Two Day Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities - online bidding only

A 19th century oak wall boss, carved as a lion mask, 15cm wide

A 19th century rosewood sailor's shell Valentine, typically worked with an arrangement of conchological specimens, 27cm wide

A Black Forest wall plaque, carved as the head of a deer, facing to dexter, rectangular mahogany mount, 38.5cm high overall

A Middle Eastern silver coloured metal circular box, applied with wirework scrolls and applied with polished stone specimens, 7.5cm diam

A pair of Renaissance Revival gilt bronze candlesticks, cast in the Mannerist taste with satyr and nymph astride a swan and a wyvern respectively,...

Geology - a collection of polished egg shaped specimens, various stones and sizes, the largest 7cm long (6)

Italian Grand Tour School (19th century), a serpentine library model, of Il Porcellino, or the Florentine Boar, after Pietro Tacca, canted rectang...

Machirology - a 19th century pocket knife, by Wingfield, Rowbotham & Co, Sheffield, 9cm folding blade, two-piece grip with crown and harp trademar...

Taxidermy - a marmot, naturalistically mounted upon a rock, 47cm long

The Wunderkammer - a 19th century mahogany box, the cover with brass swan neck handle enclosing a table top 'museum' assemblage, including sea she...

Natural History - Conchology, a large collection of British and world shells including conches, cowries, clams, tritons, various sizes, [qty]

Natural History - Geology, a collection of geological specimens including amethyst, pyrite, quartz, etc, polished and unpolished, (qty)

Geology - a collection of geological specimens, various rock and mineral samples, including pyrite, quartz and feldspar, each mounted for display,...

Geology - a collection of mineral samples, the specimens laid out within thirty five compartments, the case 34.5cm wide

Geology - a transverse agate section, cut and polished to display matrix, 20cm wide

Geology and Lapidary - a collection of polished stone and mineral specimens, various samples, hematite, aventurine, jasper, clear quartz, amazonit...

Geology and Paleontology - an interesting diorama, comprising an arrangement of agate sections, an ammonite fossil, a dendritic specimen and other...

Natural History - a spondylus shell, mounted for display, 13.5cm high overall; a red coral specimen, mounted for display, 7cm high overall; anoth...

Natural History - a black coral specimen, mounted for display, 22cm high

Natural History - a bracket fungus specimen, mounted for display, 24cm high overall

Natural History - a 'herbarium' arrangement of seaweed samples, Cladostephus Spongiosus and Gigantina, 22cm x 27.5cm overall

Natural History - a 'herbarium' arrangement of seaweed samples, each annotated with Linnaean taxonomy, 35cm x 45cm, rosewood frame, 45.5cm x 55.5...

Natural History - a 'herbarium' arrangement of seaweed samples, each annotated with Linnaean taxonomy, 36cm x 53.5cm, oak frame, 51.5cm x 69.5cm o...

Natural History - a large coral specimen, mounted for display, 31cm high

Natural History - a mushroom coral specimen, mounted for display, 15cm high overall

Natural History - a pair of 'herbarium' arrangements of seaweed samples, each annotated with Linnaean taxonomy, 33.5cm x 45cm, oak frames, 61cm x ...

Natural History - a pair of ostrich eggs, each mounted for the Wunderkammer, 20cm high, [2]

Natural History - a star fish specimen, 9cm diam, mounted for display; another (2)

Natural History - a star fish specimen, mounted for display, 35cm high overall; another (2)

Natural History - an emu egg, mounted for the wunderkammer, turned ebonised base, 28cm high

Natural History - Conchology, a pearl nautilus shell, mounted for display, 19.5cm high overall

Natural History - Geology, a quartz crystal prism, mounted for display, 9cm high overall

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, 12cm wide, oak plinth base, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, 7cm wide, hardwood plinth base, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, cut and polished, 15.5cm wide, oak plinth base, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshir...

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, mounted for display, 15cm high overall, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, mounted for display, 15cm high overall, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, mounted for display, 19cm high overall, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an ammonite specimen, the matrix 9cm wide, mounted for display, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yorkshire; ano...

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology - an arrangement of three ammonites, mounted for display, 26cm high overall, Jurassic period, Whitby, Yor...

Natural History - Geology, Palaeontology, a collection of pre-historic shark's teeth, various sizes, bamboo box

Natural History - Paleontology - an ammonite fossil, mounted for display, 16.5cm high overall

Natural History - two starfish specimens, mounted for display, the tallest 23cm overall, [2]

Natural History, Conchology - a large pearl shell specimen, 26cm wide; another, similar, 19cm, [2]

Taxidermy - a a Victorian barn owl, naturalistically mounted, glazed case, 40.5cm high, 32.5cm wide, c. 1900

Taxidermy - a Victorian diorama, comprising a squirrel and a bantam cockerel, naturalistically mounted, the glazed ebonised case enclosing leaf of...

Taxidermy - Fishing, a pike's head, naturalistically mounted, its mouth agape, canted shield-shaped oak plinth, suspension loop, 29cm high

Taxidermy - Fishing, a pike's head, naturalistically mounted, its mouth agape, rounded oak plinth, 26cm high

Natural History - a polypore fungus specimen, 14cm wide, mounted for display

Antiquities - a Romano-British patinated bronze zoomorphic spout, as a dog's head, 7cm long; a similar verdigris-patinated handle, as a horse or h...

Antiquities - a table-top wunderkammer, Fossils found in the Oxford Clays, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, a diorama of annotated finds, trigonia, belemni...

A 19th century herbarium, compiled by Charles Brown, the fly-leaf dated September 9th 1874, comprising a collection of dried specimens, the Botani...