CERTAINE EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING FISH AND FRUITE: PRACTISED BY IOHN TAVERNER, GENTLEMAN, AND BY HIM PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS. Printed for William Ponsonby. 1600. With an introduction by Eric Parker.

Published by Sherratt & Hughes. Manchester. 1928

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1928). (1600) 1928 new edition. Small 4to (186 x 250mm). Pp[iv],iv,24. B/w photograph frontispiece of first edition title-page. Grey cloth-backed paper-covered boards, white paper title-label printed in black to upper board, spine untitled. Corners rubbed & boards slightly chipped. A good copy. The first edition, published in 1600, is a great rarity. This second edition, with an extensive new introduction by Eric Parker, was the first to bring John Taverner's observations to a wider audience. Taverner's observations on natural history were far ahead of his time and many of his theories still hold true today. An important book, much overlooked by earlier angling writers. "John Taverner's treatise, small in volume though it may be. is in its own way a masterpiece. It belongs to an age when men were content to copy down from other books statements which they themselves had not verified, when they believed the fabulous and repeated the impossible. And there in contrast to that ready acceptance of myth and invention, stands Certaine Experiments concerning Fish and Fruite, an exact transcript from personal experience accurately recorded 'for the benefit of others,' and a model of correct inference from observed facts. .As an observing and recording field naturalist, John Taverner stands centuries in advance of his time." (From the introduction by Eric Parker). .…

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CERTAINE EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING FISH AND FRUITE: PRACTISED BY IOHN TAVERNER, GENTLEMAN, AND BY HIM PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS. Printed for William Ponsonby. 1600. With an introduction by Eric Parker.
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Taverner (John). (d. 1606).
Publisher
Sherratt & Hughes. Manchester. 1928
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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.…

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