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Hendrick van Roonhuyse – Remarks on Medicine and Surgery – Published in Amsterdam, by the widow of Theunis Jacobsz. Lootsman, on ‘t Water, in the Loots-man, Anno 1663 – Bound in parchment, size 16 x 10 x 4 cm, 3 volumes in 1 binding. Part 1: 157 pages with 5 engravings (4 full page, including 1 frontispiece) with index, 1st edition Part 2: pages 159 to 258, the Art of Healing and Surgery, second part with index. Part 3: Read More...

11 Dec

An extremely rare and antique Italian straitjacket

By Nautilus Antiques

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An extremely rare and antique (early 1900’s) straitjacket from the Italian asylum “San Salvi”, in Florence. Established in 1890 the San Salvi has been closed in 1978. Thejacket is in perfect condition, numbered “34” (some pics of almost identical jackets from an Italian museum) Read More...

24 Aug

Beautiful 19th century Italian Surveyors compass signed “Verno fece Milano 1811”

By Eppursimuove

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Beautiful 19th century Italian Surveyors compass signed “Verno fece Milano 1811” I was not able to find information about this Italian maker.This kind of compass is part of the instrument called : “Pretorian table after one of its presumed inventors, Johannes Praetorius (1537-1616). Composed of a horizontal table mounted on a tripod and fitted with a compass, shadow square, scale of degrees, and alidade. The user could plot the position angles of the sighted locations directly onto a sheet Read More...

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H. van Roonhuyse, heel-konstige Aanmerkingen, 1663

An extremely rare and antique Italian straitjacket

Beautiful 19th century Italian Surveyors compass signed “Verno fece Milano 1811”