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THE SPORTING SALE Tuesday 23 May 2017 Edinburgh THE SPORTING SALE Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 11am 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh BONHAMS ENQUIRIES SALE NUMBER IMPORTANT INFORMATION 22 Queen Street Books, Prints, Pictures 24083 The United States Edinburgh EH2 1JX Henry Baggott Government has banned the +44 (0) 131 225 2266 +44 (0) 131 240 0916 CATALOGUE import of ivory into the USA. +44 (0) 131 220 2547 fax [email protected] £10 Lots containing ivory are www.bonhams.com/sportingart indicated by the symbol ĸ Pictures Live online bidding is available printed beside the lot number VIEWING Iain Byatt-Smith for this sale in this catalogue. Sunday 21 May 1pm-4pm +44 (0) 131 240 0913 Please email [email protected] Monday 22 May 10am-4pm [email protected] with ‘live bidding’ in the subject Tuesday 23 May 9am-11am line 48 hours before the auction Fishing to register for this service Please note that Bonhams will Charles Graham-Campbell CUSTOMER SERVICES be closed Monday 29 May 2017 +44 (0) 131 240 2294 Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 for the Spring Bank Holiday. charles.grahamcampbell@ +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 bonhams.com BIDS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Please see back of catalogue Works of Art +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax for important notice to Georgia Williams To bid via the internet please bidders +44 (0)131 240 2296 visit bonhams.com [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS TELEPHONE BIDDING Front cover: Lot 49 Golf Bidding by telephone will only be Back cover: Lot 79 Kevin McGimpsey accepted on lots with a low Inside front cover: Lot 216 +44 (0)131 240 2296 estimate in excess of £500.00 Inside back cover: Lot 83 [email protected] Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 24 hours prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bids not being processed. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 9VILY[)YVVRZ*V*OHPYTHU *VSPU:OLHM*OHPYTHU .VYKVU4J-HYSHU(UKYL^4J2LUaPL 9LNPZ[LYLK6ѝJL!4VU[WLSPLY.HSSLYPLZ 4HSJVST)HYILY*V*OHPYTHU /HY]L`*HTTLSS+LW\[`*OHPYTHU :PTVU4P[JOLSS1Lќ4\ZL4PRL5LPSS 4VU[WLSPLY:[YLL[3VUKVU:>// *VSPU:OLHM+LW\[`*OHPYTHU (U[VU`)LUUL[[4H[[OL^)YHKI\Y` *OHYSPL6»)YPLU.PSLZ7LWWPH[[0UKPH7OPSSPWZ 4H[[OL^.PYSPUN*,6 3\JPUKH)YLKPU:PTVU*V[[SL(UKYL^*\YYPL 7L[LY9LLZ1VOU:HUKVU;PT:JOVÄLSK 7H[YPJR4LHKL.YV\W=PJL*OHPYTHU 7H\S+H]PKZVU1LHU.OPRH =LYVUPX\L:JVYLY1HTLZ:[YH[[VU9HSWO;H`SVY MH_ 1VU)HKKLSL`9\WLY[)HUULY.LVќYL`+H]PLZ *OHYSLZ.YHOHT*HTWILSS4H[[OL^/HSL` *OHYSPL;OVTHZ+H]PK>PSSPHTZ 1VUH[OHU-HPYO\YZ[(ZHWO/`THU1HTLZ2UPNO[ 9PJOHYK/HY]L`9VIPU/LYLMVYK+H]PK1VOUZVU 4PJOHLS>`ULSS4H`V^:\aHUUHO@PW *HYVSPUL6SPWOHU[:OHOPU=PYHUP *OHYSLZ3HUUPUN4PYHUKH3LZSPL ,K^HYK>PSRPUZVU3LZSPL>YPNO[ SALE INFORMATION Edinburgh Saleroom Managing Director The Scottish Sale Books, Manuscripts & Maps 22 Queen Street, EH2 1JX Miranda Leslie Henry Baggott Henry Baggott +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Georgia Williams +44 (0) 131 220 2547 fax Chairman Scotland Pictures Ray Entwistle Chris Brickley Arms & Armour Glasgow Office Colleen Bowen Kenneth Naples Kirkhill House, Broom Road East Valuations, Trusts & Estates Iain Byatt-Smith Newton Mearns, G77 5LL Charles Graham-Campbell Saskia Robertson Furniture, Clocks, Oriental +44 (0) 141 223 8866 Grant MacDougall Chris Dawson (London) Carpets, Works of Art & +44 (0) 141 223 8868 fax Gordon McFarlan Scientific Instruments Belinda Treble Jewellery & Silver Bruce Addison London Nathalie Rodwell Kenneth Naples 101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR Gordon McFarlan Georgia Williams +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Fiona Hamilton +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Whisky Asian Art Martin Green Ian Glennie Charles MacLean (consultant) Rebecca Bohle The Sporting Sale European Ceramics & Glass Henry Baggott Katherine Wright Georgia Williams Iain Byatt-Smith IMPORTANT NOTICE TO BUYERS BOOKS MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS Please note that all furniture and large works of arts not collected before For explanation of any asterisked symbols that may appear in Tuesday 6 June 2017 will be transferred to the Bonhams, Edinburgh catalogues, please see the notice entitled VAT at the end of the Furniture warehouse at John Pye Auctions – transfer & storage charges catalogue. will apply. Please note that lots comprising printed books, unframed maps and Small items £10 per week plus VAT bound manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the Buyers Premium. Large items £15 per week plus VAT Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description, but if on collation any described printed book in this catalogue is found to lack Prior to collection from John Pye Auctions please contact text or illustrations, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 Luigi Canciani, Head Porter on 0131 225 2266 days of the sale; the unstated defect to be detailed in writing. [email protected] This shall not apply in the case of un-named items, blacks, half-titles Items will be stored at John Pye Auctions or advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, stains, tears or other Carriden defects unless these result in loss to text or illustration. Atlases, maps Bo’ness and prints are sold not subject to return, as are items sold as collections, West Lothian association and extra-illustrated copies, or as bindings. EH51 9SF © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland 1 • 1 • 2 SPORTING INCIDENTS SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH) STEELE (MILFORD H.) Sporting Incidents being a Collection of Hawbuck Grange; or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, 8 Sixteen Plates, NUMBER 15 OF 1000, 16 chromolithographed plates after Phiz, rebacked preserving original, Longman, Brown, plates by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen, loose as issued in 4 colour pictorial Green, 1847; Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour, 1853; Handley Cross or Mr. portfolios in contemporary half reversed calf portfolio, folio (474 x Jorricks’s Hunt, 1854; “Ask Mamma” or, The Richest Commoner in 595mm.), New York, Henry T. Thomas, 1894 England, 1858; Plain or Ringlets? 1860; Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds, 1865, hand-coloured plates after John Leech, Bradbury and Evans; £400 - 600 Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire, hand-coloured plates after Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe, John Nimmo, 1888, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher’s cloth, each preserved in a fold over case and uniform maroon morocco backed slipcase, spines panelled gilt, with hunting devices to each section, 8vo (7) £300 - 400 SCARCE FIRST EDITION SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, preserved in fine morocco bindings. 2 -VYKL[HPSZVM[OLJOHYNLZWH`HISLPUHKKP[PVU[V[OLÄUHS/HTTLY7YPJLVMLHJO3V[ please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE SPORTING SALE | 3 3A • ANGLING SKUES (GEORGE EDWARD MACKENZIE) Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, 1939; idem, another copy, dust-jacket; Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream, FIRST EDITION, 1910; The Way of a Trout with a Fly, second edition, 1928; The Angling Letters of G.E.M. Skues, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, [1956], Adam and Charles Black; Side-Lines, Side-Lights & Reflections, FIRST EDITION, Seeley Service, 1932, publisher’s cloth, 8vo, (6) £250 - 350 4 • RONALDS (ALFRED) The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology. With Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing, 2 vol., NUMBER 111 OF 250 COPIES, signed by the publisher, half-titles, frontispiece and 20 plates (some hand-coloured), 48 ACTUAL SPECIMENS OF FLIES IN NINE SUNKEN MOUNTS, contemporary green morocco backed boards, upper board with blue gilt vignette of a fly, t.e.g., 4to, Liverpool, Henry Young, 1913 £600 - 800 5 • HOUGHTON (WILLIAM) British Fresh-Water Fishes, 2 vol., 41 chromolithographed plates, ownership inscription ‘E. J. Water’ to endpaper, both volumes splitting to rear end paper, publisher’s decorative cloth, g.e., A VERY CLEAN COPY [Nissen ZBI 2009], folio, William Mackenzie, [1879] £400 - 600 6 • KELSON (GEORGE M.) The Salmon Fly: How to Dress It and How to Use It, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, 8 chromolithographed plates, illustrations, publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, t.e.g., slightly 3 rubbed, 4to, by the Author, 1895 3 • £200 - 300 ANGLING • [WATKINS-PITCHFORD (DENYS J.)] “B.B.” Confessions of a Carp 7 Fisher, second edition, woodcut illustrations by the author, dust- FOX HUNTING jacket, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1970; Whopper, dust-jacket, Medlar [APPERLEY, CHARLES] ‘Nimrod’ The Chace, the Turf, and the Road, Press, 2011--Hardy’s Anglers Guide, 52nd edition, publisher’s printed frontispiece, publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, modern quarter morocco wrappers, Alnwick, Hardy Borthers, 1930--[WALTON (IZAAK AND slip-case, John Murray, 1837--DELME RADCLIFFE (FREDERICK) The CHARLES COTTON)] The Complete Angler, edited by Ephemera, Noble Science, contemporary pictorial morocco gilt, inner edges gilt, frontispiece, engraved title and other plates in text, fine red morocco, hunting devices to spine, g.e., [1839]--VYNER (ROBERT THOMAS) embossed decoration, g.e., Nathaniel Cooke, 1856--SENIOR Notitia Venatica: A Treatise on Fox Hunting, upper cover detached, (WILLIAM) Waterside Sketches. A Book for Wanderers and Anglers, 1841, Rudoph Ackermann; PENNELL-ELMHIRST (EDWARD) The FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, advertisements, Cream of Leicestershire, 1883; Fox-Hound, Forest, and Prairie, publisher’s pictorial boards, rubbed [Westwood & Satchell, p.191], 1892, inner edges gilt, bookplate of