24th May, 2023 12:00

Fine Instruments of Science, Medicine and Books

 
  Lot 1
 

A Lucernal Microscope By W & S Jones, London

English, dated from the original receipt 26 Oct 1824, the instrument signed in Copper plate script to the stage W & S Jones, 30 High Holborn, London', the microscope standing on a long piece of French polished mahogany, incorporating the screw focus mechanism, with two lacquered brass uprights supporting the pyramidical shaped mahogany body, with objective lens and focusing mount to the far end, with large projection lens and focusing glass screen to the other viewing end, with long brass arm for magnifying lenses to further view the image on the screen, , the stage withe adjustment rods allowing the user to adjust the item being viewed from the far end, the instrument complete with a fitted drawer if accessories and specimen slides, all fitting into a large French polished mahogany case, complete with the original receipt and handwritten list of microscope slides

the receipt is dated 26 October 1824 and reads :

A Full lucernal Microscope with complete apparatus, opake and transparent objects 18.18.0
Lamp for above
A Packing case 5.00
A large size cloth microscope

For a similar instrument, but lacking its case and accessories, see the collection of the Royal Microscopical Society, see G.l'E. Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope, Bristol and New York, 1989, entry no. 252

Sold for £20,000

Result plus buyers premium


 

English, dated from the original receipt 26 Oct 1824, the instrument signed in Copper plate script to the stage W & S Jones, 30 High Holborn, London', the microscope standing on a long piece of French polished mahogany, incorporating the screw focus mechanism, with two lacquered brass uprights supporting the pyramidical shaped mahogany body, with objective lens and focusing mount to the far end, with large projection lens and focusing glass screen to the other viewing end, with long brass arm for magnifying lenses to further view the image on the screen, , the stage withe adjustment rods allowing the user to adjust the item being viewed from the far end, the instrument complete with a fitted drawer if accessories and specimen slides, all fitting into a large French polished mahogany case, complete with the original receipt and handwritten list of microscope slides

the receipt is dated 26 October 1824 and reads :

A Full lucernal Microscope with complete apparatus, opake and transparent objects 18.18.0
Lamp for above
A Packing case 5.00
A large size cloth microscope

For a similar instrument, but lacking its case and accessories, see the collection of the Royal Microscopical Society, see G.l'E. Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope, Bristol and New York, 1989, entry no. 252

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