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The
following items were offered for sale by auction
at the
2012 BSS Annual Conference.
This is
the final catalogue of lots that were sold at the Auction on the Saturday
evening of the Conference. A
copy of this catalogue was included inside each delegate wallet at the meeting.
'Modern Navigation' by W. Hall RN, London 1904.
'Sundials at an Oxford College', P. Pattenden, Oxford 1979.
'The Ancient Sundials of Ireland' by Mario Arnaldi, BSS 2000.
'Oxford Sundials' by M. Stanier, Cambridge 2003.
'Cambridge Sundials', by A. Brooks & M. Stanier, Cambridge, N.D.
'Doctor John Wallis FRS' by A. Ruderman, LRB Folkestone 1997
A useful Plumb-Bob (but unused.)
R
Brookes, ‘The General Gazetteer, or Compendious Dictionary, containing a
Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, ..., in the Known World ...’
etc etc; 14th edition, 1809, no maps, no front cover, but otherwise complete
and reasonably tight for its age. Good for 18th century place names for
geographical dials, besides being an excellent and entertaining read.
Sotheby & Co, ‘Catalogue of the Celebrated Library of Harrison D Horblitt
Esq’ Early Science , Navigation and Travel, Part 1 (A – C) and Part 2 (D –
G) [later parts were never published]. 2 volumes, good condition. Well
illustrated with eg the title-page of ‘The Spot-Dial’, Gilbert Clerke, 1687;
woodcut of universal dial from Clavius, Rome, 1586; engraved frontispiece of
‘La Maniere Universelle de M Desargues ...’, Paris, 1643; title page of ‘Mr
De Sargues Universal Way of Dyaling ...’, Daniel King, London, 1659; title
page of ‘Horologiographia – The Art of Dialling ...’, T Fale, London, 1593.
Henslow, ‘Ye Sundial Booke’, 1935 edition, with foreword by Beverley
Nicholls, good condition with good original dustwrapper.
C P
Ltd, ‘Polarmeter Mark I’, 1942?, rigid plastic with rotating time scale and
cursor, ‘To find the bearing of the Pole Star for any time and date (before
1948) at any place between latitude 10 deg N and 60 deg N’. Good condition,
complete with oilskin protective pouch.
Henry
Sainsbury, ‘Illustrated Catalogue’, facsimile of edition of approx 1881,
covering clocks and sundials, 36 pages, good.
Peter
Drinkwater, ‘The Sundials of Nicholaus Kratzer’, 1st edition 1993, good.
Peter
Drinkwater, ‘The Art of Sundial Construction’, 4th edition 1996, good.
Margaret Stanier, ‘Oxford Sundials’, 2nd edition 2003, good.
Brookes and Stanier, ‘Cambridge Sundials’, 1st edition, nd, good.
Albert
E Waugh “Sundials their Theory and Construction” 1st Ed, 1973 Dover
Publications Inc. 228pp, Good. Copy formerly owned (and apparently signed in
pencil) by Margaret Stanier.
Miroslav Brož, Miloš Nosek (Ed) ‘Sluneční Hodiny na pevných stanovištích’
(Sundials at Fixed Locations). 1st Edition 2004, 130x200mm, pp404. The book
lists 2339 sundials at fixed locations in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and the
Slovak Republic. This was the first inventory of its kind and scope.
Includes an idea for a sundial trail in Prague. Also includes (at rear) the
CD-ROM with an electronic version of the catalogue having 4110 dials with
pictures of sundials and the SHC sundial design program. This copy has been
personally signed by the Editors as a gift in respect of checking the
English summary at the back. Fine.
Gnomonica Italiana Anno III, n8 giugno 2005. Special Edition that describes
the BSS visit to Rome and Ravenna in 2004 and the visit to Sir Mark Lennox
Boyd’s camera obscura at his villa in Oliveto near Torricella Sabia, Rome.
80pp. Fine. In Italian.
C StJ
H Daniel “Sundials on Walls” – National Maritime Museum Maritime Monograph
and Report N0 28 – 1978. 2nd edition 1980, 25pp, Now rare, Fine
Limited edition 4 inch radius brass horizontal quadrant. J R Davis fecit
Half
size, limited edition, 2 inch radius brass horizontal quadrant. JR Davis
fecit
Ditto
second model
A
combined compass and clinometer
A small universal ring dial
A Capuchin dial (wood and varnished paper scales)
A nocturnal (wood with varnished paper scales)
A lunar volvelle (also wood with varnished paper scales)
A
modern day (brand new) reprint copy of Samuel Foster's 1654 edition of
"Elliptical or Azimuthal Horologiography"
Reprint of "Differential Dialing Scales" by Fred Sawyer, first published
NASS Compendium Vol 16 No3 Sept 2009, p36-38; complete with wooden dialling
scale.
The
Story of Time, Lippincott et. al.,1999, National Maritime Museum. Hardback,
304 pages. Repair to dust jacket, slightly bumped, otherwise good.
Sundial pedestal in concrete: 20 inches high.
Mount stone 13˝ inches diameter engraved with the cardinal points. Baluster
column on a 10 inch square base. The mount stone rests on the column and
isn't attached. (fit a locating peg advised)
A Singleton helical dial, formerly owned by
Edward Martin. Two feet long overall and 8 inches diameter but markings
weathered away. Hour lines pencilled in. With mounting screw but unmounted.
Adjustable for latitude.
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