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| 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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| Auction Lots - Page 3 | |||
| 101 | |||
| Fossils - nine specimens - a polished section of Stegosaurus dinosaur bone from Colorado; Oligocene leaf from France; two cephalopods from Madagascar, one cut in half and polished; coal measure plant Neuropteris from Whitehaven, Cumbria; small fossil fish Lycoptera davidii from China; a carboniferous fern Pecopteris polymorpha from France; silicified coral from Sumatra; and a tooth of a Cretaceous mosasaur from Morocco (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 102 | |||
| Ten coral specimens, the largest 12ins high on acrylic stand, and a hollowed ostrich egg £100-150 |
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| 103 | |||
| A varied collection of large shells, the largest 11ins £100-150 |
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| 104 | |||
| Cotham marble - three polished slices of the Upper Triassic stromatolite known as 'Cotham Marble', from Bristol, all from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Museum collection, (two labelled Dr T.B. Wilson collection) (one carton) £60-80 |
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| 105 | |||
| Fossil fish - fifty-four specimens of Devonian fossil fish remains from Caithness, Scotland (eight cartons) £100-150 |
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| 106 | |||
| Fossil shrimps - several Carpopenaeus shrimps on matrix 7ins x 4.5ins, from the Upper Cretaceous, Hadjoula, Byblos, Lebanon £100-200 |
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| 107 | |||
| A semi fossilised whale vertebra, 20ins x 36ins overall £100-150 |
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| 108 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 38ins high, containing a miscellaneous selection of fossils including fish remains from Morocco, silicified corals from Sumatra, glyptodon remains from Argentina, fish vertebrae, copal resin from Colombia etc. £300-400 |
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| 109 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 38ins high, containing miscellaneous fossils, the majority collected in the nineteenth century, including Cretaceous sponges in flint, corals, fish remains etc. £300-400 |
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| 110 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 38ins high, containing a selection of fossils including Chinese fossil fish, shells from France, ammonites from Madagascar, trilobite remains etc £300-400 |
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| 111 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 38ins high, containing approximately one hundred and fifty fossils including mosasaur teeth, theropod dinosaur teeth, coprolites from Madagascar, insect remains etc. £300-500 |
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| 112 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted twenty drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 32.5ins x 38ins high, containing a large quantity of fossils, mainly collected in the nineteenth century £400-600 |
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| 113 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 40ins high, containing approximately one hundred and seventy fossils including polished petrified wood, pine cone remains from Patagonia, various shells, echinoids etc. £200-300 |
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| 114 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted ten drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 17ins x 38ins high, containing approximately one hundred and thirty ammonites, mainly from the UK £200-300 |
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| 115 | |||
| A George III figured mahogany collector's cabinet, later adapted to fit twenty-four Victorian pine drawers, enclosed by a pair of panelled doors, 42ins wide x 12ins deep x 42ins high, containing a wide and varied selection of fossils, mainly collected in the 19th century £200-300 |
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| 116 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted twenty drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 32.5ins x 38ins high, containing ichthyosaur vertebrae, shark's teeth, fish remains, plant remains and fossil fish etc. £400-600 |
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| 117 | |||
| A Victorian stained pine collector's cabinet fitted twenty drawers with knob handles, 20.5ins x 32.5ins x 38ins high, ten drawers containing plant remains, mostly identified from France, etc, the other ten drawers containing ammonites, echinoids and others £600-800 |
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| 118 | |||
| The James Gregory Educational Fossil Collection A massive collection of fossils assembled for educational purposes. Started by James Gregory in the nineteenth century and added to over the subsequent years, it comprises over two hundred groups of fossils from all the geological periods from Cambrian to Pleistocene, numerous specimens of each, contained in three Victorian twenty drawer cabinets (each 22ins wide x 38ins high x 18ins) and four Victorian ten drawer cabinets (each 36ins wide x 38ins high x 18ins) £1000-2000 |
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| 119 | |||
| Four coloured lithographs from A Monograph of the Fossil Fish of the Old Red Sandstone or Devonian system of the British Isles and Russia, by Louis Agassiz, Switzerland 1844-1845, all framed £50-70 |
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| 120 | |||
| Four coloured lithographs from A Monograph of the Fossil Fish of the Old Red Sandstone or Devonian System of the British Isles and Russia by Louis Agassiz, Switzerland 1844-1845, all framed £50-70 |
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| 121 | |||
| Jurassic Diorama - An acrylic painting of a late Jurassic scene, commissioned by Gregory, Bottley & Co. for a museum diorama, 24ins x 28ins, signed by LP and LL Pocock and dated 1965 £30-50 |
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| 122 | |||
| Carboniferous Diorama - An acrylic painting of a Carboniferous scene, commissioned by Gregory, Bottley & Co. for a museum diorama, 24ins x 28ins, signed L Pocock and dated 1965 £30-50 |
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| 123 | |||
| Six hand coloured prints of fossils and minerals from British Mineralogy (1804-1818) and Mineral Conchology (1812-1846), both by James Sowerby, all framed and glazed £60-80 |
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| 124 | |||
| Ten hand coloured engravings from the Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-1846) by James Sowerby, most with original text, various sizes (in card mounts, all unframed) £40-60 |
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| 125 | |||
| Ten engravings of fossils from Encyclopedie by Diderot & D'Alembert (1745-1772), each 12.5ins x 8.5ins, all framed £300-400 |
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| 126 | |||
| 22 proof engravings, many annotated, by A.H. Searle for Cretaceous Echinodermata by Thomas Wright, published by the Palaeontographical Society, London,1884, each 11ins x 8.5ins in blue card mounts, unframed £80-120 |
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| 127 | |||
| Twenty-nine coloured lithographs from A Monograph of the Fossil Fish of the Old Red Sandstone or Devonian System of the British Isles and Russia by Louis Agassiz, Switzerland 1844-1845, all unframed, in card mounts £100-200 |
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| 128 | |||
| A complete set of ten plates from Premiere Centurie de Planches Enluminees et Non Enluminees (Decade 6 Regne Mineral) by Pierre Joseph Buchoz, Paris and Amsterdam 1775-1781, all with contemporary hand colouring, all framed, identifications of the plates in photocopy on reverse of each frame £400-600 |
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| 129 | |||
| British Mineralogy - Geology of England and Wales by Horace Woodward 1887; Handbook of the Geology of Great Britain, edited by Evans and Stubblefield, 1929; Minerals of Cornwall and Devon by Embrey and Symes, signed copy, BM(NH),1987; Minerals of Great Britain and Ireland by A.G. Tindle, Terra Publications, 2008; three copies of Minerals of the Caldbeck Fells by Cooper and Stanley; and four other volumes on the geology and mineralogy of Britain £40-60 |
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| 130 | |||
| West Country - History of the Cornish China Clay Industry by R.M. Barton, 1906; Tudor Cornwall by A.L. Rowse, 1941; William Borlase by P.A.S. Pool, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1986; and fourteen other volumes on the geology and industrial archaeology of Cornwall and Devon £40-60 |
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| 131 | |||
| Memoirs of the Geological Survey - The Lake District, 1876; The Country around Oxford, 1926; The Country around Torquay, 1903; a Geological model of Ingleborough and District, 1910; The Geology of South London, 1921 bound together with The Country around Dartford, 1924, the Geology around North London, 1925 and The Country around Romford, 1925; The Description of Arthur's Seat Volcano by B.N. Peach, 1911; The Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England, 1956; British Regional Geology of Scotland (five bound together - North Highlands, Tertiary Volcanic Districts, Grampian Highlands, Midland Valley and South of Scotland) 1935-1936; Memoirs of the Geological Survey - the Geology of the London Basin (Vol. 4 part 1), 1872; and two others £40-60 |
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| 132 | |||
| The Mineralogy of Cornwall by J.H. Collins, Bradford Barton reprint, 1969; British Mineralogy by Greg and Lettsom, Lapidary Publications reprint, 1977; Cornwall's Mines and Miners, Bradford Barton 1972; The Geology of the Ancient Rocks of Charnwood Forest by W.W. Watts, Leicester, 1947; and twelve other volumes on mines, industrial archaeology etc £20-40 |
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| 133 | |||
| Scotland - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland - Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 1910; The Country around Banff, Huntley, & Turriff, 1923; Geology of Ben Wyvis, 1912; A Description of Arthur's Seat Volcano bound with various others; A Catalogue of Western Scottish Fossils by Prof. Young, 1876; and approximately twenty nine others on the geology and minerals of Scotland £100-200 |
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| 134 | |||
| Geological Survey Memoirs - The Geology of the Country around Lichfield, 1919; The Geology of the Southern Part of Derbyshire and Nottingham coalfield, 1908; The Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England, volumes 1 and 2, 1969; and fourteen other Geological Survey memoirs £60-80 |
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| 135 | |||
| Isabella Gifford - The Marine Botanist Containing Descriptions of British Seaweeds, published by Darton and Co, London circa 1848; The Insect Hunters Companion by the Reverend Joseph Green, 1907; The Common Shells of the Sea Shore by the Reverend J.G. Wood, with illustrations by G.B. Sowerby, Frederick Warne and Co, 1865; The History of Devonshire Scenery by Arthur Claydon, 1906; and eight other volumes £50-80 |
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| 136 | |||
| Cornish mining - Cornish Explosives by Bryan Earl, Trevithick Society 1978; The Cornish Miner by Hamilton Jenkin, 1962; Handbook of Cornish Geology by E.H. Davison 1926; and ten other volumes on Cornish geology and mining £40-60 |
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| 137 | |||
| Geological Maps - a hand coloured mineralogical chart and geological map of the Shetland Islands by M. Forster-Heddle; a hand coloured geological map of North East Leicester in folder, dated October 1854; two hand coloured geological maps of the Kendal area (1864 & 1865) and two of the Pickering area 1882 and 1883); 8 Stanford maps of Wales, some heavily annotated by J.G.R. Gregory with geological localities and information; 9 early 20th century maps of South West England, most annotated with geological details; a map of Anglesey, 1920, with Gregory annotations; a large geological map of Italy, 1889, in folder; and other later miscellaneous geological and other maps £60-80 |
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| 138 | |||
| Geological Survey of England and Wales - a set of four one inch to one mile geological maps of the Hereford area, contemporary hand colouring, numbered xliii and NE, NW, SE, SW, the geological information by Sir Henry de la Beche (director of the geological survey), March 1855; together with a part set similar of geological maps of the Gloucester area, SW, NE, SE (lacking north west map), dated December 1872 £60-80 |
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| 139 | |||
| Clark and Hughes - Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick - volumes 1 and 2, Cambridge University Press, 1890 (two volumes in brown cloth binding) £100-200 |
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| 140 | |||
| Memoirs of the Geological Survey - England and Wales - the Geology of London and Part of the Thames Valley, by W. Whitaker - volumes 1 and 2, printed for HMSO, London 1889 (two green cloth bound volumes) £60-100 |
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| 141 | |||
| Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain - the Geological Structure of the North West Highlands of Scotland - by B.N. Peach et alia, published for HMSO, Glasgow 1907 (one green cloth bound volume) £60-80 |
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| 142 | |||
| Robert Taylor Clough - The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales - two copies - first edition 1962 (copy no 912 of 1000 signed by the author), together with the 2nd edition (copy no 482 of 750 also signed by the author) £40-60 |
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| 143 | |||
| F.W. Rudler - A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Islands Mostly Selected from the Ludlam Collection in the Museum of Practical Geology - printed for HMSO, London 1905 (one rebound blue cloth volume) £30-50 |
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| 144 | |||
| Mark Norman - A Popular Guide to the Geology of the Isle of Wight - published for the author at Knight's Library, 147 & 149 High Street, Ventnor 1887 (one red cloth bound volume) £30-40 |
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| 145 | |||
| Manuscripts - Manuscript catalogue of an extensive collection of minerals (THS on spine) in fine 19th century hand; manuscript copy by W.H. Jago of the private collection of Curiosities of William Borlase, sold by auction October 1887; a typed guide to the collection of the private museum, Old Market, Wisbech, dated 1921; the manuscript catalogue of the collection of the late Alan Green; an undated mid 20th Century manuscript catalogue of minerals and rocks; and E.P. Bottley's 'Book of Good Intentions', dated November 1942 (mainly blank) £80-120 |
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| 146 | |||
| Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man - second edition, published by John Murray, 1890; and A Naturalist's Voyage round the World...During the Voyage of the Beagle, published by John Murray, 1889 (two green cloth volumes) £60-80 |
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| 147 | |||
| British Museum (Natural History) guides - Fossil Fishes (1888); Rocks (1909); Minerals (1910); Fossil Mammals and Birds (1890); and eight others (1907-1939), plus various similar (unbound) £100-120 |
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| 148 | |||
| Roderick Impey Murchison - Siluria - 3rd edition published by John Murray, London 1859 (one brown cloth bound volume), with the geological map of the Silurian Rocks removed from volume and framed, 22ins x 24ins £60-80 |
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| 149 | |||
| Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain - Fossil Plants of the Carboniferous Rocks of Great Britain by Robert Kidston, two volumes, 1923-1925 £60-80 |
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| 150 | |||
| Jade - Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages by Stanley Nott, 1962; Chinese Jades from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1977; The Story of Jade by Whitlock and Ehrmann, 1949; and seven other volumes on jade £60-80 |
| 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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