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The Lochleven angler

Begg, Robert Burns

1874

By Robert Burns Begg.

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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Prose halieutics, or, Ancient and modern fish tattle

Badham, Charles David (1806-1857)

1854

"Much of the matter... has already appeared in a series of papers in Fraser's magazine" - p. [v].

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Pêches, pêcheurs, pêchés! [...]

Perreau, J H (1865-)

1904

Origine de la pêche. -- Petites pêches. -- Grandes pêches. -- Pêches aux divers engins. -- Engins peu connus. -- Pêches bizarres. -- La cuisine de la pêche.

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Thames and Tweed

Rooper, George

[1870]

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Traité général des pesches : et histoire des poissons qu'elles fournissent, tant pour la subsistance des hommes, que pour plusieurs autres usages qui ont rapport aux arts et au commerce (sections 1-2)

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1781?); La Marre, L H de (1730-); Académie des Sciences

1769-1782

Part of a series published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, entitled Description des arts et métiers. Published in 2 parties, 4 tomes, 13 sections. The name of De La Marre appears on title-p...

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