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The Contents of the Showrooms of the Mineralogists and Geologists Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd
Auctioneer: Canterbury Auction Rooms Location: Canterbury
Contact: Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770
Date: 12th June 2014 Time: 10:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 7th June 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Sunday 8th June 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Monday 9th June 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
Tuesday 10th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Wednesday 11th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Thursday 12th June 8.30 am to 10.00 am
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Auction Lots - Page 1

RESERVES
The majority of lots in this sale will be sold without reserve. Some lots may be protected by a reserve which will never be more than the lower estimate for that lot.
All lots with a lower estimate of £200 or under will be sold without reserve.

BOOKS
All books are sold as is and have not been collated. Potential buyers should satisfy themselves as to the completeness and condition of these lots.

SIZES
Most lots have approximate measurements noted.As an indication of size of other lots, these have been photographed in, and will be sold in, white lidded cartons which each measure 16ins x 11ins

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Two colour prints after Tristram Hillier (1905-1983) "Fossils - February" and "Minerals - June", 13.5ins x 16.5ins and 16.5ins square respectively, both in wooden frames £100-200
Note: These prints were commissioned by the Shell Advertising Art Collection for their travel guides, using specimens supplied by Gregory, Bottley and Co.
2
Two uncoloured engravings of fossils and crystals from D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer (probably the 1741 edition) by Georg Eberhard Rumphius (plates 52 and 59) each 13ins x 9ins, framed; two plates from Diderot and D'Alembert's Natural History 1745-1772; a coloured plate from World Minerals by Leonard Spencer, 1922; and an eighteenth century engraving of Solfatara also from Diderot and D'Alembert's Natural History £40-60
3
Eight engravings of minerals from Encyclopedie by Diderot & D'Alembert (1745-1772), all in card mounts, unframed £200-300
4
18th Century School - grisaille - a View of the Alum works, Little Busby (Cleveland, North Yorkshire), dated 1788 on reverse, 7ins x 8ins, framed and glazed £100-150
5
A long hand coloured cross section of the Earth's Crust composed by Thomas Webster, the plants and animals depicted and selected by Dr Buckland, 2nd edition January 1837, 8.5ins x 46ins, framed and glazed £50-100
6
19th century chromolithographic folding map of the Principal Features of the Geology of Yorkshire by John Philips 1853, 24ins x 31ins, backed onto canvas, framed and glazed £80-120
7
Archibald Geikie - A large coloured geological map of the British Isles, engraved by W and A.K. Johnson, Edinburgh 1864, with engravings of fossils (complete but needs backing and framing) £100-150
8
19th Century School - a watercolour of the Old Engine Pit, Brereton, Staffordshire, 11ins x 15ins, dated April 13th 1877, framed and glazed £50-70
Note: the pit ceased production in 1928, but the beam engine was retained in service until 1950 to keep the water at a safe level to prevent flooding
9
Frank Rutley - a watercolour of Great Staple Tor, Dartmoor (Granite), 22ins x 26ins, framed and glazed. £100-150
Note: Frank Rutley was an English geologist and mineralogist famous for his textbooks on mineralogy first published in 1882. This watercolour was used for lecture purposes. His mineral collection was acquired for Glasgow University in 1907
10
Chart of the Characteristic British Tertiary Fossils, published by Edward Stanford, Long Acre, London, and a quantity of other similar mostly incomplete charts £20-40
11
Flora of the Carboniferous of the Netherlands, volume 1; A Monograph of the Calamites of Western Europe by Robert Kidston and Dr W.J. Jongmans, together with accompanying plates 1-158, Graenhage, 1915-1917 £60-80
12
Over Eenen Hoorn en Gedeelte des Bekkeneels by N.C. De Fremery, published by C.G. Sulpke, Amsterdam 1831 (one black cloth bound volume) and Etudes des Gites Mineraux de la France - Description de la Flore Fossile by R. Zeiller - atlas only, Paris 1886 £20-30
13
Coal - Coal and Allied Subjects, volumes 1 & 2, F.S. Sinatt, 1918; Coal Measure Plants by Crookall; Nature and Origin of Coal by Raistrick and Marshall, 1939; and fourteen other volumes on coal and coal mining £20-40
14
Fossils - A Catalogue of the Fossil Bryoza in the British Museum by J.W. Gregory, 1899; Our Common British Fossils by J.E. Taylor, 1885; A Systematic list......of Oligocene and Eocene Mollusca by R.B. Newton, British Museum (Natural History) 1891; and approximately nineteen other similar Nineteenth Century and later volumes £40-60
15
Fossils - Text Book of Palaeontology by Zittel, volumes 1 and 2, 1900 and 1932; Studies in Fossil Botany by D.H. Scott, volumes 1 and 2, 1920 and 1923; and eleven other volumes on fossils £40-60
16
A quantity of approximately forty five books on palaeontology £20-40
17
Fossil Plants - Studies in Fossil Botany by D.H. Scott, 2 vols 1920; the Origins of Land Flora, F.O. Bower, 1908, and thirteen other volumes, mainly on fossil plants £40-60
18
Fossils - Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by S. W. Williston, Chicago Press 1914, and thirteen other volumes on fossils £40-60
19
Fossils - Stratigraphical Palaeontology by Neaverson, 1928; Invertebrate Fossils by Moore, Lalicker and Fischer, published by McGraw Hill, 1952; and thirteen other books on fossils £20-40
20
Monograph of the Crag Mollusca by Searles Wood, volumes 1 and 2 (1848-56) published by the Palaeontographical Society, London (bound as one volume) £60-80
21
Crag Mollusca - A group of unbound Palaeontographical Society monographs on Crag Mollusca, 1848-1874 £40-60
22
Brachiopoda - A group of unbound Palaeotographical Society monographs on brachiopods, etc £40-60
23
A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England, by Searles Wood, published by the Palaeontographical Society London 1861-71, bound with the supplement of 1877 (one three quarter leather bound volume - page 10 with pencil annotation relating to Darwin) £80-120
24
A Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda by Thomas Davidson, volumes 4 to 6 (1874-1886), published by the Palaeontographical Society London (two three quarter leather bound volumes) £50-70
25
A Monograph on the Inferior Oolite Ammonites by S.S. Buckman, volumes 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, & 11 published by the Palaeontographical Society London 1889 (blue paper and cloth bound volumes - inscribed with authors compliments) £30-50
26
Palaeontographical Society - The Structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata, parts 1-3, 1868-1872, by E.W. Binney (parts 2 & 3 signed by the author), bound with Monograph of Lepidodendron selaginoides by Maurice Hoelacque £60-80
27
Lamellibranchs - A group of Palaeotographical Society monographs on lamellibranchs etc., in blue paper bindings, and some others, all unbound £40-60
28
Eleven unbound monographs published by the Palaeontographical Society London (contained in brown paper packets) £20-40
29
C.L. Griesbach - a mid nineteenth century lithograph of Iguanodon mantelli, 21ins x16ins, published by Mintern Brothers, framed and glazed £20-40
30
William King - A Monograph on Permian Fossils, published by the Palaeontographical Society, London, 1850 (one three quarter brown leather bound volume) £100-150
31
Monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England by Henry Woods, volumes one (1899-1903) and two (1904-1913), both published by the Palaeontographical Society London £100-200
32
British Fossil Brachiopoda by Thomas Davidson, volumes 1-7, published by the Palaeontographical Society London (three volumes - in three quarter leather bindings) £150-200
33
A Monograph of the British Fossil Trigoniae by John Lycett, published by the British Palaeontographical society, London 1872-79, bound with the supplement of 1881 (one three quarter leather bound volume) £60-80
34
A Monograph on the Permian Fossils of England by William King, published by the Palaeontographical Society London 1850 (one blue cloth bound volume). £100-150
35
A quantity of unbound Palaeontographical Society monographs including British Fossil Corals, 1850 £40-60
36
A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the Crag by Prof. Rupert Jones et alia (1866); A Monograph of the Fossil Malacosteous Crustacea parts 1 and 2 (1857-62); and the British Fossil Crustacea by Henry Woodward (1866-1878), the three bound in one volume, published by the Palaeontographical Society London £60-80
37
Palaeontographical Society Monographs - British Fossil Corals, second series, part 2 no.1, 1869, part 2, 1870; A Supplementary Monograph of the Cretaceous Entomostraca, 1890; British Fossil Echinodermata volume 2 part 1, 1891, and volume 2 part 4 1907 (all bound in one volume) £60-80
38
Palaeontographical Society - Monograph of the British Cambrian Trilobites by Philip Lake, London 1906-1946 (one blue cloth volume) £80-100
39
Ammonites - A quantity of Palaeontographical Society monographs on ammonites, bound and unbound as issued £60-80
40
Charles Darwin - A Monograph of the Fossil Balanidae or Verrucidae of Great Britain, published by the Palaeontographical Society, London, 1854 £400-600
41
Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata, by E.W. Binney, parts 1-4, published by the Palaeontographical Society London 1868-75, four parts bound as one (one three quarter leather bound volume) £80-120
42
A monograph on the Eocene Cephalopoda and Univalves of England, by Frederic Edwards, published by the Palaeontographical society, London, 1849-1877 (one three quarter leather bound volume) £80-120
43
Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata of the Cretaceous formations by Thomas Wright, published by the Palaeontographical Society London, 1864-1882, with the plates bound separately; and a monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata of the Oolitic formations by Thomas Wright, volume 2, published by the Palaeontographical Society London 1863-1880 (three volumes with three quarter leather binding) £60-80
44
A Monograph on the British Eocene Flora by Gardner and Ettingshausen, volume 1 (1879-1882), and volume 2 (1883-1886), published by the Palaeontographical Society London (two volumes bound together - three quarter leather binding) £80-120
45
A quantity of Palaeontographical Society monographs including Pleistocene Mammalia, 1866 and British trilobites, 1864 £40-60
46
Richard Owen - A group of Palaeotographical Society Memoirs by Richard Owen, mostly unbound with numerous pull out plates, including Reptilia of the London Clay, 1849 (two volumes); Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations, 1851; Reptilia of the Wealden Formations (Dinosauria), 1854; and Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations, 1853-1864 £200-400
47
A collection of approximately fifty graptolites, mostly identified with locality details, together with various Palaeotographical Society monographs on graptolites, some in original blue bindings, others unbound £200-300
48
Fossils - four trilobites from Morocco; two polished ammonites from Madagascar, agatised coral from Tampa Bay, Florida and two ambers from the Baltic (one carton) £150-200
49
Fossils - eleven fossils including Rhaetic fish remains from the Bristol area, various vertebrae from the Stonesfield Slate, fish teeth and spines etc. (one carton) £50-100
50
Pine cones - Araucaria mirabilis pine cones from the Jurassic of Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia - three cones cut in half and polished to show the seeds; a polished section through a cone; and five part cones (one carton) £350-400
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
The Contents of the Showrooms of the Mineralogists and Geologists Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd
Auctioneer: Canterbury Auction Rooms Location: Canterbury
Contact: Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770
Date: 12th June 2014 Time: 10:00AM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 7th June 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Sunday 8th June 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Monday 9th June 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
Tuesday 10th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Wednesday 11th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Thursday 12th June 8.30 am to 10.00 am
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