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Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History
By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds
Birds Eggs - In colour
Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History
By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds
In colour.
Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva
Period: 1890-1905
Box containing 6 gold-plated “coins” made of blue wash, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box.
Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years
Prescription book of the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris
Volume 3: from 1953 to 1962
Volume 3 of 4 available from these official registers, originating from a former Parisian pharmacy, which trace twenty-five years of medical history, from the Liberation to the 1970s. Far from being ceremonial documents, these prescription books are authentic working tools, marked by the urgency of everyday life and the evolution of pharmaceutical science.
You are purchasing 1 volume, not all 4 volumes
L’Herbier des Demoiselles (1857) – A Comprehensive Treatise on Botany
L’Herbier des Demoiselles (1857) – Complete Treatise on Botany
At a time when botany was considered the ultimate art of living, this book taught young women, known as demoiselles, how to collect plants, classify flowers, and understand the mysteries of nature with a unique sensitivity.
Illustrated with numerous vignettes, many of them romantic in nature.
By Edmond Audouit
Le Jardin des Plantes
Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum
By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851
A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.
Reliquary box - 19th century
Jewelry box
Louis Philippe period hanging table lamp
Period: July Monarchy around 1835-1845, still in transition from Rococo to the previous Restoration period.
Bronze with medal patina and cobalt blue blown glass.
Former oil night lamp.
Beautiful presence and intact patina, complete system.
Entomological frame - Papilio Blumei
Species: Papilio Blumei butterfly from Indonesia also called Peacock swallowtail
Entomological frame
Species: Papilio Ulysses butterfly
All butterflies are different - Illustration photos
Sardonyx Agate Obelisk
Also known as banded agate
Origin: India
Postcard
Fantastic creatures and Metamorphoses by Camille Renversade
Green turbo (or burgo) from Madagascar - Turbo imperialis
Illustrative photos
Tatooed phrenology Head - Storage box - Vase
Cute little tattooed and mustachioed head with a removable skull cap that can be used to hide small objects!
It can also be used as a vase.
Stamped letter-envelope of the Second Empire
Dated from 1852-1870
