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 artefacts 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.

Highlights from past auctions

Ivory anatomical female figure, 18th century,
Sold for £10,000 inc. premium
A rare ivory anatomical model of a pregnant woman, German or Austrian, 1770's,
A Thomas Tuchar ivory triptych sundial, Nuremberg, pre 1645,
Sold for £15,000 inc. premium
A large and rare Thomas Tuchar ivory triptych sundial, Nuremberg, pre 1645,
A George Adams armillary sphere, English, circa 1790
Sold for £133,250 inc. premium
A rare George Adams armillary sphere, English, late 18th century,
A rare W & S Jones Cometarium, English, early 19th century,
Sold for £39,650 inc. premium
A rare W & S Jones Cometarium, English, early 19th century,

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