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LOT 2767
A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America
1896 A.D.
8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (993 grams, 21.5 x 15 cm).
Thomas Nuttall - Vol.II Game and Water Birds - Boston, 1896, hardback with cloth covers, 431 pp. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an Essex gentleman.
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LOT 2767
A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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Mixed Stone Bead Necklace Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising thirty-one necklaces with oblate and tubular beads in lapis lazuli, serpentine, steatite and other stones. 313 grams total, each app. 46 cm long
Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman; acquired from his father's collection. Property of a Californian, USA, collector. -
Polished Fossil Goniatite Bookends
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Comprising two rounded bookends carved from fossiliferous stone, each with a large Goniatite sp. specimen set to the centre. 2.13 kg total, 11.8 cm each
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
A Collection of Fossils
Devonian-Jurassic Period, circa 417-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mixed group including Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite, Goniatite and Orthoceras. 584 grams total, 7.4-15.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.