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jus vocare audet," he remarks respecting the sacred fish in Lydia 

 which gathered to the altar steps at the sound of a flute (Mr. Owen 

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



There are German translations by G. Grosse, Halle, 1787-8. 8vo.; 

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

 " Bibliotheque Latine- Francaise/' [1826, etc.] 8vo., there is a 

 French version by X. Rousselot accompanying the original ; and 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 54-56 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 latter's 

 " Thereutices."] 



Vaughan (Henry) the Silurist. Works in verse and prose... 



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



vol. London, 1868. 8. 



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

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

 " Thalia rediviva: the pass-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. 1626. 4. 



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



Venables ( 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 : 1858. 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 Harriot, 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. 1 ' The second edition, of which the date is uncertain, was 

 burnt in the " Great fire."] 



