Conway capt (4 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Bombay, Thacker & Co.,, 1943
Anbieter: Buch & Cafe Antiquarius, Bonn, NRW, DeutschlandBuch & Cafe Antiquarius
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Zustand: Gebraucht
EUR 24,00
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3rd ed. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations, 161 p. Ex libris: Ex Bibliotheca Piscatoria Ohlsoni. Cover minimal rubbed, at the beginning and in the end slightly stained, small stamp on the endpaper, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 4°, original half-clothbinding.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Thacker & Co. Ltd, Bombay, 1942
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes KönigreichRooke Books PBFA
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EUR 42,09
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A charming edition of C. W. W. Conway"s delightfully illustrated guide to fishing in India. A wonderful edition of C. W. W. Conway"s "Sunlit Waters: An Introduction to the Art of Fishing with Light Tackle". A practical guide to fishing in India, providing tips on making up tackle and when and where to…fish. Beautifully illustrated with 13 full plates, including frontispiece, collated, and numerous further illustrations. A second impression of this work. Containing a "standard scale of hook sizes" to the rear. In the original publisher"s cloth binding, with title to the spine. Externally, smart. Some light marking to the front board and tide mark (?) to the top left of rear board. Rubbing to the extremities and to the spine. Tidemark to the top of both pastedowns. Small green mark to edge of front 5 endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
Weitere Bilder- Hardcover
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichHenry Sotheran Ltd
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EUR 300,64
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Bombay, Thacker & Co., Ltd., [June 1943]. 4to. Publisher's cloth-backed boards,; pp. [xiii], 161, [3], with a coloured photographic frontispiece of a fisherman in a pith-helmet, casting into a fast-running river, 12 other photographic plates, 2 more similarly coloured, and copious diagrams of tackle and locations throughout; pre…vious owner's inscription to ffep, endpapers a little browned, very good.Third impression. This is a practical guide to fishing in India, published, 'in these hard times when money is scarce'. Captain Conway continues: 'I have set out to make the fisherman who will use the tackle described as self-dependant as possible, and I even claim that he can set himself up for a modest sixty rupees . ' (Preface).See Elliott, Field Sports in India, London, 1973, pp. 171-182.
- Softcover
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichHenry Sotheran Ltd
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EUR 360,76
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Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd. [June 1943]. 4to. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, colour illustrated dust-wrappers (the variant with the smaller typeface), not price-clipped; pp. [xiii], 161, [3], with a colour-photographic frontispiece of a fisherman in a pith-helmet, casting into a fast-running river, 12 other photographic plates… (two in colour), and copious diagrams of tackle and locations throughout; wrappers a little darkened and with a few marginal tears, light offsetting from endpapers, internally very clean and fresh, making this a rare survival of a colonial fishing guide, beautifully produced during the Second World War.Third impression. This is a practical guide to fishing in India, published, "in these hard times when money is scarce". Captain Conway continues: "I have set out to make the fisherman who will use the tackle described as self-dependent as possible, and I even claim that he can set himself up for a modest sixty rupees . " (Preface).See Elliott, Field Sports in India, London, 1973, pp. 171-182.
