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A ship's hour glass.
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- Maker :
- ANONYMOUS
- Place :
- Germany
- Date :
- ca. 1750
- Color :
- Uncoloured
- Height mm.:
- 138
- Width mm.:
- 64
- Condition :
- Two glass ampoules joined with modern wax silk thread and twine in oak framed with six carved oak columms
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 48703
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Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.
The invention of the hourglass is attributed to an 8th-century monk in Chartres, France, with the marine sandglass appearing as early as the 14th century. In earlier examples, the bulbs were connected with a material such as putty or hardened wax, bound in leather, linen or string. From about 1720, the two bulbs were welded together over a brass bead drilled with a hole, often still bound in leather.
From around 1760, the glass was blown in one piece (with the sand inserted in the cooled end before sealing it).
Ships would use the glasses to measure time at sea on a given navigational course. The invention of clocks and watches largely superseded the practical need for hourglasses.
Regno de' Paesi-Bassi compresa la Olanda . . . / La Svizzera . . .
Two rare and detailed maps of The Netherland (210 x 230mm. ) and Switzerland (140 x 230mm.) According to the title cartouche, prepared by J.A.Buchon and A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with attributions by Giambatista Albrizzi.Lower left a color-key, giving good detail and information. We were not able to find references to the publisher, engraver or author of this map. Uncommon and in very good condition.
$60
Maker : TASSO, G.
Place : Venice, 1840
Date : 1840
Chili.
Willem Blaeu's very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass and ships. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Janssonius Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was able to realize his plan soon after he had acquired the copper plates of the atlas maps by Jodocus Hondius. The "Appendix followed in 1630.In 1635 he finally realized a "international edition" of a world atlas, the "The...
$900
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam, 1644
Date : 1644
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[Ternate].
Text engraving showing a bay on the Island of Ternate, an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. Above the map a lettered key (A-E). Text engraving from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the classic account of the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies under the command of Cornelis de Houtman. the expedition left in 1595, after Holland had achieved independence from Spain and c...
$150
Maker : LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
Place : Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas
Date : 1609
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Hong Kong. The map goes south through the Philippines, passing through Borneo, the western part of Celebes (now Sulawesi, Indonesia). It also includes the Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago.This elegant sea chart is crisply engraved in the sparse Florentine style with superb calligraphy throughout. Very decorative chart from the ...
$17.500
Maker : DUDLEY, R.
Place : Florence
Date : 1646
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