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ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. Transactions.....vol. 5, Edinburgh:
Bell & Bradfute, and E. Balfour 1805, three folded engraved plates, contemporary calf; a Hammett's Planisphere, with printed blue celestial map revolving within a cut-out square card frame with apertures at six-hourly intervals and instructions on reverse, by J.L. Hammett Company ... Cambridge Mass., Boston Mass, Newark N.J., Printed in Great Britain -- 101/8in. (25.7cm.) diameter; a nineteenth-century lacquered-brass slide projection lens with slide focusing -- 4in. (10cm.) long; a Geissler tube of baluster form with inner tube rising from a green glass vase -- 10¼in. (26cm.) long; and another, smaller, with green waisted baluster centre section (A Lot)
Bell & Bradfute, and E. Balfour 1805, three folded engraved plates, contemporary calf; a Hammett's Planisphere, with printed blue celestial map revolving within a cut-out square card frame with apertures at six-hourly intervals and instructions on reverse, by J.L. Hammett Company ... Cambridge Mass., Boston Mass, Newark N.J., Printed in Great Britain -- 101/8in. (25.7cm.) diameter; a nineteenth-century lacquered-brass slide projection lens with slide focusing -- 4in. (10cm.) long; a Geissler tube of baluster form with inner tube rising from a green glass vase -- 10¼in. (26cm.) long; and another, smaller, with green waisted baluster centre section (A Lot)
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This Lot does not include the projection lens or one of the Geissler tubes mentioned in the cataloguing.