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Lot 390
Fale (Thomas). Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: teaching, an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plat howsoever placed. With the drawing of the twelve Signes, and houres unequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne: of speciall use and delight, not only for Students of the Arts Mathematicall, but also for divers Artificers, Architects, Surveyours of buildings, free-Masons and others, London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1633, [4], 60 [16] leaves, foliated, woodcut illustration of a dial to title page, woodcut initials, and numerous large woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout (by Jodocus Hondius), pale browning to upper blank margins of title and several preliminary leaves, extensive near-contemporary manuscript notes and diagrams in brown ink to front endpaper, verso of final leaf of text, rear endpaper and inside covers, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling and darkening to spine and outer edges, with indistinct manuscript annotations to upper cover, and ownership initials 'IG' to centre of upper cover, with upper portion of the upper cover now missing (probably rodent-gnawed), small 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: C. E. Kenney, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.I.C.S.; his sale, Sotheby's Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection, The Property of C. E. Kenney, Third Portion, Science and Surveying A to G, Monday 28th March, 1966, to Thorpe; John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. STC 10681 (3 copies in the U.S. and 5 elsewhere). Fourth edition of the earliest English treatise on dialling, or the design of sundials, and the author's only known publication. First published in 1593, it was reissued by Felix Kyngston in 1626, 1627, 1633 and 1652. The last 16 leaves comprise a table of sines, and was the first trigonometrical table to be printed in England. The author identifies Hondius as the engraver of the diagrams in his dedication to Thomas Osborne 'one M. Iod Hondius, who hath shewed himselfe an excellent workeman in the great Globes set forth by M. Mullineux, and the Maps of England for M. Camdens booke'. The extensive and highly technical annotations at the front and rear of the volume provide examples of how to make a variety of sundials, as well as a description of a visit to a clock maker in Bankside, London, on August 6th 1657: "Aug. 6th 1657 was at Mr Ahasuerus Foremantle at ye Bankside, & saw an exelent clock that he bin studying and making, at tymes tweenty yeers and stood him in 200 LL,: & it went with springs: & turned upon a spindle like a windmill it was about 13 inches square & 30 inches high: one the foreface it had a hand to point the houer going round in 12 houres & upon the same center went another hand about in one hower shewing the minuts. and right under the center of the hand was a motion that went about once a yeer rasing the 12 signes with a litle pointer fixed to the center of the hand; which shewed in what sine & deg the [sun] was in each day in the yeer...". A pencil transcription of this text (on the rear inside cover) accompanies the volume.
Lot 878
A replica Dr Benjamin Franklin bright flame mahogany cased regulator clock, the silvered arched dial 30 cm x 22 cm, modelled on the original of 1780, retailed by G H Bell, Winchester, dated 1971, 205 cm h to brass finialGood undamaged condition, currently ticking but not set up so no warranty that it will maintain, winds by chain
Lot 891
A late 19th/20th century green onyx spelter figural three piece clock garniture, with two train drum movement striking ona bell, surmounted by a pair of classical figures 'La Recontre du Patre' aftre Rousseau, flanked by single urn form candle garnitures, the clock 63 cm h o/a (3) good original, appears complete, a few minor damages to extremities of the onyx, clock movement appears complete but not tested
Lot 894
A late 19th century French gilt spelter mantel clock, the eight day two train drum movement flanked with enamelled porcelain plaque, the case surmounted by a classical female figure, striking the half hour and hours on a bell, 56 cm high overallDirty overall, movement untested but winds, no bell but has pendulum and key
Lot 898
A late 19th century slate mantel clock, the gilt decorated dome top case with 8-day two train Marti & Co movement striking on a bell, 39 cm h o/all good original overall, movement winds but untested, case movement door glass panel missing, back l/h corner above foot has a diagonal scarfed in repair of lighter colour
Lot 900
A reproduction French floral decorated black lacquer and gilt brass mounted bracket clock, the eight day two train movement striking on a bell, the white enamelled dial signed Paul Buhre, complete with conforming wall bracket, 75 cm h o/all (2) original and complete, running at time of cataloguing (no warranty implied), wall bracket bears small circular presentation plate
Lot 617
ANSONIA REGULATOR "A" CALENDAR DROP DIAL WALL CLOCK, the octagon headed case with mahogany front panels and pine carcas, having a paper dial with outer date ring, steel moon hands and a brass date pointer, striking a coiled gong to the hours and regulated by a heavy brass pendulum bob, H 80 cm, W 45 cm
Lot 521
An early 19th century style mahogany long case clock commemorating Nelson/Trafalgar by Comitti London, the hood with swan neck pediment and brass ball and spire finial, full length door with oval glass panel, arched painted dial with rocking ship to the arch, triple train, chiming movement with 3 brass weights height 219 cm (current retail £7000-8000)
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