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Museum inclining Meridian finder and sundial invented by Julien Leroy signed By Jacques Lemaire 1746

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A rare sundial invented by Julien Le Roy signed by Jacques Lemaire dated 1746. Julien Le Roy was Director of the French Société des Arts in the Early Eighteenth century He work closely with Jacques Lemaire. The sundial is engraved with the latitudes of twenty Europeans cities. Same model in The Greenwich Museum and in The Arts et Métiers Museum. See Daumas Scientific instruments of the 17Th and 18 Th Centuries and their makers. Read More...

03 Jun

An unusual brass clinometer/graphometer, France, early 19th century

By Le Zograscope

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A quite unusual brass French clinometer and/or graphometer with a double rotative balljoint. The instrument is not signed, just bearing by ink, the name “graphometer” on the alidade so the instrument is French from the early 19th century. The brass instrument can be used like a simple clinometer or like a graphometer. Very craft construction. Read More...

30 May

Eighteenth Century Surveying Sighting Level with two sight vanes in original case

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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This brass level has mainplate , mounted with twin sight vanes plus pinole sight. A central leveling tube fitted with liquid- filled clear glass vial. Same model described in detail by Nicolas Bion The level is cased in his original wood box Read More...

28 May

Alidade with two fixed sight vanes and telescope surveying Artillery C 1750

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Alidade with two sight vanes with braces and telescope with lens Read More...

25 May

Arte Povera hourglass made in France or Italy circa 1720

By Galerie Delalande Paris

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Arte Povera hourglass with two flasks dating from around 1720. The polychrome and gilded wooden frame has two circular bases decorated with flowers. A lyre player surrounded by forest animals, butterflies and insects. The frame has a chantourné window revealing a flask with two bulbs joined by a wax joint covered with brown fabric and brocade thread. Orange silica sand. Dimensions: height 15.2 cm x diameter 7 cm. France or Italy, circa 1720. Read More...

25 May

Silver horizontal sundial signed Chapotot à Paris made between 1681 and 1684

By Galerie Delalande Paris

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Butterfield silver horizontal sundial. The top of the upper plate is engraved with three-hour scales 4-12-8 (two in Arabic numerals and one in Roman numerals) for latitudes of 40/45/50 degrees. The centre is decorated with foliate scrolls and signed “CHAPOTOT A PARIS“. Folding bird pin gnomon decorated with foliage scrolls, one side of which bears an engraved scale of latitudes from 40 to 60 degrees. At the bottom is a compass with cardinal points engraved on the bottom and a Read More...

22 May

Reflecting Gregorian Telescope C.1740 Claude Paris?

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Beautiful Gregorian telescope mounted on a tripod base. In the main tube, a first steel mirror receives light (the image) which is then reflected and focused towards a second, smaller concave mirror. It is this image which is observed at the other end of the tube. An endless screw, installed along the tube, makes it possible to improve sharpness and vary the distance between the two mirrors. An additional tinted glass lens can be added for observing very luminous Read More...

16 May

Gautier d’Agoty anatomical print of the heart, plate 13

By Van Leest Antiques

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Anatomical print of the heart by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty made in 1752. Plate 13 was part of the Anatomie generale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l’angeologie, et la nevrologie de chaque partie du corps humain (Full edition). The print is inscribed with ‘Planche XIII de L’Anatomie des Visceres, Dissequez peintz et gravez par Mr Gautier’ and ‘Correction de la neuviene Table Figure 2e ALMK cupe de l’arettet droitte a Q l’extremité de l’oreillete gauche qui recou Read More...

16 May

Gautier d’Agoty anatomical print of the heart, plate 14

By Van Leest Antiques

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Anatomical print of the heart by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty made in 1752. Plate 14 was part of the Anatomie generale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l’angeologie, et la nevrologie de chaque partie du corps humain (Full edition). The print is inscribed with ‘Planche XIII de L’Anatomie des Visceres, Dissequez peintz et gravez par Mr Gautier’ and ‘Figure 1re Qr la crosse de l’aorte’s la racine de ses branches superieur Fig 2e CC coupe qui Read More...

10 May

Large Amputation saw in wrought iron 18TH Century

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Large Amputation saw in wrought iron 18TH Century Read More...

07 May

Mid-size microscope signed “Dr. Arthur Chevalier, 158 Palais Royal”, 1870-1874

By Eppursimuove

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Mid-size microscope signed on the arm “Dr. Arthur Chevalier, 158 Palais-Royal”, 1870-1874. Mahogany case (height): 29 cm, instrument height: 27 cm. Very good condition. One of the stage clips is missing. The microscope preserves three eyepieces, three objectives preserved in their brass canisters, all signed, and the stage mounted bull’s eye lens, exactly as described in the Arthur Chevalier catalogues (see the last image, number 28, figure 14). As the “Dr” title is present in the signature on this microscope, it dates Read More...

02 May

Miniature Terrestrial Globe By Delamarche 1851 Paris

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Miniature Terrestrial Globe By Delamarche 1851 Rue du Battoir Paris on his original marble foot. Read More...