GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Natural History - Paleontology - Fossils, a fossilized ammonite specimen (Dactylioceras athleticum), exposed and its base polished for the desk, 9...

Natural History - Paleontology - Fossils, a large fossilized Pecten shell cluster (Clamys cf. latissima), 58cm high, 31cm wide, Vaucluse, South-Ea...

Phycology - a collection of 19th century pressed and mounted algae specimens, collected in Sicily, comprehensively annotated and dated 1883, each ...

Taxidermy - a crab, preserved and displayed in a glazed rectangular case, crested by a pair of suspension loops, the crustacean 26cm wide, the who...

Taxidermy - a large Victorian snowy owl, naturalistically mounted, glazed ebonised case, 58.5cm x 54cm, c.1880Please note that worked items manufa...

Taxidermy - a late Victorian red fox and an adolescent rabbit, the victor stands above its prey in a stylized landscape of wild grasses and ferns,...

Taxidermy - a pair of kingfishers, each naturalistically mounted on a mossy branch, glazed mahogany case with loop suspension, 24cm high, 23.5cm w...

Taxidermy - a Victorian barn owl, inset glass eyes, naturalistically mounted on a mossy stump and flanked by wild grasses, glazed and varnished pi...

Taxidermy - an African hunting trophy, Gemsbok Oryx (Oryx beisa beisa),comprising horns and partial skull, shield mount, 114cm high

Taxidermy - an otter mask, the oak shield mask with silvered plaque inscribed Mrs Myles F Burnyeat, W.C.O.H, Ouse Bridge, June 1922, 28cm long

Taxidermy - two preserved fish specimens, a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), 64cm long; an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), 59cm long, [2]

A 19th century brass proportional divider, by Cary, London, engraved scales for Plans, Solids, Circles and Lines, 15.5cm long

A 19th century brass six-draw telescope, sliding aperture to eyepiece, extending to 60cm long

A 19th century brass surveyor's topographical Abney level and clinometer, by W Watson & Sons Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London, 18cm long, leather cas...

A 19th century large bore Kew pattern barometer, 20.5cm silvered register with rack-and-pinion adjustment, numbered 862, brass and black painted f...

A brass and blued steel 66 foot tape measure, by John Rabone & Sons, Birmingham, folding winder to centre, no. 4351, 9cm diam; a brass mounted box...

A Cambridge AC Test Set, by the Cambridge Instrument Co Ltd, hardwood carry case, 33cm long

A collection of early 20th century Magic Lantern slides, of scientific and technical charts, scales and phenomena, (qty)

A late Victorian black lacquered and brass magic lantern, canted pine plinth, 43.5cm long, c. 1880; a collection of contemporary and some later ac...

A George III shagreen tapered rounded rectangular draughtsman's etui, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of drawing instruments, 17.5cm long, c...

A Negretti & Zambra perpetual easel desk calendar, 8cm register inscribed "Come what may, Time and the Hour run through the roughest day" above se...

A rare 19th century lacquered brass monocular microscope, by Watson & Son, 313 High Holborn, London, internal rack-and-pinion adjustment, convex s...

A 19th century lacquered brass monocular field microscope, rack-and-pinion adjustment, disassembling for travel, the rosewood box forming the base...

An early 20th century brass and black painted surveyor's instrument, with compass, protractor and level, tripod base with further adjustments, 28....

An early 20th century Mignon Model 3 Vasanta index typewriter, by AEG, serial no. 163427, planished and patinated metal cover, 34.5cm wide, c.1922

An ivorine slide rule, by A W Faber, 28cm long, slip case with tooled and gilt lettering, facsimile instruction manual

An unusual late 19th century miniature Sikes hydrometer, by T O Buss, 33 Hatton Garden, London, with weights and magnifier, the rectangular case w...

Arachnology - a large didactic illustration of a spider on its web, chromolithograph, circular, 46cm diam

Astronomy - a brass kit-built model orrery, stacked gearing, tripod base, 39cm high, 20th century

Automobilia - a pair of nickel-plated dashboard panel meters, Volts and Amperes, 5cm silvered dials, 7.5cm diam, first half 20th century

Geology - Mineralogy - a collection of collection of mineral samples, issued by The Geological Laboratories, Devon, card case 18.5cm wide; three s...

Laboratory Apparatus - a clear glass vacuum bell jar, 35cm high; another, 39cm high (2)

Medical - a 19th century miniature electromagnetic shocking coil, The New Pocket Magneto-Electric Machine, with turned wooden hafted electrodes an...

Medical - a 19th century surgeon's saw, of small proportions, 11cm long, cased; a set of catheters, by Milliken & Down, Opposite Guys Hospital, ca...

Medical - a Helios high voltage UV electromedical kit, by Hermann Will, Jena, comprehensively furnished with twenty two interchangable glass thera...

Medical - Ophthalmology - a a large early 20th century optician's box, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of trial lenses and a ophthalmoscope,...

Microscopy - a collection of glass microscope slides, prepared by Flatters & Garnet, Manchester, mostly botanical subjects, various specimens, eac...

Microscopy - a collection of prepared microscope slides, various specimens of physiology, each label annotated in ink manuscript (qty)

Microscopy - a collection of prepared microscope slides, various specimens, Supra Renal Rabbit, Lavender, Basalt, Ireland and other geological sam...

Microscopy - an Edwardian mahogany gentleman scientist's specimen slide cabinet, rectangular glazed door enclosing twenty seven drawers of prepare...

Mining Interest - a Davy miner's lamp, domed and pierced canopy above a four-pillar cage, tapering gauze enclosing an open chamber, cylinder base ...

Mining Interest - a later 19th century Clanny type brass and steel miner's safety lamp, by Joseph Cooke of Birmingham, domed canopy, glazed chambe...

Photography - an early 20th century box camera, 21cm long, canvas case

Scientific - a mid-20th century guinea and feather apparatus, by Phillip Harris Ltd, cylindrical vacuum tube, cast base, 124cm high

A late Victorian/Edwardian brass and painted tin magic lantern, The Maltese Cross Empire by Butcher & Sons Ltd, substantial oak baseboard probably...

A Victorian tooled and gilt carte de visite album, 23cm wide, c.1860; others (3)

An interesting 19th century photograph album, of an Oriental and Pan-Asian tour, 48 b/w named-view photographs with scenes of real native and colo...

Local Interest, Advertising - an unusual and amusing theatrical costume photograph portfolio-album, of County Carnival Stores, 1 Bold Lane, Derby,...

Photography - a 19th century ambrotype photograph, double portrait of a lady and gentleman, 7cm x 6cm, c.1860; others, etc (5)

A collection of magic lantern slides, various types and subjects, including: mechanical kaleidoscopes by M G Hughes, Optician, London; another, wa...

Photography - American Topography and Travel - an interesting collection of magic lantern slides documenting a tour, mostly California and Nevada,...

Photography - an interesting photograph, Portion of Group for a War Memorial in Progress July 19, by sculptor James Havard Thomas (1854 - 1921), 2...

Photography - China and The East - a 19th century cabinet card photograph of a young Chinese lady, in Western dress, seated beside a table; a cart...

Photography - India and Ceylon - an interesting archive of Colonial-era photographs, various subjects including portraits of native people, school...

Photography - Japan - an album of photographs, showing daily life, the juxtaposition of Westernization and traditional customs during the post-war...

Photography - Literature and The Aesthetic Movement - a cabinet card portrait, of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900, the image 14c...

Photography - New Zealand and Australia - an early 20th century snapshot album, the cover painted in gouache and inscribed Greetings from Queensla...

Photography - Soviet Russia/USSR - two albums of photographs, mostly taken immediately post-World War II and during the Communist era and depictin...

Photography - Travel - an album of photographs, mostly Havana, Cuba, collected by Cyril John Hayward Day RN, showing the daily lives of the Coloni...

Photography - Travel, an early 20th century family touring holiday, Paris, Pierrefonds, London, Holland and Winchester, 1929-30, annotated and dat...