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

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

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.

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

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

Circumnavigation by William Dampier, first Dutch edition

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

Important French work on navigation by Jean Bouguer

Small copperprint of the two hemispheres celeste

Large ring on stand, Nautical Quadrant on backside

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

John Dobson. London for Thomas Salkeld. Vanes are reconstructions

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

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

Pilot Guide of René Bougard

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

Götheborg Sweden

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

Map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Early Franch dry compass by the family Roux in Marseille’

by George Adams senior

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.

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.

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.

Probably English. Boxwood 1752-1800?

Pingré, Alexandre Guy

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

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

Large separataly issued chart of the St George's Channel

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

Georges Adams 1. Type A vernier. in Box

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

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

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

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

Kopergravure

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

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

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

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

Graphometer without compass in wooden box

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

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Jesse ‘Ramsden London‘ Nr 976 + box

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

Single drawn, but large marine telescope, signed by Dollond

15 Inch Type B Vernier sextant with adjustable handle.

Vernier Sextant by Ramsden London nr. 1093 + Box

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"

Quadrant on stand. 21 cm heigh

Very small 4 inch vernier sextant by Jesse Ramsden. London

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

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

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

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

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Bridged doubleframe sextant, signed by John Circhton

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

Dollond, London ebony sextant in box

Classic wooden hourglass, running 28 seconds

Chart and booklet of the magnetic variations around the world

BY MATTHEW BERGE LATE RAMSDEN

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

Brass Log glass 28 sec used in Royal Navy

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

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

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”

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

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Hourglass by Nairne. from the HMS Amelia

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

Large map with original colour engraved by Menzies. Edinburgh

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

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

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

Jecker à Paris nr 50. in box complete

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

scale for calculating the longitude at sea

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

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

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

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.

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

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

n/a

Three Brass rulers 15 x 4 cm

Venier type with bridge and shadowflap in box maybe different

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

23 ste edition , in Wooden box

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

Miniature sextant in Mahogany box and leather outer case

Air-bubble artificial horizon Box nr. 1021

Triniti House pattern ‘ G. Whitbread London’ Nr 2182

Important French Chronometer in Mahogany box, signed and numbered

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

compass includes Chiniese ten Celestial or Heavenly Stems, 1850 according to coin, or 1950 according to printplate?

C. Cummins London Brass. two tubes. mahogany case

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

anonymous. Probably english

Alexander Cairns. 12 Waterloo Road. Liverpool

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

With pictures of Octant and Sextant

Elliott Brothers London. Sextant Nr.1006 in box

Plaskett Cardiff & London, with sightingtube and peephole in box

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

A1 Type Harpoon log nr T3380

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

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

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

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

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With line decorations and ivory dot: 46.5 cm

old large Reel and replica lock

William Cary . reseller Henry Hughes

Negretti and Zambra. London

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

Bottomley. 11 Billiter St.London

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

Bain & Ainsley 1895 Kent England Pat Nr 6573 Nr 2516

Pine case. 2 impellers

8.5 Inch inscription DHF

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

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

Barometer from the Manilla type by Schmidt & Ziegler Remscheid

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

Coulour maritime folding map

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

Barton Linnard Leather case. WO I Nr 5398

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

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

Ditty bag of a whaler

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

Heath & Co New Eltham. in box London

Sea sounding instrument

Heath & Co. Hezzanith nr 4434 from Mercator Bécu

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

C. Plath. Duitsland Nr. 32676 Micrometer in Box