A Cooke telescope for auction

 The Scotsman Saturday 1^st February 1896

Saturday 15^th February at 12 o’clock at Dowdells, 38 George Street

THE VERY VALUABLE COLLECT OF ASTRONOMICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS, which belonged to the late FREDERICK J HUGHES Esq, Bo 'ness

Comprising magnificent equatorial refracting telescope on massive cast-iron pillar by T. Cooke & Sons , York with 5-inch object glass and set of negative and kelner eyepieces, with solar and star diagonals and Barlow Lens with driving clock, declination and right ascension circles, divided on silver , 28 inch polar axis; large altitude and azimuth instrument , with vertical and horizontal circles, 36-in. diameter, graduated to 5 minutes of arc, with eight reading microscopes with micrometers; transit on stone piers with telescope three and one eigth inch diameter , 46 inch focal length, refracting telescope 4 inch clear aperture , 7 inch. sextant; two fine regulator sidereal clocks by miller, electric clock by Shepherd and Bain, fine ship ' s chronometer by Millidge, projection and solar microscopes , spectroscope by Duboscq fine chemical balance by Oertling,Becker & Dunn; a large lot of object glasses , electric appliances , chemical apparatus , Bunsen battery mercury. Select library astronomical works by Pearson, Chauvenet, Brunnows and Toomis R A S monthly notices , &e.

Full particulars in Descriptive Catalogue , which is in preparation .

My NOTE

This telescope was purchased by Frederick Hughes from Thomas Cooke in May 1865.