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Compass.
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- Maker :
- ANONYMOUS
- Place :
- Unknown
- Date :
- c. 1890-1900
- Color :
- Uncoloured
- Height mm.:
- 160
- Width mm.:
- 160
- Condition :
- Height of the box: 10 cm
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 29036
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A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half points and decorated N & E points.
The cardan suspension system, also called a gimbal, is a pivotal support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. If simultaneously assembled three rings, one on another by orthogonal rotation axes, an object placed inside the third ring always remains horizontal, regardless of the engaged turns of the other two rings.
The application of this gimbal system navigation was proverbial, since until that moment when, for reasons of bad weather, the ship tends to heel or continuously up by the effect of waves, a traditional compass was useless, making it virtually impossible navigation.
The gimbal system allowed the compass to remain horizontal, therefore, a continuing role, regardless of the boat's position.The gimbal compasses are still used today in both marine and aviation.
Homme & Femme Ottawas.
Hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and writer, Grasset de Saint-Sauveur was a prolific polygraph in keeping with the encyclopedic spirit of the eighteenth century: he wrote exotic novels as well as documentary works on various subjects. Called by one of his biographers a drawer without genius but a good example of the taste of his time, Grasset de Saint-Sauveur was literally bewit...
$75
Maker : GRASSET DE SAINT SAUVEUR,J.
Place : Paris,
Date : 1806
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
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[How the Indians cured the Spanish thirst for gold....by pouring it down their throats!]
A brutal scene depicting native Indians tying down Spanish men and pouring liquid gold down their throats. Scenes of cannibalism in the background.In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfried, inherited the Theodor De Bry’s publishing firm, among the illustrated accounts of the expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Balboa, Raleigh, Drake, Smith, and many others.Gottfried issued together with Matthaeus Merian a one-volume condensation "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhaff...
$80
Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
Town of Cortlandt.
Fine lithographed map of the town of Cortlandt. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the various tradesmen in each village from Beer's famous county atlas "Atlas of New York and vicinity", "a documentary record of nineteenth-century life and delightful specimens of American folk art." F. W. Beers, along with other members of his family, were among the leading county atlas publishers in the period immediately fol...
$90
Maker : DE BEERS, F.W.
Place : New York
Date : 1867
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