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Los 1360
A Mahogany 12" Dial Wall Timepiece, late 19th century, case with side and bottom doors, painted dial with Roman numerals and signed Hearling High Street, Croydon, single fusee movement with an anchor escapement, height 36cm, together with A Rosewood 8" Dial Wheel Barometer, signed Stebbing & Co. Southampton, circa 1850, height 100cm (2)
Los 100
Sinclair, George Natural Philosophy improved by New Experiments Touching the Mercurial Weather-Glass, the Hygroscope, Eclipsis, Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter. By New Experiments, touching the Pressure of Fluids, the Diving-Bell, and all the Curiosities thereof. Edinburgh: Gideon Schaw, 1683. 4to (18.2 x 13cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, pi1 A-B2 2[par.]4 3[par.]2 A-2R4, [2] 8 [12] 319 pp., 7 engraved numbered plates (1-6 folding), 2P4 blank except for transverse section-title ‘Sinclair on the Hydrostaticks’, retaining the engraved additional title-page and preliminary signatures 2[par.] and 3[par.] from the 1672 edition, bookplate (Walter Seton of Abercorn), 18th/19th century annotations to foot and verso of title-page, folding plates trimmed to platemark along fore edges, plate 7 slightly soiled, 2L2-2M1 with shallow loss to foot of gutter not affecting text [Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland, 15 n.] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman First edition, second issue, originally published in 1672 under the title Hydrostaticks, uncommon. The work has been described as ‘a gallimaufry of practical and theoretical physics, drawing on [the author's] experiences with the diving bell and barometer’ (ODNB). Notable contents include an account of Otto von Guericke's invention of the vacuum pump ('A Curious Experiment made lately in Germany, for shewing the wonderful force of the Air', pp. 230-3), and an extensive description of the 'Devil of Glenluce' poltergeist incident (pp. 238-47), anticipating Sinclair's 1685 work Satan's Invisible World Discover'd.
Los 282
A late 19th Century green onyx cased mantel clock of architectural form, the eight day movement by Samuel Marti of Paris, the dial with Arabic numerals inscribed "Knight", 29 cm wide x 27 cm high, together with a Vienna type regulator wall clock, 29.5 cm wide x approx 50 cm deep and a circa 1900 oak cased and carved banjo barometer thermometer, with silver plaques inscribed "Presented to MAF Hailing on the Occasion of his Marriage January 4th 1911 by the Members of the Roseleigh Cricket Club", etc, etc., 88 cm high
Los 601
A mahogany stick barometer by Gatty & Co., 19th century, the broken arch pediment with urn finial above silvered register signed 'Gatty & Co, Reading', the exposed tube within a chequer banded border, with turned cistern cover below98cmProvenance: Private Collection, Ranelagh Grove, London, SW1There is certainly mercury in the tube, but we have not assessed the accuracy of the readings.
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