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Exceptional pocket globe by Johannes Deur Amsterdam made circa 1705

Exceptional pocket globe by Johannes Deur Amsterdam, circa 1705. The miniature terrestrial globe in metal, wood covered with watercoloured paper and varnish and the original case in black chagrin, silver, cardboard, watercoloured paper and varnish. The case consists of two hemispherical cardboard shells covered in black chagrin and studded with silver, joined by a silver hinge. Two silver hooks secure the closure. The inside of each hemisphere is covered with a celestial map consisting of 6 printed and watercoloured spindles representing Read More...

Antique study model of a electric telegraph, Merkelbach Amsterdam

Antique study model of a electric telegraph, Merkelbach Amsterdam In working condition with the original signal key,Dimensions of telegraph base plate 24 x 11 cm,base plate signal key 16 x 7 cm.The Merkelbach Amsterdam company was founded in 1870. Read More...

Jacob Huysen Cuff-type microscope, end 18th century

A Cuff-Type compound microscope attributed to Jacob Huysen, Dutch, third quarter 18th Century. This is a brass compound microscope with a rectangular pillar (19x9mm), mounted on a purple velvet-lined wooden box. The inside drawer is oak, the box itself is mahogany, and comes with original key. Optics consist of three lens systems: The objective lens, field lens, and eyepiece (consisting of two lenses). The instrument comes with 10 objectives, which are distinguished in two groups and marked in various Read More...

Faustino Paluzie terrestrial puzzle globe c. 1880

GLOBO TERRESTRIAL EN PIEZAS PARA STATEMENT Y RECREO DE LOS NIÑOS Don Faustino Paluzie, Barcelona, c. 1880, globe in wood and paper polychrome painted, wooden turned black, box wooden base covered in printed paper. Very rare removable globe, 22 parts including 2 polar caps with foot and mount wooden horizontal division in the form of 6 washers themselves divided vertically into 4 or 6 sections triangular. Each face is covered with printed paper, every continent is briefly presented and Read More...

An early and unsual Dutch Backstaff with additionnal lines, Holland, first half of the 18th century

Early and rare Dutch model of a Davis Quarter, the most widely used navigational instrument during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is made of ebony, boxwood, and bone inlay. The instrument combines a large arc of 60° and a small arc of 30°, for a total of 90°. Three hammers allow the sun’s altitude to be measured by reflecting the sun’s image on the largest of the three hammers (missing here). In addition, on the back of the 60° arc, this Read More...

Surveying Level C L Berger & Sons Boston

Mechanically optically in very good condition with the addition of a side mounted mirror for reading the bubble.   Four screw levelling   External focusing  Read More...

Ludwig Joseph Melicher (1816–1871), an important collection of manuscripts and books on orthopedics and therapeutic gymnastics.

A collection from his possession, partly written and drawn by him. Included are: 2 original pencil drawings depicting the interior of the Institute for Therapeutic Gymnastics (orthopedic treatment facility) founded in 1852, 1 handwritten protocol of the above-mentioned institute from 1858–1860 with the names of the patients, 1 manuscript by Melicher: Handbook of Orthopedics and Therapeutic Gymnastics, 1 handwritten annual report of the “II. Surgical Department of the Imperial and Royal General Hospital” regarding patients treated in 1844, 6 Read More...

Malformation of Dr. Johann Heinrich Wojaczek’s chest, the personal travel note book of Mr. Wojaczek with autographs of doctors.

Malformation of the chest”: Dr. Wojaczek from Vienna who is a native of Oslavau in Moravia and aged about 23 is the subject of a peculiar malformation of the chest which has been examined by eminent medical men at the different universities and medical schools of Europe. This gentleman was introduced by Dr. Alexander Simpson and submitted himself for examination by the members of the Medico Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh. In front the chest presents in the middle at Read More...

Austrian Miners – a 19th century Biedermeier painting by Josef Ginovszky – Leoben

Josef Ginovszky (4. 4. 1800 in Töltzek near Eperies Hungary – 7. 5. 1857 in Leoben, Styria Austria)  studied at the Acadamy of Fine Arts Vienna, painted in Vienna and Leoben, mainly Genre, Hunting, and Mining Scenes.  Oil on wood, c. 25 x 17,5 cm, signed lower right “Ginovszky”, in the original gilt wood frame with carved hammer and pick sign on top; the frame with maker’s label “Franz Jeschke / Vergolder / wohnt auf der Wieden Waaggasse No 487 / in Read More...

Antique brass microscope by Carl Reichert with rare illumination system, 1898.

An antique brass microscope with an integral transmitted illumination system by Carl Reichert engraved ‘C. REICHERT WIEN VIII Bennogasse 26’ in Vienna Austria and with the serial number ‘12586’ allowing us to date the microscope to 1898.  It has a twin objective turret with twin coarse focus and single fine focus controls and a focussing condenser, there is a field lens and filter carrier on top of the light box which in turn holds a primitive transformer system and Read More...

The invention of astronomical ring by Gemma Frisius 1534-1539

APIAN (Peter Bennewitz, dit), Petri Apiani Cosmographia, per Gemmam Phrysium, apud Louanienses medicum ac mathematicum insignem restituta…, Anvers, Arnold Birckmann, 1539. Small 4to of LXI, (1) leaves ; ontemporary vellum (endpapers renewed, copy restored to its original binding? Top and bottom margins of the title page and bottom margin of the last leaf restored, without affecting the text, ff. IV and LVII remargined; scattered foxing on a few leaves). The invention of the astronomical ring by Gemma Frisius – First edition, Read More...

FABERGE SILVER SPECTACLES CASE by HENRIK WIGSTROM bought from CHRISTIES, 1908 / 17

I BOUGHT THIS FROM CHRISTIES  DEC 2009 , I PAID OVER £9000 FOR IT.  copy invoice supplied with case. IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SPRING CLOSURE WORKING WELL, IT IS HALLMARKED,  FABERGE, HENRIK WIGSTROM 88 STANDARD,  ST. PETERSBURG .1908/17 REEDED SURFACE  WITH CABOUCHON SAPHIRE THUMB PEICE, SPOT HAMMERED INTERIOR SURFACES. IT IS IN MY BOOK ON SPECTACLE CASES , PAGE 82 , A COPY OF MY BOOK WILL COME WITH CASE.     Read More...