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15 September 2021 | starting at 14:00 BST
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A rare Johann Baptist Homann 2 ½-inch pocket globe and armillary sphere in case, Nuremberg, circa 1715A rare Johann Baptist Homann 2 ½-inch pocket globe and armillary sphere in case, Nuremberg, circa 1715. Sold for £77,750 inc. premium
A Fine and Rare Thomas Blunt Combined Planetarium, Lunarium, and Tellurium, English, early 19th centuryA Fine and Rare Thomas Blunt Combined Planetarium, Lunarium, and Tellurium, English, early 19th century. Sold for £112,750 inc. premium
A very rare Joseph Moxon 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, English, circa 1675,A very rare Joseph Moxon 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, English, circa 1675,. Sold for £187,750 inc. premium
A Rare Edition of the "Signal Key for the Radio Signal Service", For Enigma Use, German, 1939,A Rare Edition of the "Signal Key for the Radio Signal Service", For Enigma Use, German, 1939,. Sold for £55,250 inc. premium
An Edmund Culpeper Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1730,An Edmund Culpeper Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1730,. Sold for £19,000 inc. premium

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199 lots available

A Rare White Faced Rolleiflex Camera,
A Hasselblad XPAN II Camera with Equipment,
A Hasselblad 501c Camera with Equipment,
A Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Twin-Lens Reflex Camera,
A BRONICA delux Type 2 SLR camera,
A Reid Model III Camera,
A LeCoultre Co Compass Camera, Swiss, mid 20th century,
A very rare Leitz Cine Prototype lens,
A LEICINA prototype cine camera,
A Leitz 28.64 f/2.4 MM Underwater lens,
A Nikon 3 Olympic Model,
A rare Leitz LEICAVIT EINZEL,
A rare Leitz OLLUX lens hood,
A Leitz Prototype camera bracket,
A Leitz prototype extender,
Three Leitz M4 prototype top plates, (3)
A rare wooden film magazine for the Oscar Barnack cinematographic camera,
Three original Oscar Barnack constructional drawings, late 1920's / early 1930's, (3)
A Leitz Military MIRRR Lens in military green
A Leitz unfinished prototype of 20cm f/4 lens focusing housing,
A Leica MP brochure, 1956,
A Cut-away of Leitz 2.8mm f/2.8 Elmarit-R lens, 1970,
A Leitz 400mm f/4 lens, circa 1955,
A Leitz THAMBAR M 90mm f/2.2 prototype lens 2016,
A rare Leica IIIC, 1941-42,
A prototype Leica M8, circa 2006,
A Leica white dial synchronisation converted from a Leica II of 1932,
A Leica 1 Model A, circa 1925,
A Leica Compur Dial set Model, circa 1926,
A very rare Leica M5 finished in black paint, circa 1973,
A Leica 1A, circa 1925,
A Fuller's Time Telegraph and Palmer's Computing Scale, English, circa 1850,
A M-209-B ENCRYPTION MACHINE, SUPPLIED BY L.C. SMITH & CORONA TYPEWRITER INC., American, mid 20th century,
A NEMA TD 459 Cipher Machine, Swiss, third quarter of the 20th century,
A NEMA TD 688 Cipher Machine, Swiss, third quarter of the 18th century,
A Rare Edition of the "Signal Key for the Radio Signal Service", For Enigma Use, German, 1939,
A Rare Kriegsmarine Signal Book, German, 1940-1944,
A Rare And Original Stuart Ball Bearing Steam Engine, English, 1920's,
A FINE 3½ INCH GAUGE MODEL OF G.N.R. IVATT 'ATLANTIC' EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE No. 1414,
A J.B Dancer Brass Compound Monocular Microscope, English, circa 1870,
An Ernst Leitz Cast-Iron Rotary Microtome, American, early 20th century,
A Group of Three Microscopes, English, 19th century, (3)
Two Pocket Microscopes, English, early 19th century, (2)
A John Browning Spectroscope Microscope Accessory, English, circa 1880,
A Collection of Microscope Accessories, 20th century,
A Baker Binocular Compound Microscope, English, late 19th century,
A J. Swift & Son Dissecting Microscope, English, Late 19th century,
Three Compound Monocular Microscopes, English, 19th century, (3)
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