A George III mahogany stick barometer, by J. Search, Soho, London, c.1780, the silvered vernier scale in arched window, beneath three acorn finials, further signed to the lower scale, 103 cm.The tube seems intact and shows a consistent column of mercury that responds either up or down with the reservoir adjustment screw, the spirit of the thermometer is evident and looks as if it responds to a finger placed on the tube (but very faintly)Generally good order, and seems to be functioning, this is no guarantee of accuracy or reliability as with any antique scientific instrument..
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Eight pieces: 1. a silver-mounted ostrich egg box - S. Blanckensee & Son Ltd, Chester 1922, with silver-plated liner (the egg a/f, top cracked and base broken), 16.5 cm high; 2. a French novelty pewter table-lighter with a dog head on a column base, 14.1 cm high; 3. an early 19th century brass pounce pot, 7.1c m high; 4. an enamelled and parcel-gilt glass covered box, 18.5 cm high (finial repaired, small chips to rim and two feet); 5. an antique horsehair fly-whisk; 6. a vintage framed Akkadian Cylinder Seal souvenir; 7. an ebonised desk thermometer; 8. a pewter cauldron salt.
Late 19th century walnut cased regulator wall clock, together with a chromium plated Smiths 8 day desk clock and a combination barometer / thermometer (3).Clock is in reasonable condition. Missing two finials. There is no key so we don't know if it's in working condition. No signs of woodworm.Please see our website for additional images
TWO ANTIQUE BAROMETERS including, 19TH C. OAK STICK BAROMETER, Baily, Birmingham, celluloid vernier scale, mercury thermometer, later brass window glass frame, 96cms (h), restorations, FRENCH BRASS SHIP'S BAROMETER, J. Salleron, Paris, no. 67, on gimble mount, steel vernier scale, engraved 'Depot de la Marine', mercury thermometer, 89cms (h), restorations (2)Comments: deceased estate PenarthComments: restorations to both, inspection advised
Aneroid Barograph With Plinth By Negretti & Zambra, English, c.1900, engraved to the brass baseplate 'NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON, No. 30150', the barograph mounted on a brass baseplate with silvered thermometer to the front, 8 bellow stack with brass linkage, drum with clockwork movement (running but not tested for acuracy), in a glazed French polished mahogany case with drawer below, complete with wall bracket, and extra papers,
A Pocket Surgical Set, English, late 19th/early 20th Century by Evans & Co, stainless steel, comprising two forceps, a Brodie’s director, a cased thermometer, a case containing needles, a cased hypodermic syringe, a two-blade lancet and an empty case, contained in a fitted stainless case engraved ‘A. Crichton Lupton R. A. M. C.’ – 13.2cm. x 6.9cm. x 2.5cm. Note: Records show that Alfred Crichton Lupton served as Surgeon-Lieutenant with the Coldstream Guards in 1898 and as a Surgeon-Captain in the South African Campaign (Second Boer War) in 1899-1901. He was made a Major in 1905.
Collectable instruments including 1950s aircraft altimeter, leather cased Short & Mason military marked clinometer or similar, Smiths Concorde style temperature gauge, Moore & Wright micrometer, G.G.Brown type F Bakelite headphones, Casella wet and dry thermometer, cased Smiths Stridemaster pedometer and various set squares
An unusual and decorative Victorian gilt black lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid wheel barometer, c.1850, with painted scenes of Shakespeare's cottage and Melrose Abbey, fitted a silvered register and thermometer, 31 x 107cms high.PROVENANCE: The Graham Smith Retirement Auction - 50 years in the Antiques Trade.
Thomas Harris & Son: a George III mahogany wheel barometer, c.1830, with 12" dial, cross banded with boxwood edge and line inlay, brass urn finial with a swan neck pediment, above a hydrometer, thermometer and a small convex mirror, large silvered dial, and a spirit level at the base engraved 'T Harris & Son London', 35.5 x 6.3 x 126cms high.Notes: Thomas Harris & Son were opticians to the Royal family and had branches across London from 1806 to after 1900. They occupied the premises at 52 Great Russell Street (opposite the British Museum) between 1817-1887. PROVENANCE: The Graham Smith Retirement Auction - 50 years in the Antiques Trade.
A selection of various Victorian items, to include: a Victorian ebonised and brass parallel rule, 54cms; a mid-20th Century pocket sextant by Barker & Son, leather case; an early 20th Century compass; Victorian fruitwood thermometer signed ‘Nightingale, 148 Leadenhall St, 42cms high; and other items.PROVENANCE: The Graham Smith Retirement Auction - 50 years in the Antiques Trade.
Helmont, Johann Baptist van. Aufgang der Artzney-Kunst, das ist: Noch nie erhörte Grund-Lehren von der Natur, zu einer neuen Beförderung der Artzney-Sachen, so wol die Kranckheiten zu vertreiben, als ein langes Leben zu erlangen. 18 Bll., 1270 S., 1 Bl. (w), 30 Bll. Mit gestochenem Frontispiz von Johann Jacob de Sandrart und gestochenem Porträt von J. A. Börner. Titel in Rot und Schwarz. 33 x 21 cm. Pergamentband d. Z. (angestaubt, fleckig, Bezug leicht wellig, mit kleinen Fehlstellen an den Kanten bzw. Bünden und ohne die Schließbändchen) mit hs. RTitel. Sulzbach, Johann Holst für Söhne Johann Andreae Endter, 1683.VD17 12:169658U. Brüning 2544. Dünnhaupt 2381, 17. Ferchl 224. Ferguson I, 380. Feuerstein-Herz/Laube 112 (Abb.). Wellcome III, 242. Vgl. Carter/Muir 135. Garrison/M. 665. Neu 1894/95 (lat. Ausgaben) und Schelenz 478 f. - Erste deutsche Ausgabe der gesammelten Werke van Helmonts (1580-1644), posthum herausgegeben von seinem Sohn Franz Mercurius, übersetzt und bearbeitet von Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. Die lateinische Urfassung erschien als "Ortus medicinae" bereits 1648 in Amsterdam und wurde mehrfach neu aufgelegt. "Sehr bedeutender, nicht genügend gewürdigter Chemiker" (Ferchl)."... one of the founders of Biochemistry" (Garrison/M.). "Er war der wichtigste Paracelsist der Generation nach Paracelsus, obwohl er nicht in allen Fragen mit diesem übereinstimmte. Seine auf eigenständiges Denken und Experimentieren ausgerichtete Weltsicht beeinflußte immens die Entwicklung der Alchemie/Chemie, Medizin und Naturphilosophie des 17. Jhs." (Priesner/Figala. Alchemie - Lexikon einer hermetischen Wissenschaft. S. 170). "... war er doch ein Meister quantitativer Experimente, der nicht nur die Waage als Mittel der Forschung verwandte, sondern auch schon ein Thermometer benutzte, das, und das war zu seiner Zeit ganz außergewöhnlich, in 15 Temperaturgrade kalibriert war. Zudem war er einer der Ersten oder der Erste, der den Satz von der Erhaltung der Materie bei chemischen Umsätzen mit aller wünschenswerten Klarheit formuliert" (Schütt, Hans-Werner. Auf der Suche nach dem Stein der Weisen - Die Geschichte der Alchemie, S. 468 f.). "When we review the work of van Helmont, we cannot deny that he represents the transition from alchemy to chemistry, and is a worthy predecessor of Boyle, who studied him carefully and adopted many of his ideas” (Partington, J. R. In: Annals of Science, vol. 1 (4), 1936, p. 384. „In Betreff derjenigen Substanzen, die man als die letzten Bestandtheile der Körper anzusehen habe, verwarf van Helmont sowohl die Lehre des Aristoteles als die des Paracelsus..." (Kopp, Alchemie I, S. 49). "Er erkannte als erster die Verschiedenheit bestimmter Gase, abhängig von der Art ihrer Erzeugung. Zu den von H. erstmals ansatzweise beschriebenen Gasen gehören das Chlor, das Schwefeldioxid, das Kohlenmonoxid und insbesondere das Kohlendioxid (gas sylvestris). Den von ihm erstmals verwendeten Begriff „Gas“ leitete er wahrscheinlich von dem Wort Chaos ab, mit dem Paracelsus die unsichtbare luftförmige Urmaterie bezeichnet hatte" (Priesner/Figala, S. 169 f.). - Vorsatzpapiere etwas knittrig und wellig. Satzspiegel teils gebräunt, stellenweise leicht braunfleckig, die ersten Seiten am Rand fingerfleckig. In den Rändern und im Falz gelegentlich kleine Wurmspuren. Vorderer Spiegel und fliegendes Vorsatzblatt verso mit Besitzvermerken von alter Hand.
Late Victorian five glass mercury barometer - in a mahogany case with a swans necked pediment and finial , with an 8" register , hygrometer, spirit thermometer, butlers mirror, spirit level, and bone recording button, brass cast bezel and convex glass, brass recording hand and steel indicating hand, tube intact with mercury and counterweights.
A VICTORIAN BAROMETER THERMOMETERC.1860-80in Aesthetic taste, with a central ceramic plaque, signed and painted with trees and a figure by a river, inside a gilt dial with black barometer and thermometer gauges, the spandrels painted with British butterflies amongst flowers on a gilt ground, in an ebonised case54.6cm square, 11cm deep
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETERBY DOLLOND, LONDON, LATE 18TH CENTURY / EARLY 19TH CENTURYinlaid with ebony edging, the swan neck pediment with bone rondels, above a silvered dial, with vernier scale, inscribed 'Dollond London', enclosed by a glazed door with brass frame, with a conforming thermometer compartment103cm highProvenanceThe contents of The Grange, Wendover.
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