Lot Essay
John Bleuler worked from the above address from 1791 until his death in 1829.
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A good late 18th/early 19th-Century brass Culpeper-type microscope,
signed on the circular stage Bleuler London, with graduated draw-tube focusing, the body-tube on three scroll supports from the stage, on three larger supports to the square mahogany plinth base with tilting concave substage mirror (top of base detached with one moulded sidepiece missing), the base containing a drawer with four (of six) objectives, lieberkuhn and sleeve, cone, sprung stage, frog-plate, live box (no glass), stage forceps, a thick glass disc, turned ivory canister for split-rings and talcs, five four-cell ivory sliders and seven various labelled glass sliders, the pyramid-shaped mahogany carrying case (lacking handle) with an attractive trade label in the door for BLEULER, Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical INSTRUMENT MAKER 27: Ludgate Street LONDON -- 38.7cm. (15¼in.) high
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signed on the circular stage Bleuler London, with graduated draw-tube focusing, the body-tube on three scroll supports from the stage, on three larger supports to the square mahogany plinth base with tilting concave substage mirror (top of base detached with one moulded sidepiece missing), the base containing a drawer with four (of six) objectives, lieberkuhn and sleeve, cone, sprung stage, frog-plate, live box (no glass), stage forceps, a thick glass disc, turned ivory canister for split-rings and talcs, five four-cell ivory sliders and seven various labelled glass sliders, the pyramid-shaped mahogany carrying case (lacking handle) with an attractive trade label in the door for BLEULER, Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical INSTRUMENT MAKER 27: Ludgate Street LONDON -- 38.7cm. (15¼in.) high
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