THE SPORTING SALE Wednesday 5 November 2014 Edinburgh THE SPORTING SALE THE SPORTING | Edinburgh | Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Edinburgh Wednesday 21880 THE SPORTING SALE Wednesday 5 November 2014 at 11.00 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh BONHAMS ENQUiries Sale NUmber IMPORTANT INFORMATION 22 Queen Street Books, Prints, Works of Art 21880 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/scottishart indicated by the symbol Ф Pictures Live online bidding is available printed beside the lot number VIEWING Iain Byatt-Smith for this sale in this catalogue. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling Global CEO, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. 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Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Sale Information Edinburgh Salerooms Managing Director The Scottish Sale Books, Manuscripts & Maps 22 Queen Street, EH2 1JX Miranda Grant Miranda Grant Henry Baggott +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Georgia Williams +44 (0) 131 220 2547 fax Chairman Scotland Pictures Simon Miller Chris Brickley Arms & Armour Glasgow Office Colleen Bowen Kenneth Naples 176 St. Vincent Street, G2 5SG Valuations, Trusts & Estates Iain Byatt-Smith +44 (0) 141 223 8866 Charles Graham-Campbell Areti Chavale Furniture, Clocks, Oriental +44 (0) 141 223 8868 fax Grant MacDougall Chris Dawson (London) Carpets, Works of Art & Gordon McFarlan James Holloway (consultant) Scientific Instruments London Belinda Treble Bruce Addison 101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR David Convery Jewellery & Silver Kenneth Naples +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Clare Blatherwick Georgia Williams +44 (0) 20 7447 7400 fax Gordon McFarlan David Jones (consultant) Fiona Hamilton Alexis Tortolano Toys and Collectors’ Items Leonie Armin Nicholas Oddy (consultant) Rachel Bailey Whisky Asian Art Martin Green Ian Glennie Charles MacLean (consultant) Asha Edwards The Sporting Sale European Ceramics & Glass Henry Baggott Katherine Wright Georgia Williams Rebecca Bohle Wine Thomas Gilbey Important notice to BUYers BooKS Maps anD ManUscripts Please note that all furniture, large works of arts, clocks & carpets not For explanation of any asterisked symbols that may appear in collected before Friday 14 November 2014 will be transferred to the catalogues, please see the notice entitled VAT at the end of the warehouse of D.J. Manning – transfer & storage charges will apply. catalogue. Small items £10 per week plus VAT Please note that lots comprising printed books, unframed maps and 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 Prior to collection from D.J. Manning please contact on collation any described printed book in this catalogue is found to lack Luigi Canciani, Head Porter on 0131 225 2266 text or illustrations, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 [email protected] days of the sale; the unstated defect to be detailed in writing. Items will be stored at D.J. Manning This shall not apply in the case of un-named items, blacks, half-titles Carriden or advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, stains, tears or other Bo’ness defects unless these result in loss to text or illustration. Atlases, maps West Lothian and prints are sold not subject to return, as are items sold as collections, EH51 9SF association and extra-illustrated copies, or as bindings. Tel 01506 827 693 Fax 01506 826 497 © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland CONTENTS Books and Prints 1-37 Snaffles 38-65 Pictures 66-130 Silver and Works of Art 131-167 Fishing 168-208 Golf Heritage 209-254 1 1• THORBURN (ARCHIBALD) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, FIRST EDITION, 30 colour plates, red publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., A BRIGHT COPY, [Nissen IVB 939], folio, Longmans, 1923 £300 - 400 2• THORBURN (ARCHIBALD) British Mammals, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 50 coloured plates, 1920- 1921; A Naturalist’s Sketch Book, FIRST EDITION, 60 plates (24 coloured) [Nissen IVB 940], 1919; British Birds, 4 vol., 82 coloured plates, 1918, publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., spines faded, 4to, Longmans (7) £200 - 250 3• MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., NUMBER 188 OF 450 COPIES, 74 plates (39 in colour, 14 photogravure), by Thorburn, Murray Dixon, Grönvold and Millais, publisher’s cloth, spine sunned, t.e.g. [Nissen IVB 633], folio, Longmans, 1913 £400 - 600 3 6 | BONHAMS 4• MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks, NUMBER 66 of 600 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, additional pictorial title, 41 colour plates after drawings by the author and Archibald Thorburn, 24 other plates (6 photogravure), publisher’s green cloth gilt, t.e.g., book- plate of D.J. Balfour Kirke, 4to, Longmans, 1902 £300 - 400 5• MORRIS (FRANCIS ORPEN) The History of British Birds, 6 vol., 394 hand-coloured plates, 1895; A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., 248 hand-coloured plates, 1896, fourth editions, modern cloth, VERY CLEAN SETS, 8vo, J.C. Nimmo (9) £300 - 400 6• FALCONRY CAMPBELL (JAMES) A Treatise on Modern Faulconry, FIRST EDITION, lacks frontispiece, nineteenth-century calf, splitting, stamped INVERARAY in gilt to upper board [Schwerdt I, p.93; Harting 49], 8vo, Edinburgh, Balfour & Smellie, 1773--MITCHELL (E.B.) The Art and Practice of Hawking, photogravure and other illustrations, publisher’s cloth, Methuen, 1900 (2) £200 - 250 7• STONHAM (CHARLES) The Birds of the British Islands, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, 318 plates after Lilian Medland, 2 folding colour maps, errata slip, book-plate of Arthur B. Duncan, contemporary brown half morocco, t.e.g., large 4to, E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911--BUTLER (ARTHUR GARDINER) 5 British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 vol. bound as 3, 24 chromolithographed plates of eggs, 813 plates of birds after Frohawk, contemporary cloth, 4to, Brumby & Clarke, 1899 (8) £300 - 500 8• WILDFOWL & GAME BIRDS SOUTHGATE (FRANK) Wildfowl & Waders. Nature & Sport in the Coastlands, REVIEW COPY OF THE EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES, 16 colour plates and 48 illustrations, publisher’s boards, Country Life, 1928--ALPHÉRAKY (SERGIUS) The Geese of Europe and Asia Being the Description of Most of the Old World Species, FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED, “Captain Stanley Flower with Rowland Wards Kind Regards 1906”, translated by John Marshall, 25 chromolithographed plates, 24 after drawings by F.W. Frohawk, one after P.P. Sushkin, half-title, errata slip, publisher’s green cloth, 4to, Rowland Ward, 1905--POLLARD (HUGH B.C.) Game Birds. Rearing, Preservation, and Shooting, FIRST EDITION, 12 mounted colour plates, and illustrations after Philip Rickman, 1929--RICKMAN (PHILIP) A Bird-Painter’s Sketch Book, NUMBER 58 OF 125 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 11 colour plates after Rickman, 1931, publisher’s quarter vellum, t.e.g., 4to, Eyre and Spottiswoode, and 3 other books on birds and shooting (7) £300 - 400 7 THE SPORTING SALE | 7 9 9• 11• BADMINTON LIBRARY BIG GAME, INDIA AND THE FAR EAST The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 28 vol., plates and CLARK (ROBERT STERLING) and ARTHUR DE C. SOWERBY illustrations, name and date in ink to front endpaper of each volume, Through Shên-Kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in North publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, A UNIFORM BRIGHT SET, 8vo, China 1908-9, edited by C.H. Chepmell, 58 photographic plates, 6 Longmans, 1885-1904 mounted colour plates, 2 maps (one folding in pocket at end), 4to, T.