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jus vocarc aiuict," he remarks respecting the sacred fisli in Lyciia 

 which gathered to the aliar steps at the sound of a flulc ( Mr. Owen 

 has missed this curious fact) and no one durst touch. 



There are (ierman transhitions by G.Orosse, Halle, 1787-8. 8vo.; 

 and by J. F. Mayer, Niunberg, 1774 & 1781, 8vo. In Panckoucke's 

 " Bibliotheque Latine- I''ran(,-,aise," [1826, etc.] 8vo., there is a 

 Fieiich version hv X. Rousselot accompanying the original ; and 

 another by F.Wolff in Nisard's "Collection des autcurs Latins," 

 1850, eic. 8vo. In 1657 H. Conringius collected the treatises of 

 several old writers on fish-ponds and iish and fishing, and printed 

 them at Hclmstadt in a quarto volume without collective title-page 

 but with continuous register. I5v the collector, who reads as well 

 as gathers, this book will be highJv prized. It contains the treatise 

 of Dubravius " de piscinis ; " portions of Varro's third book ; chapters 

 5.^-56 of Pliny's ninth book; book twenty of the "Geoponika" of 

 Cassianus Bassus ; excerpts from Crescentius and Heresbachius 

 concerning fish-ponds, and the book on fishing from the hitter's 

 " Tiiereutices."] 



"Vaughan (Henry) ^/le Silnris/. Wt)rk.s in verse and prose... 

 for the first time collected and edited... by A. B. Grosart. 4 

 vol. London, 1868. 8°. 



[An excellent Latin poem, "De salmone," with a translation, 

 will be found at pp. 241-3. This is contained in the author's 

 " Thalia rcdiviva: the jjass-times and diversions of a country-muse," 

 London, 1678. 8vo. Vaughan's " Olor Iscanus " contains a trans- 

 lation from Casimir Serbievius, a Polish poet, (1595-1640), entitled 

 "The pride of a religious life," in which fly-fishing is included 

 among its simple pleasures.] 



Vaughan (Thomas). The Golden Fleece diuided into three 

 parts. ..By Orpheus Junior. London, printed for Francis 

 Williams. 1026. 4°. 



[ A to Mmm in fours. Part three contains fishing.] 



"Variables ( George). Salmon in the Thames, and other rivers. 

 By G. Venables.. .Vicar of Great Yarmouth. Third edition. 

 London, Macintosh ; Great Yarmouth : printed by George 

 Nail, 1874. pp.34. 8°. Jirst edition : i^s^- 8°. 



[Contains an interesting "account of all the salmon caught at 

 Boulter's Lock and contiguous part of the Thames from 1794 to 

 1821."] 



Venables ( Robert). The experienc'd angler : or angling im- 

 prov'd. Being a general discourse of angling ; imparting 

 many of the aptest wayes and choicest experiments for the 

 taking of most sorts of fish in pond or river. London, printed 

 for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dun- 

 stan's Church-yard, Fleet-street, 1662. title., pp. xvi. 105. vi. 

 (table). 8°. ; 



[ 2 leaves, a-h in eights. The title was engraved by Vaughan. 

 The engravings of fish are the same as those in Walton's " Compleat 

 angler." The second edition, of which the date is uncertain, was 

 burnt in the " Great fire."] 



