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Lot 79
COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS including a precision cut set of railway curves, range 5000mm to 30mm, in a fitted case, manufactured by Uchida; together with a planimeter no. 53977, in a fitted case, a Blundell Harling Ltd parallel rule, a half-precision beam compass with trammels, in a fitted case
Lot 190
CHRISTIE'S AND SOTHEBY'S SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT CATALOGUES, approximately 51 Christie's Clocks & Scientific Instruments from April 1974 to April 2008 and nine Travel, Science & Natural History from 2008 to 2012; together with approx. 101 Sotheby's Clocks & Scientific Instruments from November 1971 to September 2000, full list available on request, (a lot), This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
Lot 199
A FINE LACQUERED BRASS SUNDIAL BY HENRY SHUTTLEWORTH, LONDON, CIRCA 1770, engraved to a latitude of 55° (Newcastle or Londonderry) with finely worked sixteen-point compass rose, outer minute scale, perspective radiused Roman hour numerals recording IIIIam to VIIIpm each separated by a decorative fleur-de-lys motif, signed at south Shuttleworth London, gnomen, three threaded pad feet, (retaining much original lacquered finish and black-waxed filling) -- 10in (25.5cm.) high, Literature: Turner, A: Early Scientific Instruments Europe 1400-1800, Sotheby's 1987, p.176, this dial illustrated fig. 182, Henry Raines Shuttleworth (w. 1760-1797) was apprenticed to the famous London Maker John Cuff in 1746. Made a Freeman of the Spectacle Makers Company 1756 he subsequently established his own Mathematical Shop near the west end of St. Paul's in Ludgate Street. Succeeded by his son, (also Henry, apprenticed to his father 1778) in Ludgate Street 1797-1811. His signature denotes some of the finest London mathematical instruments of the period.,
Lot 917
GILLOWS OF LANCASTER: A Sheraton revival satinwood and marquetry cabinet, the upper section with twin glazed cupboards encloshing shelved interiors flanking a central recess with bow fronted shelf, the base similarly configured with twin panelled cupboard doors with marquetry panels of sheet music and mustical trophies to one side and scientific instruments to the other, the three short drawers with hanging swag and patera decoration, on short turned legs, 62.5" high x 49.5" wide. See illustration
Lot 707
The following thirty one medical and surgical lots are from the collection of Derrick Baxby, Ph.D., FRCPath, Honorary Research Fellow. Derrick was a Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology at the University of Liverpool with a particular interest in smallpox and vaccination. A WHO and government advisor on poxvirus infections, Derrick was Chairman of the Poxvirus Group International Committee on Viral Taxonomy. Author of the authoritative book "Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine; the riddle of vaccinia virus and its origin", which was one of the six books shortlisted from seventy for the 1983 Abbot Prize for Medical Writing. Also author of "Edward Jenner (DNB)" and over one hundred papers published in peer-reviewed medical/scientific journals. The items to be auctioned have his handwritten or printed analyses. Many of the medical instruments are accompanied by a handwritten information card including references, history, etc. JENNER, EDWARD; An enquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the Western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire and known by the name of THE COW POX, 3rd edition, published London 1801, printed for the author by D.N.Shurry, Berwick Street, Soho, rebound in leather and canvas boards and in outer protective sleeve, with a wallet including four etchings of Jenner and various printed notes by Derrick Baxby. Provenance: The Derrick Baxby Collection.
Lot 662
A lock of Simon Bolivar's hair, 1830, mounted in a gilt edged black papier mache oval frame, height 10cm Note: Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played an instrumental role in Venezuela and other states to become independent of Spanish rule Provenance: Bonhams London, Lot 4, Scientific Instruments, 1st March 2000
Lot 3642
Scientific Interest - A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments, Made and Sold by W. and S. Jones, No. 30, Lower Holborn, London, oblong 4to, lacking title-page, an album of 24 numbered engraved plates dating from 1791-1823, period half-leather binding with marbled, Victorian seal bookplate of Thomas Sopwith, F.R.S & F.G.S (1803-1879, geologist and mining engineer)
Lot 3
A silver mounted shagreen cased part set of mathematical drawing instruments... A silver mounted shagreen cased part set of mathematical drawing instruments Heath and Wing, London, circa 1760 The green velvet lined interior comprising a lower tier now containing folding silver coloured metal mounted ironmonger's rule engraved in inches and with tables annotated for various sections of iron, one end fitted with sliding calliper and the edge stamped T. WYBAUN ; an upper tier fitted with an assortment of draughtsman's implements including a silver proportional dividing compass with sharp steel tipped arms each pierced with long slots for the sliding pivot assembly with knurled screw for securing against scales divided for Circles and Lin. to one side and Plans and Solids next to signature Heath & Wing, London to the other; the lid with flap revealing a silver mounted ivory expanding parallel ruler and a matching mathematical sector rule annotated with the usual logarithmic, trigonometric and other scales and signed Heath & Wing to the silver hinge mount, the exterior veneered in green-stained sharkskin with shaped silver lock escutcheon, fretwork plates for the surface mounted hinges and a pair of hook clasps, (incomplete and with substitutions), 19.5cm (7.75ins) wide. The partnership between Thomas Heath and Tycho Wing is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from several addresses in London 1751-73 including 'Hercules and Globe' next door to Fountain Tavern, Strand in 1759 and Near the Savoy Gate in the Strand in 1771. They were succeeded by Thomas Newman.
Lot 484
NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, A 19TH CENTURY LACQUERED BRASS INCLINOMETER, No. 14, inscribed Inventor & Patentee G. Francis, C.E. Chester, the silvered dial signed Negretti & Zambra London, with calibrated hinge and with tripod. Note: For measuring angles of elevation and use in the building industry, aviation, shipping and the military. Negretti & Zambra was a producer of scientific and optical instruments and also operated a photographic studio based in London. Enrico Angelo Ludovico Negretti (1818-1879) and Joseph Warren Zambra (1822-1887) formed a partnership in 1850, thereby founding the firm which would eventually be appointed opticians and scientific instrument makers to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Edward VII.
Lot 189
HERMES; a silk scarf in the "Poste et Cavalerie" pattern featuring a series of crests, with gold tassel and fringe detail on a beige and dark pink background, 89 x 89cm, and another HERMES silk scarf with a world map pattern celebrating communication and technology with winged figures with scientific instruments in the spandrels, 89 x 89cm, in an orange Hermes box (2).
Lot 557
Scientific instruments - an Electronic Switchgear, London Type MC1 mark IV conductivity measuring bridge; a Bird Electronic Corporation Thruline wattmeter; a Bird Electrical Corporation Termaline wattmeter model 6150; a Cooke, Troughton & Simms aspirated hygrometer type P.M.I.(cased); a Protimeter Timber master model 68T moisture meter (cased); a Kane-May KM6001 revolution meter; a H.W.Sullivan A.C. test set; an Edgcumbe instruments Phase/earth Loop tester; Ernest Turner Electrical instruments model 102 S.S voltmeter; others including Megga earth tester; Ayrton Mather Static voltmeter; Universal Avometers; megger BM200; Alrian AIM1 monitoring unit; Fluke 79 meter; Meteor 100 frequency counter. (18)
Lot 699
A vintage Self & Mutual Inductor by H Tinsley & Co Limited, London, further scientific instruments to include a cased example by Cooke Troughton & Simms, etc, also together with a vintage apothecary scale assembly raised on a timber base with a single drawer together with further cased weights
Lot 423
Scientific instruments and radio equipment - a Samwell and Hutton RF sweep generator; Tektronix 465 oscilloscope; Tektronix 475 oscilloscope; a Marconi FM/AM modulation meter TF2300; A Hewlett Packard HP 8553L Spectrum Analyser - RF section; 3M IMS 96R ultra-violet exposure unit; an Advance signal generator type B4B; a H.W.Sullivan decade resistance box Z4/WY 3052; a British Physical Laboratories electrolytic capacitor bridge model no. CB 154-D instr no. 6663; a Bryans model 21000 x-y auto plotter; a Matsanaga slide regulator model SD-2620. (12)
Lot 1814
A selection of Engineering or Scientific Instruments includes a folding 12" ivory ruler by Gail of Newcastle, a 6" engineers rule made in ivory by Saunders of Westminster, a patent pending compass and two miniature Vernier calipers , one in brass by Rabone of Birmingham the other made of wood and brass by Belcher Bros of New York, the caliper both measure 4" or less also includes a brass and iron set calipers in a case - all items 1880 - 1920
Lot 1809
A 19th century lacquered brass Chronometer or corn balance made by Joseph Long of 20 Little Tower Street, London. J. Long was at the address from 1821-1884 and was a maker of Optical Mathematical and Scientific instruments - makers details are engraved in small script above the 30 and 50 instrument Condition report: In good condition
Lot 402
A Kalee No.11 projector serial number 15503 fitted with Western Electric 703A bracket, Western Electric 1B sound unit, Western Electric 700A apparatus unit, Kalee type DL Vulcan arc lamp. Abraham Kershaw & Sons manufactured electrical and scientific instruments in Leeds from 1888 and started producing projection equipment c.1910 using the trade name KALEE derived from the initials Kershaw, A of Leeds.
Lot 399
A Kalee Indomitable model.8 projector serial no. 10971fitted with Gaumont arc lamp, Western Electric 708A control cabinet, Western Electric 1B sound unit, Western Electric 700A apparatus unit, Western Electric 49B amplifier, Western Electric 703 A bracket. Abraham Kershaw & Sons manufactured electrical and scientific instruments in Leeds from 1888 and started producing projection equipment c.1910 using the trade name KALEE derived from the initials Kershaw, A of Leeds.
Lot 125
A 19th century patent sympiesometer, with a glazed case, signed A. Adie, Edinburgh, No 218, 64cm tall. Alexander Adie (1775-1858) was an accomplished maker of scientific instruments who was granted a patent for his sympiesometer or air barometer in 1818, which he intended to be used as a less cumbersome alternative to the traditional instruments available at that time
Lot 191
A VERY FINE ¾IN. PINK SHAGREEN AND GILT-BRASS FOUR-DRAW VELLUM-COVERED CARD TELESCOPE BY J. AYSCOUGH, LONDON, CIRCA 1750 signed on the fourth draw as per title, parallel main tube with ray skin 'jewels' and delicate pink staining, gilt brass section dividers to green vellum-covered card draws with inked focus lines and dust slides each end -- 14½in. (37cm.) closed; 42in. (107cm.) open, mounted on associated turned wooden Georgian telescope table stand -- 18in. (46cm.) high (2) This telescope represents an expensive commission made at the apex of the pre-achromatic development of the refracting telescope and dates to between 1747 and the maker's death in 1759 at just 40 years of age. James Ayscough (1719-59) was one of the most creative and innovative London telescope opticians in the formative experimental period which led directly to the achromatic doublet objective being patented in 1758 by John Dollond Snr (1703-61). The son of a Wiltshire parson, at 13 he was apprenticed to James Mann II (w.1706-d.1756) and as such was at the forefront of many such achromatic lens trials from their inception by the London barrister Chester Moor Hall. Latterly educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, Ayscough gained his Freedom in 1740 under James Mann II, with whom he was later in partnership between 1743 and 1747. He became an independent maker in 1748 where he was known for quality experimental optical designs and published a fine optical treatise in 1752 entitled A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision, chiefly designed to Illustrate the Use and Advantage of Spectacles. This aroused great jealousy and ire amongst other London opticians for promoting hard green crown glass, being rather expensive to procure and time-consuming to polish. Literature: 1. Gee, B, ed. McConnell, A & Mirrison-Low, A: Francis Watkins and the Dollond Patent Telescope Controversy, Ashgate, pp.41-47; 2. Talbot, S: Shagreen and Fish-skin - on Scientific Instruments, their Cases and Étui c.1700-1800, SIS Bulletin No.123 Dec. 2014, pp.10-27; 3. Louman & Zuidervaart: A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far, Wassenaar, 2013, Nos. 49, 152, 180.
Lot 1328
Good French bronze, ormolu and white marble two train mantel clock, the movement back plate signed Planchon, Paris, with silk suspension, outside countwheel and striking on a bell, the 4.75" convex white dial signed Gide a Paris, within a drumhead casing attended by a standing winged cherub to one side and scientific instruments to the other, upon a stepped breakfront base, 13" high (pendulum and key)
Lot 246
Richeson (A.W.) - English Land Measuring to 1800: Instruments and Practices, Cambridge, MA and London, 1966 § Burnett (J.E.) and A.D. Morrison-Low. "Vulgar and Mechanick". The Scientific Instrument Trade in Ireland 1650-1921, signed by the authors, Dublin, 1989 § Anderson (R.G.W.), J.A. Bennett and W.F. Ryan, editors. Making Instruments Count. Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner, Aldershot, 1993 § Turner (A.J.) Mathematical Instruments in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1994 § Morrison-Low (A.D.) Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution, signed presentation copy from the author, Aldershot, 2007, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets ; and a small quantity of others, Scientific Instruments, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)
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