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Whole Circle Or Dutch Circle Signed Gourdin In Paris C.1770″ Beautiful entire circle or Dutch geometry circle Pierre Gourdin active in 1771 and successor of Jean Baptiste Nicolas Bion, son of the famous manufacturer of scientific instruments Nicolas Bion Address: ‘Au Quart de Cercle’, Quai de l’Horloge 32. The entire circle was first described by Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) in 1533 in her work Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione. Equipped with a compass, this instrument would later be called a “Dutch Read More...

17 Jul

FRENCH CHART OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS

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SHIPPING BY FEDEX, DHL, ETC. FULLY TRACKED. Contact Email: [email protected] Read More...

15 Jun

French Delamarche geocentric armillary sphere

By Van Leest Antiques

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A French unsigned Delamarche geocentric armillary sphere, around 1800. These types of armillary spheres are also referred to as Ptolemaic and are made to the vision that the earth was the centre of the universe. The globe is made of a structure of wooden rings (armille) which are placed in horizontal positions to represent from north to south: the circle of the Northern Arctic Pole, the Tropic of Cancer, the equinoctial line or Equator, the Tropic of Capricorn and finally Read More...

14 Jun

Hourglass in straw marquetry made in France circa 1720

By Galerie Delalande Paris

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Hourglass in straw marquetry with geometric decorations on the hexagonal bases and around the rim. Rounded side openings. One bubble glass flask with two bulbs, one with 2 bulbs. Joint in fabric covered with threads partially gilded, and sand in eggshell. Dimensions : height of 15 cm x diameter of 6.2 cm. France circa 1720. Read More...

11 Jun

Charming Surveying Graphometer Clerget Au Butterfield Paris C 1750

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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Charming Surveying Graphometer signed Clerget Au Butterfield a Paris C 1750 A BRASS GRAPHOMETER, circa 1750 sign. CLERGET PARIS AU BUTTERFIELD. The protractor engraved with 2 grade scales 0-180. Central compass box with wind rose, directions, blued-steel needle and graduated around the edge. Base and alidades with upright sights, ball for ball-and-socket mounting, Dimensions 23 cm. GRAPHOMETER, Paris, um 1750. Sign. CLERGET PARIS AU BUTTERFIELD. Very lovely floral engraving . Read More...

08 Jun

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

By Antiques Le Saint Georges

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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

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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...