Details
Achromatic Stereoscope
R. & J. Beck, London; polished-mahogany body and a pair of rack and pinion focusing brass bound lenses; twenty-four stereo-diapositives, in a fitted wood box
Literature
Paul Wing (1996), Stereoscopes: The First One Hundred Years, p.35.

Lot Essay

A similer stereoscope was offered in Cameras, The Property of a Collector Thursday 14 January 1999, lot 2.

The stereo-diapositives are titled:
Horseshoe Falls from Canada 85
Niagara Falls from Point View 29
Horseshoe Fall - Instantaneous No. 23 (James Thomson)
Table Rock. Niagara 159.
American Fall 2
R. M. Steamship Asia at Sea 122
4128. Arche de glace a la source de l'Aveiron (Savoie)
No. 20. Street and Native Village, Interior, Sumatra
No. 1. Entrance to Grotto Boo-Wu, Sumatra
847. Station sur la Mer de Glace (vall de Chamouni)
595. Panorama du Forum romain no. 2
475. Panorama de l'Alhambra et de la Generalife
500. Malaga. Panorama (CS)
2079. Le Calvaire de Saint-Paul a Anmvers (Belgique)
308. Vue du Pont de Prague
542 bis. Perspective de la galerie des Statues (Vatican)
599. Ceremonie de la Benediction papale
2280. Montagne du Drachenfels
2217. Perspective du Pont de Heidelberg
2216. Vue gnerale du chateau de Heidelberg
2275. Vue de la plaine de Godesberg et des Sept montagnes
550. Chambre des Busies (Vatican)
714. Vue generate du golfe de Naples et du Vesuve
1351. Panorama de Roma, pris du capitole

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