• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The art of angling : by R. Brookes, M.D. In two parts; I. An Account of Fish and Fish Ponds-A new Method of Fly-Making-The Laws that concern Angling-The secret Manner of catching Fish by Ointments, Pastes and other Arts-Directions both how to procure Baits and for making Fishing-Tackle, with the surest way to find Sport. II. The various Methods of Rock and Sea Fishing, with an Account of the Cod and Whale Fisheries. - Likewise a Natural History of those extraordinary Productions of the Ocean; the Hermit, the Flying Fish, the Sea Devil, the Turtle, the Shark, the Whale, &c. &c. Illustrated with one hundred and thirty-five cuts Of different Kinds of Fish found in fresh or salt Waters: the whole forming a sportsman's magazine Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the Art of Angling
  • Contributor: Brookes, Richard [Author]
  • imprint: London: printed for W. Lowndes, No. 76, Fleet Street, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: A new edition
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([2],viii,268,[10]p.,plate); ill; 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Fishing
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: English Short Title Catalog, T111901
    Half-title: Brookes's art of angling or sportsman's magazine
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    With five final advertisement leaves