The Yorkshire Evening Post highlights a recent auction for vintage fishing books that went through the roof.
From the article...
Some old books on angling, especially first editions, are very rare and collectable and can fetch a very good price at auction but there were gasps of amazement at a recent book sale at Bonhams Auction House when all records were smashed out of sight.
Pre-auction interest had been centred on a 1651 edition of The Art of Angling by Thomas Barker and experts had put a valuation of £70,000 on the book which was the first book in English devoted to fishing and also to mention the reel and is one of only two existing copies of the book – the other is in a private library in New York.
The previous record for an angling book was the £50,000 which was paid some years ago for a 1651 edition of the Complete Angler by Izaac Walton.
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