Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family

[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. As also a brief account of most of the principal rivers in England. By a lover of the sport. London: printed by T. James for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain, 1682 [but 1790]. The reprint edition of 1790 with the hook on p. 37 pointing left. Contemporary calf backed boards. 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm); 78 [2] pp. Upper cover detached, bookplate and ink signatures to pastedown, clean within; Together with BARKER, THOMAS. Barker's Delight: Or, The Art of Angling. London: J.H. Burn, 1820. Stated second edition, a facsimile of the 1657 edition, one of only 100 copies. original printed wrappers. 6 1/4 x 4 inches (16 x10 cm); [2], iv, [12], 40, [4] pp. Wrapper detached and soiled with small losses, the first leaves detached.