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Click here to subscribeA LARGE FOLIO OF WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS to comprise numerous works on various subjects, including landscapes, marines, topographical, many portrait and figure subjects, sketches, life studies and assorted oddments, many by amateur hands; also a hunting drawing by George Denholm Armour; and an archery competition by Alexander Rooke, 1870, 34 x 51.5cm. [see illus.] (a lot) ++ Fair; many worn, foxed or torn
Edwards (Lionel): My Hunting Sketch Book, reprinted edition, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928, and My Hunting Sketch Book, Vol.II, 1st edition, pub. 1930, both beige cloth with printed paper labels to front boards, together with Edric G. Roberts: Somewhere in England, illusterated by Lionel Edwards, pub. 1929, and Adam Lindsay Gordon: Sporting Verse, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, pub. 1927 (4)
Armour (G. Denholm.): Humour in the Hunting Field - with comments by Crascredo, pub. London Country Life, 1st edition, 1928, large folio limited edition No.33 of 100 copies, title-page printed in red and black with large vignette below, tipped-in coloured frontispiece with printed tissue-guard and 19 similar plates all signed in pencil by Armour, plus monochrome text illustrations, half brown grained cloth over pale brown cloth covered boards, together with Sport "And There's The Humour of It", pub. Hutchinson & Co (2)
Radcliffe (F. P. Delmé): The Noble Science - A few general ideas on Fox-Hunting, pub. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1911, "new edition, revised, corrected and enlarged", in 2 volumes, "Ten steel-plate engravings coloured by hand and thirty-five wood engravings in the text", bound in green decorative cloth, boards with damp stains to lower corners (2)
Vyner (Robert T.): Notitia Venatica - A Treatise on Fox-Hunting, pub. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910, "new edition, revised, corrected and enlarged", in 2 volumes, "with Twelve illustrations by Henry Alken and others coloured by hand", bound in green decorative cloth, boards with damp stains to lower corners (2)
Simpson (Charles): Leicestershire & Its Hunts, pub. John Lane, London, 1926; together with ten other books relating to hunting, including Edric G. Roberts: Hunters' Moon, illustrated by Gilbert Holliday, pub. Constable & Co.; Captain E. Pennell-Elmhurst: The Best of the Fun, pub. 1903; G. F. Underhill: The Master of Hounds, pub. 1903; William Somervile: The Chase, pub. 1896; Robert Smith Surtees: Young Tom Hall, pub. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, etc (11)
Masefield (John): The Country Scene, pub. Collins, 1937, "pictures by Edward Seago", together with eleven other books relating to hunting, including Thomas Bodkin: The Nobel Science - John Leech in the Hunting Field, pub. 1948, with D/J; Nimrod: Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. with twenty illustrations by Henry Alken, pub. 1899; Nimrod's Hunting Tours, reprint pub. 1926; Nimrod: The Chase, The Road and The Turf, reprint pub. 1927; The Lonsdale Library Fox-Hunting, pub. 1930; E. D. Cuming: A Fox-Hunting Anthology, pub. 1928, etc (12)
BLAINE (D), AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS, or a complete account historical, practical and descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing racing and other field sports, 2 vols, text illustrations ¾ leather with marbled boards, London, 1840; GOLDSMITH (0), A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE; hand coloured plates, Blackie & Son, 1873 (3)
BLOME (R), THE GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION, AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, HORSEMANSHIP, HAWKING, HUNTING, FOWLING, FISHING AND AGRICULTURE, an incomplete copy, eight subscribers heraldry plates, seven plates, S. Roycroft for R Blome, c1686; CULPEPERS ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND COMPLETE HERBAL, 1810, disbound (a/f) (as found - not subject to return)
A Chinese porcelain bowl decorated with prunus blossom and bearing character marks to base, together with a 20th Century Chinese porcelain bowl decorated with hunting scenes and a modern Delft ware charger CONDITION REPORTS Prunus bowl approx 20.5cm diameter, chipped and cracked. Plate chipped. Hunting scene bowl with chips and scuffs. All items with wear and scuffs.
? A collection of walking canes and umbrellas, comprising: a gold mounted malacca cane, a carved ivory handled cane decorated with two hunting dogs to a white metal ferrule and a malacca shaft, an ivory handled cane with an ebonised shaft, a silver handled cane with initials `R.C.T OCT 27TH 1887` by Brigg, with a malacca shaft; a horn and silver mounted cane with a crook handle, a malacca cane with a horn handle, a white metal handled cane and four umbrellas, one by Brigg with a silver handle, two others with silver mounts and gold and mother of pearl handled example, and an ivory handled umbrella, with monogram, late 19th century. (12)
MYSIA, Lampsakos. Circa 394-350 BC. AV Stater (17mm, 8.45 g, 4h). Head of the hunter Aktaion left, with stag’s horn above forehead / Forepart of Pegasos right within shallow incuse square. Baldwin, Lampsakos 33 (dies I/– [unlisted rev. die]); SNG France 1145; Boston MFA 1597 = Warren 1018 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 964; Jameson 1434; Pozzi 2230 (same obv. die); Warren 1019 (same obv. die). Superb EF, minor marks on reverse. Extremely rare, and a spectacular coin of great beauty. Ex Mieza Collection (Nomos 7, 15 May 2013), lot 121; Nomos 3 (10 May 2011), lot 110; Gemini IV (8 January 2008), lot 149.Aktaion was a famous hunter who learnt his skills from the centaur Chiron. It seems that one day he accidentally came upon Artemis bathing: she was so angered by him seeing her naked that she transformed him into a stag and he was set upon and torn to pieces by his own hunting dogs. Her we see the start of the transformation process, with the horn just coming out of his head. This later became a favorite scene for a variety of Renaissance and Baroque painters since it allowed the depiction of an often considerable number of nude bathing women (more serious paintings of this event had appeared on Attic black and red figured pottery of the 6th and 5th cenuries BC).
A mid-19th century French hunting sword, tapered DE blade 19½” with deep double fullers, the hilt having cast iron crosspiece with dog’s head quillons, the block embossed with boar and stag’s heads, the cast iron pommel, in the form of lion mask, with bulbous ribbed horn grip. Basically GC (the blade lightly pitted overall with deeper pitting near the point).
A Green River knife, by Taylor, Sheffield, and a Green River type knife, by Jameson & Co, Sheffield, both with rosewood grips and leather sheaths; a trench knife, the wooden grip with contemporary insulating tape binding, in black japanned sheath with spring belt clip; a large modern Finnish hunting knife in embossed leather sheath; a small Finnish hunting knife in sheath; an odd leather sheath; and 2 trench art miniature cutlasses, one engraved with nude female figure and “Calais”. Average GC (8)
A quantity of books on spying and intelligence, including “A Matter of Trust, MI5 1945-72” and “MI6 British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909-45” by Nigel West, “Encyclopedia of Espionage” by Seth, 1974, “The Uses of Terror, the Soviet Secret Service 1917-70” by Levytsky 1971, “Inside S.O.E” by Cookridge 1966, etc; and sundry books on fishing and hunting, some in German. Generally GC (some wear). Approximately 45 items
A Mixed Lot comprising: a Wedgwood Green Jasperware Squat Jug, decorated with classical figures; a Copeland Jug decorated with stag hunting scene and a further unmarked Brown Jasperware style Squat Teapot, various sizes, largest 5” high (3) Condition: Khaki Jug has small firing cracks around pourer and small glaze to rim. Raised decoration appears intact. Green jug with minor scratches to outside and loss of raised decoration to one of the classical runners. Teapot has minor chip to inside of rim (above line concealed by the lid) quitea large chip/loss to spout. Raised work appears intact to teapot but slight loss to oak leaves on the lid. Please note: Keys Fine Art Auctioneers take great care to ensure that any statements as to attribution, age, date, origin, provenance and condition are reliable and accurate but it should be noted that all such statements are skilled opinions prepared with due care, if provenance (written or historical fact) cannot be produced. However, Keys Fine Art Auctioneers do not guarantee that condition reports, whether included in the catalogue, or given at a later time, cover all aspects of an item(s) condition. All clocks, watches and mechanical items are sold on behalf of vendors by Keys Fine Art Auctioneers strictly on an “As Found” basis. No guarantee or warranty is issued or given in anyway, either written or verbal and therefore refunds will not be issued on the basis of the Lot not being “in working order”, “incomplete”, or “not in original condition”. Keys Fine Art Auctioneers would respectfully ask that prospective buyers view Lots in person, wherever issues regarding condition are seen as important to them, satisfying themselves as to the condition, completeness and originality of any Lot on which they intend to bid. Kind Regards Keys I Fine Art Auctioneers LLP
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