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Combination Globe and Planetarium
Lot: 1Sold for: $14,100$12,000Combination Globe and Planetarium, Spain, second half 19th century, the 10-inch globe with twelve printed colored gores, giving national borders, currents, and other features, the interior with more ...
18-Inch Columbus Terrestrial Globe
Lot: 2Unsold18-Inch Columbus Terrestrial Globe, Germany, dated 1940, with colored gores, national boundaries, physical features, transport routes, and ocean currents, in half meridian ring, on black painted more ...
18-Inch Terrestrial Globe by W. & A.K. Johnston
Lot: 3Unsold18-Inch Terrestrial Globe by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh, 1920s, for Webber-Costello Co., Chicago, with colored gores showing national boundaries, major transport routes and currents, in cast more ...
12-inch Table Globe
Lot: 4Sold for: $323$27512-inch Table Globe, c. 1900, signed "Stenders Skoleglobe gemnemset af Skoleinspektor P. Lauridsen," with colored gores, brass meridian arc, and turned mahogany stand, ht. 24 1/2 more ...
13-Inch Globus Coelestis Novus
Lot: 5Sold for: $7,050$6,00013-Inch Globus Coelestis Novus (New Celestial Globe) by Johan Doppelmayer, Nuremberg, 1730/1728, with two sets of twelve printed gores, the constellations represented as animals, humans, and objects more ...
Demonstration Armillary
Lot: 6Sold for: $764$650Demonstration Armillary, England, c. 1825, with brass sphere, string-pull ferrule, two moving and one fixed ring, on turned rosewood stand with paper label on bottom, ht. 7 1/2 more ...
Compass from a Library Globe
Lot: 7Sold for: $529$450Compass from a Library Globe, England, probably early 19th century, with paper compass rose, retailer's label of W. Hamlin, Providence, Rhode Island, blue-steel needle, and mahogany case, dia. 5 more ...
Trippensee Planetarium
Lot: 8Sold for: $1,293$1,100Trippensee Planetarium, Detroit, c. 1920, with brass sun, Earth with colored gores and geared Moon, on brass base with calendar, season and Zodiac circle, lg. 20 in., in possibly original storage more ...
English Hand-Colored Celestial Map
Lot: 9UnsoldEnglish Hand-Colored Celestial Map, late 18th century, Stellarum Fixarum Hemisphaerium, printed by Bowles and Sayer, double folio, later coloring, 28 x 25 in, framed and more ...
Italian Hand-Colored Map of the Solar System
Lot: 10Sold for: $499$425Italian Hand-Colored Map of the Solar System, 18th century, Rappresentazione del Sistema Solare, Mattio Gio: Conte del S.R.I; double folio, with outline coloration and colored cartouches, 28 x 23 more ...
Approximately Twenty Books on Maps
Lot: 11Sold for: $411$350Approximately Twenty Books on Maps, including History of Portuguese Cartography by Cortesao, Vols. I-II, History of Cartography, Vol. II, by Harley and Woodward, and four folios of more ...
King, Henry C.
Lot: 12Sold for: $441$375King, Henry C., Geared to the Stars; The Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries and Astronomical Clocks, Toronto University Press, 1978, 4to, cloth with more ...
Harris, Joseph (1702-1764)
Lot: 13Sold for: $323$275Harris, Joseph (1702-1764),The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery..., London, 1745, 8vo, more ...
Altitude Aneroid Barometer by Stanley
Lot: 16Sold for: $294$250Altitude Aneroid Barometer by Stanley, London, No. 7.745, with 4 1/2-inch dial, altitude scale of 0-20,000 feet and magnifier, in circular brass case; and a cased set of drawing instruments dated more ...
Weather Guide Forecaster
Lot: 17Sold for: $118$100Weather Guide Forecaster, c. 1950, by Irving Krick, with thirteen views of clouds and instructions for forecasting, ht. 11 more ...
Pocket Barometer by Short & Mason
Lot: 18Sold for: $147$125Pocket Barometer by Short & Mason, London, with silvered dial and circular case, dia. 2 3/4 more ...
Mahogany Traveling Barometer by Putois Rochette
Lot: 19Sold for: $1,998$1,700Mahogany Traveling Barometer by Putois Rochette, France, late 18th century, signed "quai de l'Horloge a Paris," with silvered scales, sliding vernier, and forecast plate dated "22 more ...
Storm King Stick Barometer by E.C. Spooner
Lot: 20Sold for: $646$550Storm King Stick Barometer by E.C. Spooner, Boston, with silvered scale, thermometer, sliding cursor, and mahogany stick and cover, ht. 41 more ...
Fortin-Pattern Barometer
Lot: 21Sold for: $235$200Fortin-Pattern Barometer, by Precision Thermometer & Instrument Co., Philadelphia, No. 7162, with oxidized-brass body, silvered scales and vernier, on mahogany base with milk glass reflectors, ht. more ...
Brass Ship's Barometer
Lot: 22Sold for: $764$650Brass Ship's Barometer, by C.H. Chadburn, Liverpool, mid-19th century, the brass body tube with glazed top containing vernier and thermometer in center, gimbal-mounted, ht. 36 more ...
Continental Silver-Mounted Coconut Shell Covered Cup
Lot: 23Sold for: $411$350Continental Silver-Mounted Coconut Shell Covered Cup, early 19th century, bell-form top, the body decorated with oval reserves of scientific instruments (an armillary sphere, a mariner's more ...
Continental Glazed Porcelain Portrait Rondel of Tycho Brahe
Lot: 24UnsoldContinental Glazed Porcelain Portrait Rondel of Tycho Brahe, 19th century, the figure shown in contemporary dress, on a circular wooden frame, dia. 1 1/2 more ...
Rees, Abraham
Lot: 25Sold for: $646$550Rees, Abraham, The Cyclopaedia; or the Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences and Literature, early 19th century, twenty-two volumes and two additional, plate volumes only, 4to, quarter calf, more ...
Michel, Henri
Lot: 26Sold for: $147$125Michel, Henri, Scientific Instruments in Art and History, New York, 1966, 4to, with dust wrapper; together with a Museum Catalog, Il Museo Di Storia Della Scienze a Firenze, Milano, 1968, pictorial more ...
Two Titles Relating to Scientific Instruments
Lot: 27Sold for: $264$225Two Titles Relating to Scientific Instruments, Morton & Wess, Publix & Private Science, The King George III Collection, Oxford, 1993, 4to, brown cloth with slip-case; Anthony Turner's Early more ...