Manuel complet de Physique et de Météorologie - Complete Manual of Physics and Meteorology

By Ajasson de Grandsagne and L. Fouché

Second edition published in Brussels in 1835

Illustrated with 6 folding plates depicting more than 250 figures. (torn: see photos) 

Entomological frame 

Species: Morpho Adonis butterfly from French Guiana

Frame with black background and white border

Entomological box

Species: Rhinoceros Beetle - Chalcosoma chiron

Also known as the three-horned rhinoceros beetle

Dimensions: 15x18cm

Le langage des fleurs

The Language of Flowers

Published in 1848

Antique book on the symbolism of flowers

Illustrated with 20 beautiful colored plates

Cat skull under glass dome

Felis catus

Hypoctonus rangunensis - Uropygi - Vinegaroon - Whip scorpion - Arachnid

Entomological box Arachnid

Entomological box

Species: Scarab beetle Ischiopsopha jamesi

From Papua

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

11.8cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Megalodon tooth fossil - Otodus megalodon 

10.2cm

Indonesia

Fossil shark tooth

Common cuttlefish 

Wet specimen in fluid 

Sepia officinalis

Medicalized sheep skull on a base

Ovis aries

Ancient skull whose teeth were discovered under the bone and above the eye socket, with Roman numerals written in places. It may have been a skull used for study in a school.

Original patina, the skull is not young, there may be some missing pieces! It looks like it came out of the reserves of an old museum.