Citation - Boston Gazette: 1754.06.11

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Index Entry Magic lanthorn, for sale, with 36 pictures 
Location Boston 
Citation
BG.754.028
11 Jun 1754:41 (76)
To be sold, the owner intending soon for Europe, A universal
single and double microscope, with a solar apparatus, frog
frame, &c.  A Farenheit's thermometer, graduated to boiling
water, A large concave morror.  A barometer.  Two botanick
thermometers on box.  A four foot reflecting-telescope, the
largest size, six inches diameter.  A new-invented organ in
a mohogony case and frame on castors, the pipes gilt; with
two additional barrels.  A beautiful statuary marble carved
chimney-piece and picture; two fine China chandeliers,
fitted with flowers and branches; with three plaister
figures of Shakespear, Milton and Pope.  An electrical
machine and two spare globes.  A magick lanthorn, with three
dozen pictures.  Two large salmon double-wall'd flew nets,
never us'd; one 40 yards by 10 feet; the other 21 yards by 6
feet.  Four dozen glass lanthorns and burners, proper to
illuminate a house on publick nights.  A large marquie and
walls.  A ticking tent, with an alcove at each end, and
lined with a printed cotton, with poles, pinns, &c.
compleat; quite new.  A small sperma-caeti press, with an
iron screw, &c. compleat.  A pair of double girandoles with
pans and nossels.  An air-gun, which discharges ten times
without powder in half a minute.  Enquire at Messi'rs
Gilbert and Lewis Deblois's shop in Qu-street.


Generic Title Boston Gazette 
Date 1754.06.11 
Publisher Kneeland, S. 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1754 
Bibliography B0005420
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