Bonhams 22 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JX +44 (0)131 225 2266 +44 (0)131 220 2547 (fax) 20648 The Sporting Sale, 22 May 2013, Edinburgh 2013, 22 May The Sporting Sale 22 May 2013 at 11am Edinburgh The Sporting Sale Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 11am 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh Bonhams Enquiries Sale Number: 20648 22 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JX Books, Prints, Works of Art Catalogue: £10 (£12 by post) +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Henry Baggott +44 (0) 131 225 2547 fax +44 (0) 131 240 0916 Live online bidding is www.bonhams.com/edinburgh [email protected] available for this sale Please email [email protected] Viewing Snaffles with “Live bidding” in the subject Sunday 19 May 1pm to 4pm Mark Jones line 48 hours before the auction Monday 20 May 10am to 4pm +44 (0) 131 240 0918 to register for this service. Tuesday 21 May 10am to 4pm [email protected] Wednesday 22 May 9am to 11am Customer Services Pictures Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Bids Iain Byatt-Smith +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 +44 (0) 131 240 0913 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Please see back of catalogue To bid via the internet [email protected] please visit www.bonhams.com for important notice to bidders Jewellery Please provide details of the lots Clare Blatherwick FGA DGA Illustrations on which you wish to place bids +44 (0) 131 240 0915 Front cover: Lot 92 at least 24 hours prior to the sale. [email protected] Back cover: Lot 167 Inside front cover: Lot 210 New bidders must also provide Silver Inside back cover: Lot 211 proof of identity when submitting Alex Tortolano bids. Failure to do this may result +44 (0) 131 240 0914 in your bids not being processed. 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Manning Carriden Please note that all furniture, large works of arts, clocks & Bo’ness carpets not collected from the saleroom by Friday 7 June West Lothian 2013 will be transferred to the warehouse of D.J. Manning EH51 9SF transfer & storage charges will apply. Prior to collection Tel 01506 827 693 from the warehouse please contact Lewis Fullarton in the Fax 01506 826 497 Edinburgh office. Small items £10 per week plus VAT Large items £15 per week plus VAT Lewis Fullarton, Head Porter on 0131 225 2266, [email protected] © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland Books Lots 1 - 17 1 1 4• LANDSEER (EDWIN) EDWARDS (LIONEL) Landseer’s Works, forty-four steel engravings and about two hundred My Hunting Sketch Book, FIRST EDITION, 15 colour plates after Edwards, woodcuts, 2 vol., contemporary half calf, spine replaced in cloth, g.e., Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1928--DAWSON (LIONEL) Sport in War, plates folio, Virtue, [c.1880]; An album of 134 postcards, some by Landseer; An after Edwards, New York, Scribner’s, 1937, later uniform brown morocco album of engravings; Deer Stalkers, steel engraving, framed and glazed, with red title labels, 4to (2) 30 x 35cm, together with another book on Landseer (5) (sold not subject £150 - 200 to return) £80 - 120 5• EDWARDS (LIONEL) 2• My Scottish Sketchbook, 16 colour plates after Aldin, later full brown ALDIN (CECIL) morocco, 5 raised bands, red calf title lable, A VERY CLEAN COPY, 4to, MASEFIELD (JOHN) Right Royal, NUMBER 114 OF 375 COPIES SIGNED Country Life, 1929 BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, 4 colour plates and others in text £150 - 200 by Aldin, publisher’s quarter vellum, 4to, Heinemann, 1922 £100 - 200 6• BEAUFORT HUNT see lot 131 MINOPRIO (JOHN) The Blue and Buff, Portrait of an English Hunt, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher’s cloth, dust-jacket, A FINE COPY, 3• 4to, Swan Hill Press, 1992 ALDIN (CECIL) £60 - 100 COLLENS (RUPERT) A Look at Cecil Aldin’s Dogs and Hounds, oblong 4to, Lambourn Press, 1990; HERON (ROY, edited by) The Rascal, Episodes 6A in the Life of a Bulldog Pup, 8vo, Souvenir Press, 2009; HUNLOKE, The TURNER (GRAHAM) Aldin Series - Riding, fourth impression, 8vo, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Fishing Tackle: The Ultimate Collector’s Guide, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1934, illustrated by Aldin, publisher’s cloth, dust-jackets (3) over 1500 photographic illustrations, publisher’s cloth, dust-jacket, A £80 - 120 FINE COPY, 4to, M. Press, 2009 £70 - 80 4 | Bonhams 9, 8, 7 7• 11• TURNER (GRAHAM) BROWNE (TOPHER) Fishing Tackle: The Ultimate Collector’s Guide, NUMBER 20 OF 50 Atlantic Salmon Magic, NUMBER 180 OF 250 DELUXE COPIES SIGNED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, over 1500 photographic illustrations, BY THE AUTHOR, foreword by Orri Vigfússon, introduction by Simon contemporary black calf gilt, g.e., slip-case, A FINE COPY, 4to, M. Press, Gawesworth, illustrations in colour, contemporary black calf, silver 2009 titles and leaping salmon to upper board, slip-case, A FINE COPY, 4to, £300 - 500 Washington, Wild River Press, 2011 £200 - 400 This volumes is Turner’s updated and enlarged edition of his earlier Fishing Tackle Guide, it is almost twice the size of his original edition and “This brilliant bible features chapters on where to fish for Atlantic is the product of considerable further research and illustrated material, salmon today, with a detailed overview of the finest rivers in all the major presented here in the finely bound limited edition countries hosting runs of wild salmon.” Wild River Press 8• TURNER (GRAHAM) Fishing Tackle: A Collector’s Guide, NUMBER 6 OF 14 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, photographic illustrations, contemporary green calf, matching slip-case, A FINE COPY, 4to, Ward Lock 1989 £300 - 400 9• TURNER (GRAHAM) Fishing Tackle: A Collector’s Guide, NUMBER 6 OF 14 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, photographic illustrations, contemporary brown calf with terracotta cloth and matching slip-case, A FINE COPY, 4to, Ward Lock, 1995 £200 - 300 10• TURNER (GRAHAM) Fishing Tackle: A Collector’s Guide, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, second edition, photographic illustrations, publisher’s cloth, dust-jacket, A FINE COPY, 4to, Ward Lock, 1995 £40 - 50 11 The Sporting Sale | 5 12 12 LITTLE (G.) The Unique Fly Book (Registered) [Fly Wallet], on vellum, 44 pages (including drophead title, dated ‘april 1883’ in ink and introduction), descriptions of 76 flies, all with hand-coloured illustrations, 80 pockets, with approximately 22 ACTUAL SPECIMENS OF FLIES on gut, loosely inserted, 2 felt leaves for mounting in centre with approximately 110 ACTUAL FLIES in various sizes, folding into original calf wallet binding, with strap (loss to end) and buckle, 8vo, [c.1882] £500 - 700 13• ELDER (FRANK) The Book of the Hackle, NUMBER 5 OF 85 COPIES, BINDER’S COPY, photographic frontispiece, 6 colour plates, 29 ACTUAL MOUNTED HACKLES, publisher’s maroon gilt crushed morocco, g.e., slip-case, 8vo, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979. £300 - 400 The deluxe edition of this study of hackles from cockerels used in the creation of dry-flies 14• WALTON (IZAAK) and CHARLES COTTON The Complete Angler; or Contemplative Man’s Recreation... Edited by John Major, NUMBER 171 OF 250 COPIES OF THE DELUXE EDITION, engraved frontis portrait, vignette to title, plates, and in text, contemporary half vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Strahan, [1881] £150 - 200 14 6 | Bonhams 15 15 17• PARROTS BEWICK (THOMAS) [LYDON (ALEXANDER FRANCIS)] Parrots, Coloured Illustrations of Seventy History of British Birds, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, numerous wood-engraved Nine Species, 63 (of 79) chromolithographed plates, some hand-finished, illustrations, uniform green morocco, gilt ruled border, g.e., vol.