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Miniature Terrestrial Globe By Delamarche 1851 Paris

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

18 TH Century Trepanning instrument

18 TH Century Trepanning instrument with wooden handle. Read More...

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...

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...

Marion Optician a Paris cistern barometer

A cistern barometer by Marion, Opticien Passage de l’Opéra n13 a Paris. The barometer has a foldable wooden cover with closable sliding spyhole. The barometer is divided into two metal plates, the top plate is ‘heauteures metriques’ or metric heights. The lower plate is a thermometer and is signed 1820-1830. From top to the bottom under the thermometer tube with mercury. Hubert Melchior Marion (1809-1861) was born as a son of a wine merchant and was an optician in Paris. Read More...

Marble Garden Sundial LENOIR Quai de L’Horloge a Paris C.1780

Marble Garden Sundial LENOIR Quai de L’Horloge a Paris Read More...

18th century Abbé Nolet single barrel type vacuum pump

An 18th century Abbé Nolet single barrel type vacuum pump. It consists a single barrel supported on a high oak wooden tripod with carved floral motives. Between the legs the rod of the piston is projected. It terminates in a stirrup into which the foot was inserted to lower the piston. It was also equipped with a handle for reversing the movement. The plate is situated above the cylinder. This model of simple construction was fairly widespread in the fashionable Read More...

Talrich wax model Pelvis of a well-formed young woman Case A

In our collection are currently three Talrich wax models of museum quality, made by the renowned maker Jules Talrich. The models are all in perfect restored condition. Our Parisian restorer made them ready for the upcoming 50 years, which means that they are cleaned and provided with a natural wax varnishing layer. The models can ‘breath’ and will not get a mold formation. Pictures before the restorain are available on application. The wax models of Jules Talrich are known for Read More...

Talrich wax model first month of pregnancy Case B

A Talrich wax model of the First month of pregnancy in a well-formed multiparous young woman. The original catalogue text states that ‘the uterus contains a five-week embryo whose umbilical vesicle is fully developed and can be seen through the amnion membrane and the amniotic fluid. The cervical cavity begins to dilate but it is mainly in the last months of pregnancy that this opening dilates most rapidly. In primiparous women, this process only occurs at the time of Read More...

Talrich Wax Model Seventh Month Pregnancy Case C

A Jules Talrich wax model of a well formed young lady, depicting the seventh month of pregnancy. — According to the Civil Code, article 312 and following, any child born after the one hundred and eightieth day of gestation is deemed viable. The fetus develops more and more rapidly as the end of pregnancy approaches, and the hair generally becomes darker. Original French text: Septième mois. — Aux termes du Code civil, article 312 et suivants, tout enfant né après le Read More...

Charming Equinoctial Sundial Langlois aux Galleries du Louvre

Charming Equinoxial octogonal shaped signed Langlois Aux Galleries du Louvre à Paris The bottom of the compass is engraved with a wind rose in sixteen directions with the four cardinal points. Original blued steel hand with brass pivot. The hour circle is graduated on the top in Roman numerals from 3 to 12 and 1 to 8, and on the inside in Arabic numerals from 4 to 12 and 1 to 8. The underside of the hour circle is engraved Read More...

ELEGANT MEURAND GRAPHOMETER with INITIALS

A good and elegant French graphometer by Antoine Joseph “MEURAND à Paris”. Age: 1750-1775 Dimension: 20cm (8”), 10cm (4”) radius. This beautiful brass instrument is in very good condition throughout, with fixed sights and silvered compass dial. The peculiarity is in the “M” decoration, recalling the Meurand name, instead of the more classical symmetrical floral design. ————————— Antoine Joseph Meurand (w1750-1805) of Paris, supplied instruments for the military campaign to Constantinople. Paris, rue du Clotre Saint-Jacques in 1766 Paris, 53 Quai de l’Horloge in 1771 and 1789 Read More...