Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)monochrome gouacheLapwings in a landscapesigned10.5 x 18in.Archibald Thorburn was born in 1860, near Edinburgh, the fifth son of the miniaturist Robert Thorburn ARA. He is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of birdlife of all time. It was perhaps from his father that Archibald Thorburn acquired the ability to create his minutely detailed paintings and he sketched from a very early age. He painted birds, animals and flowers but he specialised in the study of game birds, as he had a tremendous knowledge of ornithology. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 20, and was a regular figure there throughout the 1880s and 1890s. At the end of the 1890s he became disillusioned with the Academy and exhibited instead at A Baird Carter, in Jermyn Street. Thorburn was also sufficiently highly-regarded by his contemporaries to have been asked to paint Queen Victoria on three separate occasions. Generally preferring to work in watercolour, Thorburn's skill, artistic talent and scientific observation ensured that he was recognised as one of the leading artists of his time. He died in 1935.
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A HORNBY 'RACER I' CLOCKWORK MOTOR BOAT together with a boxed Bakelite Klikatelle Junior Bagatelle game, a group of four lead die cast tennis players and net, a Dinky Toys tin AA box and a RAC telephone box, a small group of Dinky die cast vehicles, a small group of Dinky toys, die cast Waterline model ships, battleships and submarines etc
An official Elvis Presley collector edition monopoly board game still in original plastic featuring 6 collectable pewter tokens. Game includes the game board, title deed cards, Elvis Presley signature cards, TCB cards, 32 Tupelo homes, 12 Graceland mansions and an Elvis Presley money and bankers tray.
A superb parcel of early twentieth century Welsh rugby ephemera comprising a 1907 official programme for South Africa v Cardiff at the Cardiff Arms Park, a Cardiff Football Club 1902-1903 fixture booklet, a New Zealand v Cardiff ticket stub dated Boxing Day, 1905, a 1953 Barbarians v Cardiff programme, a handwritten fixture list for Cardiff rugby fixtures 1902-1903 & 1901-1902 (with the results), a letter from Glamorgan Wanderers Rugby Football Club relating to Scotland v Wales at Cardiff 4 February 1939, a 1935-36 Laws of the Game of Rugby Football Booklet, a 1905 Welsh team photographic postcard, a similar for the Welsh Football Union Triple Crown winners 1901-1902, three Cowbridge Grammar School 1st XV rugby team photographic postcards, a similar cricket team, a St Germans fixture list card for 1910-1911 together with two St Germans Football Club photographic postcards & two unknown similar Provenance: from the family home of George Nevile David and by descent to The Estate of Mr Gerald Le Mesurier - George's son. George Nevile was an eminent solicitor in Cardiff and member of the Labour Party, he was made Captain in WWI, believed to be in the Welsh Regiment. After World War I he fought in India. His brother Thomas, a Cambridge graduate was killed in action in the first days of Ypres and is named on a roll of honour at the University.(see lot 537)Condition Report: please request via email. Condition reports not stated with descriptions in this auction
Postcard album to include portrait Royalty, Queen Mary, KIng George V, Prince Of Wales, Prince Leopold Of Belgium, Prince Albert, Prince George, Queen Victoria, The German Empress, also includes, submarines, warships, Zeppelins, including The Strafer Strafed & The low down thing THAT PLAYS THE LOW DOWN GAME.
Games.- Johnson (Samuel).- Payne (William) An Introduction to the Game of Draughts, first edition, woodcut illustration of draughtboard to verso of B1, price at foot of title crossed out in ink, occasional spotting, pink book-label of Cholmondeley Library on front pastedown, contemporary calf-backed paste-paper boards, vellum tips, red roan label, rubbed, split to upper joint, [Hazen, 'Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications' pp.146-150], 8vo, for the Author, 1756.⁂ Scarce. The dedication and preface is by Samuel Johnson.
Central Asia.- Big Game.- Church (Percy W.) Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Rifle, first edition, half-title, photogravure frontispiece of head of wapiti, photographic plates, folding map at end, very occasional spotting, bookplate of Walter Harold Wilkin, free endpapers browned, front with old ink stamp at head, original pictorial grey cloth with head of wapiti, very slight marking to lower cover but an excellent copy, [Czech, Asian, p.47; Yakushi C264], 8vo, 1901.⁂ Account of a sporting tour in Central Asia in search of wapiti and ibex.
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Chess.- [Saul (Arthur)] The Famous Game of Chesse-Play. Being a Princely exercise; wherein the Learner may profit more by reading of this small Book, than by playing of a thousand Mates, edited by Jo. Barbier, sixth edition, with both initial and final blanks, woodcut vignette of chess-players on title (repeated twice in text) and illustration of chessboard, woodcut initials, typographical ornaments, browned, some soiling and staining, dedication (A3) slightly defective at fore-edge not affecting text, D2 defective at lower outer corner with very slight loss to last line and catchword, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed and slightly splayed, spine and corners a little worn, [Wing S730a], 8vo, for William Miller, 1673.⁂ The first published work on chess in English written by an Englishman, first published in 1614, of which all editions are uncommon. Of this edition ESTC lists only 2 copies in the National Library of Scotland, and 2 in America (Cleveland and Philadelphia).
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