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Lot 74
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Lot Description
[ANGLING]. BAIGNET, William. A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. Newcastle: Mawson Swan & Morgan, 1937.
Tall 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and 3 plates; accompanied by a suite of 164 ACTUAL HACKLE SPECIMENS displayed on 11 heavy board mounts; in original paper chemises. (Some spotting to text.) Text volume in original gilt-lettered blue morocco; glassine (scattered tears). Together housed in original blue morocco folding case, which is then housed in a modern morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of approximately 40 copies. Hampton, p.32; Litchfield 75 (stating, apparently erroneously, that this was published in 1915, and that approximately 40 sets were produced).
Private collection from the estate of an avid, Chicago-area angler and collector
This lot is located in Chicago.
