Grasselli y Zambra

Active: Madrid 1840 - 1864

By: Rosa María Martín Latorre

José Grasselli was one of the founders of the establishment Grasselli y Zambra (c. 1840), reputed as one of the first shops in Spain to specialise in the production and distribution of precision instruments. Its offer covered a wide range of disciplines, from optics, physics and mathematics to geodesy, mineralogy, astronomy and surveyance. After 1864, José Grasselli continued to carry on the business independently.