A-P Mes. Ader, Picard et Tajan Auctions, Paris.
ADL Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Ill.
AMB American Museum, Bath, England.
AMH Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Antwerp.
AMST Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam.
AND-SPI Spitzer Legacies Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Jan. 9, 192
AND Anderson Galleries, New York.
ANM Musée National de la Marine, Antwerp, Belgium.
AOB Astrophysical Observatory of the Academy of Science of Armenian S.S.R., Burakan, U.S.S.R.
AOK Astronomical Observatory of Kazan State University, Kazan, U.S.S.R.
AOT Astro. Observ. of the Inst. of Physics and Astro. of the Academy of Science of Estonian S.S.R. (old), Tartu, U.S.S.R.
AOTA Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Science of Uzbek S.S.R., Tashkent, U.S.S.R.
AOTY Astro. Observ. of the Inst. of Physics and Astro.of the Academy of Science of Estonian S.S.R. (new), Tyravere.
AOV Astronomical Observatory of the Vilnyus State University (old), Vilnyus, U.S.S.R.
APS American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
ARC District Museum of Local Lore, Archangel, U.S.S.R.
ARM Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland.
AUG Maximilianmuseum, Augsburg, Germany.
AUI Institute of Science, Aarhus, Denmark.
BAM Heimatmuseum, Bamberg, Germany.
BAO Observatorio Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
BAR Maritime Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
BAS Observatory, Basle.
BASH Historical Museum, Basle.
BASU University Observatory, Basle.
BAU Stadtmuseum, Bautzen, Germany.
BCH  
BEK Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany.
BEP Pommerscher Kunstschrank, Berlin.
BER Historical Museum, Berne.
BERNAL Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge, England.
BIL Billings Collection of Microscopes, Washington D.C.
BM British Museum, London.
BMA Institut des Arts et Métiers, Brussels.
BMM Bath Maritime Museum, Bath, ME.
BMR Musées Royaux, Brussels, Belgium.
BOM H.G. Bom (Auction House), Holland or Germany.
BOS Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
BOU Musée de Boulogne, Boulogne, France.
BRA Arts et Metier Museum, Brno, C.S.S.R.
BRC Musée Cinquantenaire, Brussels.
BRE Focke Museum, Bremen, Germany.
BRN   [Czechosloslovakia?]
BRO Royal Observatory, Brussels, Belgium.
BRP Pinacoteca, Brescia, Italy.
BRS Sternwarte, Breslau, Poland.
BRU Free University, Brussels.
BUD National Museum, Budapest.
BUN Iparmüvészeti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
BUR Burndy Library, Norwalk, Conn. and SIMAH, Washington, D.C.
CAD Escuela de Nautica, Cadiz, Spain.
CAI Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge, England.
CAR Archaeological Museum, Cambridge, England.
CAU Musée Brochet, Caudebec-en-Caux, France.
CCT  
CHADENAT Chadenat Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 24, 1956.
CHEVAU   [Chevau-Légers 2/28/82? / Chevau 10/10/75?]
CHF Musée de l'Horlogerie, La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
CHRIS.-SK  
CHRISTIE Christie, Manson and Wood Auctions, London.
CHT Georges Charliat Collection, Paris.
CLO Clockmakers' Company Museum, London.
CLU Musée de Cluny, Paris.
CMY Castle Museum, York.
CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris.
COL Rheinisches Museum, Cologne.
CON Naval College, Coimbra, Portugal.
COO Astronomical Observatory, Coimbra, Portugal.
COP National Museum, Copenhagen.
COT  
COU University, Coimbra.
CRI Crisp Collection, London.
CRT Round Tower, Copenhagen.
CUS Cusanus Hospital, Bernkastel-Cues, Germany (may be same as BCH).
CZJ  
D. Dealer.
DAN Oliva Museum, Danzig, Germany.
DAR Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany.
DEU Deutsches Museum, Munich.
DHM Historical Museum, Dresden.
DIE Musée de Dieppe.
DMT The Home Musem of K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Kaluga, U.S.S.R.
DNM Naval Museum, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
DOR Stadtmuseum, Dortmund.
DPW David P. Wheatland, Boston, MA Collection ( now mainly at Harvard with some at the Adler Planetarium).
DRE Mathematische-Physikalisches Salon, Dresden.
DROUOT Hotel Drouot Auctions, Paris.
DUB National Museum, Dublin.
DUS Joint Republican State Museum of Historical Lore and Fine Arts, Dushanbe, U.S.S.R.
ECO Ecole national des Ponts et Chausées, Paris (?).
EGE Egestorff Collection, Dublin.
EIS Museum, Eisenach, Germany.
ELB Stadtmuseum, Elbing, Poland (now German).
ELDRED  
ELV Inter-District Museum of Local Lore, Elv, Estonian S.S.R., U.S.S.R.
EMA National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh.
ERNST Ernst Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (see HAR).
ESS Essex Institute, Salem, MA (now Peabody-Essex Museum).
FGM Museo di Instituto Geographico Militario, Florence.
FIN Sir Edmund Findlay Sale, Sotheby's Dec. 4, 1961 and Feb. 26, 1962, London.
FIT Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.
FLE Kunstgewerbemuseum, Flensburg, Germany.
FLG Instituto Tecnico Stat. Comm. Galileo, Florence.
FLM see FGM.
FLO Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence.
FOR Fort Caroline National Memorial, Jacksonville, FL.
FOSTER  
FRA Stadtmuseum, Frankfort-am-Main.
FRE Augustiner-Museum, Freiburg.
FRI Friesch Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland.
FRK Arthur Frank Collection, Glasgow, Scotland (dispersed).
FRY Claude Fry Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 14, 1957.
FUR   [Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen, Germany]
GAI State Astronomical Institute in the name of P.K. Sternberg, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
GEL Hermitage Museum, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
GEM Musée d'Histoire des Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland.
GEN Society Ligure di Storia Patria, Genoa.
GEP Naval Museum, Pegli-Genoa, Italy.
GGO Main Geophysical Observatory in the name of A.E. Voeikov, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
GHE Musée de Folklore, Ghent, Belgium.
GIM State Historical Museum of Ukranian S.S.R., Kiev, U.S.S.R.
GIMK State Historical Museum of Local Lore of Moldavian S.S.R., Kishinev, U.S.S.R.
GIML State Historical Museum, Lvov, U.S.S.R.
GIMT Historical Museum of Estonian S.S.R, Tallinn, U.S.S.R.
GIMY State Historical Museum of Armenian S.S.R., Yerevan, U.S.S.R.
GME State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg).
GMEL Ukranian State Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Arts, Lvov, U.S.S.R.
GMET State Ethnographic Museum of the Estonian S.S.R., Tartu, U.S.S.R.
GMM Maritime Museum, Gotheborg, Sweden.
GMT State Museum of Tatar, A.S.S.R., Kazan, U.S.S.R.
GOL Geographic Society of the U.S.S.R., at the Academy of Scienceof the U.S.S.R., Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
GOT Museum, Gotha, Germany.
GRA Johanneum, Graz, Austria.
GRD Grodnenian Pedagogical Institute, Grodno, U.S.S.R.
GRE Greppin Collection (dispersed).
GRO Groningen University, Groningen, Holland.
GUR Gurley Collection, Troy, N.Y.
HAA Maritime Museum Altoona, Germany.
HAK Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
HAM Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg.
HAMMER Hammer Sale, J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 1895.
HAR Historic Scientific Instrument Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
HAY Hayden Planetarium, New York. (mostly the Bliss Collection).
HEG Harold E. Gillingham Collection, Phildelphia, PA (dispersed).
HEI Landessternwarte, Heidelberg.
HER  
HMK   [not used?]
HOF  
HOW Howgrave-Graham Collection, London.
IEMS The Historical-Ethnographic Museum, Shauliai, U.S.S.R.
IEMV Historical-Ethnographic Museum of Lithuanian S.S.R., Vilnyus, U.S.S.R.
INEICHEN Peter Ineichen Auktionhaus, Zurich.
ING Schlossmuseum, Ingolstadt, Germany.
INN Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria.
JOS C.H. Josten Collection, Oxford (dispersed).
KAL District Museum of Local Lore, Kaluga, U.S.S.R.
KAS Landesmuseum, Kassel, Germany.
KBU The Study of A.M. Butlerov at the Kazan State University, Kazan, U.S.S.R.
KEN Science Museum, South Kensington, London, England.
KENNEY Cyril Kenney Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 15, 1963.
KES Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany.
KFR Knight, Frank and Rutley, Auctions, London.
KIN King's College, Cambridge, England.
KLA Landesmuseum, Klagenfurt, Germany.
KM Geography Museum of Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R..
KMM Study-Museum of D.I. Mendeleev at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Meteorology, U.S.S.R.
KNG Saarem Museum of Local Lore, Estonian S.S.R., Kingisepp, U.S.S.R.
KOF Dept. of General Physics of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
KON University Observatory, Konigsberg (now Kalingrad, U.S.S.R.).
KOS Historical-Architectural Museum-Preservation, Kostroma, U.S.S.R.
KOT Maritime Museum, Kotor, Yugoslavia.
KRA Jagiellonian University Museum, Kracow, Poland.
KRE Kreuzenstein Schloss, Germany.
KRM Kremsmünster Stift, Austria.
KRO Sofartmusset, Kronborg, Denmark.
LAN Nicolas Landau Collection, Paris.
LANGE  
LAS Naval Museum, La Spezia, Italy.
LAW Lawrence Sale, Sotheby's, London, April 18, 1934.
LEI Kunstgewerbe Museum, Leipzig, Germany.
LEL Public Library, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
LEO Observatory, Leiden, Holland.
LEY Museum of the History of Science, Leiden (now the Boerhaave Museum)
LID Stadtmuseum, Lindau, Germany.
LIE Museé de la Vie Wallonne, Elskamp Collection, Liège, Belgium.
LIM Maritime Museum, Lisbon.
LIN Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria.
LJU Naárodní Museum, Ljubjana, Yugoslavia.
LNB State Scientific Library, Lvov, U.S.S.R.
LOS Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
LOU The Louvre, Paris.
LSG Sociedad de Geographia, Lisbon, Spain.
LUB Museum S. Anna, Lubeck, Germany.
LUN Museum, Lüneburg, Germany.
MAA Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Spain.
MAD Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
MADEX Exhibition des Instruments et Outils d'Autrefois, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1936.
MAG Instituto Geografico y Estadistico, Madrid.
MAI Altertummuseum, Mainz, Germany.
MAN Naval Museum, Madrid.
MAS Instituto de San Isidro, Madrid, Spain.
MAT Scientific-Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts at the Soviet of Ministries of Armenian S.S.R., Yerevan, U.S.S.R..
MAV Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid.
MEM Stadt-Museum, Memminger, Germany.
MER Merton College, Oxford, England.
MERC Mercator Shop, Paris (Gertrude Hamilton, 1929).
MEW   [not used?]
MIA Museum of the History of Azerbaidzhan, Baku, U.S.S.R..
MICHEL Michel Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 17, 1938.
MII Institute of Geodesy Engineers, Aerial Photography, and Cartography, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
MIL State Museum of the History of Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg).
MIM History of Microscopy Museum of the Inst. of the History of Natural Science of the Acad. of Science of the U.S.S.R., Moscow.
MIMK Museum of the History of Material Culture of Tomsk State University, Tomsk, U.S.S.R.
MIMV State Museum of the Art of the Peoples of the East, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
MINV State Museum of the Art of the Peoples of the East, Moscow, U.S.S.R..
MIS Sforza Museum, Milan, Italy.
MLL M.V. Lomonosov Museum of the Inst. of the Hist. of Nat. Science and Tech. of the Acad. of Science of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad.
MOS Historical Museum, Moscow.
MOSK Saul Moskowitz Catalogues, Marblehead, MA. (he died in 1991).
MPP  
MSC Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CN.
MST Museum of Science and Technology, Milan.
MUB Staats Bibliothek, Munich.
MUN Nationalmuseum, Munich (Bayerische).
MZI Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Kiev, U.S.S.R..
MZM Geography Museum of Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
NAC Nachet Collection, Paris (dispersed).
NEE W. Needham Collection, Cambridge, England.
NMM National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
NOR Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
NOV District Museum of Local Lore, Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R..
NUR Germanisches Museum, Nürnberg.
NYC David Eugene Smith Collection, Columbia University Library, New York.
NYH Hispanic Society, New York.
NYM Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NYS Historical Society, New York (collection of instruments dispersed.
O-F Olaguer-Feliu Collection, Barcelona (see Monreal in Bibliography
OBE Anisch-Hueber Museum, Oberperfuss, Germany.
OLD Oudheidkamer, Oldenzaal, Holland.
OPM State Armoury, Moscow, U.S.S.R..
OXF Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, England.
OXFB Billmeier Collection, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
P-B Parke-Bernet Gallery, New York (now part of Sotheby's).
P&S Puttick and Simpson, London.
P. Picture.
P.C. Private Collector.
PAB Biblioteca Nazionale, Palermo, Italy.
PAC Academie des Sciences, Paris.
PAK Parkington Collection, Bury St. Edmunds, England.
PAM  
PAR Royal Museum, Palermo, Italy.
PAT Town Library, Palermo.
PBN Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.
PEA Peabody Museum, Salem, MA (now Peabody-Essex Museum).
PEM Maritime Museum, Perast, Yugoslavia.
PER Comune Museo, Perugia, Italy.
PET Museum of Local Lore, Petrozavodsk, U.S.S.R.
PIT Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
PLZ Ethnographic Museum, Plzen, C.S.S.R.
PMM Musée de la Marine, Paris.
PMS Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME.
PMU Polytechnical Museum, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
POB L'Observatoire, Paris.
POR Piero Portaluppi Collection, Milan (now at Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan).
POTS Geomagnetischen Institut, Potsdam, Germany (now Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde, Bereich Geomagnetismus).
PRA Technical Museum, Prague.
PRE Stadtmuseum, Pressburg, Germany.
PRM Paul R. MacAlister Collection, Lake Bluff, IL.
PRN National Museum, Prague.
PRS Historical Artistic Museum, Pereslavl-Zaleski, U.S.S.R.
PSH Service Hydrographique de la Marine, Paris.
PTA Stadtmuseum, Pettau, Germany.
PUGSLEY Edwin Pugsley Sale, O. Rundle Gilbert Auction, New Haven, CT., A
PYM Pym Sale, Sotheby's, London, Oct. 17, 1960.
RAV Museum, Ravensburg, Germany.
REG Museum, Regensberg, Germany.
RGM City Museum, Riga, U.S.S.R.
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory, Hurstmonceux Castle, England.
RGS Royal Geographic Society, London.
RIJ Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
RIL Royal Institute, London.
RJK Naval and Historical Museum, Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
RMS Royal Microscopical Society, London (collection now at OXF).
ROB Biblioteca Lancisiana, Rome.
ROK Museum of Local Lore, Rokishkis, Lithuanian S.S.R., U.S.S.R.
ROM Monte Mario Observatory, Rome.
ROS Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen.
ROSENHEIM Rosenheim Sale, Sotheby's, London, May 11, 1923.
ROT Time Museum, Rockford, IL.
ROU Roussel Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 13-15, 1911.
ROUSSEL Roussel Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 13-15, 1911.
ROY Rostov Branch of the State Yaroslavl-Rostov Historical-Architectural and Artistic Museum-Preservation, Rostov, U.S.S.R..
RSM Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (now part of the Royal Museums of Scotland).
RSW Notes and Sightings.
SAL Society of Antiquaries, London, England.
SAN St. Andrew's University, St. Andrews, Scotland.
SCH Museum, Schaffhausen, Germany.
SCHUHMANN Schuhmann Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 15, 1935
SEO   [not used?]
SGS The Gentlemen's Society, Spalding, England.
SKO Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
SLM Stadtmuseum, Salzburg, Austria.
SLO City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
SLZ Stift St. Peter, Salzburg.
SNO Nordiska Museum, Stockholm.
SOL Museum, Solnhofen, Germany.
SOT   [not used?]
SOTH-B   [not used?]
SOTH-NY Sotheby's-New York.
SOTH Sotheby's, London.
SPI Spitzer Sale, Chevallier, Paris, 1893.
SPITZER Spitzer Sale, Chevallier, Paris, 1893
SPL Naval Museum, Split, Yugoslavia.
STE Sjohistoriska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
STH Statens Historical Museum, Stockholm.
STK  
STL Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany.
STM  
STO Old Observatory, Strasbourg, France.
STR Musée de Rohan, Strasbourg, France.
STROZZI Strozzi Sale, F. Muller Co., Amsterdam, Nov. 1911.
STS Stift, Seitenstetten, Germany.
STT Technical Museum, Stockholm,
STU Würtembergerisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany.
STUKER Galerie Jurg Stuker, Berne, Switzerland.
SWE Swedish Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm.
SWF Museum, Schweinfurt, Germany.
T.C. Trade Card.
TEY Teyler's Museum, Haarlem, Holland.
TGM City Museum, Tartu, Estonian S.S.R., U.S.S.R..
THO  
TIM Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois.
TOL Museum, Toledo, OH.
TOM District Museum of Local Lore, Tomsk, U.S.S.R.
TOMBA Dr. Tullio Tomba Collection, Milan, Italy
TOML John Tomlinson Collection (now mostly at ADL).
TOU Musée St. Raymond, Toulouse, France (see TPD).
TPD  
TRA Ehrensberger Collection, Traunstein, Germany.
TRE Museo del Mare, Trieste, Italy.
TVM Central Naval Museum, Leningrad, U.S.S.R., (now St. Petersburg).
ULM Museum, Ulm, Germany.
USMA United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
USNA United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
USNM Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
UTC Clock Museum, Utrecht, Holland.
UTO  
UTP Physics Laboratory, University of Utrecht.
UTR University Museum, Utrecht, Holland.
VAA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
VCW Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA.
VEN Museo Civico Correr, Venice, Italy.
VEO Osservatorio, Venice, Italy.
VIE Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
VIG Österreichisches Museum for Angewante Kunst, Vienna./Kunstgewerbe Museum
VIM Military-Historical Museum of Artillery and Military Engineers, Leningrad, U.S.S.R..
VIT Technisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
VIU Uhren Museum, Vienna, Austria.
VNL National Library, Vienna, Austria
VNM Museo Storico Navale, Venice, Italy.
VNN  
VOGEL H. Vogel Auction House, Düsseldorf, Germany.
WAI Museum, Waidhofen, Germany.
WAR University, Warsaw, Poland.
WEBS  
WEINMULLER Weinmuller Auction House, Munich, Germany.
WHI Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, England.
WILLEBOIS see Strozzi. (van der Does)
WOL Library, Wolfenbuttel, Germany.
WRAY Wray Sale, Sotheby's, London, Nov. 30, 1959.
WUP Historische Uhren Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (Jurgen Abeler, dir.)
WUR Mainfrankische Museum, Würzburg, Germany.
WWA Whitney Warren Collection, New York (dispersed).
X. Location unknown.
YAR Yaroslavl-Rostov Historical-Architectural and Artistic Museum-Preservation, Yaroslav, U.S.S.R..
ZAA Archaeological Museum, Zagreb, Jugoslavia.
ZAG Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zagreb, Jugoslavia.
ZIT Stadtmuseum, Zittau, Germany.
ZUR Observatory, Zurich, Switzerland.
ZUS Schweizerisches Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.