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An account of the fish-pool: consisting of a description of the vessel so call'd, lately invented and built for the importation of fish alive, and in good Health, from Parts however distant. A Proof of the Imperfection of the Well-Boat hitherto used in the Fishing Trade. The true Reasons why Ships become stiff or crank in Sailing; with other Improvements, very useful to all Persons concern'd in Trade and Navigation. Likewise, a description of the carriage intended for the conveyance of fish by land, in the same good Condition as in the Fish-Pool by Sea. By Sir Richard Steele, and Mr. Joseph Gillmore, Mathematician.
Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729.Date: 1718- Pictures
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A cod fishing fleet off the coast of Iceland. Tinted lithograph by Le Breton.
Reference: 37591i- Pictures
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A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.
Reference: 41687i- Pictures
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Two otters on a bank, one with a fish and the other fishing. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 39874i- Books
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An essay on the fishing trade. By Gerard Malines merchant.
Malynes, Gerard, active 1586-1641.Date: [1720]- Books
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The sportsman's dictionary: or, the country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations: With full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. With the Method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of Horses, Dogs, Pigeons, Cocks, &c. Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, Ancient, and Modern: With Large Improvements, made by several Gentlemen well experienced in these noble Exercises. Illustrated with near thirty copper-plates, representing the different kinds of Nets, Engines, and Traps, that are made use of in taking all sorts of Game. ...
Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Pictures
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Manufacture of fishing equipment. Etching.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 37656i- Books
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A concise treatise on the art of angling. Confirmed by actual experience, and minute observations, Exempt from Redundancies, and Superfluities, which tend more to perplex, than instruct, with The proper Methods for Breeding and Feeding Fish, and of making Fish-Ponds, Stews, &c. With Several Arcana never before made Public. To which is added the compleat fly-fisher, The Game-Laws relative to Angling, and Frognostics of the Weather, independent of the Barometer. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, by Thomas Best, Gent.
Best, Thomas.Date: [1789?]- Books
Walton and some earlier writers on fish and fishing / by R.B. Marston.
Marston, R. B. (Robert Bright), 1853-1927.Date: 1894- Pictures
Fisher-folk, night-fishing methods, and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493246i- Books
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The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing: with the natural history of river, pond, and sea-fish. Illustrated with 133 cutts.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing: with the natural history of river, pond, and sea-fish. Illustrated with 133 cutts.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Pictures
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Sarawak: a Malaysian tribe fishing on the Baram River. Photograph.
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Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.
Reference: 34732i- Archives and manuscripts
A man fishing by a river (artwork)
Date: 1950s-1970sReference: PP/RSI/B/2/7/51Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
A man fishing, and a policeman's head (artwork)
Date: 1975-1984Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/8/8Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
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A fishing boat is out on the water, men on the bank haul in a large fishing net. Engraving by J. Mason after F. Lauri.
Lauri, Filippo, 1623-1694.Date: Feby. 1744Reference: 34820i- Books
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A description of Greenland. Shewing the natural history, situation, boundaries, and face of the country; the Nature of the Soil; the Rise and Progress of the old Norwegian Colonies; the ancient and modern Inhabitants; their Genius and Way of Life, and Produce of the Soil; their Plants, Beasts, Fishes, &c. With a new map of Greenland. And several copper plates representing different Animals, Birds and Fishes, the Greenlanders Way of Hunting and Fishing; their Habitations, Dress, Sports and Diversions, &c. By Mr. Hans Egede, Missionary in that Country for twenty five Years. Translated from the Danish.
Egede, Hans, 1686-1758.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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To all lovers of angling. Onesimus Ustonson, the original fishing-rod and tackle-maker, at the No. 205, the corner of Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street, London, makes all sorts of fishing-rods, and all manner of the best fishing tackle, wholesale and retail, at the lowest rates; sells the right Charles Kirby's hooks, ...
Ustonson, Onesimus.Date: 1785?]- Books
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The memoirs and adventures of Robert Kirk, late of the Royal Highland Regiment. Containing A Journal of the most important Occurrences in the late War; the Reduction of Crown-Point, Montreal, &c. A description of the back Parts of North-America; of the great Lakes, Rivers, and Waterfalls; of the Beasts, Birds, Fish, Fruits, Trees, Articles of Commerce and Prices of Skins. The Customs of the Indians, with whom the Author lived for some time; their methods of Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, Navigating, Rearing Children, Marriages, and Burials. With many other Curious Particulars, never before Published. Written by himself.
Kirk, Robert, of the Royal Highland Regiment.Date: [1770?]- Pictures
Rotorua, New Zealand: trout fishing. Colour process print print.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 533963i- Books
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Angling in all its branches, reduced to a complete science: Being the Result of More than Forty Years Real Practice and Sirict Observation Throughout the Kingdoms of Creat Britain and Ireland. In three parts. First, Describing (among other things) the Counties of England, Wales, and Scotland, in alphabetical order; the Rivers and other Waters which they contain; their rise, progress, and curiosities; together with those of Ireland; the Fish they produce, and the parts best adapted for Angling; Intersperied with curious and entertaining incidents and practical remarks never before made public. Secondly, A full description of the different kinds of Fish taken by Angling, &c. their natures, haunts, seasons, spawning-times, baits, biting-times; and how to angle for each; with many curious, useful, and pleasing observations. Thirdly, A list of Artificial Flies (the completest collection ever yet known), which will take Fish in all Waters in each of the above Countries; the materials, and how to make each as described; the most skilful way of throwing the line, and-of managing it when in the water; Night Fly-Fishing; Natural Fly-Fishing, &c. The Whole forming a Work of real Utility, Comprising objects too numerous to be detailed in a Title Page, and of a very different nature from those insignificant little Pamphlets hitherto published, which treat chiefly of angling in the Thames, the New River, and other Waters of equal consequence about London. By Samuel Taylor, gent.
Taylor, Samuel, angler.Date: 1800- Books
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The King's fishing : done into verse.
Mercier, Charles Arthur, 1852-1919.Date: 1913- Books
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The fishing for a ged. A poem.
Date: 1777]- Digital Images
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Muriel Robertson fishing for leeches at Elistree.