Cabinet of Curiosities Part I: Through Time & Space

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Cabinet of Curiosities Part I: Through Time & Space

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LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE CAMPO DEL CIELO IRON METEORITE,displaying regmaglypts covered with fusion crust indicating direction of flight and sheer line...

LARGE 19TH CENTURY SWORDFISH (XIPHIAS GLADIUS) ROSTRUM,displaying attractive curve, presented on polished aluminium stand, 105cm high overall ......

19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER TIBETAN FLINT POUCH,leather with white metal mounts, 10.5cm wide, together with a Tibetan prayer wheel and Indian Dokhra m...

ANCIENT GNOSTIC INTAGLIO PROTECTION AMULET,reverse impressed with two deities, Harpocrates sat upon a lotus and the other a beast god, within part...

TWO LARGE SNAKE SKINS,one on green backing, approximately 420cm long (2)Both are partial skins, appear 3/4 length; the felt backed example in neat...

PRE-COLUMBIAN FIGURE,possibly the maize deity Chicomecóatl, 14.5cm high, together with a bust of a male and a pipe whistle (3) ...[more]

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE OVERLAID BUST OF OSIRIS,possibly 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C., wearing plumed headdress and bearing crook and flail, 9...

IMPRESSIVE SCOTTISH TAXIDERMY GOLDEN EAGLE (AQUILA CHRYSAETOS),late 19th/early 20th century, likely Ross-shire, posed perched on a naturalisticall...

RARE AND IMPRESSIVE TAXIDERMY CROMIE RED STAG HEAD BY ROWLAND WARD,Cervus elaphus (red deer), displaying the swept back antler formation unique to...

ROLAND PICHÈ FRBS (BRITISH, b.1938),LITTLE DEPOSITION AT MIDNIGHT,resin and fibreglass sculptural composition, signed to base, on further circular...

SHAW, GEORGE (1751-1813) - GENERAL ZOOLOGYor Systematic Natural History, profusely illustrated with engraved plates by Heath and Griffith, 8vo., h...

UPHAM (C. W.), LECTURES ON WITCHCRAFT,Comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem in 1692, pub. Carter, Hendee and Babcock, Boston 1831, in marb...

KIRBY (S.); THE WONDERFUL AND SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM: OR, MAGAZINE OF REMARKABLE CHARACTERS,including all the Curiosities of Nature and Art, from the R...

SERIES OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITISH MUSEUM GUIDES,relating to Geology, Palaeontology, Egyptian Collection, Mammals, Fishes, Fossils, Coral and Re...

MAORI KAURI GUM CARVING OF AN ELDER,likely late 19th/early 20th century, modelled in the round with detail of moko to lower jaw, featuring a furth...

EARLY 20TH CENTURY OAK DENTAL UNIT,fitted with a single long drawer over six graduated leaf drawers and a fall front recess, over two cupboard dra...

MEDICAL SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL HUMAN HALF SKELETON,likely early-mid-20th century, the well-preserved skull retaining all teeth but one and with hing...

AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY GERMAN PAINTED PAPIER MACHE BUST OF MEPHISTOPHELES,circa 1920s, raised on a raised on a turned ebonised socle base, 48cm hig...

SET OF STAG HORNS AND PART SKULL,eight-point, on shield shaped mount, 35.5cm point-to-point ...[more]

SET OF STAG HORNS AND PART SKULL,eight-point, the skull with row of teeth, on a shield shaped mount, 40cm point-to-point ...[more]

ELAND HORNS AND PART SKULL,on shield shaped mount, 30cm point-to-point ...[more]

SECTION OF AMBERGRIS,approx. 22cm wide, 701gNote: Ambergris, ambergrease, or grey amber is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or bl...

SET OF MID-20TH CENTURY OPERATION INSTRUMENTS BY W. H. BAILEY & SON LTD OF OXFORD STREET,the brass bound mahogany case with applied plaque inscrib...

LATE 19TH CENTURY MEDICAL ROLLER CHART, c.1890, by Lith.v.Handorff Kiel, depicting a fracture of the lower leg bone, 69cm x 50cm ...[more]

EARLY 20TH CENTURY MEDICAL ROLLER CHART, by St John's Amublance Association, after J.Teck, depicting knuckle and socket joint dislocation, 80cm x ...

MID-20TH CENTURY GERMAN MEDICAL ROLLER CHART,by the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, titled Tuberkulose, 118cm x 67cm

TAXIDERMY STUDY OF A HERON,Family Ardeidae, on naturalistically modelled base, 52cm highProvenance: Purchased from the renowned French taxidermist...

SET OF FOUR LATE 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVED ANATOMICAL PLATES,pub. W.H. Lizars, nos. VI, VII, XIV and XV, including male and female genitalia, mounted,...

EARLY 20TH CENTURY MAHOGANY COLLECTORS CABINET,with six graduated drawers, each mounted with butterfly and moth specimens, each repinned and label...

PAIR OF MID-20TH CENTURY DENTAL CASTS,7cm wide, along with a study model of upper and lower teeth, mounted on a board (4) ...[more]

TAXIDERMY LION HEAD IN THE MANNER OF ROWLAND WARD,modelled in roaring pose, mounted on wooden base, 60cm long, 50cm wideThere is no paperwork with...

TAXIDERMY CHEETAH SKIN RUG BY EDWARD GERRARD & SONS OF 61 COLLEGE PLACE, CAMDEN,early 20th century adult specimen with open mouthed head mount, la...

AFRICAN FLY SWATTER,likely early-mid 20th century, with stitched animal skin bound shaft and carved grip, approximately 130cm long ...[more]

TWO SOUTH AFRICAN ZULU ASSEGAI,late 19th/early 20th century, both with smaller blade to end, 139cm and 131cm long respectively (2)Additional image...

SOUTH AFRICAN ZULU OR NGUNI STAFF,late 19th/early 20th century, with carved head finial, terminating in bone end-section, 148cm long, together wit...

BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, CURTIS (JOHN),pub. Lovell Reeve & Co., London 1862, vols I-II, pub. E. Ellis and Co. (et al.), London 1823-40, vols. III-VIII,...

THE WORKS OF J.H. FABRE, ELEVEN VOLS.,pub. Hodder & Stoughton, London circa 1910s, cloth boards, along with five further vols. relating to Fabre (...

ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN BODY, CHESELDEN (W.),pub. C. Hitch & R. Dodsley, London 1756, illustrated, in half-calf and marbled boardsThere are 40 engrav...

CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY, BUCKLAND (F.T.),pub. Richard Bentley & Son, London 1893, gilt tooled calf boards, along with A Narrative of the Vo...

LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY, BUTTERFLIES, KIRBY (W.R.),pub. Edward Lloyd, London 1896, cloth boards, in 5 vols., along with James Duncan's Natural His...

COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY HAND COLOURED ENGRAVED PLATES DEPICTING VARIOUS FAUNA,includes horses, cattle, big cats and birds, all loose ...[more]

EARLY 20TH CENTURY FOLK ART CARVED AND PAINTED WOOD MODEL OF AN ATLANTIC SALMON,by John Macpherson of Inverness, insribed CAUGHT ON TORRESDAL FOSS...

EARLY 20TH CENTURY TAXIDERMY STUDY OF A BROWN TROUT,Salmo trutta, presented in a naturalistic setting within a glazed oak case, 66.5cm wide, 47.5c...

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