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28 Jun

SOLD – Nickel silver french folding sector.

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SOLD – Very nicely engraved, unsigned, 16.5 cm (6.5 inches). Read More...
28 Jun

French folding square c. 1760, Canivet a La Sphere a Paris

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An 18th century brass folding square signed, ‘Canivet a La Sphere a Paris’. Very nice. Length 17 cm. Read More...
25 Jun

Nickel silver french folding square.

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French, mid / late 19th c., 17 cm long. Read More...
24 Jun

A French brass surveying circle by Baradelle, circa 1740

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A brass surveying circle with six sights, two of which are mounted on a rotating alidade. The circle measures 15 cm. It is signed “Baradelle à Paris” and can be dated to around 1730-1750. The instrument is complete with its pinnules, its ball joint, and its hexagonal stand. The circle is divided twice into 360 degrees. In the center, a compass indicates the four cardinal points. The compass needle is modern, or at least 19th or early 20th century, with an agate Read More...
21 Jun

Rare Copernician Planetarium with mechanical brass celestial sphere attributed to Emile Bertaux, made late XIXth century

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Rare Copernician Planetarium with mechanical brass celestial sphere, on a walnut and mahogany base, attributed to Emile Bertaux, late XIXth century. With multiple brass spheres of various sizes and smaller spheres rotating around a central axis with a graduated circular dial on the base inscribed “SUD” “EAST” “NORTH” “WEST”, and the twelve astrological signs. The crank mechanism drives the nine planets: six mounted on curved armatures and two others, as well as the Earth and Moon mounted on a crank mechanism Read More...
21 Jun

Curved amputation knife signed ‘J.Monier Pouvourville H.G’, c. 1800

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Curved amputation knife (faster) with cutler’s signature: “J.Monier Pouvourville H.G” blackened pearwood handle. Length: 28,5 cm. Look for shop information on www.vanleestantiques.com  Read More...
21 Jun

Surgical set in case by Frédéric Charrière, c. 1835

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Surgical case Frédéric Charrière, Paris (1803-1876), the leading manufacturer of surgical instruments in the 19th century. He was the friend and supplier of Dupuytren and Civiale. It was he who turned his craft into an industry, the first as early as 1834. The first anaesthesia masks came out of his workshops in January 1847, and his establishment employed up to 450 workers, divided between the factories in Nogent (Haute-Marne) and the workshops, stores and offices in Paris. From 1834 Read More...
21 Jun

Three levels surgical set by Charriere à Paris, c. 1875

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A three level surgical set by “Charrière à Paris” of circa 1875. The case is made of polished mahogany and red velvet interior. It contains 30 instruments, including four scalpels with guilloche ebony handles, a small metal retractor, seven amputation knives with guilloche ebony handles, a brass tourniquet by Jean-Louis Petit, a large amputation saw with guilloche ebony handle, two small forceps, a tracheal cannula with solid silver mandrel, a extraction forceps, a trephine with adjustable head and turned Read More...
21 Jun

Phrenology bust by Henri Dejort, France C. 1870.

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A plaster phrenology bust designed by Henri Dejort with printed signature at the base of the neck. This type is considered to be one of the latest and rarest avatars of the phrenological heads. Dejort was a mad scientist with no medical or scientific background as we learn in his Deux lettres sur la doctrine de Gall, adresées a l’un des members de l’ Institut (Rennes, 1870). In this pamphlet, he explains that his aim is to defend and Read More...
20 Jun

A large Nicol prism for projection by Pellin, circa 1900

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A quite large example of a mounted nicol prism in a tube and mounted on a brass stand. The instrument is signed “Ph. & F. Pellin M[ais]on Duboscq Paris”, so datable circa 1900. The prism measures around 14,5cm lenght and the brass tube 19,5cm. Total in height : 36cm. We can suppose that the large brass round part was intended for an use for solar microscope or a projecting apparatus like magic lantern. An large and heavy prism, quite rare.   Read More...
20 Jun

Exceptionnal double embalming or anatomical syringue by Charrière, c. 1840

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Frédéric Charrière, A set with two syringes for embalming or cadaveric injections, circa 1840-1850  Brass, ebony, steel, wood and velvet; box: 33.5x20x9cm.    Important anatomical set for thanatopraxy or embalming or, as described in 19th-century catalogs, for cadaveric injections, with two syringes and signed by Charrière in Paris.  The box is composed of two large syringes, one with double reinforcement ebony handles and a smaller syringe with ebony handle, two taps and eight cannulas. Large syringes with double handles are rare, boxes with Read More...
19 Jun

Navisphère celestial globe by Henri de Magnac, Paris.

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8 inch celestial globe, Navisphère designed by Henri Julien Aved de Magnac, Paris, circa 1900.  A celestial sphere on which are shown the stars of 1st and 2nd magnitude in Latin and French. Paper mâché sphere, twelve full gores and two polar calottes. “NAVISPHERE – DE – Mr DE MAGNAC – Bté S.G.D.G. – F. W. EICHENS CONSTR – E. BERTAUX, ÉDITEUR – PARIS.” Frederic William Eichens, instrument maker in Paris, obtained a French patent for it in 1878, an American patent in 1881, and other patents in England and Read More...
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