SUNDIAL OF FAIRLY ORIGINAL DESIGN. THE PLATE WHICH REASES ON THREE SET SCREWS IS PROVIDED WITH A COMPASS, THREE SET SCREWS AND LATITUDE ADJUSTMENT FROM 45 TO 50 degrees
Beautiful hourglass in walrus ivory with floral decoration engraved on the plates and the four cones. Very good condition, slight superficial cracks on one plate.
[Germany?] Date: late 18th century. Pretty portable compass inserted in a round box, in turned light wood and decorated with a fine incised decoration on the lid. The internal mobile part has a dial d[...]
Ornate gilded copper spyglass with two draws, one of which is signed "DOLLOND LONDON".
Was tinted black.
Dimensions: heights of 8.6 cm (open) and 5 cm (closed).
London dating from around 1800[...]
Spyglass in shagreen shaft rimmed in silver.
Red skin draw signed "Dollond London".
Rustette case with burgundy interior.
Dimensions: height of 6 cm (closed) / height of 7 cm (case) x diamete[...]
Pied De Roy" PROPORTION COMPASS
France
18th century
Brass
Length: 17.3 cm; Open length: 32.5 cm
Measuring instrument consisting of two brass rulers engraved "Pied De Roy", joined by a hinge eng[...]
Brass graphometer signed Baradelle Paris.
France, second half of the 18th century
Brass, glass.
Width: 21cm, Height with ball and foot: 15.5cm
Openwork brass half-circle with two scales from 0 t[...]
This superb instrument is divided from 0 to 130 degrees on precious metal. Its T-shaped frame with square section is hollow in order to lighten its weight. Usable right hand left hand it is equipped w[...]
Equatorial universal ring dial in brass made for a number of central Europe cities engraved with their ancient names signed « Gensara Fecit Wienn ». In its gilt leather case bearing the coats of arms [...]
Impressive black stained turned wood microscope.
The body has an elegant shape with a series of concentric rings of reduced sizes in both directions from a central cylindrical part covered with brown[...]
Large pantograph in ebony and brass signed "Canivet à sphere à Paris 1772". The instrument is constructed of ebony and brass. The pantograph measures 78cm in length. Missing some wheels and support po[...]
Lorgnette or small telescope signed "Dollond London" and dated around 1780. This telescope has the particularity of being equipped with two objective lenses giving magnifications of different power. T[...]
Brass compass, France, 18th century. Square plate compass measuring 6.7cm sides and 5.9cm diameter. The compass indicates the four cardinal points and is divided into two times 0-180 degrees. The four[...]
Pocket equinoctial sundial in finely chiseled brass and engraved with grids and flowers in reserves. Compass and latitude scale on an adjustable hinged arc. Signed on the back by Lorenz Grassl in Augs[...]
The Russian doll-style body and interior weights are all punched numerous times. These five small weights (missing the smallest) in the shape of buckets fitting into each other are also called Charlem[...]
French box microscope 18th century by Sibie in Marsella for the privilege of the King The box microscope can be defined as a compound microscope where the optical system is fixed by a pillar to the bo[...]
Apothecary tripod pan - Brass bronze late 18th century early 19th century -
signed "Roy à Besançon" bell founder in Morteau (Jura; Franche-Comté) then in Besançon from 1778 to 1811.
Decorated with 6[...]
Small astronomical ring constructed of brass. It is not signed but the scale of the months is engraved in Italian which allows us to attribute this origin to them. The rather crudely made ring dates b[...]
Complete Gregorian telescope in its mahogany box with its brass shutters period late 18th century early 19th century Century height: 50 cm length: 44 cm
Analemmatic sundial in pewter and brass in a shaped wooden case.
The dial is composed of two plates: one oval and the other octagonal, the latter sliding on the former.
The oval plate corresponds to[...]
Unusual shape for a French brass graphometer from the 18th century. It is signed and dated “Gourdin at the Quarter Circle in Paris 1781”. This graphometer is rectangular, equipped with two water level[...]
Beautiful gray marble mortar with 4 lobes, 1 of which has a pouring channel. Very good state. 18th century. Height: 15.2 cms Inner diameter: 17 cms Diameter from lobe to lobe: 28.5 cms Outer diameter:[...]
5 blown glass test tubes and their walnut support dating from the 18th century. Dimensions of the support: 33.3 cm x 10 cm for a height of 24.5 cm Height of the largest specimen: 25 cm
This beautiful octagonal dial has a decoration of interlacing, pineapple and flowers. Perpendicular model on gantry. Compass with silver background. Missing a foot, a screw, see photos. Augsburg C. 17[...]
A cylindric bronze mortar with its pestle, made in the upper Rhine region (Alsace?) and dated 1708.
Period : 18th century
Height : 15,5 cm
Diameter : 15,5 cm
Condition : good.
Rare WATER BAROMETER wall lamp in baluster-shaped white glass decorated with three bands of pinched tongues, two on the sides and another on the tubular weir above which a stylized bird is placed.
[...]
Pewter syrup CUP in flared shape with short straight foot, long curved pouring spout, fitted with a turned wooden handle.
Diameter: 14cm. Length: 28cm.
PARIS (?), Second half of the 18th century
[...]
Large Gregorian-type reflecting telescope, unsigned but attributed to James Short, 18th century. Brass. Foldable instrument, on tripod base with curved feet. The base made up of three brass feet is 36[...]
Very old and very heavy pharmacy mortar, cast iron bell shape accompanied by its 2 pestles, one in wood, the other in steel. Chips on the collar - Visible in our gallery in Lille over 400 m2 - Deliver[...]
Monetary balance complete with its 16 weights, its balance and four small brass sheet weights kept in a ten-seventh lidded housing. The whole is signed "Joh. Pet. Braselmann auf Wichlinghausen in Ober[...]
Extraordinary didactic anatomical model in wax. The use of this type of didactic model disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century and with the discovery of the use of other materials to make the[...]
Brass graphometer with solid plate, not perforated, a beautiful thickness of 4mm, signed "Canivet à la sphere à Paris" and dated "1764". We do not know of any other graphometer from this period with a[...]
Carte réduite du Globe Terrestre.
Epreuve originale réalisée en 1764. Bellin cartographe.
Coloris aquarelle.
Fines rousseurs claires dans les marges.
Bon état.
Format feuille : 48,5 x 33,5 cm.
F[...]
Scale ruler for ground survey. Manufactured by Jecker in Paris at the end of the 18th century. Length 15 cm Very good condition, everything is perfectly legible.
Very rare Bucket weight, or (Charlemagne's pile), in bronze, 18th century, French manufacture.
The body and the 5 largest weights are very well stamped, but I have no information on these hallmarks ([...]
Small equinoctial sundial in bronze, Engraved on the reverse: Elen Polf, Frankfür am Mayn, 50 Zurich, L Grätz. Good used condition, to be revised. 18th century period
Universal equinoctial gilded dial by Nicolaus Rugendas (III), Augsburg ca. 1700-1720
Adjustable declination
Nikolaus Rugendas I. watchmaker, 1582-1658
Nikolaus Rugendas II. watchmaker, 1619-1695
[...]
In its wooden box covered with leather decorated with a small iron, here is a small late XVIII probably Italian balace with its denerals (two changed but old) Length: 22cm
Ivory spyglass by Schloss in Hamburg 1770/80.
In its original golden cardboard box.
Dimensions: 5.4 cm diameter / 8 cm height (closed).
Provenance: "Physikalisches Kabinett des Füsten von Oet[...]
Hourglass with hexagonal brass cage with 6 openwork multi-lobed windows in Moorish style.
A two-ampoule flask.
Orange silica sand.
Seal in thick green cord with traces of macramé-like gilding.
Sli[...]
Brass standard liter produced for the transition to the metric and decimal system throughout French territory at the end of the 18th century, for the calibration of measurements in the departments;
S[...]
THIS TELESCOPE WAS MADE IN VENETIAN WORKSHOPS .LACK A RING, SOME WORKS OF WORMS ON THE EYE END. THE INSTRUMENT IS COMPLETE OF ITS OPTICS (DIRTY). FREE SHIPPING FOR THE EU.
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