Pocket Atlas of Butterflies of France, Switzerland and Belgium

Published in 1912 

This is not a reprint, but the original edition

Please note: 1 loose sheet, see photos

Chicken - Gallus gallus domesticus 

Bird skull

Non-protected species - NOT CITES

Copper-tailed starling - Hylopsar cupreocauda

Bird skull

Non-protected species - NOT CITES

4 Diodon fish under glass

Globe fish - Diodontidae

Pravaz hypodermic injection syringe

Early 20th century

Non-functional

SOLD ALONE WITHOUT CASE

Hypodermic Pravaz winged syringe - 19th century

Syringe in it's case

not functional

Octopus Tentacle Diaphanisation - Octopus vulgaris

Biological preparation

The purpose of diaphanisation is to make fabrics transparent. The fabrics are made transparent using a chemical process, and specific dyes are used.

The flesh is made transparent and the dyes attach themselves to the skin.

Diaphanization of a mouse - Mus musculus

Biological preparation

The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.

You can see the bones through the skin!

Large Model

All specimens are different

Butterfly bell - Size M

Species: 3 Rhetus arcius butterflies - Butterfly from Peru

Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century

Syringe in it's case

not functional

Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb 

500cm3

in its original box - Still full