Antique drum microscope 

With its wooden case containing 1 brass clamp and 2 preparation slides

XIXth century - inscription under the case dated 7 or 8 May 1853

Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing 

Anatomical study 

Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840

These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.

You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates

Antique glass bell jar 

Apothecary / Laboratory

Thin glass, light green in color and darker at the top, with bubbles 

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) 

L'École du pharmacien - Eléments de matière médicale

The School of Pharmacy - Elements of Medical Science

By J. Léon Soubeiran

Published in 1878 by J. Rothschild, Publisher

Work illustrated with 547 black and white vignettes in the text

Chimera bronze piano candle holder

Wax jack

19th century

Œuvres choisies de Buffon - Selected Works of Buffon - Natural History

Antique book from 1855

By D. Saucié

Romantic cover - MAME publisher in Tours

Le langage des fleurs

The Language of Flowers

Published in 1848

Antique book on the symbolism of flowers

Illustrated with 20 beautiful colored plates

Cours de botanique élémentaire  Elementary Botany Course

By Henri Jean Antoine Rodet - Professor at the Imperial Veterinary School of Lyon

Antique book from 1863 - Second edition

Illustrated with numerous black and white figures interspersed throughout the text

Antique drum microscope 

With its wooden case containing 1 brass clamp

XIXth century

The microscope is engraved on the eyepiece Manufacture Française Armes et Cycles Saint-Etienne 

Antique bronze base for ball, sphere, or egg - Base - stand

The feet are shaped like animal mouths.

Late 19th - early 20th century

Sold alone without egg or ball

Antique study mask by Simonne Laubé, circa 1930 

Flayed model

In vulcanized and painted rubber

Inspired by the famous death mask from L'Inconnue de la Seine