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Gilded French Barometer
Lot: 103Sold for: $1,880$1,600Gilded French Barometer, with carved birds, promethean torch, painted wooden dial marked Barometre and Thermomeire de Reamur flanked with swags and garlands, (lacking barometer tube and working more ...
Mahogany Wheel Barometer by D. Rivolta
Lot: 104Sold for: $588$500Mahogany Wheel Barometer by D. Rivolta, Edinburgh, the 8-inch dia. silvered dial with engraved scene depicting castle and cottage, alcohol thermometer, hygrometer, bubble-level, mirror, and mahogany more ...
Mahogany Wheel Barometer
Lot: 104ASold for: $441$375Mahogany Wheel Barometer with "Dry-Damp" dial at the top, silvered scale thermometer, 9 1/2 in. dia. silvered dial, diamond pattern hands and spirit level at the bottom, ht. 43 in. more ...
Biedermeier Wheel Barometer by Martinelli
Lot: 105Sold for: $1,880$1,600Biedermeier Wheel Barometer by Martinelli, 82 Leath Lane, Holborn, London, with 8-inch dia. brass dial, alcohol bubble-level, thermometer, hygrometer, satinwood trunk and ebony stringing, ht. 36 more ...
English Mahogany Wheel Barometer by Charles Maspero
Lot: 106Sold for: $118$100English Mahogany Wheel Barometer by Charles Maspero, Manchester, with 8-inch dia. silvered dial, mercury thermometer, dry / damp indicator, convex reflector, level vial, and mahogany trunk with more ...
Anemometer by Negretti & Zambra
Lot: 107Sold for: $353$300Anemometer by Negretti & Zambra, London, No. 1313, with 2 1/4-inch dia. silvered dial calibrated in feet, two subsidiary dials, lacquered-brass housing with three turned feet, ht. 3 1/4 in., and more ...
Mahogany Agricultural Stick Barometer
Lot: 108Sold for: $294$250Mahogany Agricultural Stick Barometer, Lyman King, Clifton Springs, New York, the case with applied ripple moldings, paper scale inscribed, H. & A. Clum's Adjustable Agricultural Barometer, Lyman more ...
Regency Bow-front Barometer by Frankham
Lot: 109Sold for: $1,116$950Regency Bow-front Barometer by Frankham, London, the case with mother-of-pearl inlay, silvered scale engraved Frankham, 12 Wilson Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, central thermometer and lower more ...
Mahogany Stick Barometer by John Staniland
Lot: 110Sold for: $1,763$1,500Mahogany Stick Barometer by John Staniland, Malton, with bone/ivorine register plates, wheel-set vernier, mercury thermometer calibrated in Fahrenheit and Reamur, and mahogany trunk with arched top, more ...
Mahogany Tapering Octagonal 1 1/2 in. Spyglass
Lot: 111Sold for: $823$700Mahogany Tapering Octagonal 1 1/2 in. Spyglass, with 37-inch tube and brass inner drawer, (lacking additional drawers). more ...
2-inch Marine Spyglass by Berge, Late Ramsden
Lot: 112Sold for: $588$5002-inch Marine Spyglass by Berge, Late Ramsden, with 9 1/2-inch lg. mahogany tube, five draws and eye-piece dust-slide, extended lg. 40 1/2 in. more ...
1 1/4-inch (Approx.) Vellum Spyglass by Leonardo Semitecolo
Lot: 113Sold for: $940$8001 1/4-inch (Approx.) Vellum Spyglass by Leonardo Semitecolo, Venice, with 10-inch lg. paper-covered tube with embossed Greek Key and floret design, turned horn end-pieces and three draws with more ...
Compound Microscope by Ernst Leitz
Lot: 114Sold for: $176$150Compound Microscope by Ernst Leitz, No. 236213, with lacquered-brass tube, rack-and-pinion coarse focusing, micrometer fine focusing on limb, triple nosepiece-changer holding three marked Leitz more ...
Brass Zentmayer's Intermediate Stand Microscope
Lot: 115Sold for: $1,410$1,200Brass Zentmayer's Intermediate Stand Microscope, Philadelphia, No. 745, with rack-and-pinion coarse focusing, fine focusing on nosepiece, rotating 4 1/4-inch dia. stage, sprung slide-holder, more ...
English Lacquered-Brass Compound Microscope by Baker
Lot: 116Sold for: $294$250English Lacquered-Brass Compound Microscope by Baker, with rackwork corase focusing, fine focusing on bar-limb, rotating circular stage with two-way movement of sprung-slide holder for X and Y more ...
English Lacquered Brass Culpeper-Type Microscope by Smith
Lot: 119Sold for: $3,408$2,900English Lacquered Brass Culpeper-Type Microscope by Smith, with rack-and-pinion focusing, circular stage signed Smith, Royal Exchange, sprung slide-holder, threaded eyepiece, and reflector on more ...
Two Compound Microscopes
Lot: 120Sold for: $147$125Two Compound Microscopes, lacquered-brass Spencer in mahogany case; and black-enameled Bausch & Lomb with chrome fittings and case. more ...
Three Brass Brandon Eyepieces and Five Vernonscope Filters
Lot: 121UnsoldThree Brass Brandon Eyepieces and Five Vernonscope Filters, with engraved eyepieces (12, 16, and 32 mm) and five matched color filters in cases, in fitted wood case, (unused condition). more ...
Sard 6 x 42 Wide Field Binocular
Lot: 122UnsoldSard 6 x 42 Wide Field Binocular, with clean coated optics, 12-degree field, B.U. Aero U.S. Navy Mark 43 engraving, original eyecups and case. more ...
John Byrne 6 1/4-inch (C.A.) Telescope Lens
Lot: 123Sold for: $823$700John Byrne 6 1/4-inch (C.A.) Telescope Lens, in brass pull-push cell. more ...
15 x 80 Japanese Military Binocular
Lot: 124Sold for: $1,175$1,00015 x 80 Japanese Military Binocular, with olive-green finish, clean optics with sliding sun shades, and rare 70-degree inclined eyepieces. Note: Refurbished by the late Kevin Kuhne. Crack in more ...
4-inch (C.A.) Mogey Refracting Telescope
Lot: 125Sold for: $999$8504-inch (C.A.) Mogey Refracting Telescope, engraved on the face-plate W. & D. Mogey, Plainfield, N.J., U.S.A., with 46-inch lg. brass tube, star diagonal finder, Mogey altazimuth mount, original more ...
Alvan Clark 5-inch Refracting Telescope on Tripod
Lot: 126Sold for: $5,581$4,750Alvan Clark 5-inch Refracting Telescope on Tripod, engraved on face-plate Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, Mass., 1884, with 58-inch lg. brass tube, 15-inch lg. starfinder, rack-and-pinion more ...
Early Brass Surveyor's Compass
Lot: 127Sold for: $1,058$900Early Brass Surveyor's Compass, probably England, 18th century, with silvered 4 1/2-inch dial, eight-point rose with alternating hatched, plain and foliate-engraved decoration emanating from more ...
Brass Gurley Miniature / Mountain Transit
Lot: 128Sold for: $470$400Brass Gurley Miniature / Mountain Transit, with 3 1/4-inch dia. dial engraved around the top rim W. & L.E. Gurley, Troy, N.Y., needle ring divided 0-90 in four quadrants, East and West points more ...
Miniature / Mountain Surveyor's Brass Transit by Chas. C. Hutchison
Lot: 129Sold for: $823$700Miniature / Mountain Surveyor's Brass Transit by Chas. C. Hutchison, Boston, No. 6830, with original oxidized finish, 3 1/2-inch dia. dial with fleur-de-lis and star at North, East and West more ...
Keuffel & Esser Transit with Solar Attachment
Lot: 131Sold for: $1,763$1,500Keuffel & Esser Transit with Solar Attachment, No. 129175, with original black-stippled finish, 3 1/4-inch dial, white-paint filled engravings on black background, fleur-de-lis at North, East and more ...
Surveyor's Bras Vernier Compass by Aloe
Lot: 132Sold for: $881$750Surveyor's Bras Vernier Compass by Aloe, with 4 3/4-inch silvered dial engraved A. Aloe, Maker, St. Louis, MO, fleur-de-lis at North, East and West points reversed, silvered needle ring divided 0-90 more ...
Volume of Practical Arithmetic
Lot: 133Sold for: $59$50Volume of Practical Arithmetic with Rittenhouse Inscription, compiled by Stephen Pike, Philadelphia, 1820, flyleaf with pen inscription John Rittenhouse, December 9th 1828, (foxing defects). more ...
Surveyor's Brass Four-Vane Graphometer
Lot: 136Sold for: $323$275Surveyor's Brass Four-Vane Graphometer, probably England, with original oxidized finish, 1 3/4-inch dia. compass with needle ring, silvered arc divided 0-180 in both directions, alidade with two more ...