Second Session, Monday Evening, January 19th 



248. AMERICANA. Personal Memoirs of IT. S. Grant. Illustrations. 2 vols. 



New York, 1885; LOSSING (BENSON J.). The Pictorial Field- 

 Book of the War of 1812. With several hundred engravings on 

 wood. New York. 1868; SEWARD (FREDERICK W.). Seward at 

 Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State. Illustrated. New 

 York, 1891; CARRINGTON (HENRY B.). Battles of the American 

 Revolution. Maps. New York, 1876; and others. Together, 10 

 vols. 8vo and royal 8vo, cloth. Mainly damaged by water. Not re- 

 turnable. Various places, various dates 



249. ANGLING. [Venables (Colonel Robert).] The Experienced Angler; or, 



Angling Improved. Being a General Discourse of Angling. The 

 Third Edition much Enlarged. Engraved frontispiece and wood- 

 cuts in text. 16mo, ORIGINAL CALF, ink remarks in margins of text. 

 London: Printed for Richard Marriot . . . , 1668 

 The recommendatory letter is signed J. W., which is supposed to be 

 Isaac Walton. 



250. ANGLING. The Husbandman's Jewel, Directing How to Improve Land 



from 10 per Annum, to 50 with small charge by Planting . . . 

 To which are added, the Arts of Angling, Hawking, . . . with divers 

 other matters. 16mo, wrappers. 



London: Printed for G. Conyers, circa 1680 



"The Angler's Instructor," pp. 29-38, contains a curious woodcut head- 

 ing. 



251. ANGLING. [Nobbes (Robert).] The Compleat Troller, or, The Art 



of Trolling. With a Description of all the L T tensils, Instruments, 

 Tackling, and Materials requisite thereto ; with Rules and Direc- 

 tions how to use them. As also a Brief Account of most of the 

 Principal Rivers in England. By a Lover of the Sport. Text illus- 

 trations. 16mo, half calf, gilt back and top, uncut. 



London: Printed by T. James . . . , 1682 [Reprint, circa 1790] 



The Dedicatory Epistle is signed Ro. Nobbes. 



This is the facsimile reprint of the FIRST EDITION. 



252. ANGLING. Heyrick (Tho.). Miscellany Poems. Vignette. Small 4to, 



marbled wrappers, ink marks on title page. 



Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, 1691 



Contains, 'To His Ingenuous Friend and Brother Angler, Mr. Thomas 

 Heyrick on his Submarine Voyage,' 'The Norway Whale,' a Pindarique 

 Ode in Praise of Angling. 



253. ANGLING. The Angler's Vade Mecum; or, a Compendious, yet full, 



Discourse of Angling. The Third Edition, illustrated with sculp- 

 tures; And very much Enlarged. 12mo, panelled calf, leather labels, 

 rebacked. London: Printed for William Battersby . . . , 1700 



