County of Wilts, Cased Set of Avoirdupois Globe Weights
lot 299 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 9th Oct, 2024)
English, c.1900, engraved 'COUNTY OF WILTS' 28lb Avoir' & 'COUNTY OF WILTS' 14lb Avoir' in a polished mahogany case with steel strapping, and a ... read more
Sold for £725 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Wilts County Council Octagonal Bronze Wights
lot 300 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 9th Oct, 2024)
English, c.1900, engraved WILTS COUNTY COUNCIL, 4651' set includes 50lb, 20lb, 10lb & 5lb, in a French polished mahogany case with bras plaque ... read more
Sold for £600 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A Collection of 5 19th Century Bronze Burmese Opium Weights
lot 301 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Burmese, 19th Century, cast bronze opium weights in the form of Hintha birds, the smallest 33g the largest 1600g
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 302 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Egyptian, Middle Kingdom - New Kingdom, circa 2133-1070 B.C., with 7 of granite and two of marble, 9g - 330g 19mm - 68mm
Sold for £350 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
County of Bedford Capacity Measure
lot 303 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, dated 1900, engraved 'W & T Avery London' the scale profusly engraved along the sides 'Measure the diameter with the scale marked "DIAMETER" ... read more
Sold for £375 Result plus buyers premium More details 12
County of Norfolk Capacity Measure
lot 304 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, c.1891, engraved 'W & T Avery Ltd, Makers London', 'COUNTY OF NORFOLK' and above the scale 'GUAGE FOR DRY MEASURES OF CAPACITY NEW PATTERN ... read more
Sold for £725 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
Victorian Set of Customs Inspectors Standard Apothecaries' Measures
lot 305 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, dated 1879, case with engraved brass plaque on the lid 'WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE STANDARD APOTHECARIES MEASURES 1879 DEGRAVE SHORT & CO ... read more
Sold for £812 Result plus buyers premium More details 37
Georgian Bronze Standard Ale Quart Measures
lot 306 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, Georgian, the first engraved in copperplate script 'Township of Lepton, Standard Ale Quart' with 2 exchequer marks to the broad rim of a ... read more
Sold for £1,750 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
2 Georgian English Ale Standards
lot 307 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The first English, Georgian, one with exchequer mark of GRY below a crown stamped 4 times and another indistinct stamp below a Tudor rose, height ... read more
Sold for £625 Result plus buyers premium More details 12
lot 308 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The Barrel Guage English, 19th Century, stamped ‘T. O. BLAKE (SIKES HYDROMETERS) Ltd’, with scales stamped ½ PIN ST & ½ PIN LY; FERKIN ST & FERKIN ... read more
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An Unusual German Boxwood Rule
lot 309 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
German, 19th Century, stamped ‘A FORSTER ELBERFELD’ the rule delicately engraved to both sides with scales, inlaid with dark wood stringing, large ... read more
Sold for £238 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Part sets of Oak Dry Capacity Measures
lot 310 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, 20th century with the 2 large measures stamped ER 523 LCC PINT & ER 67 LCC PINT with the 2 smaller measures marked ER 4 LCC HALF PINT & 4 H ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 6
An Unusual Part Set of War Department Imperial Capacity Measures
lot 311 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, dated 1887, bronze, engraved IMPERIAL HALF GALLON H M WD 1887, IMPERIAL HALF pint H M WD 1887, IMPERIAL GILL H M WD 1887, IMPERIAL HALF GILL ... read more
Sold for £1,875 Result plus buyers premium More details 14
A Set of 3 George III Bell Weights, Kingston Upon Hull
lot 312 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Set of 3 Bell-shape weights profusely engraved with the 3 crowns of Hull in a floral surround with 'KINGSTON UPON HULL' below, 'RICHARD BELL ESQ ... read more
Sold for £2,250 Result plus buyers premium More details 14
Part Set of Avoirdupois Globe Wights
lot 313 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
English, Exchequer marks for 1901, engraved 'DE GRAVE & Co Ltd LONDON' with 3 globe weights engeved 'COUNTY OF WILTS, 2626' and a set of small flat ... read more
Sold for £106 Result plus buyers premium More details 8
lot 314 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Austrian, c.1900, with a plaque for 'Alb Rueprecht & Sohn, Wein IV/2' in a velvet lined case with a pair of forceps, the case marked 'ULTIMATE ... read more
Sold for £100 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 315 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including 2 large specimens both containing a number of small insects, the largest 13cm long, a number of smaller pieces all containing inclusions ... read more
Sold for £262 Result plus buyers premium More details 13
The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, 1736
lot 316 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
E. Smith, The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, pub. 1736, original full leather binding, spine split, back board now ... read more
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 317 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Sporting: British Field Sports, Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1838, Folio viii, 144pp, with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved ... read more
Sold for £81 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
An Important Archive of Material concerning The Development of High Speed Photography
lot 318 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Consisting of various books and pmphlets including: H. Schardin, Les Methodes de Deviation et Leurs Applications, text in French bound with large ... read more
Sold for £150 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera Omnia, 1683
lot 319 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera Omnia, Epist. Heroidum, De Arte Amandi, etc., Tomus I, II & III, publisher, Ex Typographia Blaviana Amstelodami (Amsterdam), ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Titi Livii Historiarum Libri, 1654
lot 320 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Titus Livius (Livy), Titi Livii Historiarum Libri, Ex recensione I.F. Gronovii, edited by Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, published by Ex officina ... read more
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Heinricus Bullinger, Ratio Studiorum, 1593
lot 321 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Heinricus Bullinger, Ratio Studiorum, sive De institutione eorum, qui subsidia literarum sequuntur, libellus aureus, publisher Johannes VVolphius ... read more
Sold for £600 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, 1678
lot 322 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. An account of his ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 10
lot 323 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including: Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia Nunc emendatiora (Now more corrected), published Apud Jodocum Janssonium Amstelodami ... read more
Sold for £44 Result plus buyers premium More details 11
Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man, 1897 & 1901
lot 324 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, By Charles Darwin, M. A. New Edition, Revised and Augmented Complete in One Volume, New York D. ... read more
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The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa
lot 325 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
James Cash, assisted by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa, 1905 - 1921, 5 vol. purple cloth binding ... read more
Sold for £75 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera
lot 326 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Peter Cameron, A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera (Tenthredo, Sirex, and Cynips, Linné), pub. 1882 - 1892, 4 vols, purple fabric, ... read more
Sold for £162 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A Monograph of the Free and Semi-Parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands
lot 327 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
. Stewardson Brady, M.D., F.L.S., A Monograph of the Free and Semi-Parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands, pub1878 - 1880 for the Ray Society, ... read more
Sold for £106 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Book - Diatoms, Grove & Strut, Oamaru Deposits, & Others
lot 328 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
hand written book by M.E. Parker, Lemington Spa 1956, concerning Oamaru diatoms from New Zealand, well anotated with many photomicrographs of diatoms ... read more
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Victorian Dental Catalogue, Johnson & Lund
lot 329 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
1900, Illustrated Catalogue and price list of Dental Materials, Johnson & Lund, 250 pages, green fabric boards, fully illustrated, 25cm x 19cm
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 4
Large Victorian Surgical Instrument Catalogue, Arnold & Sons, 1895
lot 330 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Appliances Manufactured by Arnold & Sons, published 1895, 848 pages, 3230 illustrations, fabric boards with ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 3
Victorian Surgical Instrument Catalogue, Evans & Wormull, 1893
lot 331 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, Apparatus & Appliances, Manufactured by Evans & Wormull, published 1893, 720 pages, 22cm x 15.5cm
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3
Collection of 3 Surgical Instrument Catalogues
lot 332 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including Catalogue of Surgical Instruments & Appliances 7th Edition, The Surgical Manufacturing Co, 1934, 1321 pages; Surgical Instruments Allen & ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 5
Nicholas Culpeper, The Practice of Physick, Expounded in Moneths in Seventeen Several Books
lot 333 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Culpeper, Nicholas, The Practice of Physick, Expounded in Moneths in Seventeen Several Books, Nicholas Culpeper, Physician and Astrologer; Abdiah ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Catalogues of Surgical Instruments
lot 334 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including Surgical Instruments and Hospital Requisites, Baiss Brothers & Stevenson Ltd, 1914, 282 pages; Maws Catalogue of Surgeons Instruments, 1925, ... read more
Sold for £38 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Catalogue of Veterinary Instruments, Krohne & Sesemann, 1894
lot 335 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Catalogue of Veterinary Instruments Manufactured and Sold by Krohne & Sesemann, 8 & 38 Duke Street Manchester ....London 1894, red fabric binding ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3
Victorian Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, Arnold & Sons, 1879
lot 336 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments Manufactured by Arnold & Sons, Instrument Makers by Appointment, 1879, red fabric binding, 374 pages, with 932 ... read more
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Surgical Instruments Catalogues
lot 337 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including 'Surgeons Instruments and Appliances, James Woolley, Sons & Co Ltd' printed January 1896, green fabric with gilt lettering, missing title ... read more
Sold for £56 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
A Large Collection of Period Surgical Instrument Catalogues
lot 338 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including, Down Bros, Surgical Instruments and Hospital Equipment, 1936; Mayer & Phelps, the Chiron Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, 1931; Albert ... read more
Sold for £81 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
Allen & Hanbury Surgical Instrument Catalogue
lot 339 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Allen & Hanbury Ltd, Surgical Instruments, Appliances & Hospital Equipment, 1930, 1974 pages Note: an invaluabel resource for anybody interested in ... read more
Sold for £50 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
2 French Surgical Instrument Catalogues
lot 340 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including Collin, Collin & Cie Successeurs, Instruments De Chirurgie, 1935, 27cm x 16cm 499 pages, paper wrappers, and a red half leather bound copy ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 4
A Victorian Surgical Instrument Catalogue
lot 341 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
John Richardson & Co. Leicester Ltd, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments Medical Appliances Apparatus &c. 1896, 168 pages, includes a ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3
A Catalogue of Medico-Scientific Apparatus
lot 342 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Hawksley & Sons, Catalogue of Medico-Scientific Apparatus, including sections on Psychological instruments including Hipp's Chronoscope, Miroscopes, ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
J. Weiss & Sons Illustrated Catalogue, Presentation by Weiss, 1889
lot 343 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Illustrated Catalogue and Price list, Surgical Instruments, Apparatus Appliances &c, Manufactured and sold by JOHN WEISS & SON, 1889' , green cloth ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 4
Collection of Period X-Ray, High Voltage & Physics Books
lot 344 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
including; Rontgen Rays in Medical Work, David Walsh, 1907; A Roentgenographic Study of the Vascular Channels of the Skull, Knut Lindblom, 1936; ... read more
Sold for £94 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 1988
lot 345 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes... Introduction by Carl Sagan Illustrations by Ron Miller, Bantam Press, ... read more
Sold for £200 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Coffee Pot
lot 346 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
A Copeland Spode Porcelain Coffee Pot, white ground, decorated with blue and gilt decoration, with the Crest of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ... read more
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An Unusual Scottish Silver Medal
lot 347 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
the medal engraved with a smal image of a cottage surrounded by trees, and engraved to the rear 'Presented by Highland & Agricultural Society of ... read more
Sold for £106 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A Selection of Masonic Regalia
lot 348 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024)
To include: an apron, Grand Officer Dress, a pair of collars, Chapter Grand Rank plus Assistant jewel, a collar, Mark Masters plus Officer’s jewel, ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 6