Sundial: An extremely large Georgian sundial plateinscribed made by Dudley Adam Charing Cross London indistinctly dated 178* and with engraved armorialthe dial 61cm.; 24ins diameter; 74cm.; 29ins diameterThe arms appear to be that of Thomas Neville of Borrismore House, Country Kilkenny Ireland, whose coat of arms recorded as a bulls head beneath a Ducal coronet with the motto Ne vile velis (don’t wish anything bad)Dudley Adams is recorded as working between 1788 and 1817 and operating from 53 Charing Cross London between 1788 and 1796. He is recorded as making a number of scientific instruments including barometers microscopes as well as sundials. Unusually, this particularly plate also incorporates a bronze surround and may well have originally incorporating a rotating mechanism.Literature: Directory of British Scientific Instruments Makers 1550-1851 by Gloria Clifton, published by The National Maritime Museum, 1996, p2
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A late Victorian lacquered and patinated brass portable monocular microscope Negretti and Zambra, London, late 19th century The body tube sliding via rack-and-pinion focus adjustment within a sleeve collar inscribed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON to front over a simple rectangular stage fitted with slide clips and with pivoted plano-concave mirror beneath, the curved limb attached via a hinged pivot joint to the folding triform base, in original mahogany chest-type box 25cm (9.75ins) wide. The firm of Negretti & Zambra are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as being established in 1850 when a partnership between Enrico Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra was formed. The firm became one of the most prolific makers of scientific instruments and continued trading well into the 20th century.
A late Victorian lacquered and patinated brass monocular microscope Negretti and Zambra, London, late 19th century With rack and pinion coarse and fine top-screw focus adjustment and double objective nosepiece above rectangular stage fitted with slide clips over sub-stage condenser and pivoted plano-concave mirror beneath, the limb fixed via pivot joint behind the stage onto a shaped base inscribed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON to rear and with three angled supports fitted with brass disc feet, in original mahogany box with two objective lens canisters, additional eyepiece lens and other accessories, the box 31cm (12.25ins) high excluding handle; with a Victorian lacquered and patinated brass monocular microscope, unsigned, late 19th century, with body tube screw-fitting into a collar over rack-and pinion focus screws and simple stage with oculus and plano-concave mirror beneath, the limb fixed via pivot joint beneath the stage onto a Y-shaped base, in original mahogany box with various accessories including light magnification lens and stand and with slide drawer to base, the box 27cm (10.5ins) high excluding handle, (2). The firm of Negretti & Zambra are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as being established in 1850 when a partnership between Enrico Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra was formed. The firm became one of the most prolific makers of scientific instruments and continued trading well into the 20th century.
A William III walnut and floral marquetry eight-day longcase clock Christopher Gould, London, circa 1695 and later The five finned pillar inside-rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and 11 inch square brass dial with ringed winding holes, subsidiary seconds dial and scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the rosette decorated matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with fine pierced blued steel hands and winged cherub head and leafy scroll cast spandrels to angles within a fine scrolling foliate engraved border interrupted with signature Chr: Gould Londini fecit to lower margin, in a case with ogee moulded cornice and blind foliate fretwork frieze above floral trial inlaid hood door applied with spiral twist turned three-quarter columns to angles, the trunk with conforming leafy trail decorated convex throat above 42 inch door centred with a lenticle and decorated with three shaped marquetry bird and angel figure inhabited flowering foliage panels into an ebonised ground within a figured walnut field, the surround with stylised leaf decoration above conforming panel outline plinth base with compressed bun feet, (case with faults), 206cm (81ins) high. Provenance: The property of a private collector, purchased from Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers sale of Clocks and Watches including Scientific Instruments and Barometers London, 8th December 1998, lot 177 for £12,000. Christopher Gould is generally regarded as one of the leading makers from the 'Golden Period' of English clockmaking. He gained his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1682 but by 1713 had become destitute and received charity from the Company until his death in 1718. Christopher Gould's work invariably demonstrates a level of quality and elaboration that could only be afforded by the most wealthy of patrons, with the movement and dial of the current lot being no exception with well thought-out internal rack striking mechanism and fine engraved detail around the spandrels - a feature often only found on Gould's best work.
A fine George II cased set of mathematical drawing instruments Thomas Heath, London, circa 1740 The lower tier comprising: A large mathematical sector rule signed and engraved No. 43 annotated with the usual logarithmic, trigonometric and other scales; an oblong protractor rule signed and engraved with trigonometric scales to verso; an expanding parallel ruler with hinged perpendicular distance scales at each end; a set of gunner's callipers, one side with table annotated with tables of the specific weights of named metals and other substances opposing scale giving ordnance bore sizes, the axis with protractor scale and the outer straight edge calibrated in metric inches, the reverse with table for IRON GUNS, Proof, Service tabulated for 1-42 pounder cannon to upper limb and conforming table for BRASS GUNS to lower limb, the axis with scale for shot size, the pointers with iron blade inserts, signed; a large brass 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 Lines, signed; a compass beam calibrated for barometric inches and with fine screw adjustment to one end; together with a large hinged compass with series of interchangeable attachments for the legs and small quantity of other items. The upper tier comprising: An ivory sector rule engraved with trigonometric tables and calibrated for various European inch measurements; a group of five small ivory rules each divided for differing Poles and Parts ; a circular protractor with single crossing; an adjustable folding rhombus incorporating vernier protractor scale for setting the smaller internal angles, signed; a double ended compass, together with a set of dividers, an assortment of various tips and other accessories. All contained in a green-velvet lined fishskin covered box with decorative external brass clasp to exterior, the box 41cm (16ins) wide. Thomas Heath is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as apprenticed to Benjamin Scott in 1712. Heath presumably gained his freedom of the Grocer's Company before 1720 when he is recorded as working from 'Hercules & Globe next the Fountain Tavern' in the Strand, London. Latterly (from 1734-46) he also worked from an address with the same name near Beaufort Buildings as well as a third premises near Exeter Buildings (1750). He was known to have sold compasses, an astronomical clock, gunner's callipers, theodolites, sundials, sectors, barometers and drawing instruments and took many apprentices including George Adams (I) in 1726/7. In 1751 Thomas Heath went into partnership with former apprentice, Tycho Wing, with the latter acquiring the business outright in 1753 (which he continued until his death in 1773).
A group of three George IV drawing Instruments William and Samuel Jones, London, circa 1825 The first a circular brass protractor with four-spoke crossings, central glazed cross-wires and vernier swing-arm engraved W & S JONES, 30 Holborn London, diameter of circle 15.6cm (6.125ins); the second a brass 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 Lines, the rear engraved W. & S. Jones, 30, Holborn, London in original leather covered case 19cm (7.5ins) long; the third an ivory inch rule divided to 96th's of a inch and stamped W & S JONES * 30 HOLBORN LONDON, 15.9cm (6.5ins) long, (3). The partnership between the brothers William and Samuel Jones is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as operating from several addresses in Holborn, London 1792-1859 (including 30 Holborn 1800-1860).
A collection of scientific instruments including a boxed small Leitz Wetzlar small chrome microscope, a small box of antique microscope slides, a boxed Wheatstone bridge resistance tester by "Nivoc" by George & Becker Ltd, inscribed "No 11600", two boxed Ilford lantern plates, an "Ansco Shurshot" box camera, a cased pocket barometer, two volt meters, etc.
Books - Horlogy - Cave-Browne-Cave (B.W.), Jonas Barber, Clockmaker of Winster, The Reminder Press, Cumbria, pb; Symonds (R.W.), Thomas Tompion: His Life and Work, Spring Books, London 1951; Edwardes (Ernest L.), The Grandfather Clock, John Sheratt and Son Ltd, Altrincham, revised third edition, signed by the author, hb, dj; Shropshire Clock and Watchmakers, Phillimore, London 1979, hb, dj; Belmont, Faversham - Kent: Lord Harris Clock Collection; Britten's Old Clocks and Their Makers, hb, dj; Provincial clock making; clock manufacture and repair; scientific instruments; clock collecting; qty
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL "Figure of man with scientific instruments", oil on canvas, unsigned, together with S. FOALE "Brixham harbour" oil on panel, signed lower right CONDITION REPORTS Picture of man with scientific instruments Approx 29.5 x 22cm. Has had some repairs and restoration, and appears to have been relined. Chips to frame. The S Foale picture is approx 48 x 23cm, and has some general wear and scuffs, and has some chips to the frame.
Scientific Instruments - a 19th century brass 360 degree protractor, by John Cail, Newcastle upon Tyne, signed, 23cm diam, in original mahogany case, engraved trade label to verso of hinged cover; a similar brass and ebony draughtsman's rule, by John Cail, Newcastle on Tyne, signed, 30.7cm long (2)
Collection of scientific instruments, various instruments: a Beck microscope, an azimuth circle circa 1940s, a surveyors level by Haldane (damaged case), a gunnery quadrant marked 'E G & S', box dated 1952, an American cased steel micrometer, Houghton Butcher Dial Camera, O'Gorman's Tautness Meter, and a few other items (a quantity)
A fine English 2.75 inch pocket globe Attributed to George Adams junior... A fine English 2.75 inch pocket globe Attributed to George Adams junior after Herman Moll, late 18th century The sphere applied with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes with the equinoctial graduated in degrees and hours and the eclyptic graduated in days, the prime meridian labelled Meridian of London and the principal land masses outlined in colour and annotated with major rivers and mountain ranges, the oceans showing the winds with islands labelled and printed with dotted line for Cook's Track 1760, the North Pacific region with oblong printed title cartouche A Correct, GLOBE, with the new, Discoveries, the spherical fishskin covered case lined with twelve hand coloured printed gores and two polar calottes labelled A Correct Globe, with y New Constelations of Dr. Halley & c. with stars expressed in six orders of magnitude and allegorical representations of the constellations finely executed, overall diameter 7.6cm (3ins). George Adams junior is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as apprenticed to George Adams senior before working as maker of a full range of instruments including globes from Tycho Brahe's Head, 60 Fleet St., London 1772-95. He was succeeded by his widow, Hannah, before the premises was taken over by his brother, Dudley, in 1796. The current lot can be compared to a similar globe illustrated in Lamb, Tom and Collins, Jeremy (ed's.) THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS (exhibition catalogue) item 5.16 which is described as attributed to George Adams junior based on the same type of globe being used in an armillary sphere by Adams. The origin of the gores can be traced back to those used on Herman Moll's pocket globe of 1710, however it is known that the plates for Moll's gores were acquired by John Senex after the former's death in 1732, before passing to George Adams senior after Senex died in 1755. It is possible that George Adams had the plates re-engraved to incorporate revisions before publishing. With regards to dating - Cook's Track follows the line of his first voyage which took place 1768-71 hence is incorrectly dated 1760, also the presence of New Caledonia would indicate that the globe was produced after Cook's second voyage which ended in 1784.
Dudley (Robert). An album of engraved volvelles, engravings and charts, pub. Florence, c.1646, engraved double page title for 'Statuta Valachorum', (a collection of statutes enacted by the Habsburg monarchy and the Croatian Parliament, to define the taxation and tenancy rights of the Vlachs, dated 1620), together with thirty uncoloured engraved volvelles, most with moveable pointers, with five engravings showing scientific instruments and one small chart, all engraved by Antonio Francesco Lucini, each plate appears to have been excised and attached by the gutter margin to a later album, one volvelle detached with a short closed tear affecting image, joints and hinges weak, 18th century half sheep, worn and frayed, slim oblong folio. The volvelles and engravings were originally published in the 'Arcano del Mare'. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)
A Gilt Bronze and White Marble Striking Mantel Clock, Henry Voisin, A Paris, circa 1880, urn finial flanked by two maiden figures in robes, central panel with cherubs and scientific instruments, white marble base with applied gilt bronze floral mounts, 5-inch enamel dial with Arabic and Roman numerals, twin barrel movement striking on a bell, backplate stamped Etienne Maxant Paris and numbered 17142, 56cm high 10.10.14, Gilding is faded, marble base with small chips, dial with one minor chip around winding hole, later hour hand, movement needs cleaning, strike is working.
A Gilt Bronze and White Marble Striking Mantel Clock, circa 1880, surmounted by a winged cherub alongside scientific instruments, white marble base with applied floral and scroll mounts, 3-1/2-inch enamel dial with Roman numerals, twin barrel movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, backplate stamped Bazelaire de Paris, 51cm high 10.10.14, Gilding faded, marble base with chips and the case back marble with a crack, dial with hairline cracks, minute hand broken, movement needs cleaning, pendulum is missing.
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