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![[Robert] Tangate, London, a late 18th century mahogany stick barometer, the broken pediment above silvered scale engraved 'T](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10091/2703299/651-41-10091_468x382.jpg)
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[Robert] Tangate, London, a late 18th century mahogany stick barometer, the broken pediment above silvered scale engraved 'Tangate London', above visible tube and turned cistern cover with adjuster below, 98cm. Robert Tangate worked in the Fleet Street area from 1766 until his death in 1808. He was first apprenticed to John Morgan from 1752, then George Adams who was instrument maker to the King
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J & A Jump, London, a Victorian mahogany bracket clock, numbered 187, the breakarch case with single pad top and handle, arched brass scale side frets, 7 inch (18cm) circular silvered dial signed 'J A Jump, 1A Old Bond Strt, London' with two further scale frets below, raised on gilt brass bracket feet, the twin fusee bell striking movement signed and numbered 187 to the backplate, with adjustable pendulum and pierced hands, 38cm high, 27.5cm wide
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Henry Frodsham, Liverpool An early 19th Century mahogany stick barometer, the concave moulding over a bowed glazed scale, figured trunk and lappet collar, with a turned cistern cover, the signed silvered dial with thermometer and scale from 27 to 31 inches and rack and pinion vernier via ivory knob, 94cm
![*British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar:Insularum Descriptio, [1588 or later],](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2703300/845-56-10729_468x382.jpg)
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*British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar:Insularum Descriptio, [1588 or later], engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, separate ornamental title and description cartouches, single armorial, scale of distance surmounted by dividers, plate dimensions 345 x 500 mm, Spanish text to verso, framed and glazed. Shirley 86. See illustration inside front cover of this catalogue. (1)
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*England & Wales. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense, 1573 [but 1588 or later], engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, fine strapwork cartouche and separate scale of distance, minor paper repair to foot of central fold, plate dimensions 376 x 465 mm, Spanish text to verso, framed and glazed. Shirley 98. (1)
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Scotland. Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), Le Royaume d'Ecosse Divise en Parties Septentrionale & Meridionale, [1693], engraved map, hand coloured in outline with separate uncoloured title and scale cartouches, a few repaired marginal tears and six inoffensive wormholes, plate dimensions 900 x 600 mm (1)
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Ross (Frederick). The Ruined Abbeys of Britain, Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings from Drawings by A.F. Lydon, pub. William MacKenzie, [1882], twelve chromo. views, wood engs. to text, hinges split, a.e.g., orig. bevel-edged cloth gilt, extrems. a little rubbed, upper cover with sl. damp marking to lower outer corner, large 4to. McLean, Design, p.204; Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 105. "There are only twelve colour plates, but their scale makes them perhaps the most impressive of any that resulted from the collaboration of Fawcett and Lydon." (1)
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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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