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Thorburn (A) A Naturalist`s Sketch Book first edition 24 colour and 36 collotype plates after Thorburn tissue guards original cloth t.e.g. little rubbed & marked modern cloth case [Anker 509; Nissen IVB 940; Wood p.597] 1919 § Nicholson (George editor) The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening 12 divisions plates and illustrations some colour a little very light browning and foxing ink inscriptions on half-title of vol. I original decorative green cloth gilt g.e. rubbed [?c.1887-89]; and c.15 others natural history etc. 8vo & 4to(c.25)

A 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL small portrait sketch of a young girl, oil on panel, 4 1/2" x 3 1/2", a cameo set into a frame, and a pair of enamel mounted clip earrings

Isaac Israels, Head of a Girl, oil on board, signed, a pencil sketch of a man on horseback verso, 21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

Myles Birket Foster RWS (1825-1899) Figures in a Horse and Cart descending a Hill Bearing the artist`s studio stamp, inscribed on an exhibition label verso, pencil and watercolour, a preparatory sketch, 7cm by 10.5cm Provenance: Matthews & Brooke, 15 & 17 Sunbridge Road, Bradford

George Edward Horton (1859-1950) "Cullercoats Church and Long Sands, Tynemouth" Signed, extensively inscribed on the backing board verso and dated 1931, pencil and watercolour with scratching out, a preparatory sketch, 22cm by 34.5cm An original sketch for a large picture exhibited at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 1931

Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards RI, RCamA (1878-1966) "The Ship Inn, Porlock" Signed and dated 1902, inscribed on an exhibition label verso, pencil and charcoal heightened with white on tinted paper, a preparatory sketch , 24cm by 23cm Provenance: The Tryon Gallery Ltd, 41/42 Dover Street, London

Holger Hvitfeldt Jerichau (1861-1900) Danish "Blue Grotto Capri" Signed, inscribed and dated 1888 verso, oil on panel, 18.5cm by 32cm There is an unfinished oil sketch to the reverse

AUBREY SYKES (1910-1995) Watercolour, Landscape view Wareham, Dorset, 10" x 20", together with several other watercolour sketches and an oil sketch by Malcolm Rogers, (7).

MARTIN BLOCH (1883-1954) Charcoal and crayon sketch, Female nude, signed, 10.5" x 14.5", framed.

A quantity of oil paintings, a pencil sketch and print

Gollancz (Victor, 1893-1957). The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. Edward Maccurdy, 2 vols., 2nd imp., 1938, b&w plts., initialled presentation inscription from Victor Gollancz to his wife Ruth to front free endpaper of vol. 1, written in green ink and with doodled cartoons, ‘For my darling & beautiful Ruth, who justifies, even in 1938, the existence of mankind, VG’, and beneath this in the same holograph, ‘Very humbly, I wish to associate myself with the above statement’, a doodle sketch of himself as Lieutenant Colonel [Moses, the Gollancz family’s familiar] heading towards a castle, and beneath this the words ‘Me, too’ and a thumbnail sketch of a stoat-like creature on its hindlegs, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and spines darkened, 4to, together with Raine (Kathleen), Blake and Tradition, 2 vols., Princeton University Press, 1968, col. frontis., b&w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. faded and soiled slipcase, 4to, plus three further art books (one with pencil signature of Gollancz’s daughter Vita), plus 33 vols. from Ernest Benn’s Contemporary British Dramatists series [published by Gollancz when he worked for Benn] plus 38 Plays published Gollancz, all orig. cloth with printed paper labels, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus 17 Gollancz novels, etc., all orig. cloth without d.j.s, 8vo. Provenance: Vita Gollancz, daughter of Sir Victor Gollancz, the publisher. (95)

Fothergill (George A.). Notes from the Diary of a Doctor, Sketch Artist and Sportsman, pub. John Sampson, York, 1901, col. litho. frontis., num. b & w illusts., errata slip present, orig. dec. cloth, soiled and stained, large 4to, with others of hunting and sporting interest (2 cartons)

Shuttleworth (A. G.). Man-Eaters and Other Denizens of the Indian Jungle, 1st ed., Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1928, b&w illusts. to text, slight weakening to hinges, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, upper board splitting to fore-edge, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Collins (Gilbert), Far Eastern Jaunts, 1st ed., 1924, fifteen (of 16) b&w plts., sketch map at front, orig. cloth, some wear and fraying to extrems., 8vo, plus five others related (7)

Clarke (James). A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire: Together with an Account, Historical, Topographical and Descriptive of the Adjacent Country. To which is Added a Sketch of the Border Laws and Customs, 1st ed., 1787, eleven uncoloured engraved folding linen backed maps and plans and two eng. plts. (as called for), repair to fore-edge margin of leaf 2C2, some toning and scattered spotting to text, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, 19th c. half morocco gilt, joints and extrems. slightly rubbed, folio. Upcott pp.121-123. (1)

Phillips (Richard, pub.). A Guide to All The Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a Description of the Lakes; a Sketch of a Tour in Wales; and Itineraries. Illustrated with Maps and Views, by the Editor of The Picture of London [John Feltham], printed for Richard Phillips, c. 1804, two folding eng. panoramas of Bath and Ramsgate, numerous maps and plates, etc., contents generally in clean condition, contemp. full tree calf, red morocco title label to spine, rubbed and joints partly cracked, together with another copy of the same work (with preface dated 1810), numerous folding eng. maps and plans, single-page eng. views, some light browning and spotting to plates, and a little offsetting to text, marbled edges, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine with morocco label, rubbed, both 12mo (2)

RAPHAEL T ROUSSEL (Exh. 1908-1929) - `Sudanese Pilgrims No. 35`, rough sketch, signed, watercolour, 6 1/4" x 13" (see illustration).

PHILLIPS, Richard (pub), `A Guide to all The Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a Description of the Lakes; A Sketch of a Tour in Wales; and Itineraries Illustrated with maps and views`, London, 1806. 35 engrd. plts. some folding.( 1 with tear). 21 maps, some folding. 1flg. table. small 8vo. full cf. scuffed. sm. loss to spine. (see illustration)

KIDDER & FLETCHER, `Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical & Descriptive Sketch`, Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, 1857. 4to. Fontis. fldg. map with repair. 17 plts. (2 cold.) 1/2 leather bd. joint weak. Tog.with 9th edition of same, Boston,1879, rebound. plus MORAES, Rebus Borba de. `Bibliographia Brasiliana`, Rio De Janeiro, 1983, 2 vols. in d/ws. Plus other related interest. 9

READ. S. `Leaves From a Sketch Book`, Sampson Low, 1875. Fo. Frontis & Tp. det. A.e.g. glt. cl. scuffed.

A POSTCARD ALBUM, comprising British/European views, Raphael Tuck Cats etc. Tog.with a small sketch book. 2

TWO EARLY 20TH CENTURY SKETCH BOOKS, each containing a fascinating selection of watercolour and pen and ink characters most titled and attributed to parts of North Wales and Liverpool. Includes figures in military uniform and portraits of characters and ner` do` wells. Two bound sketch books. C1909 - 1931. (2).

[Magazines]. The Sketch, Christmas Numbers 1926 (Vol.136, No.1765), 1927 (Vol.140, No.1817), 1928 (Vol.144, No.1870), 1929 (Vol.148, No.1922), and 1930 (Vol.152, No.1974), bound as one, blue buckram; also The Sketch Book & "Winter`s Pie", 1926; The Sketch Book & "Printers` Pie", 1927; The Sketch Book & "Winter`s Pie", 1927-8; The Sketch Book & "Printers` Pie", 1928; and The Sketch Book & "Winter`s Pie", 1928-9, bound as one, blue buckram, (2). Best Bid

Modern sketch, portrait painting on canvas, strangers on the shore

Attributed to Edgar Bundy (1862-1922). The model galleon. Oil sketch on board. Unsigned, R.O.I. label on the verso bearing the artist’s name. 40 x 49.5cm (15 3/4 x 19 1/2 in)

Stephen Elmer ARA (1717-1796). A covey of partridges in a landscape. Watercolour on laid paper. Inscribed Three Quarters above. 16.5 x 20.5cm (6 1/2 x 8 in). With another sketch of a covey of partridges. Pen and ink on laid paper. Signed with initials at lower right. 16.5 x 25cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in). 5 further pen and ink sketches of game birds, animals and fish, including 3 signed with initials, and 3 dated 1769, 4 captioned French Partridge, English D & Cock Pheasant 3/4 ; Hare, brace of Partridges, & black head Tom Tit ; Cock & Hen Pheasant, Jay, & Goldfinch 3/4 Painted for Mr Zuccarelli ; A Trout, Pike & Carp, 3/4, painted for Mr Zuccarelli

Sir Augustus Wall Calcott (1779-1844). View of Venice. Pencil sketch on laid paper. 9 x 17.5cm (3 1/2 x 7 in)

Jankel Adler (1895-1949) Sketch of a girl signed and dated 'Adler 1943' (lower right) carbon transfer drawing 9 x 7 in. (22.8 x 17.8 cm.) View on Christie's.com

* Dixon (Charles Edward, 1872-1934). Britannia sailing through Cowes Roads, with many yachts and other vessels dressed overall, 1933, monochrome watercolour, signed and dated in lower left-hand corner, 184 x 216mm (7.25 x 7.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed. With an interesting provenance described in a faint manuscript note on headed paper (browned and laid down): ‘At the close of the 1933 season, Sir Phillip Hunloke, the King’s Sailing Master, desired to present H.M. King George V with a large picture of Britannia sailing through Cowes Roads and commissioned Charles Dixon RA in the matter. The arrangement made was that Dixon should in the first instance paint a black and white sketch of the proposed picture on approval for His Majesty. This is the sketch in question and the interesting point is that it has been handled by H.M. King George V, Sir Phillip Hunloke and Charles Dixon, all of whom are now dead, purchased the sketch from Dixon, who was a great friend of mine, in 1934. Ainsworth Gilbert’. J. A. Gilbert, OBE, was Honorary Secretary of the Island Sailing Club from 1927-1934. Charles Dixon is recognised as one of the world’s most gifted maritime artists. He exhibited at the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Academy of Arts from 1889, and had works shown there most years until his death. His work is highly sought after today and can be found in many national museums, galleries, and private and corporate collections in the UK, North America and Australia. (1)

* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900, circle of). The Matterhorn from near Zermatt, pastel, black charcoal, and pencil, heightened with bodycolour, of the Matterhorn, with a cottage and figures in the foreground, including a peasant woman collecting water from a stream, indistinct pencilled initials to lower right-hand corner, 357 x 507mm (14 x 20ins), mounted, framed and glazed. Inscribed in manuscript on the verso of the frame: ‘Bought July 1956 of Mr. Telford of Grasmere who bought at the sale of effects at Brantwood pictures and sketches some by John Ruskin. J.A. Holland’. Ruskin’s affinity with Alpine scenery in general, and the Matterhorn in particular, is well documented. In one respect he was an Alpine pioneer, not as a climber, but as one who encouraged a widespread love and understanding of Alpine scenery. He was the first to draw the Matterhorn accurately, and apparently the first to photograph it too. When, in 1844, Ruskin made his first sketch of the majestic mountain which he then supposed to be the Matterhorn, it was some thirteen years before the founding of the Alpine Club in London, around thirteen years before any serious attempt was made to climb the Matterhorn, and twenty-one years before its summit was gained by Edward Whymper. Ruskin’s painstakingly precise, yet romantically atmospheric, images of the Matterhorn were to spawn a host of paintings of the great mountain amongst his circle, students and followers. (1)

* Blampied (Edmund, 1886-1966). Hunting scene, pen and ink sketch with traces of pencil, unsigned, 28.5 x 23.5cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/4ins), framed and glazed (1)

Archibald David Read (1844-1908, Scottish) Figures in a field, haystacks and farm buildings beyond a John Kesson of Aberdeen label attached to the revese indistinctly inscribed ‘title: Hampshire (?), A D Read, A.R.S.A, a sketch’ oil on canvas board 33.5 x 50.5cm.

Circle of David Roberts (1796 - 1864) ‘Marseille from Chateau Verd’ bears title and signature D Roberts bottom right further topographical notes along the bottom edge pen, ink and watercolour, 18.5 x 31.5cm, unframed, verso A Neapolitan Coastal scene, fishermen and craft on the shore in the foreground, a headland in the middle distance, sailing yachts off the far shore beyond pen, ink and watercolour, 18.5 x 31.5cm (a sheet from a sketch book), unframed.

A late 19th Century watercolour sketch, "Kirkee ... Six a Shilling Dragoons", July 1861, 9" x 6", in strip frame

Henry Thomas Bosdet, A life sketch, signed and inscribed, pencil, 75cm x 50cm

Frank Reynolds (1876-1953) Original golfing pen and ink sketch - signed by the artist - and featured in Punch magazine dated 2nd March 1927 - image 10.25 x 7.25" - mounted with annotation. Frank Reynolds studied at Heatherley`s Art School and went on to draw for Illustrated London News and The Sketch -joined Punch in 1919 and was art editor from 1920 - 1932.

Arthur Weaver, Original pen and ink sketch - signed A W - image 10 x 7.25"showing "Bobby Jones in conversation with H G Hutchinson in The Bobby Jones Room at the USGA" - commissioned by R H J Grant in 1995/96 and comes with hand written letter from Arthur Weaver

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675-1741) Sketch of a lady en déshabillé in a white chemise and blue wrap oil on paper laid down on panel 14 x 11½ in. (35.6 x 29.2 cm.) View on Christie's.com

Venetian School, 18th Century The Continence of Scipio, a sketch oil on canvas 25 x 18 7/8 in. (63.5 x 47.9 cm.) View on Christie's.com

Artists.- A good group of letters including: G.F. Watts, "I regard my pictures, & they are to be regarded less as works of art than an endeavour to put ideas & reflections into a universal language which shall have nobility & beauty for its basis. each one of the most important belongs to & forms part of the series"; John Varley, David Wilkie (2 and an engraved portrait), John Linnell, Owen Jones, "What would a fair price to give per lb for 24 second hand lithographic stones with drawings upon them which would take some time to rub off"; William Bonnard, Julius Ibbotson, Thomas Phillips, Augustus John Atkinson, "I can assure you I never received any pension from the Emperor Paul " of Russia; Edward Gordon Craig, George Cattermole (3 and a lithograph); Charles Cattermole (6 including a sketch); George Fripp, Robert Smirke (3), Sir Charles Eastlake, F. Topham, W.H. Pyne, Prince Hoare, Bernard Partridge (3); John Sassoon, G.S. Newton (pencil sketch of Lady Lewis when Miss Villiers); R.S. Holford, John Hayes, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1 letter and 3 notes and 7 illustrations including 6 portraits); Daniel Maclise (2 and 2 envelopes); A.J. Munnings, Seymour Lucas (4 and an envelope); William Yarrell, George Birkett Foster, Laurence Alm a Tadema (2); G.E. Hering (3); John Gilbert, Walter Crane, Augustus John (2); Francis Philip Stephanoff (7); James Stephanoff (8); George Hayter (18 items), folds, a few laid down, some with browning, v.s., v.d.(c. 170 pieces)

Australia.- Kennedy (E.M.) Only a Dingo manuscript autobiographical sketch, 14pp., slightl browned, loose, n.d. [?early twentieth century]; and 3 others, Australia, comprising: A.L.s. referring to delivering "some of the native weapons", boomerangs etc., Edmund Gregory, Sketch of the Residence of James Morrill if Northern Queensland, fifth thousand, Queensland, 1866, and The Young Australia Times..., 1864, v.s., v.d.(4) ***Life of a jackaroo near Port Denison. "Presently out came a big red dingo - dark red as he proved, owing to his bloody appearance, heading straight to where I was doing sentry go... .".

Bakst (Leon) Schéhérazade, study for the Decor pencil sketch, 115 x 177mm. matted framed and glazed, [1910]. ***On the rear of the frame an envelope with 2 previous auction catalogue descriptions stating that this sketch was from the family of the artist, Paris..

* Children`s illustrated. A collection, including: Caldecott (R) A Sketch Book, first edition, thick paper, oblong 8vo; others by Caldecott, Walter Crane, etc, 32 vols from circa 1900 and later, condition varies, some rather worn or damaged (38)

Orlando Norie (1832-1901) Pheonix Park, Dublin, 1871, a sketch with inscription 'Pheonix Park/1871/by Orlando Norie' (on the frame) watercolour and bodycolour 22 x 40 in. (55.8 x 10.5 cm.) View on Christie's.com

John Charlton, R.B.A. (1849-1917) A sketch book of studies of foxhounds, hunting scenes, and various studies signed and inscribed 'John Charlton/6 Fitzroy Square London W.' (on the first page), and several inscribed and dated 'Brunsworth/March 78' pencil and watercolour 5 x 8 in. (12.7 x 20.3 cm.) together with an overpainted print after John Charlton a lot View on Christie's.com

Lady Charlotte Frances Spencer, (1835-1903) Inscribed 'My beautiful and valuable sketches made during several tours abroad and in Scotland, from 1858-1864' inscribed as titled on the front page of the album pencil and watercolour, loose mounted in an album, front board missing 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 28 cm.) together with a smaller sketch book of topographical views by the same hand, signed 'C. Spencer' (on the title page), 4 x 6 in. (10 x 15.2 cm.) (2) View on Christie's.com

Auguste Boucher Desnoyers (1779-1857), after F. Gerard Napoleon Le Grand Engraving 27 x 20 in. (68.5 x 50.7 cm.) Together with a lithograph of "Sketch of Bonaparte, as lain out on his Austerlitz camp bed, taken by Capt Marryat R.N. 14 hours after his decease" unframed; and a handcoloured engraving of French cavalry and infantry uniforms, early 19th century, framed, 22 x 33 in. (55.7 x 83.8 cm.); and a hand-coloured aquatint of an Officer of the Dragoons on horseback (4) View on Christie's.com

Louis Icart 1880-1950 - Elegante, a charcoal and pastel on paper/card sketch of a young lady in a gilt frame, signed lower left corner, 17 2/3" x 13 4/8"

Newcastle Upon Tyne A Sketch book by Robert Bertrams, The First Newcastle Directory 1778, introduction by J.R. Boyle, printed Mawson Swan and Morgan 1889, An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumbernauld by Thomas Robinson 1709 and various other books. (9)

A Collection of Signed Photographs Including Freddie Mercury, Queen, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra Together with Photographs of Aubrey Beardsley and Virginia Woolfe and a Sketch of Winston Churchill.

Louis Haghe (1806-1885); a 19th century sketch and watercolour heightened in white of a church interior entitled `St Gomar-Lierre`, signed, 46x30cm, framed and glazed (illustrated)

An early 20th century ink sketch and wash of sailing vessel at rest in mountainous lakeland landscape, indistinctly entitled verso, unsigned, 19x28cm, unframed

`Warblin`s Fro` An Owd Songester` by Samuel Laycock with an introduction sketch by W Trevor, subscribers edition, printed by W E Clegg, 30 Market Place, Oldham, also printed in London 1893, the front piece with a tipped in presentation letter dated March 16th 1893, bound in blue and gilt cloth, also a copy of `Webs From Fancy`s Loom` poems and sketches by David Lawton, edited by Edwyn Lawton, printed by Co-operative Wholesale Societies Printing Works, Longsight, Manchester 1918, this copy belonged originally to Flora Lawton of Spring Grove, Greenfield, bound in green and gilt cloth (2)

An Interesting Sketch Book Depicting Pen and Ink Sketches of Grand Tour Scenes.

English school, early 20th century, water-mill, chalk and pencil sketch, signed indistinctly 20 x 29cm

Willem Van Der Velde (1633-1707) Galleon and pilot Pencil sketch, unsigned, 20.5cm x 19.5cm

An autograph album, `To Grace from Douglas Brown`, 1916, with Summer Time, Sussex watercolour by Tom Terris, cartoon of the artist 1923, sketch of Churchill, Rhymes, MC Cameron, girl gathering, grapes, Wilson, Lady in a summer hat, CS Anderson, boy and dog, pen and ink

LIEUTENANT H.M.WOODMAN. A folder of watercolours, oil paintings, pencils, pen, inks, etc., various subjects, together with reference and sketch books.

Sarah Louise Kilpack (1839 - 1909), Hastin Castle, watercolour and pencil sketch for a larger work, with annotations, unsigned, 7’ x 7 3/4’, Hogarth frame

William Ernst Burwell (1911 - 1974), boats in dock, watercolour and crayon sketch, initialled, 13’ x 12 1/2’, unframed, together with four further sketches/drawings signed by the same artist (5)

Roscoe (Thomas) Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales, nd., 51 engraved plates, later quarter cloth; The Original Wye Guide: Illustrated, being A Descriptive Sketch of the Picturesque River Wye, 1886, folding map, 6 engraved plates, original printed boards (2)