Twelve (12) Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio art and antiquity related books. 1st item: THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with gilt blind stamp to […]
Lot 644: 18K Pocket Barometer, 19th Century
18K yellow gold miniaturepocket aneroid/altimeter barometer watch chain fob or charm, with open dial exposing works, obverse, and engraved floral motifs, reverse, bevelled glass encasing both sides. Marked "18K" edge of case. 1 1/4" dia. Rare. Circa 1870's. CONDITION: Overall good, working condition with surface scratches to interior dial, few dents to case.
Lot 645: Swiss Marquetry Cylinder Music Box
Swiss interchangeable brass cylinder 6-tune music box, rosewood marquetry case having inlaid floral decoration to top and front and ebonized trim. Fitted with a steel comb and a lever winding mechanism. Upright lyre-shaped tune indicator indicating 6 tunes. Movement marked "57780". Underside of top with paper label reading "Denton's & Cottier, Buffalo, NY/Music-Boxes/Pianos" denoting the […]
Lot 646: Le Morte D'Arthur, Beardsley Illustrations, 1927
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, third limited edition of 1600, text by Sir Thomas Mallory and imprinted by William Caxton, with illustrations by AubreyBeardsley, published byE. P. Dutton, Boston, 1927. Quarto, 538 gilt top edge pages with frontispiece piece with tissue paper guard, 21 black and white plate illustrations, 1 with a tissue paper guard and additional […]
Lot 641: 2 Keuffel & Esser U.S. Military Slide Rules & 6 Others, 8 items
Eight (8) Keuffel & Esser linear slide rulers, including two (2) made specially for the U.S. Military. 1st item: 4110 Power Trig, specifically produced for the U.S. Naval Academy. Comprised of a mahogany Mannheim Style frame, one side coated with white celluloid, plastic cursor with metal frame and white celluloid edges held together with metal […]
Lot 642: 8 Circular Slide Rules, incl. Dietzgen 1798
Eight (8) circular slide rulers, including Dietzgen 1798 Dempster RotaRule Model A, various Gilson models, and more. 1st item: Dietzgen 1798 Dempster RotaRule Model A 50-Inch Pocket Slide Ruler, designed and manufactured by Jack Dempster, Berkeley, California, sold by Eugene Dietzgen Company, Distributors, Chicago, New York. Comprised of two-sided round white plastic, with a transparent […]
Lot 643: OPERA MATHEMATICA, Samuel Marolois, 1625
OPERA MATHEMATICA OU OEUVRES MATHEMATIQUES Traictant de Geometrie, Perspective, Architecture, et Fortification by Samuel Marolois, published by J. Janssen, Amsterdam, 1625. Folio, hardbound in vellum covers with five raised hubs, two (2) engraved title pages and eighty-four (84) engraved plates with French text. Includes a black clamshell box with a color photocopy of the title […]
Lot 638: 2 Dietzgen 1798 Dempster RotaRule Model AA
Two (2) Dietzgen 1798 Dempster RotaRule Model AA 50-Inch Pocket Slide Rulers, designed and manufactured by Jack Dempster, Berkeley, California, sold by Eugene Dietzgen Company, Distributors, Chicago, New York. Comprised of two-sided round white plastic, front scales: K A D ( C CI CIF S CS ST T CT G B F/i ), back scales: […]
Lot 640: 4 Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules, incl. 4105 Webb's Stadia rule
Four (4) Keuffel & Esser (K&E) slide rulers, including one (1) 4105 Webb's Stadia rule, one (1) Reymond Leather Calculator, and two (2) Merchant Desktop models. 1st item: 4105 Webb's Stadia rule, designed by Walter Loring Webb. Comprised of a wooden cylinder covered with paper scales, wooden handles at the ends of the cylinder, and […]
Lot 637: K&E 4015 Fuller's Spiral Cylindrical Slide Rule
Keuffel & Esser (K&E) 4015 Fuller's Spiral Cylindrical Slide Rule, Model 1, serial number 1948. Composed of an exterior wooden movable cylinder with two brass rings lined with felt over a longer interior wooden cylinder, both covered with paper and marked with decimal, conversion, sine tables, and a logarithmic scale graduated into 7,250 parts, two […]