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Click here to subscribeA 19th Century Mahogany cased Barometer, signed, F Amadio & Son of 118 St John Strt Road, London, the swan neck pediment to a baluster neck set with a silvered hygrometer and detachable single scale alcohol thermometer (thermometer replaced), to a spun brass bezel enclosing an 8” signed dial with scale of 28-31 over a glazed level, and bearing a presentation plaque for 1958, height 38”
A late 18th Century Mahogany cased Stick Barometer, P Caninadal, the broken arch pediment over a single glaze door (A/F), to a herringbone trunk with reeded corners and rounded base with applied cistern cover, to a signed dial with single scale thermometer (tube lacking), and barometric scale of 27-31 with adjustable vernier, to a visible tube, height 39” (ILLUSTRATED INSIDE FRONT COVER)
A late 19th Century stained Oak cased Barometer, unsigned, the overhanging cornice with moulded pediment and freestanding finials, to a further carved long trunk with scrolling plinth base, and centred with a transferred on glass twin scale alcohol thermometer and further glazed barometric scales flanking a concealed tube with scale of 28-31, height 43”
A `Hezzanith` Black Enamelled Brass Triple Ring Sextant, number 68567, with brass scale, endless rapid reader, telescope, mirrors, filters and Bakelite handle, in a fitted oak case with examination certificate for 1969; A Walkers `Excelsior` IV Patent Outrigger Pattern Ships Log, with oil can and instructions, in a fitted pine box. (2)
Nine Ivory Rules, including a folding 24 inch rule with bevelled edges and nickel mounts, a 12 inch folding rule, a caliper rule with brass slider by Darwin & Milner, Sheffield, three scale rules, parallel rule etc; A Folding Boxwood Triform T-Square Rule; An Ebony and Brass Rolling Rule and another. (12)
Pre-War Marklin H.O. Scale locomotive and four coaches comprising German 4-6-2 tender locomotive, two Mitropa coaches and two Mainline passenger coaches, locomotive body casting badly fatigued, missing parts to chassis and valve gear, wrong tender with locomotive, six coach bogies missing, rust to coach roof and sides, P
A 4" SCALE FOWLER A9 SINGLE CYLINDER AGRICULTURAL TRACTION ENGINE, single cylinder with Stephensons link valve gear, driving two speed gear set to single drive rear axle, fly wheel driven regulator for valve chest, cylinder has displacement and ratchet lubrications, which feed to all bearings and cross head slide bars, foot plate controls include cylinder drain cocks, crank shaft driven water feed pump, Worthington-Simpson duplex pump and water heater, steam injector water feed, steam lance, pump by-pass regulator, gear box control, reversing cut-off lever, water tank supply valves, steering and brake, ashpan damper, water level float, indicator gauge on main tank, boiler fitted with water gauge, steam pressure gauge, Ross safety valves, blower from cylinder block and inspection cover. There is an axle driven cable drum and drive shaft locking pins, chain link steering to front with leaf springs to axle, finished in dark blue with cream/red lining, polished brass fittings, boiler bands and two working brass head lamps. This model has been built to the very highest standards in engineering and presentation complete with tools, driver`s seat, engineering drawings, pressure test certificate from July 1997, general dimensions overall, length 71", height 45 1/4", approx weight 11cwt. (empty), working pressure 100lbs/square inch, 4" stroke
Forbin (Louis) Voyage dans le Levant first edition [one of only 325 copies] half-title title-vignette 80 plates comprising 2 engraved 8 aquatint and 70 lithographed plates after Lecomte Deseynes Castellan Carle and Horace Vernet Fragonard Thiénon Legros Isabey and others occasional light spotting old ink library stamp to half-title and title (largely erased) and to most plate versos modern red half morocco over marbled boards [Atabey 447; Blackmer 614; Weber 70; Colas 1089] folio Paris Imprimerie Royale 1819. ***The scarce first edition with text and plates together of which Brunet states that only 325 copies were printed. One of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoleon`s Description de l`Égypte. Most of the plates illustrate views in Egypt and Syria including the famous view of Drovetti French consul in Egypt measuring a giant head. In 1816 Forbin replaced Denon as Director of Museums and in 1817 he undertook a year-long voyage to the Levant having been authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre. He travelled to Milos where his son-in-law had negotiated the purchase of the recently discovered Venus de Milo and from there to Athens Constantinople Asia Minor Syria and Palestine. From Jaffa he travelled overland to Egypt and visited Alexandria..
Jaillot (Alexis Hubert) Le Comté de Hollande the Netherlands after Sanson with large decorative title and scale cartouche upper left engraved map with original hand-colouring on 2 sheets joined 830 x 555mm. even browning some faint oil spots a few with pigment tone over a repaired tear lower left Paris 1696. ***Possibly from Pierre Mortier`s pirated edition of the Atlas Nouveau published in Amsterdam as part of his strategy of reinvigorating the Dutch map market with larger scale French cartography..
Bacon (George W) Bacon`s Atlas of London 7 double-page maps of the Home Counties 13 of London including Postal Districts and utilities and 34-sheet map of London on a scale of 4 inches to a mile colour-printed maps surface dirt slight browning to text leaves publisher`s pictorial half-calf folio 1913; with 4 other loose maps of London including The Environs of London engraved by Hughes; and Western London engraved by Knight [19th century](5)
Ordnance Survey. 6 London street plans all on a scale of 5 feet to 1 mile or 88 feet to 1 inch including Bloomsbury and the British Museum (sheet VII. 53); Hyde Park Corner and Oxford Street (VII.61); Mayfair south of Oxford Circus (VII.62); St Paul`s Cathedral (VII.65); Milbank Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace (VII.93); Rotherhithe and Peckham (XI.18) photozincographed maps each c.735 x 1035mm. sheet VII.62 with loss of upper section and extensive tape repair sheet VII.65 with a small loss upper left other occasional tears and all with surface dirt and handling creases Ordnance Survey 1895-1919(6)
Good mahogany triple fusee bracket clock, the movement chiming on eight bells and striking on another, the 8" cream dial signed David Samuals & Son, Goodmans Fields, London, within a flamed case with arched pierced brass fish scale side panels and foliate ring handles, surmounted by a wavy arched top and stepped rectangular pediment with pineapple finial, 24" high
A MINIATURE SILVER 3oz SPRING SCALE TOGETHER WITH A MINIATURE GOLD PENCIL SET WITH A TOPAZ / CITRINE, A CONNCINUM - RETRACTABLE STEEL NEEDLE, A MINIATURE TORTOISESHELL CIGAR / CHEROOT CUTTER WITH RETRACTABLE BLADES, A SILVER WINDMILL STAMPED ELESUA 90 AND A HALLMARKED SILVER STAMP CASE ( 6 )
A good scale model group, "Models of Three Racing Boats, consisting of a 4-oar`d, pair-oar`d and skulling boat. Fitted with sliding seats, swivel rowlocks and steering gear. Scale 1" to the foot. Made by Frances J. Hall, 10 Dorset Place, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico" The models with skull and trestles on a pitch pine moulded display board with brass ball feet. Sold together with The Richmond Surrey Industrial Exhibition bronze medal by Wyon, awarded to F. J. Hall for this model, dated 1881.
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