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

A large George Adams brass compound monocular microscope, English, late 18th century,
Sold for £16,250 inc. premium
A large George Adams brass compound monocular microscope, English, late 18th century,
A Culpeper-type monocular microscope
Sold for £22,500 inc. premium
A Culpeper-type monocular microscope, English, mid 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,
A rare Typex mark VI British Naval and RAF Enigma machine, circa 1940,
Sold for £13,750 inc. premium
A rare Typex mark VI British Naval and RAF Enigma machine, circa 1940,

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