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Fundamental problems : the method of philosophy as a systematic arrangement of knowledge
- Author: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919
- Genre: General
Fisher Walsh copy: With the pictorial bookplate of David Philipson, and the bookstamp of the Library of the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, California School 32
the practical angler or the art of trout fishing more particularly applied to
- Author: w c stewart
- Genre: General
This little volume, originally published in the middle of the nineteenth century, is devoted to the art of trout fishing. The author, W. C. Stewart, offers a detailed account of nearly all the aspects of trouting, beginning with the explanation for fishermen up to the discussion various types of wood for making fishing rods. The book gives examples of fish’s food, numerous sorts of worms, lampreys, the suitable weather for fishing, experiments with the angles and other useful information, such as best means of filling a basket in May. Never herefor there was such a book, which provided a full-length account of trout fishing. Though the book was written in the language of the time, it remains very informative today, since a lot of described techniques have hardly changed.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
- Author: Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Sir
- Genre: Fishing
A collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, a British writer, who published under the pen name of “Q.” Among others, the book includes Sindbad On Burrator, Victor, The Capture of the Burgomeister Van Der Werf, King O' Prussia, The Man Who Could Have Told, The Cellars of Rueda, The Haunted Yacht, Parson Jack's Fortune, The Burglary Club and some others.
The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
- Author: Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Sir
- Genre: Fishing
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island) in 1887, and he followed this up with Troy Town (1888) and The Splendid Spur (1889). After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall. He published in 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St Ives. With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Bays: Verses and Parodies (1893), his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century English lyrists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by an equally successful Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (1900). He was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taking the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight').
Notes on Sunaristes paguri Hesse, and some other rare Crustacea
- Author: Scott, Thomas
- Genre: Fishing
Title on spine: Scott. Crustacea. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1892-1910 Detached "From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 6, Vol. xx., December 1897." extracted picklist INVZ copy mq589319 is no. 8 in a vol. with 15 other titles. Bound together subsequent to publication