Fine Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments

Session: Scientific Instruments

London, Knightsbridge
19 Apr 2011, session starting at 13:00 BST
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Ramsden no 46 : A brass sextant in mahogany box - Please confirm price with client before cataloguing.
Sold for £27,600 inc. premium
An important 18th century 15in.(38cm) radius brass sextant, by Jesse Ramsden c. 1773.
A Medical Model on wheels
Sold for £16,800 inc. premium
A fine life-size intricately-detailed anatomical model, devised and created by the French physician Dr. Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux, -
A fine and rare Watson-Draper compound binocular microscope, English, circa 1887,
Sold for £12,000 inc. premium
A fine and rare Watson-Draper compound binocular microscope, English, circa 1887,
An Adams Universal-type compound monocular microscope, English, circa 1800,
Sold for £9,000 inc. premium
An Adams Universal-type compound monocular microscope, English, circa 1800,

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A Layton's Improved Arithmometer
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A Layton's Improved Arithmometer
Sold for £1,800 inc. premium
A good Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer
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78
A good Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer
Sold for £5,400 inc. premium
A C. H. Webb calculator - 'The Adder', to the 10th March 1868 patent,
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A C. H. Webb calculator - 'The Adder', to the 10th March 1868 patent,
Sold for £360 inc. premium
A good Fuller's cylindrical slide
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A good Fuller's cylindrical rule calculator,
Sold for £360 inc. premium
A fuller's calculator,
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A Fuller's cylindrical slide rule calculator,
Sold for £360 inc. premium
A set of ivory geometry models
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A set of ivory geometry models, English, probably late 18th century, (12).
Sold for £3,600 inc. premium
A set of twelve ivory Napier's rods, English, early 18th century,
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A set of twelve ivory Napier's rods, English, early 18th century,
Sold for £8,400 inc. premium
A set of four boxwood scales, English, 19th century,
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A set of four boxwood scales, English, 19th century,
Sold for £240 inc. premium
A boxwood nocturnal, English, 17th century,
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A boxwood nocturnal, English, 17th century,
Sold for £3,840 inc. premium
A rare Dollond ivory and ebony parallel rule, English, dated 1776,
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A rare Dollond ivory and ebony parallel rule, English, dated 1776,
Sold for £1,920 inc. premium
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