Fine Clocks, Barometers and Scientific Instruments

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Y A fine Regency mahogany bowfronted 'flat to the wall' mercury stick barometer Bate, London, circa 1825 With swan neck pediment and cavetto corni...

A Regency mahogany mercury stick barometerG. Davis, Leeds, circa 1825With swan-neck pediment above moulded glazed aperture enclosing rectangular s...

A rare Regency mercury balloonist's stick barometerCox, London, early 19th centuryWith brass suspension ring above hinged long rectangular door en...

A William IV/early Victorian mahogany bowfronted mercury cistern tube marine stick barometerJames Bassnett, Liverpool, circa 1840With concave moul...

A Victorian carved oak mercury stick barometerJ.H Steward, London, third quarter of the 19th century With foliate scroll carved arched upstand and...

A Victorian carved oak mercury wheel barometerUnsigned, circa 1860The 11.5 inch circular star-centred silvered register calibrated in barometric i...

A rare oak cased micro-barograph with thermometerNegretti and Zambra, London, early 20th centuryThe mechanism with nine-segment aneroid chamber co...

An Excelsior telegraphic date and time stamping machineGamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company, New York, early 20th centuryThe clockwork driven-mac...

A Victorian lacquered brass monocular compound microscopeJ. White, Glasgow, circa 1870The tube with rack and pinion course focus adjustment above ...

A Victorian lacquered brass compound monocular field microscopeUnsigned, circa 1870The tube with moulded collar and rack-and pinion focus adjustme...

A Victorian 4 inch refracting telescopeThe eyepiece signed for John Browning, LondonThe 48 inch leather-covered tube fitted with a 'star-finder' a...

A fine pair of George III/Regency 12 inch library table globes Thomas Bardin and William & Samuel Jones, London, 1817 and 1800The terrestrial sphe...

A Regency twelve inch celestial library table globeJohn and William Cary, London, circa 1810The sphere applied with twelve engraved and hand tinte...

A Regency fifteen inch celestial library globeJohn and George Cary, London, circa 1825The sphere applied with twelve engraved and hand tinted colo...

An impressive late Victorian thirty inch terrestrial library globeW. and A.K. Johnson Limited, Edinburgh and London, circa 1890The sphere applied ...

A rare George III mahogany hodometer or waywiserCary, London, Late 18th centuryWith 31.5 inch diameter wheel bound with an iron tyre and with six ...

A Victorian patinated brass sextant Adie and Son, Edinburgh, mid 19th century The pierced diamond 'lattice' pattern frame with pivoted arm mounted...

A Victorian patinated brass sextant Potter, London, late 19th century The pierced 'ladder' pattern frame with pivoted arm mounted with mirror oppo...

A rare group of 'Saxby's patent spherograph' marine navigational error calculator panelsPrinted by George Smith, Watts and Company for S.M. Saxby ...

A group of eleven copper-plate engravings PLANETARY MACHINESEach engraved by Wilson Lowry for The Cyclopedia and inscribed Published as the Act Di...

A collection of copper-plate scientific engravings Covering pneumatics, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and drawing amongst other disciplines inclu...

A collection of lithographic anatomical printsMainly after J. Walsh and mostly printed in colour by William Fairland for John Taylor, Upper Gower ...

Horology - a substantial quantity of reference works including regional monographsIncluding Snell, Michael Clocks & Clockmakers of Salisbury Hobno...

Lee Ronald A. THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS OF THE ENGLISH PENDULUM CLOCK or the Fromanteel Family and their Contemporaries, 1658-1670 Exhibition catalog...

Lee, Ronald A. The Knibb Family * Clockmakers , OR AUTOMATOPAEI KNIBB FAMILIAEIManor House Press, Byfleet, Surrey 1964, 1st limited edition number...

Lee Ronald A. THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS OF THE ENGLISH PENDULUM CLOCK or the Fromanteel Family and their Contemporaries, 1658-1670 Exhibition catalog...

Derham, William THE ARTIFICIAL Clock-maker. A Treatise of Watch, and Clock-work... First edition printed for James Knapton 'at the Crown in St Pa...

A Victorian 18ct gold keyless half-hunter pocket watchDent, London, 1895/6The circular frosted gilt three-quarter plate movement with lever escape...

A Regency 18ct gold open-faced lever pocket watchS. Nickisson, London, 1823The circular four columnar pillar frosted gilt full-plate single fusee ...

A collection of forty-eight English gilt brass pocket watch back cocks Anonymous, 18th century Including a finely worked Masonic example, mounted ...

A collection of forty-four English gilt brass pocket watch back cocks Anonymous, mainly late 18th century Including an example pierced and engrave...

A collection of sixty-four English gilt brass pocket watch back cocks Anonymous, 18th century Including several finely worked examples with Neo-cl...

A collection of English lever pocket watch movements Various makers, early 19th century and laterIn varying states of disrepair comprising sixteen...

Twenty-one carriage clock platform escapementsMid 19th century and laterIn varying states of repair comprising a gilt Jules type with helical spru...

A collection of twenty longcase and lantern clock bellsAnonymous, mainly 18th centuryIncluding two Knibb style 'pork pie' bells and a large chambe...

A collection of nineteen table and mantel clock bellsAnonymous, 18th century and later Measuring 8.5cm (3.375ins) diameter and smaller, (19). 

A large collection of eight-day longcase clock pulleysAnonymous, mainly 18th centuryComprising fifteen pairs, a set of three, and twenty-five sing...

A pair of brass-cased eight-day longcase clock weightsAnonymous, late 17th to early 18th centuryEach cylinder measuring approximately 7.25 inches ...

A pair of brass-cased month-duration longcase clock weightsAnonymous, late 17th to early 18th centuryEach cylinder measuring approximately 9.25 in...

A collection of forty-three longcase clock crank keysAnonymous, late 18th century and laterOf varying sizes and including thirty-one with turned w...

A collection of fifty-five longcase clock crank keysAnonymous, mainly 18th centuryOf varying sizes and including thirty-five with turned wooden ha...

A clock/watchmaker's brass uprighting toolUnsigned, probably Swiss, early 20th centuryThe 5.5 inch circular cast brass stage fitted with movable c...

A rare portrait or medallion reduction latheUnsigned, mid 19th centuryThe substantial triangular bed applied with two sliding perpendicular facepl...

A selection of hand-sawn English walnut and other veneers For use in clock case or cabinet restoration Including five burr walnut panels with appr...

A Regency brass inlaid mahogany clock wall bracketAnonymous, circa 1825The rectangular platform to take a clock with maximum base dimensions of 15...

A Regency twin fusee bracket clock movementUnsigned, second quarter of the 19th centuryWith five pillars, twin chain fusees, rack hour striking, a...

A Vienna regulator movement and dial with unusual escapement Frans Mosslinger, Vienna, circa 1840The four pillar centre-seconds movement with larg...

A William and Mary eight-day longcase clock movement with 10 inch dialUnsigned, circa 1690 and laterThe outside countwheel bell striking movement ...

A George III eight-day longcase clock movement and dialBenjamin Gray and Justin Vulliamy, London, circa 1770The five pillar rack and bell striking...

Y A Charles II style small ebony architectural longcase clock case with 8 inch square dial apertureAnomynous, 20th centuryThe rising hood with tri...

The remnants of a Charles II month-duration longcase clock movement Firmly attributed to the workshop of Joseph Knibb, circa 1685 and laterThe fiv...

A rare weight driven small 'diamond' dial wall timepiece movement with alarmUnsigned but with similarities to the work of the Knibb family, late 1...

A rare William III small 'diamond' dial wall timepiece case and dialSigned for Cornelius Herbert, London, circa 1695Now fitted with a later French...

An unusual oak earth-driven electromagnetic longcase timepiece with moonphaseL. Allen, Southport, 20th centuryThe four pillar movement with X-shap...

An electro-magnetic 'Jubilee' longcase regulator timepieceJohn Wilding, Petworth, 1992Built to a design by E.T. Wesbury with Scott's notched escap...

A 'Vitascope' dioramic electric timepieceVitascope Industries Limited, Isle of Man, circa 1941-44The interior with mains powered isochronous timep...

A gilt brass 'Atmos' timepiece Jaeger-LeCoultre, model 540, late 20th century The single train movement wound via the expansion and contraction of...

A gilt brass 'Atmos' timepiece Jaeger-LeCoultre, model 519, 1950sThe single train movement wound via the expansion and contraction of an aneroid c...

A mahogany eight-day quarter-chiming longcase clockS. Smith and Son, London, early 20th centuryThe two train four pillar movement with deadbeat es...

A weight-driven three-wheel 'Franklin' wall timepieceThwaites and Reed Limited, London, third quarter of the 20th centuryThe four pillar movement ...

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