Group of sporting books, to include The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing, by Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton, 1808; The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America, by Elisha Lewis, 1855; Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland, by F. W. Pickard, 1938; The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, by Francis Kortright, 1942, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator; and The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes: Shooting, by Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, 1886. Provenance: From the Collection of Dr. Fin Sparre, Wilmington, DE.

Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot. Angler: good condition. Sportsman: minor wear to boards and spine. Trout: minor wear to boards. Swans: minor wear to boards. Shooting: minor wear to boards and spine, binding a bit loose.