A fine miniature surveying compass by W & S Jones of London, c.1815
Offered with: A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, dated August 1827
This beautiful instrument is very similar to the example illustrated in George Adams’ Geometrical and Graphical Essays, first published by Jones in 1797, Plate XV, Fig. 4. However, it differs in two respects from the illustration: the present compass is not set on a graduated base and is therefore not a true circumferentor, and the
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