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Dimensions: 58 x 49 x 10mm, gnome-string of 50 degrees (Dieppe)
6887

Dimensions: 52 x 46 x 10mm, gnome-string of 45 degrees (south of france, Bordeaux)
6886

Analemmatic sundial: fecit Ioan Engelbrecht, Beraunensis, 1806 <BR/>Jan (Johan, Ioan) Engelbrecht, 1726-1807, Beraun (Bohemia, near Prag, 50 degrees) <BR />Dimensions: 157 x 188mm. <BR /><BR /> Following museums have in their collection a sundial by this maker (source: Zinner): <BR /> 1776 Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), 1779 München Deutsches Museum, 1783 Schloss Hohenwerfen, 1784 London Science Museum, 1785 Hannover Schloss Triebold, 1785 Cambridge Whipple Museum, 1787 Nürnberg Deutsches Museum, 1787 Breslau Schles. Museum, 1791 Dresden Salon, 1792 Oxford Museum History Science, 1792 Whipple Museum, 1793 Marburg Physikal Institut and Dresden Salon, 1795 Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), 1796 Jena Schloss Zeiss, 1796 Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), 1796 Breslau Universitat Sternwarte, 1798 Aachen Schloss Drecker. Königgrätz Stadtmuseum, 1799 Jena Schloss Zeiss, 1800 Prag Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1800 Stuttgart Landesmuseum, 1800 New York Industrial Museum, 1800 Hannover Schloss Triebold, 1801 Edinburgh National Museum, 1802 Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), 1803 Oxford Museum History Science, 1803 Bautzen Stadtmuseum, 1804 Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), no year: Prag Staatsmuseum (Narodni Museum), Zagreb Archiolog. Museum, Edinburgh National Museum.
6860

Brass sundial on 4 feet. 10 x 10 cm, diameter 82 mm, height 38 mm. <BR/> In the compass is twice engraved: 'Morgen, Spath, Flach, Stehend'. The timescale writes: 'AD ELEV. POL. 61˚'. This is the latitude for 'Stockholm', 'Oslo', 'Helsinki' and 'St. Petersburg'. <BR/> Zinner is recorded a 'FVCHS
6810

Western tin astrolabe plate for 54 degrees, Diameter 179 mm, thick 1,4 mm. <BR/>On the disk are the following text engraved: 'elevato poli LIV', 'horizon oblizuus', horizon rectus', linea duluculi et crepusculi', 'linea aezvinoct, 'tropicus capricornis', 'tropic cancer'
5551

Small silver and gilded brass perpetuel calendarium, gigned 'Göhring, München'. diameter ca 20 mm.
6363

Magnetic azimuth dial and on top an equatorial/polar dial. 70 x 78 x 16mm.
6154 SOLD

Ca 1700. 87 x 52 mm
3560

Augsburg pocket sundial in original box with antique printed manual of Ludovicus Theodoris Müller. ca 1760 (magnetic declination of ca. 18 degrees). 56 x 59 mm
5208 SOLD

German Augsburg brass engraved and partly silvered traveling sundial with compass and level. 70 x 72mm.
2350 SOLD

Butterfield-type brass engraved traveling sundial with compass. 74 x 65mm
2235

Butterfield-type brass engraved traveling sundial with compass by Nicolas Bion. Bion published 'the construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments' including sundials (after the French edition of 1709). 75 x 66mm
2236

Large brass pocket sundial in original box with adjustable gnome and changeable magnetic declination hand under the compass needle. 96 x 83 mm
5200 SOLD

Butterfield-type brass engraved traveling sundial with compass. 65 x 58mm
2024

Manualy calender table instrument with indication in French of Day, Date and Month
6130

Wooden American sundial. 106 x 66 x 17mm,
2233

Incomplete. 29 x 9mm
2228 SOLD

French double faced sundial with thermometer, gilded moveable gnome in 49 degrees angle (Paris). On the backside a little thermometer on a silvered plate and on a handengraved , gold lackered, background. Diameter 59 mm, thick 22mm. The magnetic declination of 22 degrees indicates the sundial was made around 1840.
5210

Gilded pocket altimeter in leather box with inside a thermometer an a lockable compass. Scale from 0 to 6000 meter
3554

Altimeter in 'meter' with turnable eyeglass and adjustable scale from 0 to 4000 meter. In original box. Silvered dialplate
6137

Brass case with silvered dial. Adjustable scale from 0 to 5000 Feet
6144

     

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