Fossils, remains of Animals and Vegetables, Minerals, recent Shells, Corals, and other curious Subjects of NATURAL HISTORY.
CATALOGUE OF THE GENUINE AND ENTIRE
Museum of curious Subjects of Natural History,
OF JOHN STRANGE, ESQ.
Fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, &c.
Late of Portland Place, Deceased.
COMPRISING One of the most extensive and valuable Collections in Europe, of the exuviae of Corals, Fishes, Insects, Shells, Vegetables, and other organic Remains, deposited in the Earth, at or antecedent to the universal Deluge; to the Attainment and Knowledge of which Bodies, Mr. STRANGE had chiefly directed his Researches and Studies, and towards their History made large Collectanea, particularly during his long Residence as British Minister at the Court of Venice, and on his Travels in France, Germany, Italy, and especially in England and Wales; including many rare, curious, and interesting Subjects, together with a great Variety of scientific Specimens of the Calcareous, Barytical, Magnesian and Siliceous Earths, Ores of Metals, Volcanic Productions, and other Minerals and their aggregates, recent Corals, Shells, Vegetables, &c.
Which will be Sold by Auction,
By order of the Executors, and agreeable to his Will,
By Mr. KING, At his GREAT ROOM,
KING-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN,
On FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1800, And Seven following Days, (Sunday excepted.) At Twelve o'Clock.
May be viewed and Catalogues had at the Place of Sale, price 2s each, which will be allowed to Purchasers.
Printed by J. Barker, Great Russell Street, Covent-Garden.
Conditions of Sale.
I. THE Highest Bidder to be the Buyer; but if any Dispute arise, the Lot to be put up again.
II. No Person to advance less than Sixpence; above One Pound, One Shilling; above Five Pounds, Two Shillings and Sixpence; and so on in Proportion.
III. Every Purchaser to pay down Five Shillings in the Pound, as Earnest, in Part of Payment; and to give in his Name and Place of Abode if required.
IV. The Lots to be taken away, with all Faults, at the Buyer's Expence, immediately after the Sale, and the Remainder of the Purchase-Money absolutely to be paid on or before Delivery.
V. Upon Failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money deposited in part of Payment, to be forfeited; the Lots uncleared within the Time aforesaid, re-sold by public or private Sale, and the Deficiency (if any) together with the Charges attending such Re-sale, shall be made good by the Defaulters at this Sale.
Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale, may have their Commissions faithfully executed by their humble Servant,
THOMAS KING.
First Day's Sale. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 EIGHT iron and other ores, from the Archipelago, and part of a septarium, with a stellated gypsum, Sheepy Island
2 An ammonites, with undulated chambers, Austria; 2 l
rge fossil pectens, and 3 more
3 Two mammillated echini, Brunswick; several others of the same genus, sundry fossil shells, and other petrifactions
4 A group of rock crystals, Switzerland; spar on quartz, Palatinate; an obsidian, and 9 more
5 A parcel of fossil shells, and other petrifactions
6 Crystallised galena, with blend, &c. Derbyshire; a purple copper ore, and 11 other minerals
7 A mass of singularly shaped lampades, N. America; 7 other masses of shells, 2 corals, and part of an ammonites
8 A very large yellow stalact
tical spar, which appears to have been formed on wood,
from the Calonnian collection
9 A large parcel of minerals
10 Sundry fossil shells, echini, parts of asteriae, and other petrifactions, in 2 boxes
11 A beautiful Egyptian pebble, cut in two, another Egyptian pebble, and 3 German agates, all polished
12 Two egg chersinae, from Surinam; a moor, a scarce triplex, Japan, and 2 panther porcellanae
13 Twenty-nine jaspers, porphyries, pebbles, Labradore feldspar, basaltes, &c. some of them polished
14 A variety of fossil shells, echini, corals, parts of fishes, and other petrifactions
15 A large group of rock crystals, and yellow pearl spar, from Hungary
16 A great variety of specimens of the stones which composed the ancient Druidical temple of Stonehenge, many of them labelled
17 A variety of fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions
18 Ditto
19 Two specimens of compact red copper ore, Siberia; copper and iron ore, mixed, from the same country; iron ore, with crystallised quartz, from ditto; pyrites, from Goslar; staurolite, Hartz; and 12 other minerals
20 Fifty-four cards, containing a great variety of shells, chiefly of the ammonia, lampas, serpulae, and vortex genera; joints of encrini, corals, amber, and other petrifactions, many of them from Switzerland
21 Millstone, from France; red jasper, from Ronca, in Italy; mammillated marl, Nyland; galena, coated with green carbonate of copper, and many other small minerals
22 Various fossil shells, and polished sections of ditto, some echini, masses of shells, &c.
23 Several hermit crabs, and various other species of the cancer genus, a monoculus polyphemus, some small asteriae, &c.
24 Copper and iron ore, from Siberia; part of a septarium, Sheepy Island, and various other minerals
25 Skeleton of a fish, in yellow laminated marble, from Florence, and two ditto, in black slate
26 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, parts of fishes, and other petrifactions, English and foreign
27 Various small specimens of minerals for experiments, &c.
28 Various recent shells, of different genera and species
29 A ferruginous geodes, having a fossil fish imbedded in it; 5 stones with bones of fishes in them, and three marbles, containing fossil shells
30 Sundry fossil shells, corals, echini, or their casts, and other marine subjects
31 A large specimen of brown and white veined fluor, from Derbyshire, polished
32 A variety of fossil shells, echini, asteriae, &c. chiefly English
33 Ammonia-like serpulae, from Verona; fresh-water shells in chert, Franconville; and various other fossil shells of different genera, from France
34 Sundry pyritae, a blue basaltes, 2 rock crystals, some siuors, blend, and other minerals
35 Sundry recent shells of the mytilus, tellina, ostrea, and other genera
36 Various fossil shells and corals, including a scarce purpura, from Italy; a reverse rhombus, Essex; a mass of ammonia, Dorsetshire, &c.
37 Two winged oysters, from Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire; 2 ammonitae, some masses of shells, and other petrifactions
38 A large piece of plum-pudding stone, from Hartfordshire; variolite, from Worcestershire; a group of cubic fluors, Durham, and 5 more
39 Sundry curious black dendritae, in marbles, some of them from Baden
40 A variety of fossil shells, echini, canceres, anthropomorphi, and other curious marine subjects
41 Black haematites iron ore, from Steurmark; and a group of cubic fluors, coated with ferruginous pearl spar, from Durham
42 A large slab, cut from a mass of ammoniae, of two species, the polished side exhibiting variety of sections, shewing the concamerations, from Dorsetshire
43 Sundry large shells of the lampas genus, some belemnitae, and other fossil shells, echini, &c.
44 Red rock salt, from Visakna, Transylvania; black haematites iron ore, with a crust of crystallised wolfram; a group of rock crystals, Hungary; copper ore, Siberia, and 2 more
45 A coarse limestone, replete with fossil shells, from Mount Peltra, in Italy; a pyritical ditto, containing bones and other remains of animals; and a compact sand stone, having impressions of the reticulated bark of a plant in it.
46 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, canceres, parts of fishes, and other fossil marine productions, vegetables, &c.
47 A specimen of opal in the matrix, from Oservenitza, Hungary, and a semi opal
48 Four large foreign fossil madrepores, one of them from Tyrol, and two from Italy
49 Various fossil shells of the conus, oliva, musica, and other genera, from France and Italy
50 A single talus of a large ludus helmontii, coated with yellow spar, Sheepy Island, and another, coated with small brown pointed spars, from Weymouth
51 Thirty-nine varieties of serpentine stone, from Germany
52 Section of a nautilus, from Wiltshire; 2 other fossil shells, a siliceous zoophyte, from Italy, and 1 more
53 A Moor, a Chinese harp, 2 cones, and 5 other recent shells
54 Several groups of balani, 3 alatae, a large glycymeris, 2 ranae, some serpulae, teredines, and other recent shells
55 A broken section of a large nautilus, the inner part lined with yellow lenticular spars, and a large piece of chert, having in it impressions of the foliated chambers of an ammonites
56 A variety of fossil shells, echini, parts of encrini, corals, &c. English, French, and Italian
57 Twenty-one various granites, porphyries, agates, and other stones, most of them polished
58 A variety of shells, corals, and other remains of marine animals, amassed together in limestone, from Dudley; various pectens in like stone, Vienna; and a limestone, repiete with fragments of the round stem and branches of an encrinus, from Derbyshire
59 Thirty-two various minerals
60 A variegated chalcedony, 2 pebbles, and 3 flints, with ludi naturae in them, and a septarium
61 Various fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions, chiefly English
62 Several polished pieces of jasperified wood, some impressions of fern in iron stone and coal slate, and sundry other fossil vegetables
63 A group of white spars with galena, from the Earl of Ferrer's mine, Leicestershire, and a hollow ferruginous septarified aetites
64 A scarce oyster, a large scallop, a mass of fragments of large encrini, Derbyshire; another, Dudley; and a fossil nautilus, from Sheepy Island
65 Shorl and garnets in a compact granite, Switzerland; a striped jasper, ditto, and a polished asbestos, Scotland
66 Five specimens of coal slate, filled with impressions of ferns, and other plants, 4 of them from Clutton coal pits, near Bath, and a pyritical mass of ammonitae,
67 A large mass of shells of the belemnos, Ostrea, and pecten genera, in a coarse limestone, found by Mr. Strange, near Banbury, in Oxfordshire
68 A parcel of shells of the porcellana genus, chiefly of three species
69 Schuller spar, from Basta, in the Hartz; coloured crystallised quartz, Gloucestershire; selenitae on fossil shells, Oxfordshire, serpentine stone, Aberdeenshire, and 2 Cornish minerals
70 A singular granite, a tabular baroselenite, from the Hartz; a crystallised tin ore, an iron ore, and 8 more
71 Teredines in wood, Sheepy Island; three other fossil woods, fragments of angulated encrini, from Coberg; cast of a margaritifera shell, a group of fossil shells, France, and 3 more
72 A very large piece of the Labradore feldspar
73 Two stalactitical chalcedonies, a ferruginous stone, from the shores of Sicily; parts of 2 large septaria, Sheepy Island, and a spathose lead ore
74 Fifteen curious fossil plants, or their impressions in coal slate, argillaceous iron ore, &c.
75 Twelve various masses of shells, parts of encrini, bones of quadrupeds, &c. chiefly in limestone
76 Pulley stone, from Derbyshire; a curious plant in a siliceous stone, a piece of foreign fossil wood, and 9 masses of fossil shells, some of them from France
77 Truncated spars, from the Hartz; silver ore, Saxony; a tin ore, and 12 more
78 Two fossil fish in yellow laminated marble, Florence; one in black slate, Isleben; a fish's head, Sheepy Island, and sundry teeth of fishes
79 A variety of recent shells of the tellina, conus, bulla, pecten, and other genera
80 Half of a large septarium, composed of a brown argillaceous iron stone, with irregular white sparry veins, and a large piece of parple and yellow circularly veined fluor, Derbyshire, both polished
81 Calkstone with cubic pyrites, Siberia; 3 specimens of native copper, from ditto; rock crystals on chlorite, Cornwall; and 10 more
82 A great variety of small fossil shells, of different genera, chiefly from France; echini, palates and teeth of fishes, &c.
83 A fine madrepora fungites, or sea mushroom, from the East Indies, and a large echinus libum, from the W. Indies
84 A group of large spars, with colourd pyrites, and cauk, Staffordshire, and a group of rock crystals, Switzerland
85 A fine fossil fish in white laminated marble, from Florence, and part of the skeleton of a fish in blue slate
86 Double pointed dog tooth spars on cubic fluors, from Ashover, Derbyshire, and a large polished fluor, mixed with cauk, blend, galena, &c. from the same county
87 A large padding stone, from Hartfordshire, and a variegated scarlet and purple agate, from Oberstein, both polished
88 Fourteen various specimens of marbles, a serpentine stone, and a yellow spar
89 A variety of recent madrepores, millepores, and other curious zoophyte
90 A stellated madrepore in chert, Gloucestershire; ramose fossil madrepores, Italy, and a variety of fossil shells
91 Tourmalins in granite, composed of large particles, from Tyrol, and a mammillated chalcedony, Iceland
92 A mass of corals and fragments of encrini in limestone, from Wenlock, in Shropshire; brown marble with shells, Derbyshire; a flat piece of chert, with casts and impressions of shells in it, France; 3 other masses of shells, and a polished specimen of fossil wood
93 A variety of fossil shells, and other petrifactions, English and foreign
94 Three porphyries, 4 variolites, a flint, from Mount Carmel, and 4 other polished stones
95 A series of 104 small square specimens of Italian marbles, porphyries, stalactitical spars, &c. uniform in size, and polished
96 Thirty-six various minerals
97 An auriculated oyster, another from France; a large lampas, Derbyshire; 2 ammonitae, part of a large ammonia, a cast of a fossil pecten, and a fungites
98 Green stalactitical spar, Derbyshire; a specimen of fossil wood, 3 agates, and 3 more, polished
99 A lobster inveloped with pyrites, France; a large lampas, Derbyshire; a mass of ammonitae, Furstenberg; 2 masses of small nummular corals, an astroites coral, and 3 other petrifactions
100 Sixteen cards, containing a variety of species of recent echini, some of them with their spines on
101 Fossil wood impregnated with pitchstone, Bohemia, polished, and part of a stem of a plant, allied to the sugar cane, from Wrexham
102 A fish's head, and a lobster, from Sheepy Island; casts of shells in iron ore, Sussex; casts of the ramified chambers of an ammonia in chert, 2 large balani, and 5 other petrifactions
l03 Various specimens of the money cowry, pheasant pigmy, scarlet buttons, red rose leaf, and other small recent shells
104 A large septarium, cut in two and polished, from Derbyshire, and a group of purple cubic fluors, Durham
105 Twenty four various fossil shells, echini, corals, and other petrifactions
106 Two fossil fish in black slate, from Isleben, in Germany
107 Violet cubic fluors, partly coated with marcasite, Durham, and pointed calcareous spars, Gloucestershire
108 A large knobbed fossil shell of the clava, or club genus, from France, rare
109 Nine fine specimens of amber
110 Calcareous spar, Finland; red copper ore, with native copper, Siberia; quartz, &c. from the Kungurian Cavity, in the same country; iron stone, from Arbigland, and 14 other minerals
111 Various specimens of agate, jasper, pudding stone, and other silices, many of them polished
112 Madrepora sinuosa, or broad-ridged brain coral, having several boring cockles lodged in it, W. Indies, and a sine madrepora fungites, or sea mushroom, East Indies
113 A veined stalactitical spar, from St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar, and a slab, from a large tortoiseshell septarium, Dorsetshire, both polished
114 Two mytili, a spondylus, 7 other fossil shells, ab echinus, 7 zoophyte, and 2 masses of shells, from Italy and France
115 A group of rock crystals, Switzerland; mammillated chalcedony on iron ore, a singular hollow chalcedony, internally coated with crystallised quartz, a stalactitical haematites iron ore, and 1 more
116 A fine nautilus pompilius, from China
117 A studded hypocephalus, Weymouth; a nautilus, Sheepy Island; marble with shells in it, from Asolano; a bowlder of black marble with white ramose corals in it, from the coast of Holderness, Yorkshire; a madrepore in flint, and a polished jasperified wood, Coberg
118 A large slab of the Marmaroides dendropotamites, or landscape marble, from Cottam, near Bristol. Da Costa's Nat. Hist. Foss. pa. 241
119 A large specimen of cobalt, with red efflorescence and baroselenite, from Saxony, and 2 other minerals
120 A fine cidaris lanceolata, a rare species of the echinus class, from St. Mauritius, rare.
Out of the Calonnian Collection
121 A nautilus, from Sheepy Island; an ammonites, Wilts; a large gryphus, a spondylus, 6 other fossil shells, and 4 other petrifactions
122 A fine mammillated malachites copper ore, from Siberia, and a large piece of feldspar, with shorl, mica and quartz
123 A large polished slab, cut from a carious lava, from Italy
124 Two aculeated rhombi, 2 uberes, 2 musicae, 2 trochi, and 4 other fossil shells, an echinus, and 6 other petrifactions, from France and Italy
125 Two knobbed, figs, 1 of them reverse, from North America, and a scarce purpura, from the coast of Guinea.
126 A large and fine land tortoise, from the E. Indies
127 A variety of fossil shells, of various genera, echini, corals, and other petrifactions
128 A large brown spar, with fragments of the bones of quadrupeds lodged in it, from the rock of Gibraltar; a large angulated ammonites, rare, from Weimar, and a singular columnar fossil Madrepore
129 Part of an ammonites, inveloped with pyrites, Sheepy Island; various fossil shells, masses of ditto, &c.
130 Sundry petrifactions of shells, & other marine subjects
131 Ditto
132 Ditto
133 Ditto
134 Ditto
135 Ditto
136 Ditto
Second Day's Sale, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1800.
1 FOURTEEN masses of fossil shells, from Ronca, and other parts of Italy
2 Sundry joints of encrini, some corals, and various fossil shells, from Switzerland, several English echini, some amber, and other petrifactions
3 A bird's nest, incrusted with spar, from Carlsbad, in Bohemia; a septarium, a group of rock crystals. selenitae, from Monte Marte, and 1 more
4 Sundry rock crystals, from Switzerland; black earth from the top of Monte Rosso, in Italy; some nummular pyritae, variolitae, &c.
5 Jasper, Bohemia, a brecciated jasper an oriental agate, a chalcedony, 7 other polished silices, and a singular Scotch serpentine stone
6 Five large lampades, from Derbyshire; ramose corals in limestone, ditto; 2 jasperisied fossil woods, and 6 other petrifactions
7 Stellated gypsum on a septarium, Sheepy Island; stalactitical vitriol, from Goslar; a crystallised tin ore, a specimen of peacock coal, in a case, and 5 more
8 Several fossil shells, and masses of ditto, ramose corals in limestone, France, 2 echini, &c.
9 A large crushed ammonites, impregnated with pyrites, from Bath, and a mass of small shells, chiefly of the clava genus, in brown sand stone, France
10 Two boxes of grotto shells
11 Twenty-three various minerals, among which are 3 copper ores, Siberia; opake rock crystals, Iceland; clear rock crystal, Switzerland; rock salt, &c.
12 An oyster, a large snail, a large buccinites, and a group of spiral fossil shells, from France
13 A basaltine bowlder, from Italy; a variolite, from Worcestershire; iron ore, Stirlingshire; and several other minerals
14 A granite, a specimen of grey marble, and a stalactitical spar, from Italy; a fluor, Derbyshire, and a Scotch serpentine stone, all polished
15 A great variety of small fossil shells, echini, zoophyte, and other petrifactions
16 Various specimens of ores, crystal, and other minerals, 2 of them from Siberia
17 Two pectens, and 4 echini, in chalk, and flint, from Kent; a group of three beaked oysters, and a trochites, Somersetshire; and various other petrifactions
18 A mass of ammonia in limestone, one side polished, from Dorsetshire; dark coloured marble, with corals and shells in it, Ledbury, Herefordshire; and another shelly marble
19 A group of oysters on a mya, a small devil's claw, the parasol limpet, a hammer margaritifera, and 5 other recent shells
20 Various siliceous stones, some of them polished, red copper ore, Cornwall; a specimen of Irish diamond, vitreous silver ore, Freyberg, &c.
21 A scarce echinus from the island Cor
e, part of a large vulsella, Italy; a large fig whelk, Hants; an echinus in flint, 2 other fossil shells, and 3 lapidified corals
22 A variety of spars, ores, crystals, pyritae, and other minerals
23 Sundry fossil echini, or parts of ditto; joints and other portions of asteriae, encrini, corals, shells, &c. several of them from Switzerland
24 Thirteen various German, and other marbles, most of them polished
25 Thirty-six various minerals of different genera
26 A large fossil pecten, from Somersetshire; the cast of another in freestone, a nautilus, from Sheepy Island; a mass of ammonia, Dorsetshire; a singular fossil coral, polished; and a scarce echinites
27 Two curious fossil fish in yellow laminated marble, from Florence
28 Pearl spar, with rock crystals, Hungary; red silver ore, Hartz, and a granite
29 Part of a porphyry bowlder, from the shores of Northumberland; an agate, from Oberstein; a variegated chalcedony, ditto, and a Hartfordshire pudding stone, all polished
30 A variety of fossil shells, echini, bones and teeth of fishes, &c. from Sheepy Island, France, and Italy
31 Sundry large pieces of copper ore, and other minerals, &c. some of them from Siberia
32 Shorlite, from Altenberg, Saxony; crystallized violet quartz, Wales; a stalactitical iron ore, Triers; columnar tin ore, Cornwall; trihedral copper ore, ditto; and a purple cubic fluor, Derbyshire
33 A large oyster, from Vivarais, in France; a large mya, rare, from Italy; a mass of fragments of encrini, and 2 casts of like fragments in chert, from Derbyshire; ramose corals in limestone, ditto, and 4 other
34 A variety of ferruginous and other siliceons sands, and a sample of magnetical iron sand
35 Half of a large septarium, from Dorsetshire; part of another, with fossil wood in it, Sheepy Island, polished, and white spar, striped with galena and copper ore, Saxony
36 One valve of a long fossil oyster, from Italy; a large ammonia having great part of its finely coloured pearly shell, imbedded with other shells in a coarse calcareous grit, France; a large fossil lampas, Derbyshire, and a singular compressed funnel-shaped fossil zoophyte
37 Calamine, from Wales; amianthus, from the Pyrenees; cockscomb iron ore, Derbyshire; 2 different spars; a trap, and 3 more
38 A curious fossil zoophyte, from Italy; a large ammonites, the broad beaked oyster, and 3 more
39 Sundry ferns and other plants in iron stone, and coal slate, and various other fossil vegetables
40 Crystalised staurolite, on crystallised amethysts, within a hollow agate ball, from the Palatinate: zeolites in trap, from the Island Sky; white amianthus combined with rock crystal, Valdague; and garnets in mica, Auvergne
41 A mass of dentalia, and other shells, from Hernberg, in Mecklenberg; 7 other masses of fossil shells, and a recent petrifaction, from the Coast of Holland
42 Various fossil shells, of the rhombus, trochus, ostrea, ammonia, and other genera; some echini, and other petrifactions
43 Three beautiful dendritical yellow marbles, two of them from Papenheim
44 Various ammonitae, and other fossil shells, some echini, z fish in marble, &c. and a recent petrifaction
45 A fine avanturine stone bowlder, one side polished, from Germany; an onachine chalcedony with semiopal, and a mammillated chalcedonic flint
46 A fine fossil fish, having its scales gilded with pyrites in a black slate, from Isleben; skeleton of a fish in blue slate, and a curious fish of the eel kind, in yellow laminated marble, from Verona
47 Crystallised tin ore, Cornwall; crystallised iron ore, Elbe; 6 various rock stones, from the Top of Snowden; hornblend, from Labradore, and 5 other minerals
48 A thorny heart gryphus on an alatus, a purple spondylus, and a papal mitre
49 Bones of quadrupeds in spar, from Gibraltar, a mass of lampades in a ferruginous limestone, from Banbury, in Oxfordshire; a cast of shells in freestone, Portland, and a recent petrifaction of shells, Antigua
50 Thirty-one polished specimens of marbles, a red porphyry, and a green and red schistus
51 Various recent shells of the porcellana, conus solen, tellina, and other genera
52 Crystallised amethysts within agate, Germany; a stratulated galena with yellow copper ore, &c. Saxony; spar on limestone, Ecton, and an asbestos
53 A large fossil lampas, Normandy; 2 indented oysters, ditto, and a singular ammonites
54 Yellow spar on indurated clay, Sheepy Island; striated gypsum, Nottinghamshire; violet cubic fluors, Durham, and 2 more
55 Eleven various agates, jaspers, granite, and other siliceous stones, 9 of them polished
56 A mass of lampades, corals, and other marine subjects, in limestone, from Dudley, Worcestershire; nine other limestones, containing shells, &c. small bivalves in yellow laminated marble, Verona, and 3 detached fossil shells
57 A group of rock crystals, Switzerland, and a crystallised galena, frosted with cockscomb pyrites, Derbyshire
58 Thirteen various minerals, including a stalactitical chalcedony, a Scotch copper ore, white marble, from Sweden; a zeolite, crystallised sulphuret of copper, Cornwall; tabular baroselenite, Clausthall, &c.
59 Six curious mosaic pictures, from Florence
60 A singular auriculated oyster, France; one valve of an indented fossil oyster, section of a nautilus Gloucestershire; 2 fossil corals and a fishe's head
61 A beautiful red and white brecciated jasper, from Sicily, and a large hollow white chalcedonic agate
62 Two skeletons of fishes in laminated marble, from Verona, and a polished specimen of fossil wood, Saxony
63 A large piece of obsidian, or volcanic glass, from Mount Hecla, Iceland, and a group of rock crystals
64 Some mineral Bezoar, stalagmitae, a polished jaspachates, and various other small minerals
65 A mya, and a pectunclus, from Maryland; a belemnites, in a calcareous grit, Maestricht; 2 large lampades Derbyshire; a balanus, ramose corals in flint, and 5 other petrifactions
66 A great variety of fossil shells, of different genera, echini, parts of asteriae, and other petrifactions
67 Section of a beautiful ammonites, with soliaceous chambers, lined, or filled with spars or limestone; the surface as well as the inner part, highly polished, from Dorsetshire
68 Twelve various foreign granites, porphyries, and basaltes, polished and labelled
69 An alatus, an ammonites, section of an ammonoides, several other fossil shells, 2 echini in flint, and some corals
70 A large trapezium, from Courtagnon; an ammonia marginata, from Dorsetshire; 2 fossil oyster, and a Maestricht echinus
71 Mamillated chalcedony within a hollow flint, Mount Carmel, called there petrified melons; crystallised opaline quartz, Gloucestershire; a cluster of globular pyritae, a trap, ditto; with plumose and other zeolites, from Sky, and 5 more
72 A pectunculus, from Maryland; ditto, Virginia; 4 other bivales, an echinus, Malta; another, foreign, and a pentagonal asteria in chalk
73 A large flint, a jasper, and 2 other polished stones, a variolite, a trap, and 2 more
74 A variety of shells of the buccinum, Iunatus turris, glycymeris, and other genera, some opercula of shells, &c. chiefly from France
75 Thirty-three various ores, silices, and other minerals
76 A reverse rhombus, from Essex; cockscomb oysters, Marsham, in Buckinghamshire; an ammonites, llminster; another, Germany; and 7 other petrifactions
77 A fine slab cut from a large tortoiseshell septarium, got near Weymonth, polished
78 A fine specimen of Ieuzit, from Vesuvius; a shorl in quartz, peacock coal, from Lyons, in France, and a spar with galena and quartz, Cumberland
79 One valve of a spondylus in chalk, rare; wood, bored by teredines, in flint, Kent; a pecten, Bath; another, from Italy; an echinus, from Malta, and 4 other petrifactions
80 An Egyptian pebble, a red jasper, 4 agates, a porphyry and a pudding stone, polished
81 A large tuberculated apiculum, rare, a spondylus, a patella, Gloucestershire; a sulcated hypocephalus, 2 ostreae, another deeply indented; and a fungus coral
82 A large ammonites, an oyster, a specimen of fossil wood, another in limestone, Charmouth, and three mases of shells and other marine subjects
83 Violet granite, East Indies; 2 pudding stones, and 6 other stones, polished
84 A curioas long fossil oyster, with a very prominent beak, the valves separated, from Italy, rare
85 Two belemnitae, Oxfordshire; an alated oyster, ditto; several other fossil shells, some masses of ditto, corals, &c.
86 Sattin like malachites copper ore, foliated native copper, blue crystallised copper ore, and iron stone, spotted with red copper ore, all from Siberia; 3 singular pyritae, Sussex; selenites, Cremnitz; 3 of coloured crystallised quartz, Gloucestershire; heavy spar, Surry, and 5 more
87 The whales, the tortoises, and 2 other species of balani, a painted pectunculus, China; 2 mole hill porcellanae, and 5 other recent shells
88 Brecciated tin ore, Altenberg; white granite, from the Scalp, 12 miles from Dublin; dark coloured manganese, Schio, in the Venetian State; an amygdoloid, stellstone, Lapland ; brecciated jasper, Brescia; a blue lava, Italy, and 6 other minerals
89 Two musics, an alatas, an aculeated rhombus, 2 spondyli, an oyster and a pecten, from France and Italy; an echinus cordatus in flint, Kent, and 2 English fossil nautili
90 A large group of yellow double-pointed spars, with cubic fluors and blend, from Ashover, Derbyshire, and a large specimen of hacked agate, with amethyst, from Germany
91 Seventeen various marbles, chiefly English, polished
92 One valve of a large fossil pectunculus, in limestone, from the vicinity of Bath, and another of a fossil pinna shell, in a laminated limestone, from Stonesfield, both rare
93 A fern, and three other curious plants in coal slate, an impression of the bark of a pine tree in sand stone, from Yorkshire, and 2 polished specimens of fossil wood
94 Thirty five various agates porphyries, and other siliceous stones, a stalactitical spar, and a serpentine stone, many of them polished
95 Three cassidae, a musica, a singular nerites, several other fossil shells, from France and Italy, a mamillated echinus, in chalk, Kent; 2 madrepores, and 3 other petrifactions
96 A mass of lampades, corals, &c. Dudley; a lesser ditto, from the same place, a mass of ammonitae, cut in two
nd polished, 2 madrepores, one of them polished, and four more
97 Twenty-two various petrifactions of shells, fish, &c. and masses of ditto
98 Various agates, carnelions, and other polished stones, &c.
99 A very large ammonites, being 16 inches diameter, from Surrey
100 Pearl spar, with blend and quarte, Cumberland, a geodes iron ore, a group of rock crystals, and 5 more
101 Various fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions
102 Six large masses of fossil shells and other marine subjects, and an ammonites
103 A variety of small fossil shells, from France
104 An oyster, from W
l
enbuttell, several ditto, from Odiham; part of a large mamillated echinus, fossil wood, from Coberg, and 8 other petrifactions
105 Fifteen various minerals
106 A me
ndritical madrepore, polished, one valve of a large glycymeris, and a mass of fresh water bivalve shells, in a calcareous stone, from Oeningen, near the Lake of Constance, all in a fossil state and rare
107 A polished specimen of fire marble, from Carinthia; a large marble ball, from Germany; a red steatites, China, another steatites, and 3 more
108 One valve of a singular fossil oyster, 2 pectens, a piece of fossil wood perforated by teredines, three masses of shells, and 2 fossil corals
109 Crystallised staurolite, from the Pyrenees; green asbestos, Aberdeenshire, and jasperified fossil wood Brescia
110 A very uncommon natural cluster of about 30 pine cones, all on one stalk
111 A great variety of fossil shells, or their casts in chert, from France and Italy
112 Parts of 2 pentagonal asteriae, and a group of spines of an echinus, in chalk, Kent; an encrinus, from Brunswick, and 2 crab's claws, in calcareous grit, from Maestricht
113 A cone, 2 terebrae, 2 rhombi, a group of balani, two caffidae, and 3 other fossil shells, from France and Italy
114 Nine various granites, from the Adige, Calabria, and other parts of Italy, polished and labelled
115 Two specimens of native copper, Siberia; double pointed amethysts, ditto; 2 tin ores, Cornwall; a specimen of native sulphur, one of carbonate of lead, or white spathose lead ore, a crystallised zeolite, and 6 other minerals
116 A variety of fossil shells, corals, and other curious petrifactions, from Italy, France, &c.
117 Needle actinolite in small rock crystals among crystals of tin ore, green and violet fluors, and 2 marcasites, from Cornwall; green and blue carbonate of copper, amethysts, with pyrites, &c. and 3 more
118 Great part of a large flat fish having singular quadrangular scales, inclosed within a grey agrillaceous nodule, from the Cliffs near Weymouth, rare
119 A curious variety of the ruin marble, bordered with black and yellow marble, from Florence
120 Brown mica, from Bohemia; ditto, with shorl, North America; asbestos paper, Italy; schistus, from Elbe; green ditto. Province of Quebec, and a singular foreign selenites
121 Two boxes of rough garnets, and one of Falkland Island carnelions
122 A stone patapatoo, or war bludgeon, formed of basaltes, from New Zealand, 3 ancient stone European hatchet heads, an ornament made of the fibres of plants, neatly plaited in large net-work, with teeth of fishes, shells, &c. wrought in the work, from the Friendly Islands, and 3 stone ornaments
123 Crystallised carbonate of lead, from La Croix aux Mines,
out of the Butean collection.
Green actinolite, in white and yellow chlorite, from Tyrol, and a specimen of onachine chalcedony, the last polished
124 A fine argonauta corrugata, or wrinkled paper sailor, from Minorca
125 Six curious carvings in steatites, from Japan
126 A group of small fossil shells of the gryphus genus, naturally affixed to wood, from Sheepy Island; 2 madrepores, 2 other curious zoophyte, and 2 echini galeati in flint
127 Molybdate of lead, from Bleyberg in Carinthia; native copper, Siberia; pitch stone, from Hungary; iron ore, from Wochein, Carniola; a red haematites iron ore, and a plumbago
128 Various polished agates, carnelions, jaspers, pebbles, and other stones
129 A fish in yellow laminated marble, from Papenheim; bones of a fish's head, Sheepy Island; an ammonia, and 4 other fossil shells, and three fossil corals
130 Sundry pyritae, spars, crystals, some specimens of obsidian, coal, and other minerals
131 Several lampades, and other fossil shells, madrepores, a polished jasperified wood, and other petrifactions
132 A variety of fossil shells, echini, corals, and other marine subjects, &c.
133 Ditto
134 Ditto
135 Ditto
136 A parcel of variolites, jaspers, and other stones
Third Day's Sale. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 A MASS of shells of the lampas genus, in a ferruginous limestone, from Banbury, Oxfordshire; a group of ammonia in limestone, a mass of large pectens, &c. Italy, and part of a large ammonites
2 A reverse rhombus, Essex; a music, Hants; 2 large pectens, and sundry other fossil shells, &c.
3 A box containing a large parcel of fossil shells and other petrifactions
4 Part of a large septarium, with yellow spar, Sheepy Island; a yellow fluor with limestone, in which some fragments of encrini are imbedded, Derbyshire; spathose iron ore, with tabular baroselenite, red jasper, Siberia, and 9 other minerals
5 A large clamp shell, chamagigas, Linn. with adhesions of serpulae, from Ceylon
6 A micaceous stone, with dendritae, on the surface, Italy; 3 laminated calcareous stones, with dendritae, half of a large geodes, and a brown mica
7 Two large ramose corals in limestone, another fossil madrepore, a mass of fragments of encrini, and 1 more
8 A variety of fossil shells, echini, corals, and other petrifactions
9 Green asbestos, from Scotland; pisolithus, from Carlsbad in Bohemia; tabular baroselenite, Siberia: and garnets in mica
10 Part of a septarium, with fossil wood in it, from Charmouth, Devonshire; pyritical ammonites, ditto; two echini clypeati, bones in spar, Gibraltar; a scarce vulsella, Italy, and 9 other petrifactions
11 Porphyry, from Orsky, in Siberia; several basaltes, from the Venetian State, some variolites and other minerals
12 An onyx, from Iceland; an Italian and 3 large German agates, polished, and a rough English pudding stone
13 Several echini, some of them in flint; a cast of a bulla in limestone; 2 lampades; several other fossil shells; a meandritical madrepore; an astroites, a coral in flint, &c.
16 Sundry belemnitae, and other fossil shells, or their casts; some masses of shells, echini, &c.
15 A white chalcedony; a variegated iron ore; an Italian limestone, and a brown limestone with a vein of galena, all polished
16 Samples of hemp and flax, the growth of Italy, and various specimens of thread, cordage, cloth, and paper, manufactured from them, and a small block of lignum vitae,
17 Various fossil shells, echini, echinitae, some masses of shells, and other petrifactions
18 Copper ore, Siberia; brown rock crystals, Bohemia; haematites iron ore, Saxony; iron ore, Elbe; and 18 other minerals
19 Two large ammonitae; a large thin mass of ditto, Dorsetshire; a long oyster, and 3 other petrifactions
20 Twenty polished specimens of marbles
21 Striated gypsum, Italy; calcareous spar, Idria, and Various other minerals, chiefly Italian
22 Part of a large fish in chalk, Sorry; a limestone bowlder, with nummular corals imbedded in it, from Italy; bones of quadrupeds in spar, from the island Lissa, and an oyster, Wilts.
23 Two specimens of allum stone, from Tolfa; phosphate of lead, or green spathose lead ore, from Beresosskoi, Siberia; two Vesuvians; a trap; a leuzit, and several other minerals, from Italy
24 Three large pieces of marble; a rough jasper, and 7 rough variolites
25 A variety of fossil shells, echini, corals, and other petrifactions, English and Foreign, in 2 boxes
26 A fine fossil fish in white laminated marble, from Verona, and part of the skeleton of a fish in blue slate
27 A variety of fossil shells, echini, bones of fishes, and other marine subjects, from Italy, Switzerland, and several parts of England
28 Various specimens of clay, chalks, and other earths, chiefly foreign
29 A nautilus, having nummular spars within the chambers, Gloucestershire; a fine ammonites. Somersetshire; one valve of a large glycymeris, Italy, and a pectunculus in limestone, Normandy
30 A great variety of recent shells, of different genera and species
31 Fifteen granites, porphyries, variolites, and other siliceous stones, most of them polished
32 A collection of salts and sands in small bottles, from Mount Vesuvius
33 Nineteen agates, jaspers, pebbles, and other silices, polished
34 A large mass of fossil shells, &c. in limestone, from Neustadt, and another from Dudley
35 Various specimens of the strata and minerals, from the surface of the earth, to the lowest depth yet searched, near Cromford and Middleton, in Derbyshire
36 Bones in spar, from Gibraltar, and 13 other petrifactions
37 A singular copper pyrites, from Cornwall; galena, in truncated cubes, with blend, &c. Cumberland; a group of double pointed rock crystals, with pyrites, and another with iron ore
38 A large flint, replete with fragments of shells, Kent; a mass of singular lampades in black shale, and 2 other masses of shells
39 Eleven various minerals
40 An alated oyster, from Oxfordshire; a madrepore, France, and 5 masses of fossil shells
41 A basaltiform iron clay, nith yellow spar, Sheepy Island; and a hollow flint, lined with brilliant quartz crystals, from Mount Carmel, called there a petrified melon
42 Two salt cellars, formed of Derbyshire marble, a marble pedestal, a jasper pedestal, 3 marbles for papers, and 5 more
43 Various shells of the ammonia, conus, and other genera, 3 specimens of siliceous wood, and several other petrifactions
44 Six varieties of columnar basaltes, of 3, 4, and 5 sides, from the Venetian State, one end of each polished
45 An alatus, Italy; a spondylus, France; a mass of shells, ditto, and 5 other petrifactions
46 Various fossil shells of the area, pectunculus, conus, voluta, and other genera, from France and Italy
47 A broad beaked oyster, France; a group of 3 oysters, part of a large ammonites, a smooth pecten, Dauphiny, and 2 other petrifactions
48 A piece of wood bored by teredines, and various perforations in shells, chalk, and limestones, by lithophagi, and other boring shell-fish
49 Two sparry casts of echini, from Italy; the cast of a large cardium in a ferruginous stone, a mass of small lentes lapidei; 2 crabs, united by a hardened clay, Ceylon; small pectens in a friable stone, Maestricht, and several other petrifactions
50 A fossil fish of a curious and rare species, in a white marble, from Oeningen, and another in black slate, from lsleben
51 An ammonia, Dorsetshire; 6 Italian fossil zoophyte, a mammillated echinus, and 8 more
52 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, casts and spines of ditto, joints of asteriae, and encrini, and other petrifactions
53 Two valves of large pectunculi, one valve of a large glycymeris, part of a bivalve, and a pecten in flint, a large snail, and a rare fossil echinus, from Dax
54 Twenty various agates, pebbles, and other siliceous stones, polished
55 A large serpulae, a Hercules's club, a carrier, a dissected harp, a group of thread worms, and various other recent shells
56 A very large and fine fossil shell, of the pecten genus, with a
hesions of balani, very scarce
57 A polished fluor, and a spar, &c. Derbyshire; mispickel, with silver ore, &c. Saxony; a singular hollow quartz, and 4 other minerals
58 Two pyritical limestones, with bones imbedded in them, from Gloucestershire; 2 echini in chalk, Kent; an echinus clypeatus, and 6 other petrifactions
59 A great variety of curious small fossil shells, echini and corals, chiefly from France and Italy
60 Crystallised blend with cubic fluors, Durham; truncated hexagonal spars, Hartz; a mass of large garnets in mica, and 1 more
61 Section of a large ammonites, the chambers partly filled with limestone, or blended with spar, polished
62 A mass of ammonitae, cut in two and polished, Germany; jasperified wood, ditto; fossil bones, Gibraltar; three pectens in chalk, and various other petrifactions
63 A variety of small fossil shells, parts of encrini, and other petrifactions, chiefly from Switzerland
64 A hollow mass of crystallised galena, Derbyshire; a stratulated copper ore, with blend and quartz, a bog iron ore, part of a septarium with selenitae, and a variolite
65 Three masses of shells, and other remains of marine animals in limestone, and a recent petrifaction of shells, the last from the W. Indies
66 Two German agates, a variegated chalcedony, a red jasper, a variolite, and a pudding stone
67 A large knotted club, a curious and rare fossil shell, from France
68 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, canceres, and other petrifactions
69 Shelly marble, Kilkenny; 2 landscape marbles, Somersetshire; white marble, from Pargas, in Finland; freestone, from Bath; ditto, from Gloucestershire; red marble, from Millbay, near Plymouth, several German marbles, &c.
70 Four square bony palates of fish, in chalk, from Surry; bones of a fish's head, in clay, Sheepy Island; a large tooth of a fish, of the shark kind, in freestone, Malta; an echinus, a madrepore, and 2 other petrifactions
71 The tusk; of some large quadruped of the feline genus, rare, part of the fangs of the grinder of an elephant, 2 pieces of another large fossil bone, and the bones of a fish's head in clay, the last from Sheepy Island
72 Avanturine stone, from Spain, rare, and 2 Oriental onyxes
73 Four boxes, containing a number of neatly made card boxes, including a great variety of shells, as well terrestrial as aquatic, natives of Great Britain
74 Three winged oysters, from Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire; another fossil oyster, 2 masses of shells, one of them from Germany, and a mass of fragments of encrini
75 A variety of fossil shells, corals, &c. chiefly from France
76 Spathose iron ore, Bareith; a pyrites, with part of a nautilus in it, and 2 other minerals
77 An arcites, rare, a nautilus, some masses of shells and bones, a piece of fossil wood, and other petrifactions
78 Sundry carnelions, jaspers, and other silices, polished
79 A singularly figured galena, several iron ores, a mica, from Germany, and various other minerals
80 Part of the bones of a fish, from Sheepy Island; a tubular coral, from Derbyshire; a mass of shells, Dorsetshire; another, with corals, &c. from Dudley, and 2 more
81 Variolite, from Malvern Hills; a storl, and 7 other minerals
82 Marble, from Warwickshire; 2 ditto, from Derbyshire; one from Devonshire; rosso antico, and 2 other Italian marbles, and 2 more.
83 A nautilus, from Sheepy Island, an ammonites, Gloucestershire; a group of ammonitae, Dorsetshire; a large lamp cockle, Derbyshire, and 3 more
84 Red jasper, Siberia; red copper ore, ditto; tin ore, Cornwall; spathose iron ore, Italy; silver ore, Annaberg, in Stiria; pyrites, Goslar; and 11 others
85 A variety of curious small fossil shells, of different genera, echini and zoophyte, chiefly from France
86 Three balani, a pectunculus, a glycymeris, part of an orthoceratites, 2 mammillated echini, and 9 other petrifactions
87 Eleven various balls of argillaceous iron ore, split in two, and discovering in each a sprig of a plant of the fern kind; and one, containing part of a twig of a pine, most of them from Coalbrook Dale
88 A scarce sulcated bivalve of the lamp genus, a cone, 6 helmets, a singular nerites, various other fossil shells, 4 echini, some madrepores, &c. chiefly from France and Italy
89 Fifty-one various small minerals, including golden mica, from Schio; steatites, Cornwall; crystallised iron ore, Elbe; some pebble chalcedony, &c.
90 A large smooth pecten, Italy; an oyster, Oxfordshire; a large striated lampas, Derbyshire; a mass of fresh water shells, France; a limestone, replete with fragments of encrini, and an angulated fossil madrepore
91 Green jasper, with cubic marcasites in it, from Ronca, in Italy, a large specimen of Bassan marble, and a laminated Florentine yellow marble, with brown dendritae, on it
92 A variety of cypreae, annulus, moneta, and arcticus, and other small recent shells, and a box of red rose shells, &c.
93 A valve of a large pectunculus, from Virginia; a smooth ditto, Italy; one valve of a large glycymeris, from ditto; a group of large balani, from Florence, and 2 fossil corals
94 Leuzit, from Vesuvius; native quicksilver, in cinnabar, with iron ore, Zweybruck; shorl, from Elbe; sattin like malachites, copper ore, native copper, Siberia; rock crystal, St. Gothard; a zeolites, and 1 more
95 A variety of fossil shells, of different genera, from Ronca, in Italy; Courtagnon, &c.
96 Two large pieces of coal slate, replete with ferns, and other vegetables, from coal-pits, in Somersetshire
97 Grey granite, with shorl and garnets in it, Germany; a septarium, divided into quadrangles, Derbyshire; another septarium, and a striped Italian hornstone, all polished
98 The lesser fossil alated spindle, 2 deeply, cancellated trochleae, the pholas-like serpula, a cylindrical bulla, a complete echinated gryphus, rare, and 2 other fossil shells, France; 2 porcellanae, a purpura and 2 trochi, Italy; and a patellae, Gloucestershire
99 Five masses of shells, and other remains of marine animals, in limestone, 2 of them polished
100 Tabuletad baroselenite, Westmorland; rock crystals, Switzerland; 2 crystallised iron ores, Elbe; a red feldspar, with shorl, and 4 other minerals
101 A large specimen of chlorite, having large octahedral crystals of iron imbedded in it
l02 A studded hypocephalus, Normandy; a sulcated shell of the same genus, from ditto; a spondylus, and a trapezium, France, and 2 other petrifactions
103 A curious fossil fish in a yellow laminated marble, with the counter part, from Florence
104 A parcel of odd valves of recent shells of the tellina, cardium, pecten, cepa, and other genera
105 A globose spar on rock crystals, Hungary; a black spathose iron ore, a mammillated copper pyrites, and a pearl spar
106 A scarce sulcated species of the lampas genus; a rare trapezium, 2 other fossil bivalve shells, an orbicular madrepore, Rouen; 2 other fossil corals, 4 echini, and 1 more
107 Marcasites with tin ore, a crystallised tin ore, and a group of crystallised quartz, Cornwall; a sparry deposition on moss, dog tooth spar, with cauk, Derbyshire, and 1 more
108 Sundry ammonia, rhombi, and other fossil shells, some casts of spiral and other shells in chalcedony, France; an echinus in chalk, several fig-saped spines of echini, and other petrifactions
109 Black marble, with shells in it, from Kilkenny; black marble, with corals in it, Durham; grey marble, Sussex; 2 yellow marbles with dendritae, on them, and a dendritical schistose mica
110 A variety of tellinae, dentalia, olivae, and other small recent shells, &c. sorted
111 A large specimen of agate, mixed with jasper and chalcedony, a hollow in the centre of which, is lined with cubic and other singularly figured crystals of chalcedony, very rare, and a large agate, having amethyst and quartz in the middle of it, both from Germany, and polished
112 Pectunculi, from Virginia; fundry other fossil shells, 2 madrepores, from France, and other petrifactions
113 A belemnites, a cone, a group of balani, 4 spiral, and 7 other fossil shells
114 A very fine mammillated echinus, filled with flint, in which one of its spines is imbedded, from Kent; part of a curious nautilus, having a large shelly siphunculus, France; a tuberculated ammonia, with part of its coloured pearly shell, Russia, and a scarce fossil echinus, having one of its rays distorted
115 A cluster of large white twelve sided spars, and a stalactitical group of fluors, partly coated with spathose iron ore, from Durham
116 A capital specimen of mammillated chalcedony, from Iceland.
117 Twelve various masses of fossil shells & corals, chiefly English, polished
118 Cinnabar, Hungary; mammillated spar, Hartz; tabulated barytes, ditto; white cauk, Leicestershire; steel grained galena, with double pointed yellow spars, Derbyshire; an obsidian, and 1 more
119 A variety of curious fossil shells, chiefly from France
120 A fine specimen of madrepora
ibicina with numerous small beginnings of gorgonia pretiofa, or red coral, serpulae, and other curious adhesions from the Sicilian Coast
121 Sixteen polished specimens of English, Irish, and German marbles, with shells and corals imbedded in them, most of them labelled
122 A fine cidaris abbreviata; a curious species of echinus, from St. Mauritius, having its spines; a group of retort worms, in their native bed, Coromandel; and a group of serpulae, on an echinus, Mediterranean
123 A fine specimen of crystallized cyanite, and titanium, from Mount St. Gothard, very scarce
124 A large and fine fossil pecten shell, from Ortenberg, near Passau, and another from Gose Island, near Malta, both rare
125 Native gold, in white quartz, Brazil; nickel, with cobalt, Saalfield; brilliant crystallised native copper in spar, Siberia; and ditto with green carbonate of copper, from ditto
126 A rare sulcated lampas, from Normandy; 2 other scarce shells of the same genus; a spined pecten; a riged margaritifera; a mactra; 6 other fossil shells; a singular coral, and a palate of a fish, in chalk
127 Two large valves of mother of pearl shells, from China
128 Nineteen polished stones, including varieties of the Egyptian pebble, German agates, brecciated and other jaspers, marbles, &c.
129 Section of an ammonia, shewing its concamerations; 3 more of the same genus; several other fossil shells; some echini, and other petrifactions
130 Various pyritae, gypsae, cinnabar, from Idria, and other small specimens of minerals
131 An alated oyster, from Shotover Hill; 2 ammonia; 4 masses of fossil shells, 2 echini, and 4 madreporites
132 Mammilated chalcedony, Iceland; black haematites iron ore, Triers; obsidian, from Italy; a brown and white spar, from Trieste, and a crystallised flag
133 A large tuberculated fossil ammonia shell, imbedded in a septarium, from the cliffs, near Weymouth
134 Section of a pyritical ammonites, from Brunswick; a pyritical ammonites in limestone, Bath; several masses of shells, one of them polished, some madrepores, &c.
135 A large parcel of crystallised Vesuvian, mica, &c. from Mount Vesuvius
136 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, corals and other petrifactions.
Fourth Day's Sale. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 A VARIETY of fossil shells, echini, asteriae, parts of fishes, and other petrifactions
2 Several dendritical and other marbles, and sundry spars, gypsae, silices, &c. some of them polished
3 Various specimens of crystallised quartz, vesuvian, asbesti, native copper, iron ore, and other minerals
4 Five masses of shells, and other marine productions; 2 echini; an echinites in flint; an oyster, and other petrifactions
5 Native oxyde of quicksilver, from Idria; crystallised white carbonate of lead in iron ore; three varieties of trap; spar within fossil shells, Oxfordshire; 2 micae; a crystallised vesuvian, and 4 more
6 Fifty-three varieties of Italian marbles; stalactitical spars, and serpentine stone, each specimen 31/4 inches square and polished
7 Three ammonitae; a nautilus; a group of alated ostreae, sundry masses of shells, corals, and other marine subjects, &c.
8 A large parcel of fossil shells, echini, corals, and other petrifactions, in two boxes
9 An Egyptian pebble; a variolite; 3 jaspers, and 10 other silicious stones, polished
10 A mass of fossil shells, from Germany; a large fossil pecten, from Bath, and 2 ammonitae,
11 A large coal slate, filled with impressions of plants of the fern kind, from Lancashire
12 A large and fine fossil nautilus, from Sheepy Island, Kent
13 Flos ferri, from Steurmarck; stalactitical chalcedony, Cornwall; a red ore of cobalt; staurolite, Andreasberg; a zeolite, and 8 other minerals
14 A skeleton of a fish in white marble, from Oeningen; ditto, from Bohemia; another from Mount Carmel, one in black slate, Isleben; a fish's head, with pyrites, Sheepy Island, and a vertebra of a large fish
15 A large ball formed of the Florentine ruin marble, singularly figured
16 Hae,matites iron ore, Lancashire; 2 groups of crystals, France, and 12 other minerals
17 An ammonites, cut in two, France; a group of teredines, Sheepy Island; fragments of encrini in limestone; Dorsetshire, and a jasperified wood, Coberg, all polished
18 Sundry agate beads; a cut Egyptian pebble, for a cane-head, a marble for papers, &c.
19 Twenty-four various fossil shells, echini, corals, &c. some of them from France and Italy
20 A porphyry bowlder, from South Shore, Scarborough; laminated white marble, with black dendritae, Baden; a red marble with white sparry fragments of encrini in it, and 1 more
21 Fresh water spiral shells in lithomarga, Isle of Wight; 2 masses of shells in sand stone, Pierre en Laye, France; shells in chalcedony, Courtagnon; 6 other masses of shells; ramose corals in limestone, Derbyshire, and 1 more
22 An ammonites cut in two and polished, from Gloucestershire; casts of spiral shells in chert, from France; a group of serpula shells in limestone, and a fossil pectunculus
23 Various fossil shells, echini, crabs, and other petrifactions, English and Foreign
24 Native copper, Siberia; copper ore, ditto; crystallised staurolite. Andreasberg; white crystallised quartz, in a hollow flint, Mount Carmel; galena, with copper ore and spar, in stratula, Germany, and a singular artificial crystallisation of bismuth
25 A variety of fossil shells, corals, and other petrifactions
26 An alated oyster, with a serpulae, adhering to it, Oxfordshire; several fossil shells, from Italy; an ammonia, Furstenberg; 2 reticulated and several other corals, with various other petrifactions
27 Three jaspers, a chalcedony, 2 agates, 2 pudding stones, and a stalactites, polished
28 Twenty-eight varions fossil shells, corals, and groups of ditto, English, French and Italian
29 Twenty various minerals, from Silesia, Wales, and other parts
30 A variety of curious fossil shells, of different genera, from France and Italy
31 Crystallised tin ore, Cornwall; mammillated chalcedony, Iceland, and brown pitch stone, Hungary
32 A large fossil nautilus, from Sheepy Island
33 A singularly figured green asbestos, from Scotland; a septarium, from Dorsetshire; and crystallised spathose iron ore, on the surface of a large cubic fluor, from Durham
34 Pumice-stone-like iron ore of pallas; native copper and a copper ore, Siberia; copper ore, with cauk and pyrites, from Staffordshire, polished and 13 other minerals
35 Two boxes containing a variety of small fossil shells, echini, teeth, and other bones of fishes, corals, and other petrifactions
36 Various singular palates of fishes, from Kent, Oxfordshire and Somersetshire; sundry teeth and other bones of fishes, 3 crabs, from Ceylon; several impressions of serns and other plants in stones, 2 fossil nuts, rare, and other curious petrifactions
37 Five varieties of quicksilver ore, from Idria; striated marcasites, Hungary; antimony, from Tuscany; 2 crystallised vesuvians, and several other minerals
38 A large and fine plum-pudding stone, from Hartfordshire, polished
39 Various, fossil shells, echini, teeth, and vertebrae, of fishes, and other petrifactions
40 Nineteen cards, containing a variety of fossil shells, principally from France and Italy
41 Part of an elephant's tusk, diseased by being wounded with an iron ball, a polished section of an elephant's grinder tooth, both from the Cape of Good Hope; a large hair ball, from the stomach of a cow, another from the stomach of a horse, horns of a small African deer, patellae, of the back bone of a whale, and 3 more
42 Quartz, with shrub-like vitreous silver ore, Johangeorgenstadt; crystallised vesuvians, from Vesuvius, hammites, Gloucestershire; pointed spars, from Clausthall, in the Hartz; tabular baroselenite, ditto, and 9 other minerals
43 A large German agate, 2 lesser ditto, 4 jaspers, a granite. a porphyry, and 5 other polished stones
44 A curious and extremely scarce bivalve shell, imbedded in flint, from Wells, in Norfolk; a group of various shells, in limestone, Normandy, and two rare fossil echini
45 A mass of ammonia in a limestone bowlder, from the Shores of Yorkshire, cut in two and polished, a curious madrepore, with small stars, Derbyshire; and a fish in marble, Verona
46 Green jasper, from Spain; trap with kernels of zeolites, Germany; a variegated pebble, Palatinate; porphyry, Northumberland, and 5 more polished
47 Four belemnitae, from a chalk pit, in Kent; 2 ammonitae, Whitby; 5 others of the same genus, a fish from Papenheim; some crabs, Sheepy Island, and other petrifactions
48 Two boxes, containing a great variety of fossil shells, corals and other petrifactions
49 A small kangaroo, from New South Wales, in a glazed case
50 Twelve various petrifactions, including 2 ammonites, a smooth pecten, Bath, a trochites, &c.
51 Twenty-five curious fossil vegetables, consisting of polished specimens of jasperified wood, from Hungary, Bohemia and Turkey; 2 large nuts, Sheepy Island, some ferns, &c.
52 Cubic marcasites, in a green slate, Cumberland; arrow-head selenites, Monte Marte; a stratulated galena, with copper ore, Saxony; and 2 others
53 Two boxes, containing a variety of English flints, with corals and other zoophyte imbedded in them; and sundry fossil shells, from France
54 A large ridged ammonites, from a chalk pit, in Surry, and a group of the beaked oyster in limestone,
the last from Dr. Woodward's collection
55 Three serpentine stones, an onachine chalcedony, 2 variolites, 2 porphyries, and 13 other filices, most of them polished
56 Two very fine groups of recent serpulae, shells, from the Coast of Sicily
57 Four polished pieces of jasperified fossil wood, one of them from Brescia; an iron stone, with a fern in it, Coalbrook Dale, and 2 pieces of coal slate, with ferns and other vegetables in them, from Lancashire
58 A tabulated mass of onachine chalcedonic quartz, octohedral galena, with spars and cauk, Leicestershire: blend with pearl spar and barytes, Cumberland, and 3 more
59 A belemnites in flint, Norfolk; a rhombus, Essex; a group of glycymerides, a large cardites, a balanus, an echinus in flint, a mass of shells, and 4 fossil corals
60 Calyptra corrugata, from St. Domingo, 2 of tellina striata, W. Indies; a pair of chersina vexillum, Surinam, and various other recent shells
61 Lapis Lazuli, from Persia; bloodstone, from Arabia; yellow agate, with quartz, Spain; jasper, from Livonia, and 5 others, polished
62 Nine various petrifactions, viz. A lampas, Derbyshire; section of a nautilus, Wiltshire; 2 scarce pectens, 2 balani adhering together, and 3 fine echini, one of them in flint
63 A group of red oysters and balani, from Guinea; a tuberculated ark, China; an ark with a gryphus adhering, and 3 other recent shells
64 Jet, from Norfolk; peacock coal, Brunswick; black haematites, from the mine of Mr. Demidow, in Siberia; a singular spar, Wales, a tabulated barytes and 7 more
65 A mammillated echinus, from Switzerland; a rare echinites, Malta; a light coloured siliceous wood, with open pores, Normandy; an hypocephalus, a vulsella, a neretoidea, Ronca; a group of cockscomb oysters, a pectunculus, France; and a palate of a fish, Kent
66 Soft elastic bitumen in limestone, Derbyshire; ditto, in chert, from the same county; crystallised amethyst, the crystals coated with cubic chalcedony, rare, on agate, Saxony; cubic marcasites in black slate, ditto, in marble, a stratulated galena, with white spar, and a stellated gypsum
67 Twenty-four polished specimen of marbles, and other beautiful stones
68 An ammonites, with its impression in argillaceous iron ore, Whitby; an ammonites, Germany; a group of ditto, Dorsetshire; marble with shells, from the Venetian State; a cardium in a bituminous slate, from Sky; and 6 other petrifactions
69 A very curious fossil fish of the flounder kind, in a yellow laminated marble, from Verona
70 Section of an ammonia, France, a scarce purpura, Italy; a studded hypocephalus, Dorsetshire; a turban echinus in flint, Kent; a crab, from Verona; a polished madrepore, and 2 polished specimens of fossil wood
71 A large garnet, Bohemia; galena, rich in silver, Freyberg; crystallised ditto, with baroselenite, and 2 other minerals
72 A very fine group of clear rock crystals, the columns variously modified, from Mount St. Gothard
73 Four curious and rare petrifactions, viz. a large turbinated shell, from Lugo; a large tellina, from Ronca; a meandritical madrepore, from Castel Gombeno, and another zoophyte
74 A mass of spiral, and other curious fossil shells, in a calcareous stone, from Courtagnon, and a flat piece of chert, filled with chalcedonic casts of various shells, also from France
75 An ore of arsenic, from Bohemia; chert, from Paris Mountain, Anglesey, found near the surface above the copper ore, crystallised Vesuvian of Werner, in green mica, Mount Vesuvius; red copper ore, with malachite, Siberia, and 2 more
76 Head of a fish, in clay, Sheepy Island; bones of another fish, in like clay, from ditto: a lobster, ditto; 2 sections of a fossil grinder of an elephant, polished and bones in spar, Gibraltar.
77 A great variety of curious small fossil shells and corals, from France and Italy
78 Six polished granites, porphyries, and other curious stones, from the Adige, and other places in Italy
79 Madrepora annulata, E. Indies; 2 of madrepora areolata, a tubipora musica, 2 singular sponges, and 5 other zoophytes
80 Great part of the skeleton of a long fish, in a blueish black slate, from Italy
81 Various fossil shells of the ammonia, lampas, pecten, ostrea, and other genera, some corals, echini, &c.
82 Native silver in small particles, and streaks in a black stone, Annaberg; short in quartz, from Giglio; rich native oxyde of quicksilver, Idria; a specimen of plumbago, a steatites, opal in the matrix, Hungary, and crystallised iron ore, with rock crystals, Elbe
83 A great variety of recent shells of different genera
84 Fourteen various masses of shells, corals, and other remains of marine animals, from Dorsetshire, Worcestershire, Italy, &c. and a recent petrifaction from the Dutch Coast
85 White marble, from Paros; yellow marble, Sienna; jasper marble, Sicily; 6 Devonshire marbles; landscape marble, Bristol; green marble, Egypt, and 2 more
86 A scarce ammonia with undulated cells filled with limestone, a madrepore, a belemnites, with fragments of other marine bodies in calcareous grit, Maestricht; and a mass of small fossil nummular corals
87 A large and fine variolite, from Malvern Hills, Worceltershire; and a beautiful German agate, both, polished.
88 The great coxscomb oyster, with a madrepore adhering to it, from the Friendly Islands
89 A large block of German agate, two jaspers and 3 granites
90 An ostrea from the Venetian State; glycimeris and a cardium, Transylvania; a group of balani, Italy; 3 other fossil shells, a group of ditto, from Petworth; an echinus galeatus in flint, Norfolk, and an angulated fossil madrepore
91 Madrepora sinuosa and labyrinthica, the broad and sharp-ridged brain corals, from Barbadoes; 2 other madrepores, a tubipora musica, and a red coral on its native rock
92 Part of a curious fish of the plaise kind, with polished quadrangular scales in a grey argillaceous stone, from the Cliffs, near Weymouth
93 Three varieties of serpentine stone, a prismatic feldspar, and an hebraic granite, all from Scotland; amazon stone, Siberia; serpentine stone, from ditto; brown granite, from Elbe, and a foreign amigdaloid
94 A great variety of small recent shells of different families
95 Two polished sections of madrepores, from the Venetian State; a polished piece of fossil wood, and a group of small cockscomb oysters
96 Two ammonia, cut in two and polished, a large echinated pecten, an alated oyster, Oxfordshire; part of the skeleton of a fish in marble, from Oeningen, and 2 more
97 A large oval slab of ferruginous shelly marble, from Germany, polished
98 A variety of dentalia, Terebrae; balani, some bivalves, and other fossil shells, from Italy, France, &c.
99 A large specimen of malachites copper ore, from Siberia
100 A variety of fossil vegetables, consisting of several species of jasperified fossil wood; impressions of ferns and other plants, in slate and iron stone, a cone, some fruit stones, &c.
101 Sixteen polished specimens of marble, from Devonshire, labelled
102 A large knobbed fossil shell, of the clava genus, from France, rare
103 A numerous assortment of small fossil shells, of the ammonia, purpura, lampas, and other genera joints of encrini, echini, or parts of ditto, corals, &c. chiefly from Switzerland
104 A group of four fishes on a leaf, carved in red opake amber, and two specimens of clear amber
105 Magnetick iron sand, from the Lake Balaton; some bezoar minerale, slalagmitae, pea iron ore, Basle; garnets in the matrix, and various other minerals
106 A fossil fish in a laminated marble, with the counter part, from Florence; and another with the scales pyritified in a black slate, from lsleben
107 Honeycomb septarium, composed of rotten stone, and crystal sceptae, from Durham; and a sparry septarium, Dorsetshire
108 Balanus of the common whale, ditto of the sperma ceti whale, 2 studded helmets, a fool's cap limpet, and fundry other recent shells
109 An echinus galeatas in flint, Kent; an echinus cordatus in chalk, Sorry; an echinus clypeatus, Oxfordshire; 3 pectens, a glycymeris, and 4 other fossil shells, 3 madrepores, and a polished specimen of fossil wood
110 Various smaragdine stones, 9 feal stones, an ancient crystal speculum, a mamillated chalcedony, 2 oriental agates, &c.
111 Lenticular iron ore, Elbe; coloured crystallised iron ore, ditto; native copper, Cornwall; sattin-like stellated carbonate of copper Moldova; 2 of white spathose lead ore, a basaltes, and a shorl
112 A small echinus, with several of its spines in chalk, a quadrangular palate of a fish, and a conic echinus in flint, from Kent; 2 other echini, a Dorsetshi
e ammonites, and 3 more
113 Six polished granites, &c. from the Venetian State
114 Various univalve and bivalve shells, in grey and white chert, from Duval near Soissons,
out of the Calonnian collection,
and a ferruginous limestone, replete with bivalve shells
115 A box of rose shells, 2 of tulip tellens, 1 of scarlet gryphi, and 1 of small arcae, for shell work
116 A variety of curious fossil shells, from France and Italy
117 Stalactitical chalcedony, Iceland; native copper, Siberia; 2 copper ores, from ditto; needle manganese,
menau
a stalactitical group of rock crystals, Hungary; hammites, Rutlandshire; green actinolite, Tyrol, and 8 more
118 A scarce long fossil oyster, from Dauphiny
119 Seventeen various shelly, and other marbles, and a specimen of toad stone, polished
120 A very curious fossil fish of the flounder shape, having large scales, in a grey calcareous stone, with the counterpart
121 Rhombic spats within fossil echini, from the chalkpits in Hartfordshire; compact red copper ore, with green carbonate of copper, Siberia; coloured foliated iron ore, Elbe; three rock crystals, one of them having additional angles to the usual number, and a double pyramid, and 2-more
122 Two small spondyli, various pyrae, terebrae, physeteres, and other fossil shells and corals, from Italy, and France
123 Finely coloured iron ore in lenticular crystals, Elbe; malachites copper ore, Siberia; manganese, from Ilfeld; and rhombic zeolites, with mammillated spars, Hartz
124 Fifty-three cards, containing a great variety of curious small fossil shells, of the patella, oliva, pyrum, buccinum, and other genera, asteriae, corals, &c. chiefly from France and Italy
125 A series of 56 English, German and Italian marbles, uniform in size, polished
126 A pyritical ammonites, from Brunswick, cut in two and polished; 2 spiked rhombi, 2 musics, and a scarce neretoidea, from France; a cone, from Piedmont, and a rare echinus
127 Seven Roman tiles, a large ditto, found near South-Bourn, Suffex; a large piece of Roman earthen ware, with the surface undulated, an earthen water course, and various other subjects of antiquity
128 A set of casts from Dassier's Roman medals, with their reverse, each inclosed in gilt paper borders, and a like set of casts from Dassier's Kings of France, with the reverses, bordered in the like manner, in all 250
129 A turban echinus in chalk, Kent; 2 echini galeati, ditto; section of a pyritical ammonites, Germany; several other fossil shell, corals, &c.
130 Two boxes, including a great variety of small shells, of different kinds, sorted
131 Bubbled chalcedony, on a bituminous stone, from Dauphiny, and crystallized zeolyte, from Andreasberg
132 Two curious fossil fish, in laminated marble, from Germany; one ditto, Bohemia, and a fossil fish, in black slate, from Italy
133 Eleven various granite, porphyries, and basaltes, from Italy, all but one polished
134 Twenty-four specimens of crystallised quartz, fluor, cinnabar, galena, and other minerals
135 A great variety of fossil shells, echini, bones, and other petrifactions, in 2 boxes
136 Zeolites, from Ferro; calcareous spar, Derbyshire; antimony, Hungary; and a crystalised quartz
Fifth Day's Sale. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 RED stalactitical chalcedony, Spain; red haematites iron ore, Lancashire; crystalised carbonate of lead, France; iron ore, Italy, and 3 other minerals
2 A variety of fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions, some of them in chalk, from Kent and Surry
3 Half of a red porphyry bowlder, from the Adige; a grey Italian granite, and a Scotch serpentine stone, all polished
4 A parcel of belemnitae, from Switzerland, and various other fossil shells, from the same country, Italy, &c.
5 Various fossil shells, from Italy and France, some English belemnitae, volutae, echini, &c. and a fossil crab, from Ceylon
6 A plant in iron stone, from Coalbrook Date; ferns in coal slate, Somersetshire; 3 specimens of fossil wood, polished, and 3 pieces of jet
7 Micaceous iron ore, Devonshire; foliated native copper, Siberia; red copper ore, ditto; 2 of crystalised vesuvian, from Mount Vesuvius; granitae, St. Gothard, and several other
8 A cylindrical flint cut in two, and a jasper, from Italy; a pudding stone, Harts; a floor, Derbyshire, and an Egyptian pebble, all polished
9 A smooth pecten, Bath; 2 oysters, a belemnites, 3 masses of fossil shells, and a ramose madrepore
10 A numerous affortment of small fossil shells; echini, corals, parts of encrini, and other petrifactions
11 A fossil fish in a white laminated marble, France; another in like stone, from Verona, and 2 others in black slate, from Isleben
12 Richly coloured crystallised amethysts, in a hollow agate, from the Palatinate; a singular stalactitical spar; a specimen of wolfram in mica, and a fine red argill
13 Sundry fossil shells of the ammonia, clava, belemnos, purpura, and other genera; some echini, corals, teeth of fishes, and other petrifactions
14 Eight various Italian granites, porphyries, &c. polished
15 Various fossil shells, echini, corals, and other petrifactions, some of them in chalk
16 Two ammonitae, an alatus, and a fossil bivalve shell, an echinus, and a polished specimen of fossil wood
17 Eighteen various limestones replete with fossil shells, an oyster, and an echinus
18 An argillaceous iron ore; 2 pyritae, and 9 other minerals
19 A large shell of the volsella genus, Turin; an indented oyster, France, and 3 casts in plaster of rare fossil shells
20 An ammonites, cut in two, and polished bones of the head of a fish in clay, Sheepy Island; an anthropomorphos, in limestone, Wales; a pecten in freestone, and 2 other fossil shells
21 Shirl in mica, Vesuvius; shells agglutinated by iron ore, a selenites, and 9 other minerals
22 Thirty-six varieties of serpentine stone, from Saxony
23 A group of oysters, a large echinus galeatus, a fossil nautilus, exhibiting the fiphunculus, part of a lobster, some spines of echini in chalk, and 9 other petrifactions
24 A large piece of coal slate, with a fine impression of a fern, and other vegetables in it, Lancashire
25 A nautilus, several echini, a spined pecten, a polished piece of fossil wood, and various other petrifactions
26 Topazine cubic floors, Derbyshire; tin ore, Cornwall; lapis atramentarius, Bareith; an amygdaloid, with agates, from Kinnoul, near Perth, and 4 other minerals
27 Section of an ammonites, from Whitby; various hypocephali in a calcareous stone, Oxfordshire; 2 fish in laminated marble, and 3 more
28 Ten curious fossil madrepores in chert and limestone, all polished and labelled
29 Toad stone, Derbyshire; a variegated pebbl, Hartfordshire; an oriental onyx, pyed jasper, Tynemouth; a spotted quartz ore bowlder, Staffordshire; 3 German agates, and 5 more, some of them polished
30 Cast of a bulla, in limestone, Bruffells: an alatus, from Ronca; a pectunculus; a spondylus; a cardium; a terebrae, and 3 other fossil shells, black marble with shells, Wales; a chalcedonic madrepore, and 2 anthropomorphi
31 Various neritoideae, lampades, and other fossil shells; a ramose coral in flint, several other fossil zoophyte, &c. in 18 cards
32 Coloured haematites iron ore, from Hungary, and a group of lenticular spars
33 Calamine, from Wales; red gypsum, Scotland; steel grained galena; phosphate of lead and copper ore, Siberia; native sulphur, Mount Vesuvius; red haematites iron ore, Lancashire, and 5 other minerals
34 Eleven various granites, whyn stone, bafaltes and lava, from Italy, polished and labelled
35 Parts of two quadrangular, and 3 hexagonal columns of basaltes, four of them polished, from Italy
36 Two ammonitae; an indented oyster; a pectunculus; a lamp bivalve; 2 pectens; a scarce double shell in marble; a turban echinus in flint; and an echinus clypeatus
37 Five specimens of native oxyde of quicksilver and cinnabar, from Idria; iron ore; 2 granites, one of them having shorl in it, and a dendritical quartz, from Giglio; another iron ore, and 2 vesuvians
38 Striped brown cauk, Derbyshire; 4 German agates; 2 variolites; a pudding stone, and a serpentine stone, all polished
39 Sundry terrestial and other small shells, chiefly from Italy
40 A variety of fossil shells, corals, &c. some of them from Italy; a crab, Sheepy Island; and the spine of an echinus, in chalk, Kent
41 A portion of the middle part of a very large septarium, finely enriched with brown spars, crystallised in small rhombs, from the Cliffs, near Weymouth
42 A mass of serpula shells; a congeries of fresh water shells, in a white calcareous stone, France; a madrepore, with large stars; a polished piece of fossil wood; bones in spar, Gibraltar, and an ammonites, Germany
43 Various recent shells of the tellina, mya, alatus, voluta, and other genera
44 Polished variegated cauk, Derbyshire; white fibrous amianthus, Dannemora, Sweden; cubic marcasites on black slate, Dublin; a chrystallised vesuvian, and 11 other minerals
45 Crystallised resin blend, with rock crystals, Kapnick; a malichites copper ore; yellow cubic floors, on spathose iron ore, Durham; and a coloured marcasite, Cornwall
46 One valve of a spondylus, from Meldola, and 2 large fossil pectens
47 Veined red and white chalcedony, from Deuxponts; hebraique granite, Scotland; a red manganese; a German marble, and 4 others, all polished
48 Crystallised native copper in spar, Siberia; and a fine specimen of bright green carbonate of copper, in delicate fibrous crystals, from Moldova, in the Bannat
49 A large specimen, part of a bowlder of red granite, from the Brenta; and a portion of an hexagonal column of basalres, from a mountain near Valdagno, Italy
50 A scarce trochites, Italy; 2 masses of fossil shells, France, and a polished jasperified wood
51 Twenty-four uniform specimens of marbles, chiesly from Germany, polished
52 Various musics, screws, tusks, pears, and other fossil shells, chiefly from Italy and France
53 Three specimens of native oxyde of quicksilver, from Idria; red native oxyde of lead, Siberia, rare, and an iron ore
54 Two fine specimens of gum copal, with insects inclosed, from the E. Indies, polished.
55 An aculeated rhombus, a large patella, a singular nerites, and 3 other fossil shells, France; 2 angulated pectens, on chalk, Kent, and part of a mammillated echinus, Switzerland
56 Nine various land tortoise shells
57 Four curious fossil shells, viz. an indented oyster, from Normandy; a scarce large trapezium, from Verona; a spondylus, France, and a large spiral snail
58 A trochus, 2 screws, 4 clubs, and a neretoidea, from France; several ammoniae, 2 vortices, and other fossil shells, some fossil, corals, and other petrisactions
59 A large slab of ammonia marble, veined with spar, from Dorsetshire
60 Wolfram in quartz, Cornwall; coloured galena, Derbyshire; yellow copper ore, rock crystals, Hungary; a plated baroselenite, and 4 other minerals
61 Twenty-four polished jaspers, granites, pebbles, chalcedonies, porphyries, &c. chiefly from Italy
62 Twenty-one cards, containing sundry curious fossil shells, of the dentalium, oliva, tellina, cardium, lampas, and other genera, chiefly from France and Italy
63 A madrepore, from Loraine; 2 siliceous zoophyte, Italy, and another foreign fossil coral
64 A group of balani, another, having the teeth, both from the East Indies; 2 clusters of cornucopiae, protifera, Norway; a leopard cone, a harp, a plough alatus, and 5 other recent shells
65 A blue granite, from Calabria; 3 dendritical marbles, from Baden; one with an inscription in German etched on it, from the vicinity of Augsburg, and another veined like agate
66 Brown pitch stone, Hungary; red rock crystals, with pearl spar, &c. ditto; native copper, Siberia; malachites copper ore, ditto; yellow rhombic spars, on crystallised amethysts, within a hollow agate, Palatinate, and white silky amianthus, from the Pyrenees
67 A mass of fossil shells in chert, from France; a madrepore, from Loraine; the cone in cone, and another fossil coral, and 2 other petrifactions
68 Two beaked oysters, 3 pectens in a calcareous grit, Maestricht; 6 various lampades, 4 corals, and 6 other petrifactions
69 Nine small agate boxes, from Germany
70 A fish, in marble, from Verona; an extended anthropomorphos, from Dudley; impressions of 2 ditto in limestone, Wales; a green jasperified wood, Hungary; a ramose madrepore, Switzerland, and 3 other petrifactions
71 A set of 41 polished specimens of marbles, from Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, nearly uniform in size
72 Part of a large valve of a curious fossil shell, of the vulsella genus, from the vicinity of Turin, and a mass of nummi diaboli, presumed to be fossil corals, from Italy
73 Four purporae, Italy; several lampades, 3 ostrae, Odiham; an astroites, Loraine, and various other corals, shells, &c.
74 Two coal slates, with many-leaved and other plants in them, from St. Jean de Valeriscle, in the diocese of d'Uzés, in Languedoc; 2 laminated calcareous stones, having singular plants in them, from Italy; and 3 other fossil vegetables
75 Sundry olivae, triplices, rhombi, balani, and other curious small fossil shells, echini, &c. some of them from France
76 Sections of 2 fossil shells, from Italy, polished; a fossil wood, from Brescia, also polished; and another siliceous wood, from Coberg
77 Various ores and other minerals, among which are 5 varieties of haematites, an arenaceous iron ore, 2 green carbonates of copper, a geodes, &c.
78 Two large polished specimens, different varieties of black marble, with shells of the lampas genus imbedded in, it, from Kilkenny; and a tortoiseshell septarium, Dorsetshire
79 Part of a rare mammillated echinus, with several of its spines in chalk, Kent; a scarce echinites, an uncommon vertebra of a fish, Sheepy Island; an oyster, from the environs of Montpelier, and 4 other petrifactions
80 A fool's cap cockle, Mediterranean; the great brown English clam, 2 groups of balani, E. Indies; a bull's mouth helmet, and 4 other recent shells
81 The tail part, having a long termination, of a curious kind of anthropomorphos in fuller's earth, another species of the same genus, rolled up, from Dudley; 2 patellae, 8 lampades, a small spondylus, a glycymeris, several other fossil shells, 3 opercula of shells, a scarce crab, 3 echini, and other curious petrifactions
82 Sixteen various jaspers, porphyries, Egyptian pebbles, and other siliceous stones, all polished
83 Crystallised iron ore, formed in columns like a basaltes; from Ossegg, in Bohemia, rare, and a large garnet of 12 sides, from the same country
84 The cone in cone coral, from Asnford, in Derbyshire; a polished longitudinal section of another specimen, with some fossil shells adjoining it, from ditto; and a polished piece of variegated jaspery marble, from, Italy
85 Two marbles, from Philadelphia; white ditto, Scotland; 2 of statuary marble, 12 other marbles, and 2 Scotch serpentine stones
86 Three varieties of rock crystals, one with chlorite, from the Alps; one with prismatic colours, Catharinenberg, Siberia, and one with singular internal appearances, Brasil
87 Ten various petrifactions, viz. a large neretoidea, from Italy; 2 bivalve shells, France; an echinus placenta, Schio; another Italian echinus; an echinus pileatus, in flint, Kent; a vertebrae, of a fish with serpulae, shells on it, and three madrepores
88 A group of serpulae, on wood, perforated by teredines, New Zealand; the great cockscomb oyster, Friendly Isles, and a large balanus on a mussel, Falkland Islands
89 A scarce tuberculated ammonites, section of another ammonites, an indented oyster, 3 opercula of shells, 2 echini, and several other petrifactions
90 A fossil madrepore, and part of a long oyster, from the Venetian State, and a longitudinal section of a piece of siliceous wood, from Saxony, all polished
91 Red jaspery crystallised quartz in agate, Palatinate; asbestos, with black mica, and yellow copper ore, stalactitical chalcedony in chert, & 3 other minerals
92 Nineteen various fossils, shells, corals, and other petrifactions
93 Part of a valve of a scarce vulsella, from Italy; one valve of a large glycymeris, ditto; an extended anthropomorphos, in limestone, Wales; a large balanus, and a flint with fragments of shells in it
94 Six curious dendritical marbles, from Baden, polished
95 Twenty-five cards, including a variety of curious fossil shells of the patella, bulla, cassida; and other genera, chiefly from France
96 Two curious fossil zoophyte, allied to the funnel-shaped sponge, saturated with flint, from Italy
97 The ramified head, with part of the stem of a curious and rare fossil, encrinus, a mass of shells of the orthoceros genus, in limestone, a spondylus, an echinus pileatus in flint, a mammillated echinus, and a polished piece of jasperified wood
98 Striped heliotropium, from Arabia; a German amethystine agate, 2 singular flints, Norfolk; a scarce pudding stone, a brecciated marble, and 3 other curious silices, polished
99 An agatified and another ammonites, a tellen, a purpura, and 2 other fossil shells, part of a scarce anthromorphos, a mammillated echinus, and a scarce coral, allied to the recent madrepora areolata
100 Two eels, and another curious fossil fish, in laminated white and yellow marbles, from Verona
101 A rare crystal of quartz, consisting of 2 hexagonal pyramids, without an intervening column, 5 small group of octahedral pyritae; blue copper ore, Siberia; brown barites, Surry; basaltine crystals in lava, Vesuvius, and 6 more
102 A scarce echinus, from Malta; a large pectunculites, Antiqua; wood, perforated by large teredines, Sheepy Island, polished, and 2 other fossil shells
103 A large harp-like voluta, from France, a ferruginous echinus, ditto; 2 fig sponges filled with chert, Italy; 2 echini adhering to flints, English; a mass of nummular corals, Brussells; another, France; and 4 other petrifactions
104 A mass of small branched milliporae, in chert, from Soissons; spiral and other shells in chert, Monte Marte, 2 other masses of shells, from France; a large pecten, Italy, and a madrepore, ditto
105 Stellated gypsum, somewhat analogous to that of Sheepy Island, on a black slate, from Angiers, in France; a polished amianthus, Aberdeenshire; a porphyry, Scotland, and a more
106 A variety of curious small fossil shells, of the bulla, dentalium, patella, cypraea, and other genera, from France and Italy, some of them rare
107 Fibrous carbonate of lead, from Ziller shall; cinnabar, Palatinate; jasper, from Santa Cruz; crystallized white spathose lead ore, Scotland; zeolites, Sky, and 9 other minerals
108 A large piece of limestone, filled with shells, and having also in it several vertebrae, and other bones of a large animal of the lacerta genus, from the neighbourhood of Bath, rare
109 A large fossil glycymeris, from Italy; and a cast from a large rare fossil oyster, from France
110 Two fluors, one of them mixed with galena, Derbyshire; a mine stone with copper pyrites, English, and a Devonshire marble
111 Various fossil shells of the conus, rhombus, cassida, clava, ammonia, and other genera, 2 echini, a group of bottle-shaped spines of echini, and 2 palates of fish, in chalk
112 A thin round slab of red, and another of grey porphyry, from Italy, polished
113 Various fossil shells, of the ammonia, apiculum, arca, lampas, pectunculus, and other genera, some mamillated and other echini, &c.
114 A yellow jasper, 6 variegated agates, from Germany; and 2 other polished silices
115 A fine ammonoidea, a large straight hinged lamp bivalve, a singular oyster, a group of ammonia, a fossil madrepore, and a polished piece of fossil wood
116 A collection of too different kinds of small seeds, neatly placed in square compartments in a gilt frame, glazed, done by J. P. Ettingshaussen, gardener to the Duke de Chartres,
from the Calonnian collection
117 Fifteen beautiful polished agates, jaspers, and other filiceous stones, and a Chinese steatites
118 A very fine madrepore sinuosa, or broad-ridged brain coral, from the West Indies, on a gilt stand,
from the Calonnian collection
119 A scarce circulary ridged pecten, from France; a deeply indented oyster, Brunswick, 2 other fossil shells, part of a mammillated echinus, with 4 of its spines in chalk, Kent; and a fossil coral, Italy
120 An indurated clay, penetrated by blue carbonate of copper, Siberia; clear opal in the matrix, Cservenitza, Hungary; 3 siliceous crystallisations, and 2 more
121 The claw and tail of a lobster, and a crab, from Sheepy Island; 5 echini, 2 fossil coral, and 5 other petrifactions
122 A book, and 2 small dishes, formed of serpentine stone, a small salver of Egyptian pebble, the lid of an agate snuff box, and a marble ball
123 Lapis suillus, Italy; bitumen and spar, Derbyshire; jet, from Whitby; crystallised vesuvian, from Vesuvius; zeolites, Sky; a trap, a specimen of pitch stone, and 21 other minerals
124 Native copper, Siberia; blue and green carbonate of copper ditto; chalcedony, with copper ore, Cornwall, rare, yellow heavy spar, Surry, and spar, &c. Leicestershire
125 Six large granites and porphyries, from Italy, labelled, and polished
126 A large nautilus pompilius, uncoated and polished, from China
PRINTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, &c.
127 A thin folio, containing 64 impressions of the upper and under sides of the leaves of trees, and other plants, chiefly American, coloured to nature, with MSS. accounts of each, some printed papers relating to gardening, and various prints of botanical subjects
128 Seventeen large folio coloured drawings of plants, finely executed, and a lesser drawing of a plant
129 A parcel of prints and drawings of Natural History
130 Ditto
MINERALS, PETRIFACTIONS, &c.
131 Two boxes containing a variety fossil shells, echini and other fossil marine subjects
132 Foliated iron ore, Elbe; capillary native silver in a baroselenite, Hartz; cubic sluors, with an opaline surface, a chalcedony, and 2 more
133 Grey marble, with corals, from Whitwood Forest, Oxfordshire; grey marble, with shells, Parbeck; 2 other marbles, and a large plum pudding stone
134 An ammonites, from Dorsetshire, cut in two and polished, an alated oyster, Oxfordshire; marble with bones, from Dalmatia; a compressed fungites, from Arbigland, and 2 specimens of polished fossil wood
135 Cryftallised native oxyde of tin, from Cornwall; cinnabar, from the Palatinate, white quartz, from Snowdon; white quartz, with black dendritae, on the surface, a rhomboidal zeolite, a mass of tourmaline, and 2 more
Sixth Day's Sale. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 A BOX containing a great variety of small shells, chiefly from the English Coast
2 Crystallised blend, with blend spars, Cumberland; dog tooth spars, with blend on red cauk, Leicestershire; crystallised tin ore, Cornwall, and three more
3 A curious undulated limestone, an iron ore, a stellated gypsum, a foreign coal, and 2 other minerals
4 Plumose mica, Spain; 3 portions of septaria, one with a stellated gypsum on it, Sheepy Island; tin ore, Cornwall; rock crystals, with pyrites, ditto; pyrites, Goslar, an amygdaloid, and 6 other
5 A tabular representation of strata in Derbyshire and Staffordshire,
with printed and MSS. account thereof,
a small hexagonal tablet, inlaid with Derbyshire fluors, and a Spanish alabaster, all polished
6 Sundry belemnitae, 2 reverse rhombi and several other fossil shells, some echini, a tooth of large shark, and other petrifactions
7 Iron ore, Boness; copper and iron ore, Siberia; native oxide of copper ore, Cornwall; agate, from Italy, and 18 other various minerals
8 Precipitated copper, from Paris Mountain, Anglesey; an Oriental onyx, iron ore, Siberia; crystallised zeolite, Sky; lenticular spars, Hartz; and 3 more
9 A mammillated stalactitical spar, parts of 2 septaria, and a rock crystal, all polished
10 Three pieces of elephant's grinder, a fish in laminated marble, section of an ammonites, 4 masses of fossil marine subjects, and a piece of fossil wood
11 Coloured copper ore, with rock crystals, Hungary; leuzit, or white garnets, Vesuvius; amethystine rock crystals, Schemnitz; and a curious artificial crystallization of Bismuth
12 Three variolites, from Worcestershire; 3 German agate, a Siberian red jasper, red granite, Seeland; a jasperified fossil wood, and 3 others, all polished
13 A large German agate; brecciated, or broken agate, from Brunswick; a red chalcedony, a phacolithas, from Asola; and a red limestone, with fragments of encrini in it
14 A large piece of jasperified fossil wood, from Coberg; fossil wood, turned to jet, and a large piece of coal, with impressions of vegetables
15 Nineteen various granites, porphyres, jasper, pudding stones, trap, &c. some of them polished
16 Impression of anthropomorphos, in limestone, from Wales; 2 sections of ammonitae, a polished piece of fossil wood, and 3 others
17 A small cardium aculeatum; 3 groups of balani, a small pecten, Norway; and a great variety of other shells
18 Twelve various porphyries, granites, pudding stone, jasper, &c. polished
19 Sundry recent shells, of the chersina, alatus, cassida, tellina, and other genera
20 Yellow spars, from Derbyshire; a mamillated spar with white and ferruginous pearl spar, Hungary; a granite, with shorl, pyrites, with cauk and spar, Ecton Mine, and 2 septaria
21 A fossil crab, from Verona, 3 othes, from Sheepy Island; an encrinus, from Brunswick; 2 corals, 2 groups of balani, and 3 more
22 A large pyritical ammonites, cut in two, Germany; a funnel shaped sponge, saturated with flint, Italy; 2 large fossil distaff shells, Hants; and a fossil oyster
23 A striped green and black, and 4 other Italian jaspers, a jaspachates, a granite, and 2 pudding stones, all polished
24 Various fossil shells, corals, and other petrifactions, English, Swiss and Italian
25 A cellular lava, having some of its cavities lined with a mamillated chalcedony-like vitrification, from Italy; shorl in mica, Tyrol, and a globular spar, from Carlsbad
26 Three coal slates, with impressions of ferns, and other plants in them
27 Various fossil shells of the rana, triplex, patella, turris, mitra, and other genera, mostly from France and Italy
28 Native copper, Siberia; white amianthus, Tyrol; asbestos, Scotland; garnets in mica, ditto; cinnabar, Idria, and 5 other minerals
29 A ramose coral in limestone, Derbyshire; a tubipora and another coral, from ditto, and a madrepore, and another fossil zoophyte, from Italy
30 Two ammonitae in yellow marble, from Papenheim; a mytilus, a scarce purpura, Piedmont, and various other petrifactions
31 Sundry fossil shells of the ammonia, arca, lampas, osstrea, trochus, buccinum, and other genera, some echini, corals, &c. English and Foreign
32 Hebraic granite, Scotland, zeolites, Iceland, violet spar, Saxony; and 3 other minerals
33 Three madrepores, one of them polished, a mass of corals, &c. Dudley; a group of nummular corals, a large lamp cockle, Derbyshire, and 6 other petrifactions
34 A broken agate, 2 porphyries, 3 pudding stones, and 16 other polished silices, &c.
35 A fine strombites, a pecten, Wales; 2 madrepores, and 9 other petrifactions
36 A series of 115 small specimens of marble, alabaster, and other calcarea, nearly uniform in size
37 Three fossil corals, a singular lamp cockle, a mass of ditto, an oyster, and 2 other petrifactions
38 Octahedral pyrites, among rock crystals, Cornwall; a rare serpentine stone, zeolite, a white chalcedony, and 5 more
39 A smooth pecten, from Bath; another large fossil bivalve shell, from Italy, and 2 large ammonitae,
40 Twenty-four laminated calcareous stones, with impressions of leaves of uncommon fossil plants in them from Oeningen, near the Lake of Constance
41 A large bear's paw clamp, an alatus, gigas, and a tun shell
42 Pisolithus, or pease-stone, from Carlsbad; brown stalactitical spar, ditto; green and brown asbestos, Aberdeenshire; a hollow agate ball, lined with crystallised amethysts, Palatinate; native copper, Siberia, and garnets, with mica, feldspar, &c.
43 Stalactitical haematites iron ore, from Csetneck, Hungary; and a tabulated baroselenite, from Iberga, Hartz
44 A variety of small fossil shells, echini, parts of asteriae, and encrini, madrepores, &c. chiefly English
45 A scarce porphyry, a transverse section of a large white stalactitical spar, and an East-India granite, all polished
46 Coloured stalactitical haematites iron ore, from Triers, and truncated hexagonal spars, from the Hartz
47 Two large beaded clubs, 3 towers, 2 rhombi, 8 other fossil shells, and a fossil coral
48 A fine cluster of crystallised amethysts, within a hollow agate, from the Palatinate
49 A striped jasper, from Lipari, calcareous stone, from the Archipelago; red spar, from Trieste; a haematites iron ore, and 2 more
50 An anthropomorphos, from Wales; 2 small echini galeati in flint, a tubipora, Derbyshire, and a nautilus, from Sheepy Island
51 Part of a large rock crystal, with shorl, inclosed, two varieties of native oxide of lead, in quartz, from Siberia; brown calamine, from Derbyshire; cinnabar, Idria, and native oxide of quicksilver, ditto;
See 8th Day, lot 92.
52 A large ammonites, cut in two and polished, discovering the chambers to be filled with brown and yellow spar, from Somersetshire
53 Granite, from the Krega Torrent, near Asolano, Italy; an undulated granite, or red jasper and a grey variegated marble, the last from Cat Down, near Plymouth
54 Pyritical iron ore, which has been formed within an echinus, galeatus, the shell of which is decomposed and gone, from Sussex; mica, from Siberia; obsidian, Hecla; stalactitical chalcedony, Iceland, and a curious sparry deposition
55 Three curious fossil fish, in yellow laminated marble, one of them having the counterpart, from Verona
56 A large oyster, with 2 balani and a madrepore on it, and a mass of univalve and bivalve shells, in chert, from Meri, in France
57 A small mortar, formed of a black marble, with white ramose corals imbedded in it, very beautiful
58 Various shells of the alatus, clava, rhombus, and other genera, chiefly from Ronca, and other places in Italy
59 Small prismatic selenitae, in a red saline stone, from ; white talc, from Venice; coloured foliated iron ore, Elbe; amianthus in quartz, from the Alps; and an iron ore with beryl, Sweden
60 A mass of vortices in lithomarga, in the Isle of Wight; a nautilus, Sheepy Island, cut in two; two scarce beaked oysters, France; a pecten in calcaccous grit, Maestricht, and 7 other petrifactions
61 Section of a large septarium, consisting of a light brown argillaceous iron ore, beautifully veined with white spar, from Carron, in North Britain
62 A great variety of small fossil shells, joints, and other portions of encrini; corals, and other petrifactions, chiefly from Switzerland
63 Eleven curious varieties of serpentine stones, three red marbles, spotted with green actinolite, and a granite, from Scotland; and a brocade marble, Spain
64 A cockscomb oyster, from Normandy; three beaked oysters, from Furstenberg, and various other fossil shells, echini, and corals, English, Swiss, French, &c.
65 A stalactitical spar, the surface of which is crystallised in rhombs, ramose calamine on crystallised quartz! crystallised pearl spar, Cremnitz, Hungary; and a crystallised quartz with pyrites &c. Hartz
66 A polished madiepore with large stars, Italy; a sponge-like fossil zoophite, ditto; a mass of chalcedonic casts of spiral shells, in chert, France; and various parts of the anjuland stems of fossil encrini in limestone, Dorsetshire
67 An iron ore, half of a cylindrical flint, a brecciated jasper, 2 granites, one of them with garnets, and 5 other stones, &c. from Italy, polished
68 Various species of zoophryte, of the madrepore and millepore, genera, and a sucus on a flint.
69 Granite with a large christal of feldspar, from Auvergne; tourmalines in mica, Tyrol; cobalt, from Schneeberg; black shorl in a grey mica, Spain; fasciculated talc, Scotland, &c.
70 A gypseous stone with bones in it, very rare, from Monte Marte, and bones of a fish's head, with some of the vertebrae, in a hardened clay, from Sheepy Island
71 Coloured foliated iron ore, from Framont; yellow semi opal, from Hungary; and tourmalins in chlorite, Tyrol
72 Cone in cone coral (or stalactites) united to a brown shelly marble, from Wingerworth, Derbyshire; bones of quadrupeds in a red spar, Corfu; and a curious sponge, filled with, flint, Italy
73 Two beautiful specimens of labradore, polished
74 A large leaf of an aquatic plant in an iron stone nodule, from Coalbrook Dale; a long-leaved sern in like stone, from the same place; a graminous plant in a laminated calcareous stone, Italy; wood with pyrites on it, and 6 other fossil vegetables
75 Tridacna elongata, or long clamp shell, from Madagascar. Out of the Calo
ian Collection
76 Various ammonitae, a cone, one valve of an hypocephalus, and other fossil shells, 5 mamillated echini, and some fossil corals, chiefly from Switzerland; a crab, Sheepy Island, and 2 other English petrifactions
77 Three varieties of red, grey, a yellow, and 2 dark coloured marbles, from the Canton of Bern, Switzerland; 2 cream coloured marbles, Neuchatel; 2 marble with fragments of encrini in them, Flanders; harlequin marble, Italy, and 3 others, all polished
78 A large specimen of yellow copper ore, crystallised in tetrahedrons, on crystallised quartz, from Germany
79 A scarce fimbriated cochlus, a spondylus, an angulated pecten in flint, and another fossil shell, a rare echinus, the tooth of a fish of the shark kind in chalk, a palate of a fish, Bath; a vertebra of a fish, Sheepy Island, and part of a branch of fossil wood, from Coberg, both ends polished
80 A nautilus, many ammoniae, of several species, with other shells amassed together in limestone, from Somersetshire, and a mass of small shells and pebbles, fram Kent
81 A polished trap, from Italy; striated spar, from the Appennines, and a white jasper, from the Lipari Islands
82 A capital group of white and ferruginous crystallised quartz, sprinkled with crystallised coloured marcasites and combined with galena, partly formed in large exortoedral crystals, from Cornwall
83 One valve of a large cardium, and another scarce bivalve, from France; an oyster, 2 other fossil shells, and fossil coral
84 Crystallised black blend, on white crystallised quartz, Cumberland, and a large specimen of hepatic and yellow copper ore, with green carbonate of copper
85 Three rhombi, 3 musicae, 3 cassidae, 2 coni, 2 patellae, a balanus, and 6 other curious fossil shells
86 White laminated marble with black dendritae, Baden; 3 other marbles; a micaceous calcareous stone, with dendritae; a variegated red stalactatical spar, from Spain, and a Scotch serpentine stone
87 Eight corious fossil exuviae, of animals, viz. a group of serpulae, in chalk, Kent; a nautilites, a cardium, from Normandy; one valve of a solcated hypocephalus, with oysters adhering to it; an alatus, Italy; an echinus, France; another in flint, Kent, and a meandritical madrepore
88 Forty-one small polished specimens of marbles and granites, chiefly from Germany and Switzerland; many of them labelled
89 Various fossil shells of different genera, 2 echini, several corals, and other petrifactions
90 Five portions of quadrangular and pentagonal columns of basaltes, from the Venetian State
91 Green strontianite, from Siberia, very rare; and galena with green carbonate of copper and crystallised white spathose lead ore, from the Hartz
92 Two fossil winged shells, from Ronca; part of a large fossil nerit, and three curious lapidified corals, from Italy
93 A large polished specimen of coral marble, from Devonshire; and another of grey shelly marble, from Purbec Island
94 Wolsram in quartz, Bohemia; fibrous carbonate of lead, Scotland; mispickel, Saxony; and crystalised phosphate of lead, from Freyberg, in the Brisgan
95 A fine rock crystal, with green actinolite, &c. inclosed, from Switzerland
96 A flat piece of chert, filled with chalcedonic casts of spiral shells, many of which are in relief on the surface, from France
97 Nine various granites, and other rock stones, from Italy, polished and labelled
98 Two skeletons of fishes in yellow laminated calcareous stone, from Verona; a fish like stone, from Papenheim; a slender fish in white calcareous stone, Oeningen; and another in black slate
99 A group of large garnets with a little quartz and feldspar, from Bohemia, and a fine specimen of shorl in large foliated mica
100 Fire musicae, 2 rhombi, a spondylus, an hypocephalus, an ostrea, several other fossil shells, an echinus, and 4 zoophyte, from France and Italy
101 Three German agates, a Saxon jasper, a Sicilian jasper, 2 pudding stones, Hartsordshire; an Egyptian granite, and a porphyry, all polished
102 Three spiral fossil shells, an oyster, a group of balani on a pecten, and 2 fossil corals
103 Green feldspar with silver ore, from the Grenades; marble, from Gibraltar; green pitch stone, Hungary; varigated cauk, Derbyshire; a red jasper, and a pudding stone, all polished
104 A large thin polished slab, cut from a curious speckled lava, from Italy
105 A large and carious ammonites, composed of a number of ramified joints, exhibiting the form of the various cells, the partitions which divided them, together with the outer shell being decomposed and gone, from Gloucestershire, rate
106 Half of a large septarium composed of a brown argillaceous iron ore, with irregular white sparry veins, from Derbyshire
107 Pecten marmoratus, E. Indies; a chesnut land snail, Jamaica; a spotted run, 2 helmets, 3 cepae, and 8 other recent shells
108 Part of a jaw, with 2 teeth of some animal in a gypseous stone, from Monte Marte, near Paris; gills and other bones of a head of a fish in clay, Sheepy Island; a vertebra of a large fish, Oxfordshire, and the skeleton of a small fish in a brown marble
109 Crystallised blue and green carbonate of copper, with grey silver ore, and cobalt in white tabulated barytes, from Saalfeld
110 A meandriticral madrepore, from Italy, 2 other madrepores, a carrier, and 3 other petrifactions
111 A polislied fluor, Derbyshire; galena, rich in silver, Johangeorgenstadt; selenitae, on a shell, Oxfordshire; peacock coal, Kilkenny; a fluor, with double pointed crystals of quarts, and 5 other miners s
112 A beautiful pied marble, elegantly veined, from Philadelphia, and harlequin marble, from Italy
113 Pearly rhomboidal zeolites in the cavities of a dark trap, from Fero; needle antimony, with vitriol, Felsobanya, rock crystals, Switzerland, and double pointed ditto, Bristol.
114 A fine madrepora damicornis, or deer's horn coral, formed on an iron bolt of a ship, from St. Mauritius.
Out of the Callonian collection
115 Eight various basalts, and basaltinae, porphyries, from the Venetian state, polished
116 A variety of fossil bivalve shells of different genera, from Italy and France
117 A small slab cut from a mass of garnets in mica, and ditto, with fasciculated shorl, both from Switzerland
118 A great variety of fossil shell of different genera, some echini, corals, and other petrifactions
119 A very large and fossil nautilus, from Sheepy Island, Kent
120 A square slab of fine red jasper, polished on both sides; a slab of the Florentine ruin marble, framed with black marble, and a white marble with black dendritæ, Baden
121 A quadrille box, and 2 needle cases formed of straw, a small basso relievo in ivory, 5 turned bone toys, a curious artificial snake turned in horn, and a box medal of Frederick, King of Prussia, 1759
122 Two berylls, from Siberia, some garnets, ditto in an argillaceous matrix, 6 stalagmitae, 2 rock crystals, a chalcedony, and 4 more
123 A very perfevt fossil grinder tooth of an elephant, found 15 feet deep, in a stone quarry, near Wellbourn; Warwickshire, rare
124 A flint from Mount Carmel, cut in two; green porphyry, Egypt; red porphyry, ditto; an English porphyry; 7 nephritic Hones, and 7 other polislied silices
125 Three curious fossil fish in laminated yellow marbles, from Verona, and another in an argilaceous nodule, the last rare
126 An onachine specimen of amethyst, from Germany; and a curious brecciated stone, from Italy, both polished
127 Five ammonitae, a section of another, 3 pectens, two oysters, several other fossil shells, and five fossil corals
128 Rock crystal, Switzerland; pyrites, on fluors, Derbyshire; amethyst, from Hungary; a red gypsum, and 2 other minerals
129 Part of a quadrangular column of spotted basaltes, named by Mr. Strange,
Basaltes tigri
us,
and found by him on a Volcanic mountain, in the Venetian State; along slender quadrangular column of basaltes, from the same Country; one end of each polished, and a large septarium, from Weymouth
130 Eight drawers, containing an interesting collection of upwards of 300 specimens of granites, basaltes, lavas and other mineral substances, chiefly from the Mountains in the Venerian State, and other parts of Italy
131 Ditto
132 Eight drawers, including a scientific collection of upwards of 500 lavas, pumices, scoriae, vitrifications and other volcanic productions, principally from Mount Vesuvius, Dalmatia, and the Venetian State
133 Several shells of the ammonia genus, one of them cut in two and polished, sundry other fossil shells, some echini, part of the bony palate of a fish, Bath, and other petrifactions
134 Dendritical manganese, Triers; crystallised carbonate of baryt, from Lancashire; staurolite, or cross crystals, Andreasherg; and 3 other minerals
135 Various teeth of fish, of the shark kind, the tail of a fish, a jaw of a fish, 2 bones of a tortoise and a crab, Sheepy Island; 2 teeth of large sharks, Malta; 6 fragments of tortoises bones, from Ronca, in Italy; 6 uncommon teeth of quadrupeds, some other fossil bones and the skeleton of a fish, in marble, Papenheim
Seventh Day's Sate. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 A VARIETY of fossil shells of different genera, from Sheepy Island, Switzerland, &c.
2 Sixteen various Italian and other granates, porphyries, variolites, and other stones, most of them polished, and some labelled
3 Various spars, crystals, ores, and other minerals
4 Green silky amianthus; from Switzerland; coloured mamillated copper ore, Cornwall; crystallised spathose tin ore, ditto; rock crystals, with blend, Kapnick; and 2 more
5 A parrot with fruit, formed in mosaic, framed, 2 black dendritae, in white laminated marble, from Baden; a ferruginous dendrites; in yellow laminated marble, Aubach; framed, and another dendrites
6 A great variety of small fossil shells, corals, parts of encrini, and other petrifactions, many of them from Switzerland
7 Pale crystallised a methysts, Palatinate; vesuvian, from Vesuvius; and 4 other minerals, from Cumberland
8 Jaws, with the teeth of a sharp headed fish, part of the bony snout of a fish, analogue to the sword fish, 2 fishes tails, and three vertebrae, of fishes, from Sheepy Island; bones, from Gloucestershire; 2 ditto, supposed of birds in calcareous stones, Oxfordshire; a large shark's tooth, Malta; a piece of the bone of a tortoise, and another fossil bone
9 Eleven various Italian and English marbles, all but one polislied
10 Mamillated pitch stone, from Monte Marte; a large crystal of tourmalin in quartz, malacites copper ore in small mamillae, mixed with yellow copper ore, and a twelve-sided yellow spar
11 A curious fossil zoophyte, supposed of the sponge kind. from Touraine; 2 madrepores, from Italy, and & ramose madrepore, in black marble, English
12 Four ammonia, 2 sections of others of the same genus, 3 mytili, 2 cones, some corals, an echinus, clypeatus, and various other petrifactions
13 Six curious varieties of septaria, or veined argillaceous iron ores
14 Red leafy silver ore, with galena, &c. Hartz; crystal. lised native copper, Siberia; cobalt, with red silver ore and red baroselenite, Furstenberg; spathose ore of lead in truncated hexagonal prism, Britany; green actinolite in chlorite, Tyrol, and a quadrangular column of basaltes, from the Venetian State
15 A variety of fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions
16 Twenty various petrifactions, of shells, fish, &c.
17 Three ammonitae, an indented oyster, and various other fossil shells, corals, &c.
18 Four jaspers, a variolite, an Oriental granite, a red chalcedony, with agate, and 2 more
19 A mass of bivalve shells, from Neudstad; another mass of shells, and a variety of corals, shells, &c. in limestone, from Dudley
20 A large piece of laminated marble, in which the skeletons of upwards of 20 small fish are imbedded, from Verona
21 A large polished specimen of grey marble, replete with shells and corals, from Oxfordshite, and another of black marble, with like contents, from Kilkenny
22 A piece of rock, enriched with red coral, shells, &c. from Sicily
23 A large and fine fossil umbilicated nautilus, cut in two and polished
24 Three partitioned drawers, containing upwards of 370 small square specimens of lavas, from Mount Vesuvius
25 An ammonites, with its impression, from Whitby; a mass of lampades, Banbury, 2 pinnites, 2 fossil woods, and several other petrifactions
26 Crystallised native sulphur, with spar, Spain; rock crystals, Cornwall; brown rhombic spars, within a fossil shell, Dorsetshire; a coloured quartz, Auvergne, and 2 more
27 Six portions of small angulated columns of basaltes, from the Venetian State, polished
28 A large fossil shell of the mya genus of Linnaeus, a scarce long fossil oysler, and a ramose madrepore in limestone, all from Italy.
29 Sundry olivae, cassidae, mitrae, dentalia, and other curious small fossil shells, parts of echini, corals, &c. chiefly from France and Italy
30 Pitch stone, from Shropshire; bitumen in limestone, Derbyshire; rock crystals, Hungary; ditto, with chlorite, a singular iron ore, a specimen of Venetian talc, and 3 more
31 A large and fine slab of circularly veined purple fluor, from Castieton, in Derbyshire
32 Various ammonia and sections of ditto, and a variety of other fossil shells, echini, corals, &c.
33 A fine specimen of cyanite, crystallised in long prisms, and titanium, in like figured crystals, in mica, and a mass of garnets in mica, both from, Switzerland, and rare
34 Striped chert, Derbyshire; a crystallised hollow flint, from Mount Carmel, 3 pudding stones, a siliceous bowlder, Staffordshire; striped jasper, Bohemia, and 4 more, all but one polished
35 A curious specimen of glossy black stalactitical manganese, from Stiria, and a group of topazine rock crystals, from Dauphiny
36 Eleven varieties of preserved fish, fastened on paper, from Germany
37 A polished specimen of striated gypsum, from Cossonnay, Switzerland
38 Various fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions, English and foreign
39 A large fossil oyster, from Vivarais, in France; a ramose fossil coral, Italy; section of part of a large branch or trunk of a tree, saturated with jasper, polished, and 2 others
40 Thirty-six varieties of serpentine stone, from Germany
41 Part of the flesh of a sperm whale, with 12 of balanus trocheosus, or wind-pipe barnacle, having their teeth imbedded in it, and on its surface, between the balani, a great number of the oniscus ceti Linn. or whale's louse, from the South Sea, rare, and a fine detached balanus trocheosus
42 A fine ammonia, Switzerland; a searce knotted club, France; an alated oyster, Oxfordshire; 2 other fossil shells, and 4 masses of shells and corals
43 Six various sections of small angulated columns of basaltes, from different parts of the Venetian State, labelled
44 A studded hypocephalus, Normandy; 4 pectens, 3 ammoniae, an alatus, a tellina, and 5 other fossil shells, a crab, from Verona, an echinus in chalk, and 3 fossil madrepores
45 Two very long fossil oysters, naturally adhering together, from Italy
46 Twenty-one polished agates, jaspers, variolites, and other silices, and a specimen of jad stone
47 Crystallised copper ore, Cornwall; 2 zeolites, a rock crystal, with chlorite inclosed, an octohedral marcasite, an orbicular pyrites, and 3 other minerals
48 A large ammonites, of a rare species, cut in two, and polished
49 Clear rock crystal, Switzerland; zeolites, Ferro; spar, Andreasberg; a blue artificial crystallisation of bismuth, and 2 more
50 A large glycymeris, from Italy; a nautilus, Sheepy Island; a bread ammonites, and a rare colomnar madrepore
51 A cup, three salvers, a box, and the lid of a snuff box, formed of agates, a crystal box, and a cup, ornamented with foliages cut out of a rhinoceros's horn
52 Nine curious fossil shells, viz. 2 vulsetae, Brunswick; a small pinna, a scarce mytilus, 2 pectunculi, and a glycymeris
53 Three curious fossil fish, in yellow laminated marble, from Verona
54 A large cubic fluor, with pyrites, &c. from Derbyshire, and an outside piece of the landscape marble, from Cottam, both polished
55 Thirty-two various English, German, and Italian marbles, polished
56 Cactrolong, from Iceland, and small tourmalins in mica, with quartz, from Tyrol
57 The tooth of a large fish of the shark kind, from Brussels; three vertebrae, of a large fish, from Charmouth; bones of a fish's head in clay, Sheepy Island; 2 ammonitae, and 2 other petrifactions
58 A variety of curious fossil plants in coal slate, and iron stone
59 A large and fine fossil nautilus, of a rare kind
60 Casts of univalve shells in chert, and 2 other masses of shells, from France; a fossil fish in a white Lithomarga, a lobster in clay, Sheepy Island, and a polished piece of fossil wood
61 A breciated quartz bowlder, from Scotland; 2 scarce porphyries, a breciated jasper, and 5 others, polished
62 A fine fossil nautilus, having its shell, from Sheepy Island; a mass of fresh water shells, Isle of Wight; 3 echini pileati in flint, Kent; a ramose coral in a red marble, the bone of a bird in a laminated limestone, Oxfordshire, and 1 more
63 Four boxes, containing a variety of small fossil shells and corals, chiefly from France
64 Two odd valves of scarce tellinae, a large pecten, 2 other fossil shells, a tubipora, Staffordshire, and a ramose madrepore
65 A trap with kernels of radiated zeolites, which appear to be calcined, from the Venetian State; leuzit, Mount Vesuvius; a granite with short, a large piece of foreign jet. and a copper ore
66 A fossil pecten with adhesions of oysters and baleni, from Maryland, 3 ammonitae, 2 nautili, and 3 fossil madrepores
67 A large specimen of stalactitical chalcedony, from Iceland
68 Two sections of ammonitae, another ammonites, fragments of a large carrier, 3 other fossil shells, a mass of ditto, and 5 fossil corals, chiefly foreign
69 Two beautiful varieties of serpentine stone, from Scotlan; marble with actinolite, ditto; flame coloured feldspar, Labradore; a singular chalcedonic agate, 3 fine porphyries, and 2 more
70 A variety of fossil shells, echini, and other petrifactions
71 Ditto
72 Grey granite from the Adige; grey porphyry, ditto; red granite of the same kind with Pompey's pillar in Alexandria; a curious breciated jasper, and 2 other curious stones, all polished
73 Three lampades of two species, having the internal structure, two of serpula cochleari, or corkscrew worm, part of a serpula limaciformis, 5 terrestrial, and 3 other recent shells
74 A aminated yellow marble, with elegant dendrits on it, from Florence; 2 pied marbles, from Philadelphia; a green marble, and half of a Scotch serpentine stone bowlder, all but the first polished
75 Four curious and rare petrifactions, viz. a large nerita singularis, from Soissons; a fine harp-like voluta, from Courtagnon; the broad-winged spindle, from Hampshire, and a group of fossil balani
76 Native sulphur, from the Cape de Verd Islands; and a white baroselenite, with crystallised blue and green carbonate of copper, from Saalfeld
77 Two patellae, Gloucestershire; 2 coni, 2 pyra, several other fossil shells, and 2 corals, from France and Italy, and a group of 3 palates of fish in chalk
78 Crystallised native copper, with quartz, formed on wood, very curious, a singularly figured quartz, within a hollow agate, and a white zeolites in large crystals, all rare
79 Two fossil fish, a mass of bivalve shells. France; 3 other masses of marine subjects, wood, perforated by teredines, Sheepy Island; a group of cockscomb oysters, Berkshire, and 5 other petrifactions
80 Two English porphyries, a fine clouded Arabian agate, part of a large Bohemian garnet, a green jasper, and 4 other polished silices
81 A very large fossil fish of the plaise genus, in limestone
82 A small grotto, formed of Derbyshire minerals, in an alabaster frame, a marble saltcellar, a pudding stone muller, and 4 cut marbles for laying on papers
83 A scarce terrestrial snail, from New South Wales; a dolphin, a white tower, and 5 other recent shells
84 Two large harp-like voluta, 2 aculeated rhormbi, an anuslus, or carrier, and a flint with the impression of great part of a mammillated echinus, all from France
85 Two curious oysters, from Bassan, and 2 single valves of large rare pectunculi, from Ronca, in Italy
86 A set of 30 polished specimens of Italian marbles, uniform in size, each being 2 inches 3-8ths square
87 A single quadrangular, and a group of 4 conic palates of fish in chalk, a curious echinites, Malta; a small fish in marble, from Ubsrmannshoffen; 3 helmets, a scarce spindle, and 2 other fossil shells, from France and Italy
88 A large echinus libum, from Barbadoes, and a madrepora fungites, with a double summit, Madagascar
89 Native gold in granite, from one of the Mines of Mr. Stroganoff, in Siberia; and rhomboidal pearly zeolites, with a curious mammillated spar, from Andreasberg, in the, Hartz
90 A meandritical and 4 other fossil corals, 2 echini cordati, one of them in a flint, a cone, 3 other fossil shells, 2 masses of ditto, and a polished specimen of fassil wood
91 Garnets in basalt, a basalune porphyry, 5 granites, and 3 other rock stones, Italy, and a variolite, from Worcestershire Gravel-pits, all but 2 polished
92 Part of a mammillated echinus, with many of its spines, in chalk, from Kent, and a curious indented foreign fossil oyster
93 A fine specimen of radiated green cachonase, of strontian, from Strontian, in North Britain; and a neat small septarium, from the Cliffs, near Weymouth
94 Bones of the head of a fish, in a hard clay, Sheepy Island; a number of vertebrae, of a fish, in like clay, from ditto; a long beaked oysler, a madrepore with large stars, and 2 more
95 Ribband jasper, Siberia; 2 other silices, and a brecciated German marble, all polished
96 Five various shells, or their casts, of the ammonia genus, 5 bivalves, 2 impressions of anthropomorphi, Wales; chain coral, from Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire; a large fossil shark's tooth, Brussels, and 4 other petrifactions
97 A capital polished slab cut from a very large tortoiseshell septarium, found on the Dorsetshire Coast
98 Rhomboidal zeolites, Iceland; crystallised tealgar, Vesuvius; white spathose lead ore, Wales; gold coloured seldspar, Labradore; a red mammillated chalcedony, and 2 more
99 A yellow marble, curiously variegated by ferruginous Capillary veins, and a section of a pentagonal column of basaltes, both from the Venetian State, and polished
100 A Sulcated sun, New Zealand; 2 sludded frogs, Meditceranean; a buccinum with its spidermis, New South Wales; pecten grandis, N. America, and trigonella gigas, New York
101 A fine cone, and a searce pectunculus, from France; a voluta, from Hants; a nautilus, Kent; 2 other fossil shells, 2 corals, and an ethinus
102 Three German agates. 2 porphyries, 2 breceiated jispers, 2 granites; and 2 other polished silices.
103 Grey sulphuret of copper, in truncated hexhedral crystals, on coloured blistered copper, Cornwall; columnar 24-sided spars, with blend, &c. Leicestershire; dog-tooth spar, ditto, and crystallised blend, with quartz, Cumberland
104 The back of a crab, from Verona; 6 madrepores, an ammonia, 2 pectens, an alatus, and 3 other petrifactions
105 Portion of an hexagonal column of basaltes, part of a quadrangular ditto, one end polished, both from the Venetian State, and a scarce striped green and yellow jasper
111 A branched fungus-like madrepore, from Kendal in Westmoreland; white marble, with an ammoniac in it, from Italy; dark marble, with oysters in it; Carniola; bones of birds in a dark pyritical limestone, Gloucestershire, and a polished specimen of fossil wood
112 A large polished piece of clear rock crystal, with many hair and needle-like crystals of titanium inclosed within it, from Switzerland
113 Two large vertebrae, in limestone, cut in two and polished, another large vertebra, detached, a long bone in a lithomarga, and bones in spar, Gibraltar
114 Three curious dentritical marbles, formed into pictures, and bordered with other marbles, from Florence
115 A mahogany cabinet, with folding doors, containing 27 drawers, filled with a great variety of small recent shells
116 An ore of cobalt, with red efflorescence, from Furstenberg; violet and green cubic fluors, Britany; tourmalins in green chlorise, Tyrol, and crystallised blend, on opake white quartz, Cumberland
117 A singularly veined agate, a trap, and three granites, from Italy, labelled, and a broken or brecciated agate, from Saxony, all polished
118 Two large oriental green and pearly shells, formed into sugar dishes, a large St. Jacob's scallop, a group of serpulae, and 2 other recent shells
119 A large and fine slab of serpentine stone, from Aberdeenshire, polished on both sides
120 A curious group of yellow spars, with white pearl spar, from Hungary; and a large globose specimen of grey copper ore with crystallised quartz
121 A fine group of serpula semi-cancellata, with small scarlet and white spondyli, and other bivalve shells adhering, from St. Domingo.
Out of the Callonian Collection
122 An exceeding sine fossil fish, somewhat allied to the dorey, in a yellow laminated marble, with the counterpart, from a quarry near Bolca, in the Veronese, Italy
123 Two oriental agates, heliotropium, from Arabia; a beautiful labradore feldspar, 2 German chalcedonies, and 2 other polished slices
124 A large square piece of dull-white limestone, or marble, having a curious fossil fish in it, from Purbeck Island, very rare
125 Mineralised gold in quartz, Siberia, and native silver in spar, from Potosi, both rare
126 A fisurated serpula, and a group of serpulae, from Sicily; a chesnut oyster on a group of balani, Guinea; 3 of pholas striatus, and one ditto in a piece of mahogany, 2 pectens, and several other recent shells
127 Two portions of septaria, one of them with a stellated gypsum on it, from Sheepy Island; 2 pyritae, part of a sparry deposition, from a wooden minetrough, some iron ores and other minerals
128 Various small fossil shells of the buccinum, turris, rhombus, dentalium and other genera, most of them France and Italy
129 Part of a hollow Egyptian pebble, the cavity lined with crystallised quartz, slickenside kibble, from Derbyshire; chalcedony, Oberstein; a serpentine stone, and 2 others
130 A scarce long oyster, from Ronca; a mass of club and other shells, and a madrepore, ditto; another mass of shells, from Italy; a cluster of nummular corals, Dalmatia, and a curious funnel shaped zoophyte
131 A fossil fish with its scales, finely pyritified in black slate, from Isleben; another fossil fish in yellow laminated marble, Verona, and another in a grey argillaceous stone, from the promontary of Jocana, near Pesaro
132 A mass of belemnitae, and other marine subjects, in a siliceous stone, from Italy; and a mass of shells of the orthoceros genus, in limestone, said to be found in England
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.
133 A box, containing a great number of neatly made ronnd trays, for minerals
134 A strong box made of fine wood, with brass ornaments, on a walnut-tree stand
135 A pair of elegant French mahogany and sattin wood pier tables, with white marble tops, drawers, and shelves, and leather covers.
Once the Property of Monsieur De Calonne
136 A range of upwards of 60 moveable deal shelves, in 4 divisions, 9 feet 6 inches in height, applicable either for subjects of natural history or books
Eighth Day's Sale. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1800.
SHELLS, MINERALS, &c.
1 SUNDRY fossil shells of diffent genera, some echini, bones of fishes, and other petrifactions
2 Tetahedral blend with cubic flours Derbyshire; a large hollow pebble, lined with crystallised quartz, coloored iron ore from Elbe, and 1 more
3 A large group of topazine rock crystals, with long crystals of aqua marine among them, from Siberia, very scarce
4 Six various petrifactions, viz. 2 valves of spondyli, 1 of a glycymeris, and 1 of a pectunculus, from Italy and France; an echinus from Malta, and a mass of cockle and other shells
5 Purple copper ore, with green crbanote of copper, feldspar and baroselenite, and a mammilated chalcedony
6 Stellated green zeolite, 2 porphyries, and 6 others, polished
7 A variety of ammoniae, pectines, ostreae, and other fossil shells, several echini, corals, and other petrifactions
8 Part of the scull with other bones of a large fish, coated with pyrites, from Sheepy Island, and another petrifaction
9 Opal in the matrix, from Hungary; flos ferri, Steurmarck; elastic bitumen in limestone, Derbyshire; and dark coloured amethysts, from the Palatinate
10 Fresh water shells in marl, Isle of Wight; ditto in lithomarga, ditto; casts of club shells in ferruginous chert, Montmorency; and part of a large pecten, nearly covered with small balani, Italy
11 Green porphyry, from Egypt; a beautiful pebble, Hartfordshire; a dendritical jasper, 2 Scotch agates, a German agate, a crystallised flint, and 5 other polished stones
12 Polished sections of 2 ammoniae, a cone in limestone, Ronca; a belemnites, Oxfordshire; 2 casts of myae, from Oeningen; several other fossil shells in calcareous stones, 2 echini, and 3 polished specimens of fossil wood
13 A series of 47 fine polished specimens of Italian marble, each 3 1/2 inches, square and labelled
14 A large and fine fossil nautilus, from Sheepy Island
15 Two curious basaltic iron ores, from Scotland; a large piece of obsidian, a red stalactitical chalcedony, Spain; pipe clay, from Warham, Dorsetshire, and a pudding stone
16 Two boxes containing a great variety of univalve and bivalve fossil shells of different genera, from Italy and France
17 Nine various granites, basaltes, &c. from Italy, polished
18 Green actinolite in chlorite, from Tyrol; striped pitchstone, Hungary; iron ore in large lenticular crystals, Elbe; malachites copper ore, Siberia; a singularly figured crystallised quartz, and a crystallized amethyst
19 An exceeding fine fossil fish, in yellow laminated marble, with the counterpart, from Verona
20 Rich haematites iron ore, Saxony; yellow cubic fluors, with white cauck and spar, ditto; globose pearl spar, Cremnitz, and a large specimen of shorl in granite
21 A flying lizard, from the E. Indies; a small humming bird on its nest, a sngular bony palate of a fish, a curious bone of the angel fish, a beautiful insect (busprestis ignita Linn.) a tobacco stopper formed of an eagle's claw, mounted with silver, some eggs of a buz hawk, taken from a magpie's nest in an elm tree at Ridge, April 27, 1793, &c.
22 A large black haematites iron ore, from Nassau-siegen
23 Two fossil cones, an oyster, Montpellier; a group of cockscomb oysters, a pectonculus, a pecten, a mass of shells, and 2 fossil echini, one of them from Montpellier
24 A fossil fish in a white laminated marble, from Papenheim; 2 small fish in like marble, Mount Libanus; part of the skeleton of a slender fish, in blue slate; the tooth of a very large shark, Malta; part of the bony palate of a fish, the gills of a fish, and the vetrebra of a fish, Sheepy Island
25 Two septaria, composed of an argillaceons iron ore, veined with white spar, from Scotland, and another formed of a ferruginous rotten stone, with crystal septae, Durham
26 Two porcellanae, 2 scarce sulcated lampades, a cassida, 3 musicae, 3 rhombi, and 5 other curious fossil shells, from Italy and France
27 A portion of a basaltic column of five sides, and a portion of a larger one of 6 sides
28 Sixteen various polished agates, porphyries, amethist and other siliceous stones
29 Arrow headed selenites, from Nonte Marte; actinolite, Caernarvonshire; a crystallised vesuvian, an onachine chalcedony, a ramose stalactitical spar, 2 cupreous minerals, Siberia; and a baryties
30 A fine mammilated fossil echinus, with several of its spines in their natural situation, imbedded in flint, from a chalk pit. A very rare and interesting specimen
31 Part of a trunk, or very large knotty branch of a tree, saturated with black jasper, and called
fossil oak,
from the limestone quarries in the Isle of Purbeck, found many feet under the surface, in the stone, and a piece of the same polished
32 Part of a horn of an unknown species of the deer kind, a bone in gypsum, from Monte Marte; several other bones of quadrupeds, fishes, and other animals, and a crab from Ceylon
33 A capital mass of galena, crystallised in very large cubes, from Germany
34 Tooth of an enormous fish of the shark kind, Malta; part of a lobster, in an indurated clay, Sheepy Island; an hysteorolithus, Germany; 2 scarce oysters, France; a pecten, from Thame; another in flint, Kent; and 6 other petrifactions
35 Five small oriental agate dishes, an antique seal, 2 carnelion rings, an antique agate seal ring, some ancient glass tessulae, from mosaic work, a curious artificial avanturine, &c.
36 A small spondylus, 2 pectens, 2 pectunculi, a cone, from Italy, 2 other fossil shells, 3 echini, 2 madrepores, and 1 more
37 Native gold in quartz, from Beresofskoi, in Siberia; bright native copper in spar, from the Pochadaeschian Mines, near Werchsatury, on the highest Uralian Mountains, Siberia; 2 copper ores, from ditto; a sngular hollow cube of pyrites, on quartz, a blue chalcedony, truncated spars, Hartz, and 2 more
38 The major part of a pentagonal asteria, in chalk, from Kent, rare; a scarce mammillated echinus, in chalk, Surry; 2 cylindrical bullae, an uber, and a mitre, from France, and 2 other fossil shells
39 Large calcareous spars, decomposed by calamine, from Wales.
Out of the Butean Collection.
Shorlite, from Altenberg; and iron ore, containing gold, from Estremadura, Spain
40 A variety of fossil shells, echini, corals, &c.
41 Ditto
42 Five melon flints, from Mount Carmel; a chert, ditto; and 3 jaspers, all polished
43 Plumose gypsum, Derbyshire; 2 asbesti, from Scotland; black shirl in white quartz, valentia, and 24 other minerals
44 Half of a large septarium, composed of a brown argillaceous iron ore, with white sparry veins, from Derbyshire, polished
45 A large ammonites, from Dorsetshire; and a group of small ammonitae, in limestone
45 A variety of curious fossil shells, chiefly from France,
47 Forty-two varieties of serpentine stone, from Saxony
48 Thirty-four specimens of ores, and other minerals
49 A very large knotted fossil shell, of the clava, or club genus, from France, very rare
50 Two specimens of the ruin marble, and two of dendritical marble, from Italy, all but one framed; and a cast from a sprig of sage, coloured, framed and glazed
51 Four very fine masses of fossil shells, from France
52 Part of a large wrinkled orthocerous, from Coalbrook Dale; orthoceri in limestone; a large harp-like voluta, France, and an indented oyster, Brunswick
53 Dolomite with pyrites, &c. and a singularly formed group of rock crystals, from Mount St Gothard
54 Two irone stones, with impressions of ferns in them, from Derbyshire; fossil wood, from Bovey, in Devonshire; 3 jasperified woods, polished, and the top part of a branch of a pine in iron stone, from Coalbrook Dale
55 A large and fine specimen of flos ferri, from Steurmarck
56 Various shells of the patella, cassida, ammonia, rhombus, voluta, and other genera, chiefly from France
57 Twelve neatly made boxes formed of singularly figured holly, and other curious woods
58 A long slender skeleton of a fish in a blue slate, a fish with gilded, or pyritaceous scales, in black slate, Isleben, and two prawns, in yellow laminated marbles, from Verona, rare
59 Two pied granites, from Calabria; 2 Italian porphyries, a variolite, and 6 other curious stones
60 Three curious and uncommon recent shells, viz. calyptra foliacea, or furbelowed bonnet, from Japan; cocklea scabriuscula, from Spain, and the tiger Iendix, from Brasil
61 Italactitical chalcedony, Iceland; flos ferri, Alsace; shorl in mica, Tyrol; coloured octahedral galena, Leicestershire; a curious spar, Cumberland; and a toadstone, Gloucestershire
62 Part of a large fish in clay, from Sheepy Island; a fish in a calcareous stone, supposed from Italy; and a section of a spiral shell, in a hard marble, from Mount Jura, Switzerland
63 A ferruginous ammonites, with remains of its pearly shell, from Siberia; an echinus, from Malta, 2 other echini, a curved cockscomb oyster, France; and an ammonites, Wiltshire.
64 Stellated needle antimony, with baroselenite in thick tabular crystals, from Felsobania, and a group of rock crystals, from Switzerland
65 Five curious petrifactions, viz a scarce alatus, from Ronca in Italy; a fine carrier, the curvated cockscomb oyster, rare, France; a studded hypocephalus, Normandy, and a meadritical madrepore, Italy
66 A large and fine circular German agate, with amethyst in the middle of it, and a large English pudding stone, both polished
67 Native gold in quartz, striated native oxyde of nickel, containing gold in quartz, a large specimen of native copper, and blue and green carbonate of copper, all from Siberia
68 A nerita singularis, from Ronca; a ridged clava, ditto; a cone, 2 other univalves, a sulcated lampas, a studded hypocephalus, a grooved shell of the same genus Normandy; a mya, a vulsella, several other bivalve shells, 2 madrepores, and 2 polished pieces of fossil wood, &c.
69 Four portions of columnas basaltes of 3, 4, 5, and 6 angles, from the Venetian State, polished
70 A fossil crab, from Verona; a crab, in a stony clay, Sheepy Island; a large and fine quadrangular palate of a fish in chalk, Kent; an echinus, and a scarce madrepore
71 A large slab of beautifully coloured iridescent feldspar, from Labradore, polished
72 Several fresh water shells, of the barbala genus, in a lithomarga, an alatus, from Ronca; an indented oyster, a group of large balani on a scallop, a scarce echinus, and a polished fossil madrepore
73 The spiral part of a large fossil chambered shell of the lituus genus, from Gloucestershire, very rare
74 A mass of shells of the vortex genus, from Franconville; 3 other French fossil shells, 2 purpurae, and 2 echinitae, Italy; a madrepore, from Rouen, and 3 more
75 Half of a large hollow flint, or petrisied melon, lined with mammillated chalcedony, from Mount Carmel, polished, and a large specimen of chlorite, with tourmalins imbedded in it, from Zillershal, in Tyrol
76 A large slab of marble in which a number of shells of the orthoceros genus, 2 of them very large are imbedded, from Oeland, an Island in the Baltic, in a gold bordered black frame
77 Dendritical bismuth, Schneeberg; white actinolite, Turkey; black shorl in indurated steatites, Tyrol, and blue crystallised carbonate of copper, from Moldova
78 A large and fine glycymeris, from Italy, and a very large echinus pileatus, from Malta, both rare
79 Grey marble containing shells and corals, from Whichwood Forest, Oxfordshire; black marble with white sparry shells of the lampas genus, and corals in it, from Kilkenny, and grey granite, from the Mountain Valcamonica, above Cedegola, in Italy, all large and fine specimens, and polished
80 A large fistular marine fucus, some lichens, agarics and woods, and various feeds, gums, and other vegetables
81 A very large and fine fossil madrepore, impregnated with limestone, from Derbyshire
82 A beautiful picture, formed of English moths and butterflies, framed and glazed
83 Rose quartz, Siberia; crystallised beryll, ditto; large garnets in mica, Aberdeenshire, and rhomboidal zeolites in trap, from Iceland
84 A neat cabinet formed of India deal and mahogany, bordered with satin wood, containing 17 drawers, including upwards of a 1000 small specimens of agates, jaspers, mocha stones, gems, spars, ores of metals gypsae, lavas, and other subjects of mineralogy, comprising a very great variety in a little compass
85 A very fine specimen of avanturine stone, from the coast of Spain
86 Five odd valves of pecten glaber, from Guinea; crypta maculata, from ditto; crypta patula, from Peru; a balanus nearly coated with red coral, Sicily; and 3 other rare shells
87 A large thin lamina of green slate, having curious pyritical dendritae, on it, from Yorkshire
88 A very curious fossil crab, surrounded with yellow dentritae, in a yellow laminated marble, from Florence
89 A capital specimen of pudding stone, the pebbles in which are very large and of various colours, from Hartfordshire, polished
90 Madrepora cyathus, or drinking-glass coral, with several of gorgonia pretiosa, or red coral, some s;erpulae, and gryphi adhering to a madrepora tibicini, the whole forming a most elegant group, from Sicily
91 Two aculeated rhombi, a carrier, a comb, 2 clubs, and various other fossil shells, echini and corals, most of them from France
92 A very fine specimen of native oxyde of lead, containing CROME,
a newly discovered semi-metal,
formed in variously figured crystals, on a micaceous sand stone, from Beresofskoi, near Catharinenberg, Siberia.
See Dr. Babington's System of Mineralogy, pa.
l58,
Spec.
2,
and page
266,
genus
13
93 An interesting series of 123 polished specimens of Italian marbles, of an uniform circular shape, each framed and labelled
94 A large and fine fossil shell of the pecten genus, filled with sand, from Ortenberg, near Passau, very scarce
95 Six curious fossil insects in laminated calcareous stones. Oeningen, four pieces of amber, with insects and water inclosed; one of gum copal, with a beetle and other insects in it, and 3 fossil crabs, from Ceylon
96 A capital septarium, composed of light coloured argillaceous stone, with yellow and rich brown, septae, from the Dorsetshire Coast, cut in two and polished
97 Cinnabar, from Neumarke in Carniola, & basaltiform iron ore, rare, frrom Ossegg, in Bohemia
98 A large flat piece of limestone, having several verterae, part of the jaws and other bones of an animal of the lizard kind, imbedded in it, from the Blue Lodge Quarry, near Bath
99 Prismatic shorl in while quartz, a very fine specimen, from Tyrol
100 A very large and fine tuberculated variety of madrepora phrygia, or lace-like brain coral, from St. Mauritius, in a glazed mahogany case.
Out of the Calonnian collection
101 A large and fine malachites, copper ore, from Siberia
102 Two plates cut from a singulary figured siliceous pebble, found near Mankeim; a red and white Italian granite, feldspar, from Labradore, and 2 other filices, all polished, the 2 first on both sides
103 A large and fine fossil oyster, and a curious madrepore
104 A very large and curious boney palate of a fish, from a chalk pit, in Surry; a large and fine nerita singularis, from France; an ammonites, from Archangel, and a meandritical madrepore, all rare
105 A fine specimen of crystallised vitriolated lead ore, from Paris Mountain, Anglesea; sattin-like copper ore, Siberia; and a red stellated zeolite, from Schio, in the Venetian State
106 A fine argonauta, or wrinkled paper sailor, from Minorca
107 A large and fine group of double pointed crystallised amethyst, in the hollow a quartose iron ore, from St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol
108 An elegant specimen of plumose gypsum, from Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, and a beautiful coloured copper pyrites, with white globose cauk and copper ore, from Ecton Mine, Staffordshire
109 A curious fossil alated spindle shell, from France, and a fine cast of an echinus, both rare
110 A very fine specimen of cyanite, in long prismatic crystals, mixed with mica, quartz, titanum and feldspar, from Mount St. Gothard, very rare
111 A curious antique porphyry salver, with 2 handles, from Italy
112 Two verterbrae, of some unknown animal in a gypseous stone, from Monte Mate, near Paris, very rare, and the bones of a fish's head, in a hard clay, from Sheepy Island
113 Haliotis superba, from the Gallaphagos Isles, very scarce, and ostrea gigas, from the Friendly Islands
114 A large and fine fossil encrinus, with great part of its stem, in a calcareous stone, from Brunswick
115 A very curious and extremely rare crystal of iron ore,
one of the most well defined known,
from Elbe, and a clear rock crystal, from Switzerland.
116 Brilliant crystallised tin ore, from Schlackenwald, in Bohemia, coloured topazine floors, with crystallised quartz, Saxony; native copper, Siberia ; gilded iron ore, County of Sayn, and a dog-tooth spar, Derbyshire, all fine
117 Two exceeding fine shells of the alatus genus, and one of the spondylus kind, in a fossil slate, from Italy, rare
118 A large and fine group of topazine rock crystals, from the Pyrences.
119 Brown garnets, with shorl, in a compact granite from Switzerland, and a variolite, from Malvern Hills
120 Fossil wood somewhat allied to that of the cabbage tree, having large pores, and 2 other polished jasperisied woods, a ferruginous stone, with parts of branches of trees of the pine kind in it, from a coal-pit, in Derbyshire, and a coal slate, with ferns, &c. Lancashire
121 A fine large brown reverse chersina, a rare kind of terrestrial shell, from Brasil
122 A small earthen three-footed jug, which having through accident been sunk in the Ocean, several serpulae, a purple and yellow gryphus, some other shells and a sponge are naturally affixed to it, from one of the French Islands, in the W. Indies
123 A curious kind of white spar, partly mamillated, and partly formed in shrub-like forms, most delicately branched, supposed from Stiria.
124 A fine specimen of crystallised native oxyde of lead, with native minium in a calcareous stone, from B
resosski, and grey iron ore in large brilliant crystals, from Elbe
CABINETS.
125 An excellent low mahogany press, with folding doors, and 3 shelves
126 A solid mahogany cabinet, of fine wood, with a carved moulding, containing, 12 small, and 3 large drawers, each with double brass rings, and locks and leather cover
127 A mahogany cabinet, 2 parts, 7 feet, 1 inch high, and 4 feet 5 inches wide; the upper division, consisting of a case, with glazed folding doors, having gilt frames, including 10 wainscot moveable shells, with moulded mahogany edges; 16 wainscot trays, with like edges, and 36 small wainscot drawers, with striped mahogany fronts; the lower divi
contains 21 larger drawers, inclosed with foldin
doors
128 A mahogany cabinet, in 2 parts, 7 feet, 1 inch high, and 4 feet, 5 inches wide; the upper division consisting of a case with glazed folding doors, having gilt frames, including 12 mahogany moveable partitioned trays, with moulded fronts, and double brass rings, and 12 drawers with like rings; the lower division contains 8 moveable deal trays, with moulded fronts and double brass rings, inclosed with folding doors
129 A very large well-made mahogany cabinet, near 10 feet high, and 5 feet 7 inches wide, of fine wood, with fluted cornice and double folding doors, containing, near 100 mahogany drawers, adapted for minerals, made to slide in groves, and shift according to the size of the specimens, and having small receptacles in the front of each for moveable labels made under the direction and for the collection, of the late Earl of Bute
130 An excellent large mahogany repository for subjects of Natural History, being near 9 feet high, and 10 feet 10 inches wide, in 2 divisions, each subdivided in 4 parts, containing in the upper division, 16 partitioned deal trays, and 12 steps, inclosed with 4 glazed doors; the under division contains 12 large deal steps, inclosed with 4 double-pannelled doors. Between the two divisions are 4 large drawers, with double brass rings
FINIS.
Printed by J. Barker, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden.