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Paperback / softback. New.

London: Murray. FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.. 1828. 1st edition. Hardcover. FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves. . Spine with 5 gilted raised ribs and gilt 'SALMONIA' on a red leather spine label. Both hinges splitting but still sound. Water staining of both boards has bled into top corner margins of adjoining leaves and also the very outside of the front text block edge. Text & plates otherwise FINE. Binding still tight. There are also 8 in text fish wood cuts of. 'An Angler' is sir Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist. He did say his most famous discovery was his student, Michael Faraday. Davy dedicated this book to William Babington, a physician scientist contemporary. .

London: John Murray, 1829. 2nd . Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in full green leather , spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated with six full page engravings and some illustrations within the text.