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Lot 654
Triassic Period, 250 million years BP. A fossil Keichousaurus hui in a matrix from the Triassic Period from Xingyi in Guizhou, China. 2.6 kg, 32 x 21.3cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/2"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from Xingyi, Guizhou, China. Keichousaurus was a late-Triassic marine reptile, a member of the pleurosaur family, and went extinct 250 million years ago, during the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. They were specialised fish eaters, and were highly unusual amongst marine reptiles as they gave birth to live young, rather than laying eggs. Fine condition.
Lot 656
Jurassic Period, 200-145 million years BP. A complete fossil dragonfly Isophlebia aspasia in a matrix. 957 grams, 20.1 x 14.6cm (8 x 5 3/4"). From an old Lincolnshire collection; acquired 1980s; from the Upper Jurassic, Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. The Solnhofen limestones is a famous Lagerstätte in Germany, that offers amazing preservation of Upper Jurassic fossils. It is where one of the most famous fossils of all time, Archaeopteryx, was found. Fine condition.
Lot 659
Eocene Period, circa 50 million years BP. A large and near entire fossil crab with excellent preservation showing carapace and other details clearly, lacking only tips to three legs; presented on a stone base for display. 2.73 kg, 22cm wide total (8 3/4"). From a private UK collection, acquired on the London art market 1990-2000.Fine condition.
Lot 3003
Middle Cretaceous Period, Albian Stage, 150 million years BP. A pair of fossil ammonites comprising: a Desmoceras latidorsatum and a Cleoniceras sp. with clean centres. 159 grams total, 54-70mm (2 - 2 3/4"). From an old Lincoln collection; from North-East coast of Madagascar. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3004
Lower Cretaceous Period, 110 million years BP. A fossil grasshopper, Orthoptera sp. in a matrix with several larvae. 695 grams, 14.6cm (5 3/4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; from the Crato Formation, near Ceara, Brazil. The Crato Formation of Brazil is a world-famous site for an incredible diversity of outstanding fossil insects, rare invertebrates including arachnids (spiders and scorpions, centipedes), amazing fish fossils (many preserved in concretions as complete three-dimensional fish), plants and even pterosaurs. Located about 500 kilometres inland from the coast, the Crato beds are exposed on the north and eastern parts of a flat plateau, the Chapada do Araripe, surrounded by the present-day towns of Nova Olinda, Crato and Exu. Fossil insects are primarily found in the laminated limestones of the bottom section of the Crato Formation known as the Nova Olinda Member. They date back to the Lower Cretaceous about 112 million years ago. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3005
Cenomanian Stage, Late Cretaceous Period, 99-65 million years BP. A fossil Acanthoceras sp. ammonite on a custom-made display stand. 1.5 kg total, 22cm with stand (8 3/4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from Agadir, Morocco. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3022
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years BP. A fossil Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, African T-rex, tooth. 9.7 grams, 39mm (1 1/2"). From an old Lincolnshire collection; acquired during 1980s; from the Tegana formation of the Sahara Desert, Morocco. The Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was one of the largest predators (larger than its distant North American T-Rex cousin) of all time and is also related to allosaurus and the South American giganotosaurus. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3024
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A pair of matrices comprising: one with a fossil Pinnate caragana leaf; the other with a fossil phylum leaf. 204 grams total, 45-97mm (1 3/4 - 4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; from the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, USA. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3029
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years BP. A fossil Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, African T-rex, tooth. 10.7 grams, 43m (1 1/2"). From an old Lincolnshire collection; acquired during 1980s; from the Tegana formation of the Sahara Desert, Morocco. The Carcharodontosaurus saharicus was one of the largest predators (larger than its distant North American T-Rex cousin) of all time and is also related to allosaurus and the South American giganotosaurus. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3054
Lower Jurassic, Pliensbachian Stage, 190-182 million years BP. A group of three pyrite Tropidoceras sp. ammonites, together with a small mortality plate of pyrite Echioceras sp. ammonites. 49.4 grams total, 22-47mm (1 - 1 3/4"). From an old Dorset fossil and mineral collection; from Belemnite Marls, Charmouth, Dorset, UK. [4, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3056
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A Knightia alta fossil fish in a matrix. 441 grams, 18.2 x 11.4cm (7 1/4 x 4 1/2"). From the Pradi Collection, Boston, USA; acquired during the 1980s; from Wyoming, Green River Formation, USA. Seasonally some 58 million years ago, in the Green River region of Wyoming, torrential rains would occur in the mountains. The rain would flow down the mountain sides and then wide shallow lakes would form in the valley below. When the dry season would occur, these lakes would dry up due to evaporation (similar to certain parts of Africa today"). Millions of fish would die in this short period of time. This climatic cycle happened over a 20-thousand-year period. Layer upon layer of mud was deposited over these years entombing all these fish. At a much later date volcanic activity uplifted this area to expose all those layers of fossil fish. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3058
Cretaceous Period, 110 million years BP. A fossil Meyeria magna lobster from the Isle of Wight. 185 grams total with case, 76mm (3"). From an old Lincolnshire collection; acquired 1980s; from the Lower Albian, Lower Lobster beds, Atherfield Point, Atherfield, Isle of Wight, UK. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3068
Cretaceous to Pliocene Period, 100-2.5 million years BP. A group of fossils comprising: three polished fossil sea urchins; a sand dollar Encopetamianiensisfrom the Tamiami Formation, Charlotte County, Florida, USA; a Conulus albogalerus from the Upper Chalk Formation, Kent, UK; a Pygurus marmonti from the Jurassic deposits in Sakaraha, Madagascar. 237 grams total, 42-71mm (1 1/2 - 2 1/4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3069
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A pair of Knightia alta fossil fish in a matrix. 201 grams, 12.4 x 10.1cm (5 x 4"). From the Pradi Collection, Boston, USA; acquired during the 1980s; from Wyoming, Green River Formation, USA. Seasonally some 58 million years ago, in the Green River region of Wyoming, torrential rains would occur in the mountains. The rain would flow down the mountain sides and then wide shallow lakes would form in the valley below. When the dry season would occur, these lakes would dry up due to evaporation (similar to certain parts of Africa today"). Millions of fish would die in this short period of time. This climatic cycle happened over a 20-thousand-year period. Layer upon layer of mud was deposited over these years entombing all these fish. At a much later date volcanic activity uplifted this area to expose all those layers of fossil fish. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3090
Late Cretaceous Period, 68-65 million years BP. A fossil lower jaw section displaying two teeth from a mosasaur Prognathodon sp. 99 grams, 74mm (3"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; found in the phosphate mine region, Khouribga, Morocco. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
Lot 3093
Permian Period, 300-260 million years BP. A fossil Branchiosaurus petrolei amphibian in a matrix. 868 grams, 23.7cm (9 1/4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from the Niederkirchen Beds around Pfalz, Germany. Branchiosaurus (Greek for 'gill lizard') is a genus of small, lightly built early prehistoric amphibians. Fine condition.
Lot 3123
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million years-11,700 years BP. A fossil Mammuthus primigenius woolly mammoth tooth displaying a good chewing surface. 1.5 kg, 21cm (8 1/4"). From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill; collected between 1930 and 1960; from the Brown Bank/Dogger beds, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3128
Early Miocene Period, 58-36 million years BP. A group of five juvenile Carcharocles megalodon fossil vertebrae. 13 grams total, 12-21mm (1/2 - 3/4"). From the Pradi Collection, Boston, USA; acquired during the 1980s; from the Pungo River Formation, Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, Aurora, Beaufort County, N.C., USA. [5, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3133
Upper Jurassic Period, 150 million years BP. A fossil Ichthyosaurus communisdorsal vertebra with neural arch; on a custom-made display stand. 910 grams total, 21.5cm with stand (8 1/2"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from Kimmeridge Clay, Weymouth, Dorset, UK. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3138
Eocene Period, 58-36 million years BP. A fossil Priscacaraliops sp. fish from the Green River Formation, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA; mounted on a custom made back-plate. 1.06 kg, 26cm (10 1/4"). From the Pradi Collection, Boston, USA; acquired during 1980s. In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene Lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time. [No Reserve] Fine condition, repaired.
Lot 3142
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A fossil Knightia alta fish in a matrix. 262 grams, 12.7 x 9cm (5 x 3 1/2"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from Wyoming, Green River Formation, USA. Seasonally some 58 million years ago, in the Green River region of Wyoming, torrential rains would occur in the mountains. The rain would flow down the mountain sides and then wide shallow lakes would form in the valley below. When the dry season would occur, these lakes would dry up due to evaporation (similar to certain parts of Africa today"). Millions of fish would die in this short period of time. This climatic cycle happened over a 20-thousand-year period. Layer upon layer of mud was deposited over these years entombing all these fish. At a much later date volcanic activity uplifted this area to expose all those layers of fossil fish. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3145
Triassic Period, 200 million years BP. A group of four fossil fish teeth in oolitic limestone matrix. 57 grams total, 22-38mm (1 - 1 1/2"). From a historic ‘Victorian Museum’ collection; from the stock of Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (1981-2014); formerly with Gregory, Bottley & Co. (1932-1981) and previously with J. R. Gregory & Co. (1898-1932); originally in the collection of the famous James Reynolds Gregory (1858-1898), from the reference collection of Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd; from the Limestone Cayton quarry, near Scarborough. [4, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3147
Eocene Period, 58-36 million years BP. A group of three fossil leaves including Populus wilmattae and Salix cockerelli in a matrix. 395 grams total, 8.1-10.2cm (3 1/4 - 4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; from the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, USA. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3157
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million years-11,700 years BP. A very large polished Mercenaria campechiensis fossil bivalve. 276 grams, 13cm (5 1/4"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from the Tamiami Formation, Venice, Florida, USA. [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Lot 3160
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years BP. A fossil Knightia alta fish in a matrix. 233 grams, 12.5 x 8.8cm (5 x 3 1/2"). From an old Bristol paleontological collection; acquired 1950s-1960s; from Wyoming, Green River Formation, USA. Seasonally some 58 million years ago, in the Green River region of Wyoming, torrential rains would occur in the mountains. The rain would flow down the mountain sides and then wide shallow lakes would form in the valley below. When the dry season would occur, these lakes would dry up due to evaporation (similar to certain parts of Africa today"). Millions of fish would die in this short period of time. This climatic cycle happened over a 20-thousand-year period. Layer upon layer of mud was deposited over these years entombing all these fish. At a much later date volcanic activity uplifted this area to expose all those layers of fossil fish. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 3161
Circa 1930. A group of nine surface-treated plaster fish models designed by Vernon Edwards in an old card tray; accompanied by an original Gregory, Bottley & Co. Extinct Animals catalogue circa 1930. See Swinton, Dr William Elgin, Monsters of Primeval Days, London, 1931; see also, same author, The Dinosaurs - A Short History of a Great Group of Extinct Reptiles, London, 1934, wherein many of the drawings, models and dioramas created by Edwards are published, described and illustrated (the author at the Natural History Museum, London, 1924-1961, later Director of Life Sciences, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, died 1994"). 55 grams total; fish: 51-54mm, catalogue: 22 x 14.4cm (15 1/4 x 13 3/4"). From the historic collection of Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd; acquired by Percy Bottley of Gregory, Bottley & Co. in the 1930s; formerly from a historic natural history art collection, the artistic work of Palaeontologist, Commander Vernon Edwards. Vernon Edwards is credited as being one of the most talented and influential dinosaur model makers of the 20th century. His work has appeared in museums and galleries around the world; it was a major influence on movie producers and early special effects creators, particularly when films such as ??The Lost World?? and ??King Kong?? began to showcase dinosaurs as part of the increasingly popular ‘monster movies’ of the 1920?'s and 30??s. Edwards was born in 1891 into a naval family and attended Weymouth College. In 1914 he joined the navy and served throughout World War One; after the war he found it difficult to adjust to civilian life and, among other professions, tried his hand at farming. His greatest passion was model making, being self taught in art and anatomy, and it was whilst staying with family in Sussex in the early 1920??s that he met Dr F.A. Bather, Keeper of Geology at the British Museum. Dr. Bather was impressed by the detailed and accurate models that Edwards was producing and asked him to produce a series of prehistoric models for the British Museum (Natural History), now known as the Natural History Museum. Vernon Edwards was given access to the museum's collections and scientific monographs, so the models he produced were up to date reconstructions which were then authenticated by Dr. Bather and later by Dr. W.E. Swinton for scientific accuracy. His major work for the Museum was a series of dioramas which graced the 'Fossil Fish' gallery until the late 1970?s. The models proved to be very popular and many museums around the world would order them to highlight their growing and increasingly popular collections of paleontological specimens; the largest collections in the UK can now be found in Bolton Museum and the Horniman Museum, London. At this time Edward’s work would also go on to be used for cigarette cards, as well as appearing in many popular magazines, such as? ??The Illustrated London News??? and ???The Listener?,?? but it was the publication of ??The Dinosaurs: A Short History of a Great Group of Extinct Reptiles,?? by W.E. Swinton, the first ?serious d?inosaur book ever produced, that would place his work at the forefront of academic and popular imagination. Commercial production of the models was time-consuming, which made the models expensive, so very few were produced other than for museums. Being of plaster they were also fragile, so very few outside well-conserved museum collections survive undamaged. The items in this collection are a selection of original sketches? and paintings? by Vernon Edwards, master models from which moulds were taken, and stock models produced for sale by Gregory Bottley & Co. M.E. Howgate M.Sc. FLS? (Authority on Vernon Edwards) [10, No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 196
Geological Society of London. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 9 volumes, a partly broken run, volumes II-IV, VI-X & XII, 1846-48, 1850-54 & 1856, numerous folding geological charts, maps, etc., including some hand-coloured, and many single-page uncoloured lithographed plates of geological specimens and fossils, occasional light spotting (contents generally in clean condition), contemporary uniform dark blue half calf gilt, early bookplate to front pastedown of each volume of David Llewellin, a few minor marks to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 9)NOTESProvenance: David Llewellin (1826-1880), Civil and Mining Engineer, and Mineral Agent for Lord Aberdare and other landowners in Glamorganshire. He was responsible for the building of several branch railways in Glamorganshire, as well as construction work linked to the numerous collieries in South Wales. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society. Attractively bound series of volumes of this important and pioneering geological publication, containing numeorus first publications of papers by William Buckland, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Gideon Mantell, Roderick Murchison, Adam Sedgwick, W.D. Conybeare, Charles Babbage, Richard Owen and many others. Darwin's contributions are: An Account of the Fine Dust which Often Falls on Vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, On the Geology of the Falkland Islands (both 1846) , On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a Lower to a Higher Level (1848), and On British Fossil Lepadidae (1850), and it was in the context of the Geological Society's frequent meetings and publications during the period covered by these volumes, that Charles Darwin was able to solve the problem of organic origins with the theory of evolution.
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Lot 226
Buckland (William). [Sammelband of geological and palaeontological tracts], 1820-24, comprising: 1. Vindiciae Geologicae; or the Connexion of Geology with Religion Explained, in an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of a Readership in Geology by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, 1st edition, Oxford: at the University Press for the author, 1820, [8] 38 pp., retaining half-title, without folding plate of manuscript facsimile noted in some copies, small mark to fore margin of title-page and verso of half-title, 2. Account of an Assemblage of Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bear, Tiger, and Hyaena, and Sixteen Other Animals; discovered in a Cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the Year 1821 ... from the Philosophical Transactions, London: William Nicol, 1822, 68 pp., 12 engraved plates numbered XV-XXVI, title-page repaired, pp. 67-8 and plates spotted, 3. Notice on the Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield, from the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, London: Richard Taylor, 1824, [389]-396 [1] pp., 5 lithographic plates numbered XL-XLIV (2 double-page, 1 folding), list of plates, title-page slightly marked, plate XLI imprint shaved, XLII image just shaved, XLIII (folding) nicked and dust-soiled along fore edge affecting imprint, 4. Observations on the South-Western Coal District of England. By W. Buckland and W. Conybeare. From the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, London: Richard Taylor, 1824, [ 210]-316 [1] pp., list of plates, 7 lithographic plates, maps and plans numbered XXXII-XXXVIII, 4 folding (no. XXXII opening to 26 x 105 cm), all but one hand-coloured, number XXXII with slip-cancels, slightly marked in top margin, and trimmed closely to image along bottom edge at one point, engraved bookplate (Thomas Parry, motto 'Live Well'), contemporary tan calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, 4to (26.2 x 21 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I 'For a century after his death Buckland's reputation suffered a decline: he was largely remembered as an eccentric figure who tried unsuccessfully to reconcile geology with Old Testament accounts, and as a champion of ' diluvialism ' and an outmoded catastrophism which was destroyed and superseded by the " uniformitarianism" of Lyell . However, recent reappraisals ... have shown that, on the contrary, Buckland was one of the leading figures in the golden age of geology. It could be argued that more than anyone else he was responsible for making geology, and in particular the concept of ' deep time ', acceptable to the Anglican establishment centred on Oxford, and so for paving the way for the Darwinian revolution' (ODNB).
Lot 367
A Collection of Microscope Related Books, including 'Carpenter on the Microscope, Smith', full calf, 1856, first American Edition; A History of Infusorial Animalcules Living and Fossil by Andrew Pritchard, 1852, third edition ; La Practique Microscopique par A Juillet et L Galavielle, 1923, half calf; Evenings at the Microscope by Philip Henry Gosse, FRS 1877 full calf, prize copy form Kings College London; The Microscope and its Revelations, by Carpenter, 1862, third edition, full calf, presentation copy
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