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A late 19th Century oak cased twin scale Barometer, Royal Polytechnic, ‘The Atmoscope’, the drum headed case surmounted by carved foliate detail and surmounted by spherical finial, to a long glazed trunk, with cast brass bezel and heavy bevelled glass, enclosing a 10” silvered paper dial, with scale of 28-31 and flanked either side by Admiral Fitzroy remarks, and brass pointers, over two bone handled adjusting screws and heavy visible tube, and a silvered paper instruction sheet for rising and falling further tube, a glass storm tube and single scale mercurial thermometer, height 45”
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An early 19th Century mahogany and boxwood line inlaid Stick Barometer, J Somalvico of London, the mahogany case with hinged and glazed door, surmounted by a carved swan neck pediment, centred with a bone finial, to a silvered scale, with single scale mercurial thermometer, opposed by a scale of 28-31, with sliding vernier, to a waisted trunk with visible tube and ring turned cistern cover, height 38”
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A Finely Engineered Scratch Built Scale Model of a 4.7inch Royal Naval Gun Mk.XVIII, with 40 degree elevation, finished in grey, complete with brass shells, on a wooden base, with brass plaque 'Built by R.Stephenson in 2003', overall length 46cm, together with photographs of construction and a write up in Engineering in Miniature magazine.
![Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay]. La Navigation du Roy d'Ecosse Jaques Cinquesme](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2701367/37-62-10121_468x382.jpg)
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Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay]. La Navigation du Roy d'Ecosse Jaques Cinquesme du nom, autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d'Alexandre Lyndsay excellent pilote escossois. Recueillie & redigee en forme de description hydrographique, & representée en carte marine, & routier ou pilotage, pour la cognoissance particuliere de ce qui est necessaire & considerable à ladicte navigation, par Nicolay D'Arfeville., Premier Cosmographe du Roy, Commissaire ordinaire de son Artillerie, & a la visitation & description generalle du Royaume de France. Dediee A tres-illustre, & tres-vertueux seigneur, Anne Duc de Joyeuse, Pair & Admiral de France Paris: Gilles Beys, 1583.First edition, 4to. (228x165mm.), ff.[vi], 37 fine large folding map (383x288mm. to plate-mark), with ships, compass rose, and a sea monster, also with a folding scale, and 6 large woodcuts in the text (compass rose, prevailing winds, tides and currents, hazards, aids to direction-finding), small repair to head margin of last leaf, and sporadic faint dampstain to corners, contents otherwise in fresh and large state; rebound in modern limp vellum. Note: Royal Scottish Geographcal Society. The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850 (Revised and enlarged, with A History of Scottish Maps by D.G. Moir), Edinburgh, 1973. (Moir's third chapter is devoted to "Nicolas de Nicolay and Alexander Lyndsay," ; Taylor, Adams & Fortune. Alexander Lindsay, a rutter of the Scottish Seas c.1540. (National Maritime Museum Monographs 44), 1980; Moore. The historical cartography of Scotland. Aberdeen, 1991. For John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1504-1553), a key figure in the transmission of the principal text as well as in the political events of the period, see the entry by David Loades in the Oxford DNB It is an early navigational guide, the oldest Scottish "rutter" (an early sixteenth century term for a set of sailing directions, from the French routier); one of only a handful of such works of any origin to have come down to us, accompanied by the first accurate delineation of Scotland: created by the Scots for the purpose of containment; mysteriously obtained in manuscript by the English, copied by Nicolay and taken to the French king, then put into almost immediate use to avenge the murder of Cardinal Beaton at St. Andrews; and on two subsequent occasions with a view to supporting the Scottish succession The voyage of James V named on the title-page is that of 1540 when the King, with several nobles, set out to subdue the unruly Lords of the Western Isles. "The King visited Orkney, Skye, Lewis, Ross and Kintail and continued by sea to Dumbarton, where he left his fleet and rode back to Edinburgh, which he reached before 29th July (when he wrote to Henry VIII that he had visited the north and south isles), while the ships returned round the north of Scotland" Alexander Lyndsay was the pilot, and Nicolay credits him with having compiled the rutter by command of the King for the purpos. There would appear to be little doubt that this is true, as the guide, laboriously drawn from Lyndsay's experience - and from material gathered from other sources, as the volume and geographical range of the information suggest - starts from Leith as the expedition did, gives the route which James's fleet followed, and provides a suitable course through the Western Isles for meeting the island chiefs. In Scotland, extreme tidal conditions, a shallow seabed, and variable winds and visibilty, retarded the development of astronomical observations for navigation; northern pilots generally made their way by setting courses from one headland to the next, and by keeping in mind the effect of tidal streams and the risk of hidden rocks and other hazards. It required only a compass, a sand-glass, traverse-board, and a lead and line. Lyndsay's rutter is, therefore, typical as a guide to coastal waters before detailed charts and sophisticated inst
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An extensive collection of engineers and draftsmens equipment briefly comprising a marking out cabinet, various draftsmens tools, scale rules, dial test indicators, micrometres, reamers, fine tap and dye, callipers, squares, marking blocks, etc. Provenance: the inherited property of the vendor being a combination of items belonging to his great uncle who worked in London and Doncaster for the railways and notably acted as a draftsman with Sir Nigel Gresley on coaches for the Flying Scotsman.
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Caucasian sumac, Kuba region, north east Caucasus, late 19th-early 20th century, 11ft.11in. x 10ft.3in. 3.63m. x 3.12m. Overall wear, heavy in places, top end missing (approx. 1ft.3in 0.40m.). A comparison with the similar sumac in Boralevi, Sumakh, no. 8, suggests that our example is missing part or all of the upper central medallion and the outer border. The medallions are drawn on a larger scale here than on Boralevis example, which has five complete medallions on each outer row. Were this rug to follow that scheme, it would be over 4 feet (1.20m.) longer, which would mean that it no longer had the squarish format most of these rugs do have; Boralevis rug, for example measures 3.68m. x 3.27m. Note that directionally is given to the rug by the small pairs of birds or animals in the lower six medallions. Provenance: Sale, Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 25 July, 1996, lot 200.
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South Africa. Valentyn (Francois), Nieuwe Kaart van Caap der Goede Hoop in hare rechte jegenwoordige staat..., [1726],. uncoloured engraved map with inset larger scale map from Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien, plate dimensions 445 x 560 mm, together with a double-page plan of the Cape Settlement from the same work (280 x 365 mm) and a disbound section of the text including a description of the Cape of Good Hope and an engraved plate of Hottentots (-)
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Spain & Portugal. Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), L'Espagne divisee en tous ses Royaumes et Principautes suivant qu'ils sont compris sous les Couronnes de Castille et d'Aragon, c.1690s,. engraved map, hand coloured in outline, separate uncoloured title and scale cartouches, some minor creasing with one clean split, plate dimensions 454 x 580 mm (1)
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An early 20th Century oak cased Aneroid Wheel Barometer, Negretti & Zambra, London, No 26728, the shaped case with applied ‘C’ scroll and foliate detail, to a twin scale silver backed mercurial thermometer, to a spun brass bezel, enclosing an 8” silvered dial, with scale of 28 to 31, height 36”
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A mid 20th Century mahogany cased Balance Scale, Griffin and Tatlock Limited, of typical five glass construction, with lacquered brass column and balance arm, further to stainless steel trays, with side mounted adjustment, to 250 gms; Together with a further mahogany cased part set of Weights, (2)
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A late 17th century ebonised table clock. By Jonathon Lowndes, London. the twin train fusee movement with pull cord repeat, the profusely engraved back plate, decorated with border and flowering foliage and inscribed 'Jonat Lowndes, London', the dial with silvered chapter ring and subsidiary date aperture, the caddy top case with embossed brass surmount and brass finials above sides pierced with brass 'fish scale' ornament 34.5cm high
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A Crown Staffordshire porcelain vase and cover decorated with panels of exotic pheasants and reserved on a powder blue ground, 19 cm high overall, and a pair of Samson baluster porcelain vases and covers decorated in the 18th Century Worcester manner with panels of exotic birds and floral sprays reserved on a scale blue ground, the bases bearing pseudo Worcester fretwork marks, 14 cm high overall
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* Cadell (Francis C. Boileau, 1883-1937). View of Ben More, Iona, with paddle steamer, colour lithograph, signed in the image, approx. 710 x 1070mm (28 x 42 in), period frame, glazed A fine large-scale colour lithograph of one of Cadells favourite motifs, the mountain of Ben More on the island of Iona, which the artist first visited in 1913. (1)
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A selection of English tea wares, 19th century, to include a Coalport Etruscan shaped tea cup and saucer circa 1818 decorated with exotic birds and insects within gilt cartouches against a simulated blue scale ground, 5.5cm high along with seven other 19th century and later cups and saucers (16) See M Berthoud, A Compendium of British Cups, Micawber Publications, 1990, plate 663 for an identical example of this Coalport cup, Berthoud notes that the gilt motifs include the five gold rings also used at Davenport.
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John Skinner Exeter, a Regency mahogany bracket clock, the break arch top with a pyramidal brass ball finial, 8 inch enamel dial, signed, having twin fusee movement (lacking bell), the back plate with engraved border and named within an oval panel, the case with twin scale brass frets below the dial and to both sides, upon a moulded base and brass ogee bracket feet, 50cm high
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Mercedes - The 1952 300 SLR Panamericana winning car. A hand finished 1:18th scale metal and alloy bodied model of the Karl Kling driven 1952 Panamericana Mercedes 300 SLR, with opening bonnet, boot and gullwing doors, a detailed engine, a cloth check seat, and two boot-stored spare tyres, with chrome work to the window surrounds, radiator grille, headlight, rear light and indicator surrounds, leather bonnet straps and vulture guards fitted to the windscreen, set to a perspex and aluminium case with incised plaque.
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Jaguar - The 1964 Le Mans Lightweight E-Type. A handbuilt 1:24th scale resin and alloy bodied model in the No.17 green livery, as driven by Lumsden & Sargent at the 1964 Le Mans, with perspex headlight covers, faux silvered alloy piercework wheels, and alloy trim to the window surround, cased with plaque.
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Starter, Record & Provence Moulage - Porsche 935's. Four hand built 1:43rd scale resin and alloy bodied models, comprising a Ruddick built limited edition Porsche 935 with a modified metal base; an Arance built special bodied 935 turbo in the Coca Cola livery as driven by Bob Akin; an Arance built 935 K4 Jagermeister and a No.79 Fitzpatrick and Hobbs driven 935, all mint and boxed, with modeller's signature where applicable.
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