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Large Maritime Dividers

Brass and iron lage. nice decorated pair of friction-type dividers

1668

Practical Navigation an introduction to the whole art

Fourth edition of this rare and important work on the Art of Navigation

1680

Trigonometrie or the doctrine of triangles

A mariner’s guide. It is the first that provided practical help in all types of trigonometry and navigation. It is divided into three books. The first deals with plane trigonometry, the second with spherical trigonometry , the third with navigation.

1685

set of drawing instrument by Butterfield and Dollond

three different drawing instruments: 1/ Demi-Pied de Roy by Butterfield A Paris, 2/ Angle scale by Dolland , 3/ Sector Pied-de- Roi by Butterfield

1690

Carte de la Manche faite par ordre du Roy pour le service de ses armées de mer.

Large engraved nautical chart of the English Channel, with the coastline of northwest France from la baie de Douarnenez (Brittany) to Dunkerque (Flanders), and the coastline of England and Wales from Stroble head to Manning Tree. By Sanson

1692

Nieuwe Reystogt rondom de Werreld

Circumnavigation by William Dampier, first Dutch edition

1698

The Coasting Pilot by Jeremiah Seller

Describing the Sea Coasts, Chanells, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks, and Dangers, The Bayes, Roads, Harbors Rivers & Ports with the Buoyes Beacons, and Sea markes, upon ye Coasts of England, Holland, Flanders & France

1703

Traité complet de la navigation

Important French work on navigation by Jean Bouguer

1706

Le Globe Celeste representé en deux Plans Hemispheres par Mons De La Hire

Small copperprint of the two hemispheres celeste

1719

Universal Ring Dial on a stand, by Benjamin Scott

Large ring on stand, Nautical Quadrant on backside

1725

Mariners new Kalendar Nathaliel Colson

3 editions 1727. 1749. 1769 of the Mariners new Kalendar

1727

Backstafff or Davis Quadrant

John Dobson. London for Thomas Salkeld. Vanes are reconstructions

1730

A correct Chart of the English Channel. from N Foreland to Brest

sea chart of the Channel with four inset maps of Isles of Scilly, Falmouth, Plymouth, and the Isle of Wight

1730

De la méthode d'observer en mer la déclination de la boussole

First edition of important French book on navigation by Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758)

1731

Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer. ou le veritable guide des pilotes cotiers

Pilot Guide of René Bougard

1731

Backstaff or Davis Quadrant. William Clarke

Made by William Clarke near Union Stairs for John Quince 1736. No vanes. Scale on 60° arc for correction of sun’s semi-diameter 63 cm

1736

Horological Quadrant

Götheborg Sweden

1741

Great Britain’s coasting Pilot

Captain Collins Greenville. First accurate pilot-charts of the UK ; Fifth folio edition

1744

Carte de l'Ocean Occidental

Map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

1746

Dry Compass Joseph Roux

Early Franch dry compass by the family Roux in Marseille’

1750

Marine Quadrant

by George Adams senior

1750

Hourglass of one hour from Joseph Roux

Early French Hour-glass of 60 minutes to be used on a ship during times of stress , by the Roux Family . Normally an hour-glass of 30 minutes is used.

1750

'Navigation' (instruments) Diderot-d'Alembert encéclopedie

Navigation, Astronomical navigational instruments, Signed: Prevost Fecit, Pl. 1, Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Astrolabe, Backstaff, Cross-Staff, Nocturnal and Compass
Copperprint of Navigational instruments, Prevost fecit.

1751

Post 1752 Gunter Quadrant or Horary Quadrant

English bowxwood Gunter Quadrant or Horary Quadrant to measure the altitude of the polestar or the sun, to determine your latitude at sea or time on land.

1752

Gunter's scale. 2 feet long

Probably English. Boxwood 1752-1800?

1752

Etat du Ciel. Pour L’An de Grace 1756

Pingré, Alexandre Guy

1756

Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage.

Pierre Bouguer, Nouveau traité de navigation. contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage [...] Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de La Caille de la même Académie Royale des Sciences. &c. Avec figures en taille-douce

1760

Receuil sic des principaux plans des ports. et rades de Mer Mediterranée

Small Sea atlas with many Mediterranean coasts and harbours, by Jozeph Roux.

1764

A General Large Chart of the Saint George's Channel

Large separataly issued chart of the St George's Channel

1767

The Seaman's daily Assistant + A new set of Logarithmic Solar Tables

Two important navigational books bound together: The seaman's daily assistant and
A New sett of logarithmic solar tables, calculated and constructed for determining the latitude at sea. London

1768

Large 17 inch Octant George Adams I

Georges Adams 1. Type A vernier. in Box

1770

A correct chart of the sea coasts of England. Flanders and Holland. Mount & Page

Map of the northern part of the North Sea with adjacant coasts of England. Holland and Flanders

1771

The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere and orrery.

Rare second, corrected and enlarged edition (first 1762) by the mathematician and instrument maker B. Martin (1704-1782)

1773

Large 15 1/2 inch Octant Thomas Ripley

Thomas Ripley London for David Bartholomo Aug 23 .1774. rare Fiducial scale and wooden indexarm

1774

3 Charts of British Channel extending from Dover to the Isles of Scilly

3 large maps by Jefferys Thomas on canvas in morocco pull-off case: , A Chart of the British Channel, extending from Dover to the Isles of Scilly on the English Coast, and from Cape Gris-Nez to the Isle of Ouessant on the French Coast

1775

Gehele Waareld, toonende de afwijkingen van het Kompas

Kopergravure

1775

Leçon de Navigation par M. Dulague

Leçons de Navigation , Dulague, Rouen 1775. French book on Navigation with 6 folding plates and the declination solar tables from 1776 till 1796

1775

Cpopperprint: The name of Systems. by Seale Sculp

Handcoloured copperprint . Engraved for the New Geographical
Copperprint ‘ The Name Of System’
Print (Engraving) of Armillary Sphere and Planetary Systems, by R. W. Seale, for the New Geographical Dictionary, Late 18th Century

1780

12 Inch Octant by Benjamin Martin

With very fine adjusting system at clamping screw. London Type A Vernier in other box

1780

5 inch Sextant Jesse Ramsden

A miniature sextant by the famous Jesse Ramsden; Miniature Type B reversed VERNIER SEXTANT nr 746 + Box

1783

Graphomètre de Vve. Lennel

Graphometer without compass in wooden box

1784

Large 12 inch radius Sextant of Dollond

Large brass 12inch radius Sextant of Dollond with a index mirror with Maskylene's flap.

1785

Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux

1788

12 Inch Flat T-Frame Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Jesse ‘Ramsden London‘ Nr 976 + box

1790

15 3/4 inch Mahogany Octant by Gilbert & Wright

Large Octant Gilbert & Wright London .
The anker on the scale devision referce to the dividing machine of Jesse Ramsden.
Sold by F.W. Lincoln Jr. & Co Boston

1790

A 2 inch. single draw marine Telescope

Single drawn, but large marine telescope, signed by Dollond

1790

Large Mahogany Sextant Kings Patent Gregory & Wright

15 Inch Type B Vernier sextant with adjustable handle.

1790

10 Inch Flat Vernier Sextant Jesse Ramsden

Vernier Sextant by Ramsden London nr. 1093 + Box

1791

A manual for teaching navigation

Manuscript Navigation course by a student. A Journal of a Voyage... In the Henry of Whitby... A.B. Commander... Kept by J. Breckon... November 17th 1791"

1791

demonstration Quadrant by W&S Jones, London

Quadrant on stand. 21 cm heigh

1792

4 Inch Miniature Vernier sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Very small 4 inch vernier sextant by Jesse Ramsden. London

1792

7 Inch Bridge-Framed Sextant Jesse Ramsden

Bridge Frame Vernier sextant by Jesse Ramsden. London nr 1226 + Box

1794

Astronomical and geographical essays. By Georges Adams

I. A full and comprehensive view of the general principles of Astronomy.
II. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes
III. The description [...] of [...] planetarium, tellurian
3th edition

1795

11 ¾ Inch Pillar frame Sextant by Troughton London

Large pillar frame on a Tripod stand, contained in same box. 'Troughton London nr 119 '

1795

Connaissance des Tems à l’usage des astronomes et des navigateurs pour l’an IX.

a nautical almanac pubiced in the sixt years after the start of the French republique: 1797

1797

Algemene Kaart van de ontdekkingen van Kapit. J. Cook gedaan op zyne drie togten

1797

8 3/4 Inch Doubleframe Bridge sextant Crichton

Bridged doubleframe sextant, signed by John Circhton

1798

Supplément à la trigonométrie sphérique et à la navigation de Bezout

Avec desription du compas trigonométrique de Richer. An VI, 1798, fist edition

1798

8 1/2 inch Ebony Sextant by Dollond, London

Dollond, London ebony sextant in box

1800

28 sec Wooden LOG GLASS

Classic wooden hourglass, running 28 seconds

1800

Magnetic Atlas John Churchman

Chart and booklet of the magnetic variations around the world

1800

7½ inch VERNIER BRIDGE-FRAME SEXTANT by Matthew Berge

BY MATTHEW BERGE LATE RAMSDEN

1800

Drafting set by Dollond, London

Shagreen-cased. Ivory rulers and dividers.
Dollond. London 11 pieces: 2 dividers, one parallel ruler, one sector and Gunter ruler

1800

28 sec Brass Log-glass

Brass Log glass 28 sec used in Royal Navy

1800

Reconnoissance hydrographique de la Cöte Nord de France

Description Nautique de la Côte de France sur la Mer Du Nord de Calais à Ostende. By BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRÉ, C.F.

1803

Carte Réduite de la Mer du Nord

Carte Réduite de la Mer du Nord comprenant les Cötes Orientales des Iles Britannique et les cötes opposées du continent, , Depot Générale de la Marine 1807

1807

HMS Jupiter's Track, Manuscript

Manuscript titel “This Track outward and homeward between England & China. (in the Years 1807-8) of his Majesty's Ship Jupiter, with an East India & China Convoy inscribed to Captain H.E.R. Baker”

1808

7.5 Inch Diamond and Diamond pattern Sextant by Spencer Browning& Rust

‘Spencer Browning& Rust’s improved sextant, London A vernier type Sextant, Diamond and Diamond pattern in brass and wood.

1810

The Complete Navigator

1810

Marine Brass Hour Glass by Nairne

Hourglass by Nairne. from the HMS Amelia

1812

North Sea with Kattegat. From the Chart of De Verdun. De Borda and Pingré

North Sea chart. made public in 177 by order of Louis XVI. second edition 1813

1813

The British Channel

Large map with original colour engraved by Menzies. Edinburgh

1814

9 1/4 Inch Double-framed Sextant by Troughton & Simms

Troughton & Simms London nr 2871 , in its original keystone box, Sold by John Parkes & Sons. 43 & 44 Canning Place. Liverpool

1816

Magnetic Variations. Map by Thomas Yeates

Very Large map 54 x 149 cm Chart of the Variations of the magnetic Needle for all the known Seas comprehended within sixty degrees of Latitude North and South

1817

Paire de globes terrestre et céleste par Newton, dated 1818 / 1823

NEWTON’S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE – MANUFACTURED BY J. & W. NEWTON
Celestrial;1818 ; Terrestrial: 1818 with improvements of 1823
Inscriptions: both have a cartouche with name and date

1818

French Repeting or reflecting circle

Jecker à Paris nr 50. in box complete

1819

15 inch Ebony Octant of Wilkinson & Son

Wilkinson & Sons London, Ebony Octant. The small anker refers to the mechanical dividing around 1800 according to R.H. Baker

1820

Thomson’s Lunar corrector or scale; and book

scale for calculating the longitude at sea

1820

Armillary Sphere Ptolemy Style

French armillary sphere of the Prolemaeus model, probably from Charles Dien

1820

5 Inch 'presentation'-VERNIER SEXTANT

TROUGHTON & SIMMS. London in Box for 'Clyde engineers office n°2'

1820

Maritime Barometer Stebbing

Maritime Stick Barometer with thermometer. Signatuur: 'Geo. Stebbing. +/_ 1825 Portsmouth.
Gimbaltic suspention. Thermometer with Fahrenheit + Réaumur

1825

14 sec Brass Log-glass

Hourglass, Glass and Brass, used as Log-glass with 14 sec duration. In the lid we find the inscriptions 1827 and 14. Can be closed by rotation of the inner cylinder. Orange collared Silicate.

1827

Propellor Log Massey. patent 1802

One of the first mechanical ‘Perpetual logs’. V-shaped brass plate incorporating register dials and engraved above the rotator Edw. Massey / LLL Patentee / London / 6082 -- 13in. (33cm.) long

1830

1 ½ Inch Three-draw Telescope Dollond

Tree-draw Telescope, 25.5 till 72 cm, by Dollond London Early 19 th century red morocco-covered case

1830

Chronometer Breguet & Fils

n/a

1830

Parallel Ruler Throughton & Simms

Three Brass rulers 15 x 4 cm

1830

8 1/4 Rowlands Patent sextant. London

Venier type with bridge and shadowflap in box maybe different

1833

David Thomson’s Lunar and Horary Tables

For new and concise methods of performing the calculations necessary for ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations

1836

The new seamen's guide and coaster's companion

23 ste edition , in Wooden box

1840

4 inch Small Pillar sextant. Adie. Liverpool

Star pattern frame pillar on mahogany box. Rihard Addie. Liverpool

1840

6 Inch Miniature sextant Crighton London

Miniature sextant in Mahogany box and leather outer case

1840

8 Inch Sextant. Cary Platina & Gold scale

Air-bubble artificial horizon Box nr. 1021

1840

6 Inch Quintant G. Withbread

Triniti House pattern ‘ G. Whitbread London’ Nr 2182

1840

Chronometer Winnerl Nr 235 Paris +/-1849

Important French Chronometer in Mahogany box, signed and numbered

1849

Massey Sounding machine

1850

Map of the world showing the distribution of the winds

1850

Artificial Horizon Troughton & Simms

Troughton & Simms Black lacquered trough and framed glass cover + Mercury jar

1850

Chinees Geomantic Compass

compass includes Chiniese sexagery cycle and celestial stem1850 og 1950??

1850

Large Box Sextant C. Cummins

C. Cummins London Brass. two tubes. mahogany case

1850

11 In Venier octant by Spencer Browning & Co

Spencer. Browning & Co. London, ebony octant of 11 inch

1850

Ebony Parallel Ruler

anonymous. Probably english

1850

Tulip pattern Sextant Cairns

Alexander Cairns. 12 Waterloo Road. Liverpool

1852

Imray atlas, with four maps of the North Sea

Set of 4 charts to be used as a pilot for the North Sea in order to aid Britain's trade with the Baltic states

1855

A complete epitome of practical navigation

With pictures of Octant and Sextant

1856

5 Inch Sounding Octant Vernier by The Elliott Borthers

Elliott Brothers London. Sextant Nr.1006 in box

1860

9 3/4 inch Ebony Octant Plaskett Cardiff & London

Plaskett Cardiff & London, with sightingtube and peephole in box

1860

Gimballed maritime Compass

Singer’s Patent. England Make: ?Nr.: 10041

1861

Walker's Harpoon Patent ship-log

A1 Type Harpoon log nr T3380

1862

Chronometer E. Dent & Co, N.° 3047

1860-75 E. Dent & Co. ‘Chronometer Maker to the Queen’. London with rare 24-hour silvered dialplate

1865

Two Blueback Charts PUBLISHED BY RICHARD H. LAURIE. LONDON

1) "The Southern Part of the North Sea". Circa 1869 2) "A General Chart of the Coasts of Brasil. &c. From the River Para to Buenos Ayres ...". Circa 1842

1869

Davis & Son Rolling parralel rule

1870

7 Inch Quintant with Bubble Horizon

Diamond and Diamond pattern Quintant, ‘P.A. Feathers & Son. Dundee’ with bubble horizon

1870

Harpoon I Sounding Machine with Lead

1875

9 1/2 Inch Brass Octant Henry Hughes & sons in box

Messing octant from Herny Hughes & son with A frame vernier in a box

1875

A Guide to Practical Navigation by captain Edmund McNevin

1878

Harpoon II depth finder with lead

1880

Medium size Mahogany Fid

With line decorations and ivory dot: 46.5 cm

1880

Houten Log. om knopen te tellen in 14 sec

old large Reel and replica lock

1880

Collapsible Artificial Horizon

William Cary . reseller Henry Hughes

1890

7 1/2 Inch Triangle-pattern Sextant

Negretti and Zambra. London

1890

Telltale Compass

Laat 19 th Sewill Liverpool-Glasgow-London Noord en Oost mooi versierd

1890

8 Inch Triangle-pattern Sextant

Bottomley. 11 Billiter St.London

1893

7 Inch Three-circle pattern Sextant

John Cary. London van Edward Masterman ( Britannia Naval College 1894)

1895

HA-HY Course corrector

Bain & Ainsley 1895 Kent England Pat Nr 6573 Nr 2516

1895

Walker’s Ship’s Log ‘Cherub’ Mark II

Pine case. 2 impellers

1900

Brass Circular Protractor

8.5 Inch inscription DHF

1900

French Sextant à Gyroscope

Sextant of Lorieux & Ponthus sold by Hurlimann. The gyroscope-type artificial horizon is missing in the box

1902

7 Inch Sextant with Binocular viewer

Henry Hughes & Son Platina and Gold scale in Box and on separate Pillar

1903

German Typhoon-barometer or Cyclonometer

Barometer from the Manilla type by Schmidt & Ziegler Remscheid

1910

7 Inch Bell-Frame pattern Sextant + Patent shade

Mark III. Heath & Co. Heath & Co Ltd. Crayford London van J.D. Walters RN ( Royal Navy) in box. with separate pillar

1914

The English Channel, Many Insets of the surrounding harbours and London Docks

Coulour maritime folding map

1914

Sounding Quintant. Troughton & Simms

Unusual Larfe Sounding quintant with micrometer, probably used on South-Pole expedition.
Scale till 170°, by Troughton & Simms, Nr 3885

1918

Pocket Sextant. Barton Linnard

Barton Linnard Leather case. WO I Nr 5398

1918

An eight-day barograpf by . circa 1920

1920

The Husun Star Globe

THE HUSUN STAR GLOBE, Star Finder – H. Hughes & sons, London, 1920

1920

7 Inch Oval Pattern Sextant

H. Hughes & Sons Ltd. London nr 15686 Micrometer in Box

1927

sail repair set in bag

Ditty bag of a whaler

1930

Walker's Excelsior Yacht Log

Small log. patented by Thomas Walker. In Box with rope and rotor

1930

7 Inch Hart-frame Sextant

Heath & Co New Eltham. in box London

1933

Wigzell's patent atmospheric Sea Sounding

Sea sounding instrument

1936

Brass Station Pointer

Heath & Co. Hezzanith nr 4434 from Mercator Bécu

1937

The Paget angle sextant

The Paget angle sounding sextant.H. Hughes & Sons Ltd nr 1638

1940

6 1/4 Inch Ladder pattern Sextant

C. Plath. Duitsland Nr. 32676 Micrometer in Box

1940

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