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Author: Donne, T.E.
Title: Rod Fishing in New Zealand Waters: A Description of a Fisherman's Paradise With Its Teeming Lakes, Rivers & Seas, the story of the Introduction of Game Fish & Full Information About Sport, Equipment, Regulations & Camping
Place: London
Publisher: Seely Service & Co.
Date: 1927
Item # : 109905
Sale Number   235
Lot Number   251
Sale Name    
The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton
Sale Date   01/24/2002
Price realized   $ 230
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Description:
[4], ix-xv. [1], 17-246 pp. With numerous plates from photographs; folding color map. 8¾x5½, cloth. First Edition.
Scarce and important work on New Zealand sport fishing, with a marvelous selection of photographs. The author was General Manager of New Zealand's Department of Tourism. He knew many of the lakes, streams and rivers intimately; as he says "many of them I know by personal immersion - with and without clothes, with and without horse." With early ownership signature.
Condition:
Spine a little sunned, ends rubbed; else very good.
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