A FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY OXIDIZED AND LACQUERED-BRASS TRANSIT THEODOLITE, signed on the silvered dial W & L.E. Gurley, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing for the eye-piece and separately the object glass, with cross-wire adjusters, graduated bubble-level with axis mounted on turn A-frames over the compass box with edge-bar needle, the horizontal plate with level and cross-bubble enclosed silvered circle with viewing window and vernier fine adjustment long tangent screw with clamp, on four-screw tripod attachment, with makers trade label in fitted case--13in. (33cm.) high

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A FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY OXIDIZED AND LACQUERED-BRASS TRANSIT THEODOLITE, signed on the silvered dial W & L.E. Gurley, the telescope with rack and pinion focusing for the eye-piece and separately the object glass, with cross-wire adjusters, graduated bubble-level with axis mounted on turn A-frames over the compass box with edge-bar needle, the horizontal plate with level and cross-bubble enclosed silvered circle with viewing window and vernier fine adjustment long tangent screw with clamp, on four-screw tripod attachment, with makers trade label in fitted case--13in. (33cm.) high

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