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# Lots with Nachet microscope 2 spotting scopes Compass set Legal fees

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For sale on Tuesday 09 Jul : 11:00 (CEST) , resuming at 14:00
paris, France
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Alexis MAGNY (1712 - after 1777) Gilt bronze and green horn monocular microscope with a cuff-style body mounted on a rectangular pillar engraved with a positioning scale. The body is supported by a tilting hinge mounted on a double arch support. The whole is supported by a square pedestal fitted with a storage drawer for accessories, including ten numbered lenses and the micrometer. Original mahogany case with blue silk lining, topped by a bronze suspension ring. A lower storage drawer holds accessories. Signed "Magny Jnvenit & fecit Parisiis Anno 1754 n° 15". Provenance: private collection Normandie France In the same family since the late 19th century H. microscope 42 cm Base side 17 cm H. case 51 cm Side of case base 20 cm Estimate € 8,000/ € 10,000 The microscope and case are presented in the condition in which we found them. Operation is not guaranteed On the microscope, small accidents and minor damage to the green horn - rear part of green horn missing The case is damaged and missing, the veneer is missing, the key and keyhole are missing, the door needs to be refastened (existing hinges) and the suspension ring is damaged. Original blue silk upholstery in use. Alexis MAGNY (1712-after 1777) was born in Namps au Mont, near Amiens. From 1733-1734, Alexis MAGNY worked as a mechanic for Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson (1702-1744), a rich and famous collector with a Cabinet of Curiosities renowned for its size and contents during the reign of Louis XV. Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson's sister was married to Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly Duc de Picquigny then 5th Duc de Chaulnes (1714-1769), an officer, astronomer and physicist. He shared his brother-in-law's passion for scientific instruments, and spent a large part of his income building instruments and collections. He was a friend of the Marquise de Pompadour, who welcomed him to Versailles with King Louis XV, boosting his career. In the 1740s, the Duc de Chaulnes designed a new microscope model, for which he published a description illustrated with several plates which, according to Alexis MAGNY, brought together "all that the best artists, both foreign and national, have imagined to make the use of this instrument more convenient & and more useful". The first model was presented to Louis XV by its supposed maker Dom Noël (1712 - 1781), via the Duc de Chaulnes, the instrument's true designer. Having acquired the Chaulnes/Noël microscope, Louis XV ordered a second one as a gift for his father-in-law Stanislas Leszczynski, King of Poland. But Stanislas was elderly, and the instrument had to be adapted so that he could use it sitting down. Alexis MAGNY was commissioned to do just that, and in a very short time he modified the instrument, adding an ebony guard and endowing the microscope with greater magnification power than the original model. It was from this modified instrument (now in the Nancy Museum) that Alexis MAGNY developed a series of instruments over the following years, which he signed, dated and, unusually for the time, numbered. Thanks to this numbering, we know that he produced at least nineteen examples. Of these, six are known, including no. 15 presented at the auction. - Microscope dated 1752 (number illegible) Christie's sale 24-04-2013 - Microscope dated 1754 no. 13 - Sotheby's sale 11-28-2017 (described in the Nachet sale catalog) - Microscope dated 1754 no. 14 (also described in the Nachet Sale catalog) - Microscope dated 1754 n° 15 presented at the sale - Microscope dated 1755 no. 18 Nordiska Museet Stockholm (inventory no. 81 134) - Microscope dated 1755 no. 19 Musée du Louvre Paris (inventory no. 0A 10573) After the death of Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson in 1744, Alexis MAGNY set up his own business in the privileged setting of the Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés, where he continued his research into the construction of marine compasses and manufactured microscopes. We can see that the microscopes that have come down to us present small variations and are unique objects of great technical and aesthetic quality. The NACHET Collection Founded in 1839 by Camille Sébastien NACHET (1799-1881), Maison NACHET became one of France's most renowned optics manufacturers, notably for its microscopes. In order to trace the evolution of the instrument, his successor at the helm of the company until 1899, Jean Alfred NACHET, began building up a collection of old instruments, the catalog of which Albert NACHET published in 1929. A large part of this collection was dispersed during the