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COLLECTION OF 10 ASTRONOMICAL MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES BY H. HUGHES IN ORIGINAL BOX, CA 1840
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Box with original engraved paper label to interior of lid reading "H. HUGHES, OPTICAL, NAUTICAL & MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER, 59, FENCHURCH STREET, LONDON", lid of box with original label reading "H. HUGHES, OPTICIAN. 59 FENCHURCH ST. LONDON."
Together 10 mechanically-driven wood and hand-painted glass magic lantern slides, each slide geared, and driven by a hand-crank. Slides 1-9 with the original descriptive printed paper labels. Housed in the original wooden box.
Catalogue Note
A WONDERFUL COMPLETE COLLECTION OF MECHANICAL MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES DEMONSTRATING VARIOUS ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA, including the Solar System and the revolution of the planets & their satellites around the Sun. Rare to find a complete set in the original box. The slides include depictions of the annual motion of the Earth around the Sun; the cause of of the tides and the phases of the moon; the apparent direct and retrograde motion of Venus or Mercury; the eccentric revolution of a comet around the Sun; the various eclipses of the Sun and the transit of Venus ' and the phases and eclipses of the Moon amongst others.