In addition to the Gallery in Milan, opened in 1999, Antik Arte & Scienza has also had a channel for online sales: on this site it is possible to buy, in fact, nautical antiques, astronomical instruments, globes and antique world maps, antique compasses, measuring instruments, vintage medical instruments and related to natural history. We know how it is important to offer secure and easy on-line purchases and therefore we have decided to offer free shipping and free insurance. All objects have an accurate and safe packaging, and when necessary also a padded wooden box made to measure. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London, and you have 28 days to change your mind and return the bought items (see our general selling conditions for more information about return methods).
Man has always try to measure the world around: it is demonstrated by all measuring instruments invented during centuries, from instruments to measure lands to instruments to measure liquids, from instruments to calculate, to instruments for measure the time.
Antique scientific instruments can represent beautiful objects connected to own work or passion, but also they can be simply beautiful objects that a real collector of antiques must have.
1633607576Code 6898 Salmoiraghi tacheometerLa Filotecnica Ing A. Salmoiraghi Milan Centesimal tacheometer 133 b normal N. 55858 Catasto Italiano model of the second half of the 19th century, of burnished brass, complete with original oak wood box with brass corner reinforcements and complete with lock with original key containing tripod base, plumb line and other accessories.
It is a scientific instrument used in terrestrial observations for the measurement of horizontal and vertical angles. The instrument consists of a three-spoke base with adjustment screws, a telescope, vertical circle and graduated horizontal circle, four microscopes for reading the circles, double level, English-style tripod connection.
Box size 20.5x20.5 cm - 8x8 inches, height 60.5 cm - 23.8 inches, instrument height 35 cm - 13.77 inches.
1623161570Code 6984 Topographic levelTelescope topographic level of brass, it is an instrument consisting of a telescope fixed parallel to the level, three-spoke base with adjustment screws. English manufacture from the second half of the 19th century, in excellent condition. Length 32 cm - 12.59 inches, base width 17 cm - 6.69 inches, height 21 cm - 8.26 inches.
1622712297Code 6967 Antique theodoliteSmall theodolite of black burnished brass signed Starke and Kammerer Wien N. 10626 from the second half of the 19th century complete with original beech wood box complete with accessories, plumb line, screwdriver, brush and key for recording and key for closing.
This instrument has been used in terrestrial observations for the measurement of horizontal and vertical angles and also used in the measurement of magnetic and geographical distances and azimuths.
It consists of a three-spoke base with adjustment screws, a telescope, two graduated circles, one horizontal and one vertical, two microscopes for reading the circles and double nines for centesimal reading of both the horizontal and vertical circles. three water levels.
In excellent condition, original patina in perfect working order. Telescope length 17 cm, instrument height 22 cm, box size cm 23x19 h 24.5.
1621502546Code 6968 Antique levelRare topographic level with telescope or simple theodolite of brass with original patina, signed Pasquale Cittelli Milan n. 353, first decade of the 19th century, in good condition and complete with original walnut box, with brass hinges and closing hooks. On the inside lid of the box, two labels give indications on how to use the instrument. Good condition, original patina, fully functional. Box size 33.5x22.5x8.5 cm - 13.18x8.85x3.34 inches.
1621345059Code 6969 Antique levelSmall topographic level signed Universale Porciatti Officina P. Sbisà Firenze of black painted brass and chromed brass from the late 19th century. In excellent condition and complete with original walnut box with brass hinges and closing hooks. Box size cm 19.5x15x h 12.5 - inches 7.67x5.9x4.9. The instrument consists of a telescope, double water level, double sights placed above the telescope and a goniometric circle for calculating the horizontal angles and a three-spoke base with adjustment screws. The Level is an indispensable instrument for surveyors, used to accurately measure a plane that is truly tangential to the surface of the Earth. It is an instrument consisting of a telescope fixed parallel to the level. The enormous development of railway construction in the first half of the nineteenth century led to the demand for levels that were quick and easy to use.
1617007255Code 6913 Antique levelTopographic level signed W.F. Stanley London of black painted brass, from the second half of the 19th century. In excellent condition and complete with original mahogany box with brass hinges and closing hooks. Box size 27x18x14 cm -10.6x7x5.5 inches, level length 23 cm - 9 inches, height with base 14 cm - 5.5 inches.
1615817286Code 6921 Zeiss theodoliteTheodolite n. 17965, D.R.P. Carl Zeiss Jena D.R.G.M. 1920s, light gray and black painted brass, internal horizontal and vertical circle with microscope readings, rack and pinion focusing. State of conservation: very good, some signs of use and fully functional. Height 30 cm - 11.8 inches, telescope length 23.5 cm - 9.25 inches, base diameter 14 cm - 5.5 inches.
1614951069Code 6887 Topographic levelTopographic level signed W.F Stanley of burnished brass, from the second half of the 19th century. In excellent condition and complete with original mahogany box with brass hinges and closing hooks. The instrument consists of a telescope, two orthogonal levels, a compass complete with a goniometric circle with the function of a horizontal circle and base for attachment to the stand with four adjustment screws. Inside the lid of the mahogany box there are two labels: one yellow with the name and address of the manufacturer, the other, also by Stanley, has the date 3.3.1911 of a repair. Box size 45x14.3x13 cm - 17.7x5.6x5.11 inches, level length 32 cm - 12.59 inches, height with base 16.5 cm - 6.49 inches.
1626092694Code 6985 Land-surveyor squaringLand-surveyor squaring of brass, Italian manufacture, from the second half of the 19th century, complete with original walnut box. It is a topographic instrument consisting of a cylindrical brass box, on which eight sights are practiced, which are used to trace alignments at 45 ° or multiples of 45 °. The graduated square is used for the detection or formation on the ground of alignments at any angle. It consists of two coaxial metal cylinders of which the one below is fixed and is provided, on the upper edge, with a centesimal graduation; the upper cylinder, also called alidade, rotates around a vertical axis. The alidade is equipped with four sights or slots and on the lower edge it is equipped with a reading vernier which represents the indicator in the readings of the graduation of the fixed part. Box size 11x19 h 11 cm - 4.33x7.48 h 4.33 inches.
2812015103326734Code A45 Mirror galvanometerVertical mirror galvanometer, English manufacture of the mid-XIX century, oak and glass, three adjustable screws at the base for leveling. Tool constituted by a magnet bar movable inside a coil and connected to a needle. In the absence of current the needle is positioned vertically while when the coil is crossed by the current it creates a magnetic field that moves the needle. This type of galvanometer was used for measurement of insulation of telegraph cables. Very good condition. Dimensions: height 29 cm - 11.41 inches, width 13 cm - 5.11 inches, depth cm 7 - inches 2.75.
1528458094Code A105 Coil galvanometerMoving coil brass galvanometer with 3-screw base, instrument signed Philip Harris Ltd Birmigham England n. 19402, made in the early '900, a tool used as a detector of direct current and of very weak intensities. Very good condition. Height 24 cm - 9.44 inches, base diameter cm 15 - inches 5.9.
1528290211Code A90 Induction coil by Du BoisInduction coil by Du Bois Reymond, also known as Sled of the Du Bois Reymond system designed around 1870 during electrophysiology studies by Emil Du Boid Reymond (1818-1896) known German physiologist. German manufacture of the end of 1800s. There are two coils, a fixed one and a larger mobile one, that runs on the small coil by means of a rack sled with a graduated scale. The current is maximum when the moving coil is completely overlapped to the small one and decreases as far as it is. By connecting a galvanometer it is possible to verify the variation of the current. Good condition. Length 40 cm - 15.74 inches, width 14.5 cm - 5.7 inches, height 13 cm - 5.11 inches.
1590410762Code 579A-1 Induction spoolInduction spool also called Ruhmkorff spool conceived around the middle of the XIX century, an instrument used to produce high voltage electric discharges starting from a low voltage direct current. Mounted on a walnut board. The induction spools were used to operate the first cathode tubes during X-ray research. They were also used for fun to entertain the public with the Geissler glass tube whose operation is based on the ionization process of the gas caused by the acceleration of electrons by means of the electric field creating luminous and fluorescent effects. Very good condition. Measures cm 23x14 h 13.5 - inches 9x5.5 h 5.3.
1590412813Code 579A-8 Vintage ammeterAmmeter, bakelite wood and brass instrument, used to measure the intensity of electric current, made by S.I.P.I.E. Pozzi and Trovero Spa in Milan in the 1960s, a company active since the 1920s, with the production of measuring instruments and current transformers. Production after the Second World War expanded to all types of measuring instruments on the market. Very goodcondition and in perfect working order. Measures cm 24x24 h 14 - inches 9.44x9.44 h 5.11.
1524140282Code A46 Herschel actinometerHerschel actinometer, 1930's, wood and brass, signed Griffin & Tatlock ltd London. It is an instrument invented in 1825 by John Herschel and used for the measurement of the solar heat. Very good condition. Cm 40x4x16 - inches 15.74x1.57x6.29.
1437477072Code A114 SeismographSeismograph by Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd London and Cambridge C 548334, 1930's. Complete with accessories, camera with plates and a dark room for data logging. Placed in an oak box, 29x26x43 cm - 11.41x10.23x16.92 inches. Good condition.
1580725601Code 61058 Antique colorimeterColorimeter signed F. Hellige & Co Freiburg i. B. Germany made in the early 1900s. Very good working condition. Height 34.5 cm - 13.58 inches, width 11.5 cm - 4.52 inches, depth 18 cm - 7 inches.
193201518257734Code A35 Lippich polarimeterLippich polarimeter with polarizer with triple field made at the end of 1800s signed Societé Genevoise pour la construction d’instruments de physique Genève, brass and black metal. It is an optical instrument of analysis used to determine the concentration of sucrose and glucose in raw materials and sugary food. Length 98 cm - 38.58 inches, height 39 cm - 15.35 inches. Good condition.
1590508801Code 579A9 Vintage polarimeterWooden and brass polarimeter with cast iron tripod base from the late 1800s. It is an instrument used to determine the concentration of sucrose and glucose in raw materials and sugar-based food products. Very good condition and in perfect working order. Measures cm 50x20 h 50 - inches 19.68x7.87 h 19.68.
1531395452Code A150 Polarimeter 1920Refractor polarimeter made of painted brass with cast iron tripod base by Steindorff & Co Berlin D.R.P. Germany, 1920s. It is an instrument used to determine the concentration of sucrose and glucose in raw materials and food products based on sugar. Excellent condition fully functional. Cm 36x18 h 22 - inches 14.17x7 h 8.66.
1620917119Code 6965 Simplex flexometerSimplex flexometer, patented model, from the 1930s, in brass, in its original cardboard box.
It is an instrument used for carrying out load tests relating to the lowering of floors, bridges, metal structures and other structures subjected to load and is used to compare the deformations hypothesized in the design phase with real behavior.
Box size 24.5 x11 x 5.5 cm - 9.64 x 4.33 x 2.16 inches.
1620917651Code 6971 Ferrero strain gaugeDouble strain gauge signed Brevetti F.lli Ingg. Ferrero Savona n.384583 mod E74 - S3, circa 1930, in its original box complete with accessories and magnifying glass.
It is an instrument used to measure the variations in length that occur between two points of the flat face of a solid 20 centimeters apart, used in the past to test building or industrial constructions.
In excellent condition, fully functional, complete with instruction booklet for use. Box size 27.8x22x8 cm - 10.9x8.66x3.14 inches.
1621951609Code 6966A Vintage slide ruleWashington logarithmic circular slide rule model G 29 Italian Patent n. 236298 Series G No. 813 from the thirties, complete with instruction booklet for use. Built by the O.R.I.S. of the F.lli Ingg FERRERO of Savona. In its original pressed leather box with handle and double lock complete with key. Worldwide patented instrument for the quick and safe calculation of the dimensions of reinforced concrete structures. The instrument consists of a quadrant made up of numerous concentric rings on which the variables to be set are indicated and a crank with eight buttons that can be raised or lowered to allow calculations, an instruction booklet explains them in a very analytical way with examples and diagrams for correct use. Excellent condition, fully functional. Box size cm 32x31.5x20 - inches 12.59x12.4x7.87.
1551264850Code 60789 Wooden scoreboardWooden scoreboard of the second half of the 1800s for the Bezique card game, French manufacture. The scoreboard has the inscription BEZIQUE. The different wooden tabs can be lifted to mark units, tens, hundreds, thousands, to facilitate counting in this way. Cm 7.2x14.2 - inches 2.83x5.59, very good condition.
1476104142Code 5384 Old abacoOld abaco of oak wood, consisting of ten horizontal metal parallel rods fixed to the base on which are strung 10 balls free to slide in horizontal line. Each row of balls has a different color. The balls in the bottom row mean 1, while that of the second row mean 10, the third row mean 100 and so on. You start with the balls all arranged on the left side and to make additions you move the balls on the right side. Italian manufacture of the early 1900. Very good condition. Measures 70x42 cm - 27.55x16.53 inches, height 155 cm - inches 61.
1533825098Code 6078 Square used by carpentersDecorated wooden square used by carpenters. Italian manufacture of the mid-nineteenth century Good condition. Cm 63x1.5x44.5 - inches 24.8x0.59x17.5.
1550579917Code 6344 Antique levelLarge water level made of wood, brass and glass manufactured in the second half of the nineteenth century. Excellent condition fully functional. Length 35.5 cm - 13.97 inches, width 4 cm - 1.57 inches, height 3.2 cm - 1.25 inches.
1550581061Code 6346A Vintage levelWood and brass water level signed W. Marples & Sons Hibernia, from the second half of the 19th century. Excellent condition fully functional. Length 22.4 cm - 8.81 inches, width 2.4 cm - 0.94 inches, height 2.5 cm - 0.98 inches.
1551349891Code 5095 Architecture gameParticular architecture game constructions with 56 colored stones inside a wooden box made in the laboratory of Dr. Richter Rudolstadt Thüringe in the late nineteenth century. The box is complete with assembly instructions. Measures box 27x17x4.8 cm (h).
1635514375Code 6113A Geometric solidsBox containing 10 dismounplate geometric solids of oak wood, height 20 cm, in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for calculating surfaces and volumes. Made for educational purposes for schools by Antonio Vallardi publisher in 1963. Box cm 30.5x40.5 h 12 cm - 12x15.94 h 4.72 inches.
1635515734Code 6113B Geometric solidsBox containing 6 dismounplate geometric solids of oak wood, height 20 cm, in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for calculating surfaces and volumes. Made for educational purposes for schools by Antonio Vallardi publisher in 1963. Box cm 24x40 h 12 cm - 9.44x15.74 h 4.72 inches.
1619692210Code 649 Precision scalePrecision pharmaceutical laboratory scale signed Baird & Tatlock BTL London England from 1910 for galenic preparations with brass weights from 1-2-5-10-20-50-100 grams, as well as numerous foil weights and tweezers, in the its box in mahogany wood. Scale case of mahogany wood complete with adjustment screws for leveling, with front side, back and sides in glass; the front side is removable upwards to allow you to work inside the case. Central pin and two arms to which the two plates are applied by means of hooks which can be raised by means of a lever placed under the case. Excellent condition, fully functional. The scale is accompanied by a 100 gram weight set in a mahogany wood case. Cm 38x20 h 35 - inches 14.96x7.87x13.77.
1638551481Code 7122 SpiralSlide RuleAntique ebonite brass and papier maché spiral slide-rule, conceived by George Fuller from Belfast, engineering professor in Queen’s University in London in 1878, made by STANLEY in the early 1930s; it is located in its original mahogany box. Very good condition. Box cm 46x12x11 (h) – inches 18.11x4.72x4.33.
1646927332Code 7232 Reduction CompassCross-legged reduction compass, of chrome plated brass
and steel, English manufacture from the end of the 19th century. Fixed or mobile center, whose opposite points form simple relationships of 1: 2, 1: 3 or other. It is used to enlarge or reduce a drawing; it is equipped with two arms each with a slot, in which a movable pin held by a screw slides. The points are inserted in both ends of the arms: if the pin is placed in the position of the scale of the lines marked with the number 3, this means that the points of the compass are widened in the ratio of 1 to 3. Good contidition. Measure cm 20 x 1,6x 1. Inches 7.8x0.65x0.5
1652179914Code 61122 14 Geometric SolidsBox containing 14 dismounplate geometric solids of oak wood, height 12 cm, inch 4.75 in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for calculating surfaces and volumes. Made for educational purposes for schools by Antonio Vallardi publisher in 1963. Box 28x36 h 10 cm, inches 11 x 14 h 4.
1653400368Code 61123 Geometric SolidBox containing 14 dismounplate geometric solids of oak wood, height 20 cm, inch 8 in their original wooden box complete with illustrative leaflet for calculating surfaces and volumes. Made for educational purposes for schools by Antonio Vallardi publisher in 1963.
Box inches 11x14.2 h 4
1653400962Code 7319 Antique MetronomeMetronome system Johan Maelzel (1772-1838) France late 19th century. It is an instrument used to measure the tempo of music, the sound of the pendulum indicates the exact speed of execution. The instrument consists of a pendulum with a counterweight that works with a clockwork mechanism with toothed wheels moved by a spring. The rod placed on the front equipped with a counterweight is operated by the clockwork mechanism which, with its oscillations, marks the passage of time. The instrument is inside a pyramid-shaped box made of wood which on the front has a brass plate and the name of the inventor, the Austrian physicist Maelzel. Excellent condition, fully functional. 11X11 cm h 23 cm.
1656147970Code 7319a Antique MetronomeMetronome system Johan Maelzel (1772-1838) England from the late 19th century. It is an instrument used to measure the tempo of music, the sound of the pendulum indicates the exact speed of execution. The instrument consists of a pendulum with a counterweight that works with a clockwork mechanism with toothed wheels moved by a spring. The rod placed on the front equipped with a counterweight is operated by the clockwork mechanism which, with its oscillations, marks the passage of time. The instrument is inside a pyramid-shaped box made of wood which on the front has a brass plate and the name of the inventor, the Austrian physicist J.N. Maelezel.
Good condition, lack of part of the scale card fully functional. 11X11 cm h 23 cm. Inches 4.25x4.25 h 9.
1659543701Code 667 Rare TheodoliteRare brass Theodolite with compass and eccentric telescope from the early 1900s. Signed SUSS N. Budapest serial number 1121. This instrument has been used in terrestrial observations for the measurement of horizontal and vertical angles and also used in the measurement of magnetic and geographical distances and azimuths. It consists of a base, a telescope, two graduated circles, one horizontal and one vertical, small microscopes for reading the circles and double nines for the centesimal reading of both the horizontal and vertical circles, leveling adjustment screws, double levels water. Excellent condition, fully functional.
Measure cm 21x23x23 inches 8.2x9x9 telescope lenght 15.8 cm 40.
1659688103Code 666 Cleps TacheometerVery rare Great Cleps signed Ing. A. Salmoiraghi La Filotecnica Milano n. 6465; the instrument was conceived by Ignazio Porro (1801-1875) and made around the end of the nineteenth century. It is an instrument used for geodetic and topographical measurements. This tacheometer differs from other tacheometers because the graduated circles are not visible but protected from dust and the reading is done through microscopes. The instrument is complete with its original box with accessories.
Very good condition and fully functional.
Measure cm 22 x 50 x 38 -inches 8.75x19.5x15.
1659689969Code 670 Telescope dDopterTelescope diopter for praetorian tablet signed Secretan Paris n. 3733 from the early 1900s.
Praetorian Tablet: the name derives from Pretorius, a professor in Altdorf, who conceived it in 1590. Used to trace medium and small scale maps, as it allows you to draw in detail and with contour lines in view of the terrain.
Missing from the line.
cm 20,5x10x16 – inches 8.15x4x5.9
1659690414Code 668 Topographic LevelBrass telescope topographic level, signed firmato F.H Temple Maker Boston made in the second half of the nineteenth century, in original patina and in excellent condition, fully functional. Complete with original wooden box. Measure box cm 44,5 x 21,5x 14 – inches 17.3x8.5x5.5.
1662217514Code 676 ClisigonimeterBrass clisigonimeter with horizontal circle signed F. Miller Innsbruck n. 115 second half of the 19th century,
complete with accessories and original wooden box.
Instrument used for measuring inclinations
Box size 21x19x 7 cm - 8.2x7.5x2.8 inches.
Very good condition, fully functional.
1662220024Code 678 TheodoliteAntique theodolite of burnished brass signed Ing. Salmoiraghi Milano No. 3787 made in the second half of the 19th century, complete with original oak box complete.
This instrument was used in terrestrial observations for the measurement of horizontal and vertical angles and also used in the measurement of magnetic and geographical distances and azimuths.
It consists of a base, a telescope, two graduated circles, one horizontal and one vertical, small microscopes for reading the circles and double nonius for the centesimal reading of both the horizontal and vertical circles, leveling adjustment screws, double levels with water.
Measure instrument cm 27x26 h 43- inches 10.6x10.3 h 18.5.
Box size cm 30x24,5x47 - inches 11.8x9.7x18.5,
Very good condition, fully functional.
1662220679Code 675 Small TacheometerSmall brass tacheometer complete with original box and accessories signed Kelvin & James White Ltd Glasgow & Kobe n. 1201, second half XIX century. Measure instrument cm 26x11 h 25 inches 10.15x4.4 h 9.8. Measure box cm 24x22x13 – inches 9.45x8.75x5.1.
Very good condition.
1662221335Code 673 CathetometerBrass cathetometer complete with original wood box signed G. Coradi Zurich n. 4 from around 1870, an instrument used to measure the height differences and the vertical and horizontal distance between two point. Very good condition.
Measure instrument cm 13x42 h 33, inches 5.1x16.5 h 13.
Box size 50x19x41 cm - 19.7x7.5x16.1 inches.
1664447654Code 672 Praetorian TabletVery rare praetorian tablet in brass and wood signed Cittelli in Milan from the early 19th century. Instrument for tracing and topographical surveying, complete with tripod in walnut and removable brass, base of the tablet in walnut wood with brass reinforcements and adjustment screws, large compass with fixing screws, telescope diopter with ruler and sights, level, plumb line, square, recall whistle, numerous accessories necessary for fixing and two original wooden boxes for housing the instrument, one for the tablet and the other for the tripod. The name derives from Pretorius, a professor in Altdorf, who conceived it in 1590. Used for tracing medium and small scale maps, it allows you to draw in detail. It was also used very often in archeology.
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