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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
18th Century Medical Syringe
Located in London, GB
18th Century Medical Syringe For historical medical use and dating from the 18th century, and certainly from the beginning of the 18th century. This hand-crafted example is made to...
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Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Natural Fiber

Bronze mortar, Veneto, 16th century
Located in Brescia, IT
Bronze mortar, Veneto, 16th century Lost-wax cast bronze mortar with body outlined by parallel and succeeding frames delineating its circumference. On the two faces, in a central p...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Mortaio in bronzo, Veneto, XVI° secolo
Located in Brescia, IT
Mortaio in bronzo fuso a cera persa con corpo delineato da un gran numero di cornici parallele e susseguenti che ne delimitano la circonferenza; e ornato con motivi vegetali di deriv...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

French 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Barometer
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A 18th Century Louis XVI French gold-gilt barometer circa 1780. This early instrument of meteorology was used to measure atmospheric pressure and air temperature. The barometer is adorned with hand carved details; a large bow, flowers, a flaming heart, laurel leaves and scrolls. The dial face is hand-painted and has been repaired over time. The barometer is no longer in working order and is now purely decorative. Be sure to view the detailed images to see this interesting antique up...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Metal, Gold Leaf

Mortar with pestle. Bronze. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Mortar with pestle. Bronze. Spanish school, 17th century. Bronze mortar with a convex mouth, a raised base facing outwards and a cylindrical body decorated on the outside with relie...
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Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

18th Century French Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Wall Barometer & Thermometer
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this elegant, antique barometer with attached thermometer. Crafted in Paris, France, circa 1760 and hexagonal in shape, the scientific instrument features its or...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Glass, Giltwood, Parchment Paper

Terrestrial globe apres Mr. Rizzi Zannoni, Paris 1762.
Located in Milan, IT
Designed to be hanged to the ceiling, terrestrial globe, made out of paper machè and wood, brass hook. It is reported in the cartouche of the globe: globe terrestre d’après Mr. Rizz...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

18th Century Louis XVI-Style Barometer in Gilded Wood adorned with Doves
Located in NICE, FR
We present you this exceptionally rare square-shaped Louis XVI-style barometer from the 18th century, crafted from gilded wood. Its pale blue wallpaper background is protected by co...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Wood

Alnmått (Cubit measure) in iron with gilded details. Baroque, dated 1731
Located in Knivsta, SE
Swedish Alnmått (Cubit measure) in iron with gilded details. Baroque, dated 1731. Provenance: Baron Carl Emanuel Cederström, great collector during the mid-19th Century in Sweden. W...
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Swedish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

A Wooden Diptical Sundial Germany 1790
Located in Firenze, IT
SHIPPING POLICY: No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). Pocket sundial, made out of wood, ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Paper

Silver Brass Pocket Sundial Compass French, circa 1780
Located in Firenze, IT
Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). Silver brass octagonal dial with fo...
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German Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Silver, Brass

Large Late 18th Century Hourglass
Located in Firenze, IT
Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). A large 18th century hour glass, o...
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British Late Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Glass, Wood

Circa 1700 LaMotte Surveyors Theodolite
Located in Placerville, CA
This is a BEAUTIFUL LaMotte Theodolite. The engraving is fantastic. Dating this instrument is an educated guess. I found two reference points, An old French Publication indicates th...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

18th Century mahogany and brass telescope by Nairne & Blunt of London
Located in Martlesham, GB
18th Century mahogany and brass telescope by Nairne & Blunt of London, having a mahogany barrel with a thumb wheel to the side of the main barrel, supported on a solid brass tripod s...
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British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Mahogany

Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Essex, MA
Oval with a ribbon bow over an oval glass fronted barometer with grisaille painted panel with metal directionals. Inscribed Selon Torricelli.
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Langlois Graphometer - Circa 1730
Located in Placerville, CA
This is a BEAUTIFUL Graphometer made by the premier instrument maker in France, Claude Langlois, after Bion and Butterfield had stopped making instruments. As discussed on my Graphometer - Semicircle webpage, the French produced a good number of Graphometers from 1600 to about 1850. And a fair number of these Graphometers are still around. If you want to add a really nice Graphometer to your collection, this Langlois merits serious consideration for these reasons: 1. While not as well-known internationally as Bion and Butterfield, Langlois was The Man in France after Bion and Butterfield had passed away. 2. The President of Harvard College...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Jean Baptiste Van Lerberghe Theodolite - Circa 1700 to 1720
Located in Placerville, CA
This is a fascinating and unique Theodolite that is engraved as a Semicircle - only 180 degrees. The Theodolite was made by Jean Baptiste Van Lerberghe of Bollezelle, France. Bo...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Brass

An apothecary glass mortar and pestle, Italy 18th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Apothecary glass mortar, fitted with glass pestle. Italy early 18th century.
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass

An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Italian 18th Century Butcher Hooks
Located in Atlanta, GA
Charming 18th century Butcher Hooks from the Piedmont region of Italy. Wonderfully crafted from hand forged iron. A perfect kitchen accessory or to s...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

A GERMAN ANATOMICAL MODEL OF a PREGNANT WOMAN STEPHEN ZICK
Located in Madrid, ES
A GERMAN ANATOMICAL MODEL OF A PREGNANT WOMAN STEPHEN ZICK The woman with articulated arms, removable torso revealing internal organs, lying on a couch with cushion incised and modelled with simulated lace.On a later wood box. Stephen Zick was one of a dynasty of carvers active from the late 16th to the 18th century in Nuremberg, . Such models, as well as carved skulls, were conceived as teaching tools and were inspired by the drawings of Andrea Vesalius...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

Italian 18th Century Butcher Hooks
Located in Atlanta, GA
Charming 18th century Butcher Hooks from the Piedmont region of Italy. Wonderfully crafted from hand forged iron. A perfect kitchen accessory or to s...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

Italian 18th Century Butcher Hooks
Located in Atlanta, GA
Charming 18th century Butcher Hooks from the Piedmont region of Italy. Wonderfully crafted from hand forged iron. A perfect kitchen accessory or to...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

A wooden diptical sundial, England 1790.
Located in Milan, IT
Pocket sundial, made out of wood, with print paper element on both the internal sides and to the top. England end of XVIII cent.
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood, Paper

An ivory diptical sundial, Italy XVII century.
Located in Milan, IT
An ivory portable diptych sundial. Italy circa 1600. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Ivory

Large 17th Century French Slate Octagonal Sundial
Located in Madrid, ES
A Large 17th century French Slate Octagonal Sundial With wrought iron gnomon and profusely engraved with latin letters.Size:39x39 cm.With latter hanging ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Slate

French XVIII TH box microscope for the privilege of the King
Located in Madrid, ES
French XVIII TH box microscope by Sibie a Marsella for the privilege of the King The box microscope can be defined as a compound microscope where the optic system is fixed by a pilar...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Wood

16th Century Cast Iron Mortar
Located in Brussels, Brussels
16th century cast iron mortar with two very beautiful handles Beautiful original object with a great patina and in very good condition.
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French Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

Rare 17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Medical Instrument Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare Japanese export lacquer medical instrument box Edo-period, 1650-1700 L. 19 x W. 6 x H. 8.5 cm This unconventionally shaped lacquer b...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Gold

Iron Hourglass, Germany, Early 1700s.
Located in Milan, IT
The hourglass cage displays hexagonal bases. Six smooth iron columns complete the cage. Inside the glass bulbs joined in the center by a ring of fabric and rope. Germany, early 1700s.
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

Iron Hourglass, Germany Early 1700s
Located in Milan, IT
The hourglass cage displays octagonal bases, dressed in a red velvet cushion. Eight smooth iron columns complete the cage. Inside the glass bulbs joined in the center by a ring of fa...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Iron

Antique 16th Century Islamic Safavid Al Jazari Combination Locking Brass Casket
Located in Portland, OR
A highly important engraved Islamic combination locking brass casket, based on a design by the 12th Century Arab inventor & artist Ismail Al Jazari. Circa...
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Iraqi Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

18th Century French Louis XVI Period Gilded Barometer by Evangelista Torricelli
By Evangelista Torricelli
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gold, large antique French Louis XVI period barometer, signed by Torricelli in gilded wood and of oval shape with original scientific illustrations, in good condition. The detailed wall décor piece is consisting its original glass. Framed with gilt foliate trim and important pediment. Minor fading, due to age. Wear consistent with age and use, circa 1750, France. The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Giltwood

Ebonized Fruitwood and Brass-Mounted Siphon Tube Barometer
Located in Folkestone, GB
A rare unsigned ebonised fruitwood and brass-mounted siphon tube barometer. The barrel-shaped cistern base has the brass adjustment knob in the base and a gilt-brass collet at the to...
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European Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Lacquer

Portable Cube Sundial David Beringer circa 1780–1821 Beringer Is Best Known
Located in Madrid, ES
Portable cube sundial David Beringer circa 1780–1821 Beringer is best known for portable wooden sundials with scales printed on paper glued to the wood. These included cube dials an...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Fruitwood

17th Century Norther European Wrought Iron Pestle, 8.5 Inches
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual wrought iron pestle, most are bronze like most mortars. This one is at least 17th century, quite possibly dating to the Gothic period. I have owned two iron mortars in my ti...
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German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Wrought Iron

Fossilized Horse Leg. Equus Sp., Pleistocene, Florida, USA
Located in Madrid, ES
A fossilized horse leg. Equus sp., Pleistocene, Florida, USA This set of fossil horse bones dates from an extinct equine. The inter-locking bones are eleg...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bone

18th Century Gold French Gilded Wood Barometer, Antique Parisian Thermometer
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A rare antique finely worked French barometer with lyre shaped crest thermometer above a large hexagonal framed barometer. The Parisian décor piece is m...
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French Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Giltwood

18th Century Italian Bronze Pestle for a Mortar, 9 Inches Long
Located in Stamford, CT
If you've got the mortar, I have the pestle! There are so many mortars out there, and so few pestles. It's nice to have both. Here is your opportunity to marry this large scale pestl...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Apothecary Traveling Set, England 1790
Located in Milan, IT
Mahogany and brass box, with a drawer in the front. The upper part opens and inside a group of glass bottles ( some with labels), placed in comp...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

18th Century Signed Carcano & Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain Barometer
By Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent and impressive sized 240 year old Louis XVI period (c.1774–1793) hand carved and painted gilt wood signed French wall thermometer and barometer. Having a hand decorated enamel dial signed "Carcano" for distinguished scientific instrument inventor Antonio Carcano (c.1755-1820) and Joseph, most likely for celebrated Parisian ébéniste Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (c.1719 - 1791) Originating in Paris, France during the second half of the 18th century, exquisitely hand-crafted and of very fine quality, richly detailed, polychrome decorated and ornamented in sophisticated Neoclassical taste. Having an ornately carved lobbed urn with pineapple shaped finial topping a contoured and rounded solid giltwood case creating a most elegant shaped and stylized elongated banjo silhouette, garnished with a single garland openwork swag carving, over brilliant water gilded carved running ornamentation trim framing a beautifully aged and heavily distressed pale green painted finish. Muted, light and airy pale green paint color, cream, with subtle parcel gilt bronze-tone and decadent water gilt bright gold-tone raised panels and acanthus fiolate. Featuring a handblown glass thermometer retaining remnants of the original hand-painted paper label inscribed with atmospheric condition details. Over an early mercury barometer with original hand painted dial and metal hands, protected behind convex glass face. An exceedingly rare and important work, but what truly sets this fabulous example apart, is that the wooden planked verso is fitted with an open channel that retains the original mechanical components, including a pair of liquid metal mercury filled glass tubes, vacuum mechanism, long column blown glass tube, stringing, and more. It does not appear to be currently working, the string/rope deteriorating with age, etc.. but having the original parts is an exceptionally rare occurrence and highly unusual, as workings were commonly damaged and lost centuries ago. The dial is signed: "Josef" "Carcano" "Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis" (the artisans workshop was located on this street in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Historically, this street was an extremely weathy upper-class area, occupied by the finest jewellers and textile merchants) "Fripiere Au Phenix" History: Antoine Carcano (c. 1755-1820) An early maker of barometers, thermometers, and an inventor of various scientific instruments. Of Italian descent, he became famous in Paris, first at 37 rue de la Roquette and then at Place Dauphine. He supplied barometers and other scientific instruments to the Ecole Militaire in 1786; the following year he supplied a tube barometer to British optical instruments manufacturer Peter Dollond (1731-1821). During the Empire his clientele included Sir Benjamin Thompson...
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French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Blown Glass, Giltwood, Paint

Bronze Pharmacy Mortar Italy-17° Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant bronze mortar from the 17 century from Italy dated 1630. Really rare mortar due to his big size. In very good condition and beautiful patina.
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

16th century Spanish Bronze Mortar with Letters M on the Sides
Located in Marbella, ES
16th century Spanish Bronze Mortar with Letters M on the Sides
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Bronze

18th Century Diptych Portable Sundial And Compass by German Beringer
By David Beringer
Located in Milan, IT
Antique 18th Century Diptych Sundial and Compass a portable wooden boxwood sundial with compass, of German origin, by David Beringer, Nuremberg, dating back to the 1790 circa, in good age related condition, with signs of wear consistent with age and use. David Beringer (1756 – 1821) was a German scientific instrument maker and craftsman active in Nuremberg and famous for his cubic wooden sundials visible in Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York. A portable sundial...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Brass

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in blue glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Ceramic

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th Century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in Blue Glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Ceramic

18th Century Indigo Blue Glazed Ceramic Jar
Located in Marbella, ES
18th century Indigo blue glazed ceramic jar.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Ceramic

Antique Engraving of Constructing Sun Dials, 1769
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print of Ferguson's method of constructing sun dials. This print originates from 'The Gentleman's Magazine'. Artists and Engravers: The Gentleman'...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Paper

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in blue glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Ceramic

Rare Antique Engraving of Microscopes, 1749
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'A true Representation of sveral microscopes with some objects (..)'. Print of various microscopes, illustrating several microscope parts. This print originates ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Paper

Bronze Mortar, Tuscany, Second Half of 16th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Bronze mortar with garlands, flowers and putti - Tuscany , second half of 17th century. Measures: height 10 diameter : 13 cm Artisans and healers used mortars for grinding food...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Bronze

Louis XIV marble herbalist, France 17th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Rare Marble herbalist to hold salt, moon and stars carved on the wavy front. The lid is lead, with the image of the sun and lions. Louis XIV period, France 1600.
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Marble, Pewter

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th Century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in blue glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Ceramic

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in blue glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

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Ceramic

Antique Print of a Scientific Instrument, 1769
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'A curious Instrument which shews the Hour of the Day (..)'. Print of a scientific instrument. This print originates from 'The Gentleman's Magazine'. Artists a...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Paper

17th Century Spanish Talavera Pharmacy Jar in Blue Glazed Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century Spanish Talavera pharmacy jar in blue Glazed ceramic.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Scientific Instruments

Materials

Ceramic

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