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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 The invention of clocks and watches largely superseded the practical need for hourglasses.
Mount Kisco / Bedford / Katonah / Bedford Station.
Fine lithographed map of Mount Kisco / Bedford / Katonah / Bedford Station. 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 ...
$90
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Place : New York
Date : 1867
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Three heliographic prints on one sheet : "Property of F.A.Halstead Bedford Station", "The Halstead Homestead at Bedford" and "Inland Vale residence of J.S.Libby, Westchester Co. NY North Salem" after design by R.K.Sneden.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 period immediat...
$90
Maker : DE BEERS, F.W.
Place : New York
Date : 1867
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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
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Nouvelle carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale et des iles qui en dépendent dressée par H. Brué. . .
Very large, highly detailed, and uncommon issue of the map of North and Central America (ca. 1:13,888,000) prepared by H. Brué and improved by A.Vuillemin. Showing main interregional routes, rivers, and canals.The map was published in the year of The Texas Constitution of 1876. Texas still operates under the 1876 constitution today.Between the years of 1824 and 1876, Texas was at times a part of the United States of Mexico, an independent republic, a state within the Confederate States of Ameri...
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Maker : LOGEROT, A.
Place : Paris
Date : 1875
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