Scientific Instruments

The Bonhams Scientific Instruments department holds dedicated auctions twice a year, as well as offering property within the Gentleman's Library sale.
We offer instruments and apparatus from the earliest known historical artifacts to items from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Our sales contain microscopes, telescopes, surveying and navigational instruments, globes, sundials, astrolabes, calculators, drawing instruments, barometers and barographs, medical and dental instruments.

Auctions

in Scientific Instruments

Highlights from past auctions

Sold for £10,250 inc. premium
A rare folding boxwood Gunter quadrant, English, dated 1680,
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, -
Sold for £97,250 inc. premium
A fine and rare William Harris & Co combined planetarium, tellurium and lunarium, English, circa 1825,
Sold for £27,600 inc. premium
An important 18th century 15in.(38cm) radius brass sextant, by Jesse Ramsden c. 1773.

Contacts

Scientific Instruments (UK) Bonhams
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Jon Baddeley Bonhams
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Jonathan Snellenburg Bonhams
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