Scientific Instruments and Engineering Works or Art
Catalogue Information: 217 lots | 202 with images
Lot 1: A large and fine 19th-Century mahogany slide cabinet,
with glazed doors, the drawers numbered 137-327 on the individual ivory pulls, each also with two ivory inlays, some with traces of old labelling in ink, each drawer with space for 48 sliders in four sections, the cabinet with a plinth base -- 122 x [...more]
Lot 2: A good 19th-Century lacquered-brass microscope projection barrel,
unsigned, threaded for use with a solar microscope or magic lantern, with 2-inch lens, sprung slide holder and threaded eyepiece with 45° mirror attachment, with six large numbered mahogany sliders, each with three large cells with specimens includin [...more]
Lot 3: An 18th-Century Wilson-type stained ivory screw-barrel microscope,
unsigned, with threaded silver mount and turned handle and the bottom half of a fitted card case -- 8.9cm. (3 1/2 in.) wide; two 19th-Century simple microscopes, unsigned, each comprising a brass cylinder with a lens at one end and an aperture at the [...more]
Lot 4: A 19th-Century ivory and lacquered-brass folding compass microscope,
unsigned, with threaded lens on a folding arm, folding turned ivory handle, the slotted brass bar with movable forceps mount and forceps, in a fitted plush-lined mahogany box -- 9.3cm. (3 5/8in.) wide; and a tortoiseshell-mounted magnifier/filter set [...more]
Lot 5: A rare late 18th-Century lacquered-brass Withering-type simple microscope,
unsigned, with three objectives screwed together on a circular brass plate held on two brass columns from the circular base, the stage on sleeves moving up and down the columns, with live box and ivory-handled scalpel, the base with tilting plane mir [...more]
