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The scarce illustrated catalogue of the Dupuytren’s pathological anatomy Museum in Paris, 1877-1879

HOUEL (Charles Nicolas), Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, Paris, Dupont & Masson, 1877-1879 4 volumes of 85 collotype plates ; original printed cardboard. Quite rare in private handes – The complet atlas of 85 collotypes plates of  the “Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.” (G&M 11147)   The Dupuytren Museum, now closed, was one of the most important (around 6000 pieces) of pathological Read More...

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Large Surveying Graphometer Meurand A Paris C. 1770 29,5 CM

Large Surveying Graphometer Meurand A Paris C. 1770  29,5 CM Silvered compass with 16 Directions. Very well engraved. Foot with joint-ball Signed MEURAND Quai de l’Horloge à Paris Read More...

Silver Horizontal sundial Butterfield a Paris C.1700

Horizontal Silver Sundial Michael Butterfield A Paris C.1700 Typical model of the Butterfield production made in silver. Dial plates with four- scales, two with arabic numbers (4-12-8) and two with Roman numbers(IIII-XII-VIII), for the latitudes 43-49-52  divided to 30 minutes and subdivided to 15 minutes. Beautiful floral decoration in the center.   Belle signature de Butterfield   Back of the dial plate engraved with 24 towns with their respectives latitudes. Compas with 16 Directions.   Read More...

Paire of Tellurium By Henri Robert Paris C 1830

Paire of Tellurium By Henri Robert Paris C 1830 One with Earth and Moon with mechanism for Moon phase mounted on wooden base One with hand mechanism with Copernican system with Sun and Earth with a handle mechanism mounted in wooden base Read More...

A pristine and working Marey’s Sphygmograph by Charles Verdin, circa 1870s’

A very fine, complete, working and cased example of the famous Marey’s sphygmograph, made in gilded brass by Charles Verdin. The Marey Sphygmograph is the first instrument for measuring blood pressure to be widely used in clinical medicine.   “The first machine that could produce a paper record of blood pressure was introduced in 1847. Many other “sphygmographs” soon followed. In 1860, the French inventor, Dr. Étienne Jules Marey (1830-1904) described his own sphygmograph. Dr. Marey was a pioneer of blood pressure Read More...

Antique Brass hearing Aid 19TH Century

Antique Brass hearing Aid 19TH Century Read More...

BORDA Circle by JECKER à Paris N· 261 in his original mahogany Box C 1790

 BORDA Circle by JECKER à Paris  N· 261 in his original mahogany carrying case  C 1790 Limbe in silver. Optics, brackets, filters and accessories.   Read More...

MUSEUM: Exceptional Reflecting Telescope PASSEMANT INGENIEUR DU ROY AU LOUVRE A PARIS C 1749

Exceptional Reflecting Telescope PASSEMANT INGENIEUR DU ROY AU LOUVRE A PARIS C 1749 Mounted on the small foot . Mirrors in very good condition In his original transport wooden box . Very Rare in this size.   81 CM Read More...

Hourglass in a red and gold painted metal frame made in France circa 1720/1730

Hourglass with three flasks in a red and gold painted metal frame. Each base is decorated with a bird in the grass. The wider base features a frieze of stylized flowers and the narrower base a quatrefoil motif. The two bases are linked by six columns. The hourglass in the centre is made up of two flasks, one of which is double. Bubbled white glass and beige fabric seal covered with brocade thread. Beige silica sand. Dimensions: height of 15,3 cm x diameters 5,9 / Read More...

The mechanical culmination of astronomical horology by the genius French watchmaker Antide Janvier

JANVIER (Antide), Des révolutions des corps célestes par le mécanisme des rouages, Paris, Didot l’ainé, 1812. 4°, frontispiece, XII (with half-title repeated after title page), 126, (2) pages and 8 folded plates ; contemporary marbled half-sheepskin (paper repairs to lower extremities ; inside very clean.)    First edition, first issue, of Antide Janvier’s astronomical clocks. It does not include the appendix numbered 127-130 « contenant l’extrait d’un Rapport sur un ouvrage de M. Janvier… [d’après] le procés-verbal de la séance du lundi 19 Read More...

Henrion’s treatise on dialing rediscovered – 1619

[HENRION (Denis)] & FLOUTRIÈRES (Pierre de), Traitté d’horologeographie, auquel est enseigné a descrire et construire toutes sortes d’horloges au Soleil, en quelque superficie plane que ce soit [followed by] Lecons d’horologeographie [and] Analemme universel pour construire Horologes scioteriques, Paris, Michel Daniel, 1619.  3 works in one 8° volume, 116 pages ; contemporary vellum.   First uncommon edition of this early treatise on dialing in French by the unknown mathematician Pierre de Floutrières, followed by the first edition of Denis Henrion’s Leçons d’horologeographie, Read More...