Comprising: vibrant green dioptase from Tsumeb, Namibia; gypsum desert rose from Tunisia; Prehenite from Poona, India; dolomite from Peru; spray-like formation of scolceite from Poona, India; blue azurite from the Democratic Republic of Congo; amethyst from Brazil; stellerite from Rudni, Kusteni Oblast, Kazakhstan; Wolframite from Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; thomsonite, chabazite, stilbite and stellerite from Moonen Bay, Isle of Skye. 1 kg total, 25-83 mm



From the private collection of a Cornish, UK, gentleman.

An intergrown mass of prismatic crystals on a matrix. 644 grams, 16.5 cm



Property of an Essex gallery.

From Mammuthus primigenius, professionally conserved and polished to a high standard. 620 grams, 40.5 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.

The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on, the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.

Rev. Prof. G. Henslow - Prof. Henslow's Botany for Beginners- London, 1901, card covers, 103 pp, monochrome plates; R.M. Lockley - Birds of the Sea - London and New York, 1945, card covers, 24pp, colour plates; B. Vesey-Fitzgerald - A Second Book of British Birds and their Nests - Loughborough, 2nd edition, 1954, hardback, colour images; R.L.E. Ford - British Reptiles and Amphibians - London, first published 1954, hardcover with dustjacket, 86 pp, monochrome and colour illustrations; R. Wilson - The Backgarden Wildlife Sanctuary Book - London, 1979, hardcover with dustjacket, 152 pp, monochrome illustrations. 1.28 kg total, 17.7 x 12 - 25.3 x 19.5 cm



From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.