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Two magic lantern slides showing total solar eclipse

Two magic lantern slides showing total solar eclipse

1860-1868

Forty glass transparencies of astronomical interest in box marked Sir William Huggins F.R.S.

Forty glass transparencies of astronomical interest in box marked Sir William Huggins F.R.S.

1860-1880

Forty Carpenter & Westley Astronomical slides (1849) in two boxes, 10 slides and moveable, glass cracked on no's 1, 6, 8 of the moveable set

Forty Carpenter & Westley Astronomical slides (1849) in two boxes

1849

Miniature orrery arranged for use as a lantern slide operated by detachable key, both contained in fitted wooden box lined with baize, obverse engraved with following inscription: "invented and made by James Simons, Portman Place, Edgware Road", c.1790

Miniature orrery, used as a lantern slide, with case and key used to operate it

1785-1795

Four coloured astronomical lantern slides, (three are pictorial representatives of the zodiac, and the other of Northern constellations)

Four coloured astronomical lantern slides,