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Mariner’s compass
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- Maker :
- MANN
- Place :
- Liverpool
- Date :
- ca. 1785
- Color :
- Uncolored.
- Height mm.:
- 170
- Width mm.:
- 170
- Condition :
- In original wooden case, in gimbals and oak surround. Dated in pencil ''1785''.
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 48676
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Description
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Brabantia.
A lovely miniature map of the Duchy of Brabant, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a nice, small strap-work title, a little stippled sea, and the map depicts local topography and towns including Mechelen, Breda, Cleve, Maestricht, Cologne, Brussels and Namur. This example is from the Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theologian, historian and geographer. Although he published much in...
$100
Maker : LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place : Amsterdam, 1606
Date : 1606
A folding fan showing a nautical festival, ca. 1770.
Folded fan, painted in gouache a ship pulled by two horses. On board, a large company, among others joins them while fishermen watch the scene.Reverse painted with an exotic flower. Monogram "SK" on the left.The ivory frame is engraved with flowers enhanced with silver foil.
$1.500
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : France
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Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one of the most important navigational instruments.This example is mounted in a wooden box to keep it safe.. The compass itself is mounted on brass gimbals to keep it steady on a moving ship. It has a single iron needle with a brass cap that rests on a spike projecting from the bottom of the bowl, which also contains some lead to wei...
$1.750
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : Unknown
Date : ca. 1800
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Groeninga MDLXXIII. [Groningen]
RECTO: A panoramic view of the city of Groningen dated 1573.VERSO: a woodcut of a cow, a bull and their calf.Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian, English, and even Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popu...
$60
Maker : MUNSTER, S.
Place : Basle, ca. 1564
Date : 1564
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