Brass Raspail-type Microscope

Description:

Brass Raspail-type Microscope, France, retailed by Paul Roessler, New Haven, third quarter 19th century, the mahogany box with drawer supports a brass post with interchangeable eyepiece, circular stage with rackwork adjustment, and gimbaled mirror, fitted drawer with ebony-handled dissection tool, ht. 8 in.

Literature: For a very similar example also retailed by Roessler, see Giordano, Singular Beauty: Simple Microscopes from the Giordano Collection, MIT, 2006, p. 53, catalogue no. 100, illustrated.
Estimate $300-500

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