Artes piscatoriae, a treatise on the British fishing industry attributed to Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett, ca. 1701-1707.

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Artes piscatoriae, a treatise on the British fishing industry attributed to Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett, ca. 1701-1707.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733800073

A treatise, perhaps intended for publication, on fish and the British commercial fishing industry, chiefly in the Baltic and the North Sea, but also including references to New England, Pennsylvania, and the Black and Caspian seas. There are: lengthy sections devoted to Colchester (England) oyster beds, worldwide sturgeon fishing, whaling, cod, and herring; a discussion of plans for an underwater lantern as described by Denis Papin; and a glossary of fishing terms in Dutch, German, English, and Latin. According to the dealer's catalog the anonymous author was probably the Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett.

1 volume 339 pages, 19cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Eastland company

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Papin, Denis, 1647-1714

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Scarlett, John, Merchant of the Eastland Company

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According to the dealer's catalog, the author of this treatise was probably the Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett, who "maintained extensive fisheries in Prussia, at Pillau..., Memel..., and along the Elbe near Hamburg from at least the early 1690s." Scarlett's treatise The Stile of Exchanges was published in London in 1682. From the description of Artes piscatoriae, a treatise on the British fishing industry attributed to Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett, ca. 1701-1707....