Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling. With a Description of a
1790.
Item #13649
(ANGLING). [Nobbes, Robert]. The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling. With a Description of all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials Requisite Thereto: with Rules and Directions How to Use Them.... London: By T. James for Tho. Helder, 1682 [i.e., ca. 1790]. [20], 78, [2] p. Two woodcuts in text. Contemporary blue paper wrappers (front dampstained), neatly rebacked. Dampstain on first few leaves, title a bit soiled, else a very good copy. In a neat portfolio and morocco-backed slipcase. Eighteenth-century facsimile reprint of the original. Robert Nobbes (1652-1706?) is considered the "father of trolling." Westwood & Satchell p. 156; Heckscher Sale 1445.
Price: $750.00