More imagesPublished by John van Voorst, 1851
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin , IrelandUlysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hand coloured frontispiece plate with five plates bound at rear, with an additional sketch on page nine. An anonymously published practical treatise, the first published on salt water fly-fishing. The author describes fly fishing in the coastal waters of Ireland, England, Norway, and… Nova Scotia. He gives detailed instructions on how to dress each fly pattern and the materials needed to accomplish it. Content includes fly-fishing in Connemara ( Lough Ina, near Clifden), in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran.
- Hardcover
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.Callahan and Company Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Van Voorst, London, 1851. Illustrated with 5 hand colored plates of flies, and one b&w plate of riggings for baits. 6" x 9". Original green blind stamped cloth, small bookplate and two small bookseller's labels on the front pastedown. 74 pp, including extensive appendixes, with 3 pp on angli…ng in America, plus plates, plus 2 pp of advertisements of Van Voorst book ads, dated 1850, also a smaller format 8 pp Van Voorst catalog dated, March, 1850. Fly fishing for salmon, trout, grayling, pike and marine fish. This book (published anonymously) was long attributed to Mr. or Mrs. Hutchinson. That error began with the listing in the Heckscher catalog. Kevin McKenna found a directory of students of Trinity College, Dublin, that listed two Richard Helly Hutchinsons, born 1801 and 1802, and he thought one of those might have been the author. A copy of the book owned by Jeffrey Norton contained a letter from the author's grand-nephew to R.B. Marston, identifying the author as Richard Bowden Smith. This copy (a presentation copy from Bowden Smith to Robert Marston) was offered for sale in Judith Bowman's Catalog Fifty Four, June 2007. In her entry Judith said that the Bowden Smith letter was dated July, 1929, and ".it states in part 'My great uncle was evidently a modest man and too shy to place his name as the author'.". This is a very nice copy. Very good.
More images- First Edition
Seller: Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books, IOBA., Citrus Heights, CA, U.S.A.Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books, IOBA.
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First Edition. London. John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. 1851. First edition. [v], vi-viii, [1] 2-74 pp. including appendix. Six plates, with five brilliantly hand-coloured showing flies designed to imitate bait-fish and to attract Sea Trout, Pollack, Pike, Salmon, Trout and Grayling; they're "full size," as the author descri…bes them. There's a black and white plate showing how to arrange terminal tackle. The book is notable because it's the first work published about fly fishing in salt water. But no doubt fly fishing in the salt was done long before - it's likely one of Caligula's centurions, standing on the northern coast of Gaul after gathering seashells in 40 CE, slung his hair fly in the surf for pollack or trout; it's just that Aelian wasn't there to record it. Bowden-Smith describes fly fishing in the coastal waters of Ireland, England, Norway, and Nova Scotia. He gives detailed instructions on how to dress each fly pattern and the materials needed to accomplish it. And if you're so inclined, there are precise instructions on how to dye some of the materials. The book is bound in contemporary brown morocco and marbled boards with gilt titles on the spine. There is light rubbing to the binding. The text and the plates are fine and clean. A very good book.
