NIGHT FISHING AND NET DESIGNS
[SPANISH FISHING.]
Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca de España.
[Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]
Oblong folio, ff. [1], 35: illustrated title-page plus 35 full-page lithographic illustrations, printed on rectos only, four (including title) in colour; mounted at inner margin, in quarter maroon cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered ‘Láminas’; title-page slightly browned, tear repaired to final leaf, else a good copy.
First and only edition, very rare, a striking illustrated guide to the traditional Spanish fishing industry, with thirty-five large and unusual illustrations of typical fishing villages and dress; net designs, and floats; boats; drag-nets; tangle-nets, purse seins; hooks; and various ‘objetos curiosos’.
Given the latter category, it seems unlikely to have served any official or reference purpose, functioning more as a vehicle for the illustrations, the most striking of which shows a scene of night fishing in Galicia.
OCLC shows a single copy, at University of Washington. Not in Library Hub, REBIUN, KvK &c. We have also traced a very rare, apparently related text volume: Explicación de las láminas que contienen los principales artes, aparejos e instrumentos que se emplean para la pesca marítima en las costas de España (Madrid, Artes Gráficas Mateu, 1920), and a Diccionario ilustrado, descriptivo, valorado, numérico y estadistíco de los [sic] artes, aparejos, é instrumentos que se usan para la pesca maritíma en las costas del norte y noroeste de España (Madrid, Artes Gráficas Mateu, 1911).
