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Keevil (J. J.). Medicine and The Navy, 1200-900, vols. 1-3 (of 4), 1957-61,. few b&w plts., orig. cloth in sl. chipped and soiled d.j.s, plus another copy of vol. 1, all 8vo, together with Wygant (Larry J.), E. Trueman G. Walker, Jnr., History of Medicine Collections: Books and Manuscripts, Galveston, 1986, col. port. frontis., few b&w illusts., orig. boards in slipcase, 4to, plus McHenry (Lawrence C.), Garrison's History of Neurology, revised and enlarged with a bibliography .., Springfield, 1969, some b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus five other reference, incl. three on scientific instruments (11)
A Pair of Table Globes, Dudley Adams, 1795, each with cartouche inscribed "To His Most Secred Majesty George The Third King of Great Britain & c This new Globe of the earth Correctly laid down according to ye best Observations & latest Discoveries Is most humbly inscribed By His Majestys most dutiful & obliged Subject & Servant Dudley Adams", the celestial inscribed "...containing all ye Southern Constellations lately observed at the Cape of Good Hope & all the stars Flamsteds British Catalogue ... made by D. Adams Globe Maker to the King & Optician to HRH The Duke of York, No.60 Fleet Street, London 1795", each 12in (30.5cm) diameter celestial and terrestrial globe made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved split gores (the celestial laid to the ecliptic pole), the equatorial graduated in degree, hours and minutes, the colures ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures as well as scientific instruments, the gilt meridian circle divided on one side to each degree, with oak horizon and hand-coloured engraved paper graduated in degrees and showing compass directions, zodiac (with pictures, names and sigils) calendar scale and compass directions, also days of the month with Saints' days, on four quadrant supports upon three swept legs (both lacking compass/stretchers), {59cm (23.25in) high overall} (both A/F, terrestrial globe badly split/several crudely restored areas, faded and discoloured/varnish worn, the celestial globe punctured near Southern Polar region, otherwise similar to preceding)
A collection of scientific instruments, comprising: a Griffin & Son Wimhurst electrostatic machine, London, mid 19th century, with maker's plaque reading Griffin & Son's Chemical and Inst makers Garrick St & Long Acre London, with 17.5in,44.5cm glass plate, two metal arms each with ten protruding metal prongs and winging handle supported within a mahogany frame on a mahogany plinth split; together with a painted tinplate building, probably for use with a Wimhurst machine, German, circa 1900, the house with detachable roof, the tower with fire box below, brass spark thrower to the roof and internal painted glass cylinder; a magneto electic machine in a mahogany case, late 19th century; a small brass telescope; and eight miscellaneous scientific aids, various sizes
CAMERAS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS - J. R. Chislett, - a Grigg's Conical Electromagnetic machine, patented January 8th, 1873, the mahogany conical coil housing with adjustable ivory capped iron wire core, magnet shaped electromagnetic interrupter to one side and four lacquered brass connectors mounted to each corner, makers signed plaque '34 Eastbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London, maker Plymouth', 10.5in long
CAMERAS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS - J. Swift & Son - a black lacquer and brass single-drawer compound microscope, quadruple turret, rack and pinion focussing, fully adjustable stage, sub-stage condenser, plano-concave mirror below, horseshoe stand; three oculars, three objectives, original fitted mahogany case, stamped 'J. Swift & Son, 81 Tottenham Court Road, London', 15in high
CAMERAS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS - Collection of Ambrotypes or Collodion positives, a group of four tinted, in black thermoplastic Samuel Peck case, the cover with mother and child and doting dog with vine, rope and floral border; another, of a young man in brown thermoplastic case, the cover with angel and Cupid, within angel and leafy cartouche; another, of a lady, in morocco folding case, c.1855-60
Gatty (Mrs. Alfred) The Book of Sun-Dials, new and enlarged edition, 3 folding plates, bookplate, small rust-mark on front free endpaper, original cloth, covers slightly worn and discoloured, 1889 ~ Turner (Gerard l'E.) Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, 1983 ~ Basserman-Jordan (Ernst von) The Book of Old Clocks and Watches, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, 1964 ~ Baillie (G.H.) Clock and Watches, an Historical Bibliography, text illustrations, original cloth, 1947; and 2 others, Science, 8vo & 4to (6).
Microscopy.- A collection of approximately 200 trade catalogues and ephemera relating to microscopes and other scientific instruments, including those of the firms of Carl Zeiss of Jena, E.Leitz of Wetzlar and W.Watson & Sons Ltd. of London, and including an engraving of a section of the Opake Solar Microscope, 1770, an A.L.s. from one Blunt (?) of Tavistock, Oct. 21. 1816, describing a telescope he has supplied with accompanying small drawings, and a 4pp. 4to MS. of c.1800 describing a "Camera Lucida with the mirror and prism", most original printed wrappers, small hole in the MS with loss of 2 words only, most late 19th-early 20th centuries, v.s.

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