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Catalogue of fine scientific instruments : comprising a Japanese 4-draw telescope, an early 18th century surveyor's level, by Thomas Heath, a rare early Marshall microscope, an eight-day marine chronometer, by Charles Frodsham, and ivory pillar dial for the Italian hours, dated 1573, silver 'Butterfield' dials, by Michael Butterfield and Nicolas Bion, ivory diptych dials, microscopes, pocket globes and universal equatorial sun dials ; and watches and table clocks, comprising early quarter-repeating verge watch, a Scandinavian silver-cased chaise watch, signed Peder Nottestad, Christiania, a four-train verge chaise watch, signed Sebastian Bauman, a gold pair-cased half-quarter repeating cylinder watch, by Thomas Grignion -- gold and enamel cased watches and chatelaines, Breguet no. 2183, a quarter repeating ruby cylinder, a sixteenth century circular table clock with the inscription Pierre Avvray, and a late sixteenth century tabernacle clock |