I Do Like Old Books About Fish and Fishing,

and here are two I would like to add to my collection, 

the first about fish titled The fishes of Central America and the Caribbean by Vaillant, L. [L.] and M. [F.] Bocourt, actually to give the work its full title, ‘Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune d'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Poissons’, published 1874, 

the work forms part four of the Mission Scientifique comprising 13 volumes,

this volume is particularly rare, as it was published in instalments over a period of over no less than 40 years!

many of the fine coloured plates, heightened with gum-arabic, are by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel,

"This well-known study of Central American natural history was issued in parts, some of the sections being still incomplete" (Wood). Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a noted French ichthyologist and herpetologist and professor of reptiles and fishes at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, for more information about this almost unique book have a look here, the other book is a delightful study of fishing, 

Anglertagebuch. Meine Erlebnisse am Wasser, translated ‘Fishing Dairy. My experiences on the water’

by A. Reineck,

it is a unique handwritten and originally illustrated angler's diary, spanning a period from April 17, 1930 to May 25, 1933 and unpublished, for more details have a look here, 

in the main the book deals with dealing with pike fishing in the neighbourhood of Frankfurt am Main,

and of course is all in German,

the book also has notes on fishing localities, their fish and bird faunas, weather conditions, etc. the author/artist is August Reineck, of whom little else is known, what a treasure of a snippet of time, both books are available at Antiquariaat Schierenberg, the first The fishes of Central America and the Caribbean yours for €12,500.00, the second Anglertagebuch. Meine Erlebnisse am Wasser, a tad more reasonable going for €900.00 both books plus carriage and VAT, would I like them? you bet!