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AELIANUS, Claudius. De natura animalium ... cum animadversionibus C. Gesneri et D. W. Trilleri. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio..., London: William Bowyer, 1744. 2 volumes, 4, parallel text in Greek and Latin, typographical ornaments, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt (covers scuffed, spines rubbed and faded). Aelianus, a writer of the third century, was the first author to mention fly fishing; this is in the 15th book of his natural history. An English translation is given in Westwood and Satchell. Brunet I, 61: "dition savante"; Lowndes I, p. 13: "An excellent and ample edition"; Souhart p. 4; W. & S. p. 1; Petit 15.
THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums ... translated from the Greek ... by Francis Fawkes, London: for the author by Dryden Leach, 1767. 8 (some spotting and marginal browning), contemporary calf, spine gilt (lettering-piece missing, extremities rubbed). Described as "a translation of merit" by Lowndes (VII, p. 2662), and regarded by Westwood and Satchell as the most accurate English translation of Idyll XXI which "contains 67 lines and has for its subject a dream of catching a golden fish, which an old man relates to his comrade. It is mainly notable for the enumeration of the fishing implements in the hands of two poor Syracusan fisherman." W. & S. p. 207. (3)
THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums ... translated from the Greek ... by Francis Fawkes, London: for the author by Dryden Leach, 1767. 8 (some spotting and marginal browning), contemporary calf, spine gilt (lettering-piece missing, extremities rubbed). Described as "a translation of merit" by Lowndes (VII, p. 2662), and regarded by Westwood and Satchell as the most accurate English translation of Idyll XXI which "contains 67 lines and has for its subject a dream of catching a golden fish, which an old man relates to his comrade. It is mainly notable for the enumeration of the fishing implements in the hands of two poor Syracusan fisherman." W. & S. p. 207. (3)