An early 19th century watercolour of a Guyanese street scene

A drawing of a plantation scene

Two original late 19th century drawings, commissioned by Henry R. Knipe for his famous book Nebula to Man, published by J.M. Dent & Co., London, 1905

Henry R. Knipe (1854-1918), a geologist from Tunbridge Wells in Sussex, was a member of the Linnean and Geological Societies. He wrote two works on palaeontology, Nebula to Man (1905), which was written in rhyming verse, and Evolution in the Past (1912). His obituary in Geological Magazine recorded that he devoted “much time and labour to the popularization of the study of extinct animals in this country. With the aid especially of the Staff of the British Museum... he attempted to portray the animals of the past as they appeared when living, and sparing no expense, he employed the most skilled artists to carry out his plans”. The impressions of the discovered fossils rocked the world, and nowadays seem quite accurate as well

A rare and early 'Laongo ivory' (Hippopotamus), ebony and silver walking cane

Laongo/Congo, 19th century, the silver mount engraved and dated Glasgow 1st Nov 1866