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A 19th century Whitfield and Hakes brass sextant with its original box together with a Philips Planisphere (2)

Reproduction Henry Barrow & Co London brass sextant, in wooden box, together with a similar reproduction Gilbert & Sons compass

1930s Husun sextant no. 18020 in black finish, contained in fitted mahogany case with service label dated 1933

19th century Imray & Son lacquered brass sextant with ivory scale, contained within a mahogany case, inscribed Imray & Son 89 & 102 MinoriesThis item has been registered for sale under Section 10 of the APHA Ivory ActCondition Report: Ivory Act - Submission reference: 6VHHYFW9

Kelvin Hughes Sextant no. 70584, with calibration note for 1967, in wooden box

Sextant, English in wooden box. 17 cm.

Sextant, Henry Barrow. In wooden box. 13 cm.

Large boxed brass sextant

Oak cased sextant, Kelvin and Hughes Limited. Not available for in-house P&P

A 20th century sextant, marked Frieberger Prazisionsmechanik.

To include Hermes 8x24, leather covered set by Leme Edinburgh, a set by Lumex10x35, a set by Dunhill 8x32, a military set possibly off a sextant, and others, a lot

English, c.1950, unsigned, polished brass sextant on shaped wall mounting, sextant with single telescope, and filtered, base width 28cm

AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING CADET LOG FOR H.M. SHIPS TRAFALGAR AND EDGAR INCLUDING AN EYEWITNESS REPORT OF THE LOSS OF H.M.S. VICTORIA, 1891-94kept by B.A. Pratt-Barlow between 17th August 1891 and January 15th 1894 in a clear hand over 144 leaves initially aboard H.M.S. Tamar in the Humber before transfer to Trafalgar and with numerous charts, technical diagrams, drawings, watercolours and photographs pasted or tipped in including a distant one of H.M.S. Victoria possibly just after her refloating preceded by an extensive account of her refloating, and later a watercolour of her stern slipping beneath the sea entitled The last of H.M.S. Victoria, June 22nd, 1893 with a report of the sinking and how the fleet behaved in the immediate aftermath, shipboard routine, sextant sightings and weather reports, signed off at intervals by the Captain, bound within blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine -- 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.5cm.) B.A. Pratt-Barlow (1874-1914) was promoted Commander in 1908 and, in 1914, was placed in command of H.M.S. Hawke (which had rammed and badly damaged R.M.S. Olympic in 1911), perishing with her when it was sunk by U-9 (which had recently sunk Hogue, Aboukir & Cressy in the same morning) on 14th October the same year. H.M.S. Victoria was infamously sunk when the bullish Admiral George Tryon insisted on a complex division manoeuvre at the wrong distance and was rammed by H.M.S. Camperdown drowning Tryon and 357 men. Her wreck was only discovered -- rammed vertically into the seabed 460ft below -- in 2004, one of just two such wrecks known.

A FINELY ILLUSTRATED CADET LOG FOR H.M. SHIPS MINOTAUR AND ACHILLES, 1878-80kept by Rupert F. Bromley between 16th January 1878 and 26th October 1880 in a clear hand over approx 140 leaves with numerous drawings, charts, technical diagrams and several full page watercolours tipped in, shipboard routine and training, weather and sextant sightings, bound as one with quarter-calf marble-lined boards with gilt titles and decorated spine -- 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.5cm.)Wear to cover corners, some staining.

A LOG BOOK FOR EMIGRANT SHIP CHINA BETWEEN LONDON AND SYDNEY, 1839-40kept by Andrew Robertson (Master) in a clear copperplate hand between 25th November 1839 and 1st May 1840 with daily reports of sightings, shipboard routine, sextant sightings and weather reports, the last entry reading ...from London in 124 days; On Saturday May 2nd. moored the ship at 4pm at Campbells Wharf, bound between vellum-covered boards -- 13½ x 10½in. (34 x 27cm.)Loose pages, ragged edges, browning and staining, spine worn.

A Cased Plastic Sextant by Davis Instruments Corporation with Instruction Manual

Bubble sextant MK IX 68/313, microscope in box, binoculars, etc.

H. Hughes & Son Sextant pattern 491 in original box

Reproduction brass surveyor's level with compass, similar pocket sextant and sundries

A CASED SEXTANT BY HEZZANITH

A reproduction sextant (40)

A cased sextant.

An old Edwardian set of gold scales & 20th century sextant in good order.

Nautik - - Brevi Nozioni de' Sistemi del Mondo e della Sfera (= Kurze Beschreibung des Welt- und Sphärensystems). Mit 19 (18 gefalteten) Tafeln, in teils lavierter Federzeichnung. O.O. (vermutl. Süditalien), um 1780. Italienische Handschrift in schwarzbrauner Sepia auf Büttenpapier (mit nicht identifiziertem Wz.). Meist 23 Zeilen. Titelbl. mit gezeichneter geometrischer Einfassung. Blattmaße je ca. 30 x 19,5 cm. 241 (recte 247) hs. num. S. 4°. HPgt. des 18. Jahrhunderts mit goldgeprägtem RSchild und Goldfilete (Vorsätze und Deckelbezüge alterneuert, etw. fleckig u. berieben.) Saubere Reinschrift eines Handbuchs zur Navigation. Enthält als Einführung eine allgemeine Erd- und Himmelskunde nach den Systemen von Ptolemäus, Kopernikus und Brahe. Es folgt der "Trattato della Navigazione" mit Kapiteln wie "Delle differenti sorte di bussole e loro uso (= Über die verschiedenen Kompassarten und ihre Verwendung)", Kapitel über Längen- und Höhenberechnungen sowie Lokalisierung mit Hilfe von Karten anhand der Sternbilder: "De Calcoli Astronomici, pertenenti all Navigazione (= Astronomische Berechnungen für die Navigation)", sowie Abhandlungen wie "Del Moto proprio della Luna e del modo di trovare preso a poco L'Etá del medi pianeta (= Die Eigenbewegung des Mondes und die Art und Weise, das Lebensalter des mittleren Planeten zu bestimmen)". - Die in Grautönen lavierten Tafeln zeigen Berechnungstabellen, Schemata und Diagramme sowie Instrumente und Hilfsmittel wie Kompass, Windrose, Zirkel, Sextant, zwei Tafeln zu kartographischen Techniken sowie eine Tafel zu den Mondphasen. - Papierbedingt zart gebräunt, tls. etw. tintenfleckig, mit geringen Papierläsuren (hiervon einige fachmännisch restauriert). Insgesamt sehr gut erhalten. With 19 (18 folded) plates, partly washed pen and ink drawings. Presumably southern Italy, c. 1780. Italian manuscript in black-brown sepia on laid paper (with unidentified watermark). Mostly 23 lines. Title page with drawn geometric border. 18th century HPgt. with gilt-stamped ribbed label and gilt fillets (endpapers and covers renewed, somewhat stained and rubbed). - Handwritten manual on navigation. Contains as an introduction a general geography and celestial science according to the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Brahe. Followed by the 'Trattato della Navigazione' with chapters such as 'Delle differenti sorte di bussole e loro uso (= On the different types of compasses and their use)', chapters on calculating longitude and altitude as well as localisation with the help of maps based on the constellations: 'De Calcoli Astronomici, pertenenti all Navigazione (= Astronomical Calculations for Navigation)', as well as treatises such as 'Del Moto proprio della Luna e del modo di trovare preso a poco L'Etá del medi pianeta (= The Moon's proper motion and the way to determine the age of the middle planet)'. - The plates, washed in shades of grey, depict calculation tables, schemes and diagrams as well as instruments and aids such as compass, compass rose, compasses, sextant, two plates on cartographic techniques and a plate on the phases of the moon. - Slightly browned due to paper, some ink stains, with minor paper defects (some of which have been professionally restored). Overall in well preserved condition.

La Ledoise-Lede pigeon clock, Rank Precision dumpy level, miniature reproduction sextant, Sitesquare and a compass

A good quality brass Naval sextant by Heath & Co Ltd of London made for Wilson, Fletcher, Bruce & Sons Ltd of Cardiff, Barry Dock and Newport in fitted oak case with accessories bearing the "Hezzanith Observatory Works Examination Card"

A 19th century brass Naval sextant by PA Feathers & Son of Dundee, in fitted mahogany case with accessories

A painted aluminium sextant with curved calibrated dial

A good quality Naval sextant by H Hughes & Son of Fenchurch St London in fitted mahogany case with accessories

A World War II W. Ottway and Co. of London three draw telescope with box, brass cased compasses and a Henry Barrow and Co. sextant

A collection of surveying and other instrumentsIncluding: A mahogany cased theodolite by E.H.Robinson of London and Shrewsbury; a cased theodolite by Stanley of London; a brass drum sextant by W&S Jones of 30 Holborn, London, in leather carrying case; a cased brass surveyor's cross with compass; a mahogany cased surveyor's compass by Davis & Son of Derby; a brass level sight by Reynolds of Birmingham; a military issue Verner's Pattern VII compass dated 1917; a pocket combination barometer and compass by J.Casartelli of Manchester; a lignum vitae and brass spirit level by J.Rabone & Sons of Birmingham; and three cased sets of draughtsman's tools.

Reproduction J Scott of London Sextant and another Brass sextant

A mid-20th century sextant by S. Smith & Sons, boxed, with National Physical Laboratory certificate, together with a brass mounted ship's wheel, diameter 90cm.

Carl Zeiss; a 20th century cased sextant; serial number 782423; in original fitted case

Heath & Co; a 20th century cased 'Hezzanith' sextant; serial number 65698; in original fitted case

Oak cased sextant. Not available for in-house P&P

A BRASS SEXTANT MARKED NO.181 STANLEY LONDON 1890 IN A WOODEN CASE

A BOXED VINTAGE BRASS SEXTANT

A polished brass sextant.

A late 20th century plated copy of an early sextant marked Ross.

Cased military Bubble Sextant MK IX

[NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT][SEXTANT]. N. V. Observator. Rotterdam: 13 September, 1919. Metal instrument with brass mounts, mirrors, shade lenses, and a wooden handle; housed in the original wood fitted box, with metal handle, clasps, and lock, and with the manufacturer's partially printed label filled in by hand tacked to the inside of the lid, the box's interior with a slot for the telescope's lens, which is present, and two additional storage spots for the telescope's optical tube and eyepiece, which are not present. The box measures 5 x 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (12 x 27 x 24 cm). The sextant shows signs of wear from age and use, a few spots of oxidation, missing the telescope tube and eyepiece but with the telescope lens, two added modern small metal clips on mirrors; wear to the box, including scratches, cracks, one hinge partly defective and missing its screws, the label detached and now thumb-tacked to the lid; sold as is. No condition report? Click below to request one. *Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.Request a condition report

A Carl Zeiss Jena sextant, in fitted case with instructions

A small group of collectors' items, including two vintage fishing reels, pair of inkwells, silver plated quaich, cased reproduction sextant, Aynsley ceramic brandy label, small glass paperweight, and a Haffke reproduction Fabergé gilt metal egg.

A boxed sextant

A brass sextant in teak box

World War II military MKIII marching compass by T.G Co Ltd, dated 1939, military pocket sextant contained in a leather case, brass trench art shell vase and shell together with a leather collar case containing keys

W & J George & Becker Ltd sextant in case, biological microscope in case, W G Pye & Co barometer, recorders, singles, etc.

Stanley London, a lacquered brass War office issue pocket box sextant, dated 1941, serial No 3027, with cover and contained in a stitched leather case.

A 19th century brass nautical sextant in original mahogany box, w29cm

A brass sextant in teak box

A good quality sextant in a mahogany box with brass fittings.

A 1942 Hezzanith instrument works sextant in oak case.

A BOXED VINTAGE BRASS SEXTANT

A box containing binoculars, microscope, small tripod, brass sextant, exposure meter, avo mate, keratometer (?)

A Sestrel Sextant serial No U767, housed in it’s original mahogany box, together with a Certificate of Examination.

A J.H. Steward of London sextant contained in wooden box

Military Issue Sextant: Black painted brass and alloy sextant with makers nameplate HEZZANITH and military marked H.O. ARROW 377 , housed in original box with 1954 dated certificate.

A late Victorian brass drum sextant, in leather-covered wooden case, 7.5 cm

A Heath Navigational Ltd sextant, by the Hezzanith Instrument Works, with Bakelite handle and original case.