Prescription book of the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Volume 3: from 1962 to 1971

Volume 4 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

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

Prescription book of the Berthier Pharmacy (Successor to Sacquépée) - PARIS

Volume 2: 1949 to March 1953

Volume 1 of 4 available from these official records, 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

Prescription Book of the Sacquépée Pharmacy - PARIS

Volume 1: French Liberation Period - 7 May 1945 to March 1946

Volume 1 of 4 available from these official records, 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

Antique wooden advertising crate for Gallia / Ch. Gervais infant milk concentrate

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.

Period: Circa 1947–1955

Antique wooden advertising case for Mont Blanc - Rumilly condensed milk - Drawer

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc. 

This box is no longer just a transport container, it has been adopted as a piece of furniture.

Period: Circa 1920–1940

Antique wooden advertising case for Nestlé concentrated infant milk

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.

Period: Circa 1910–1930

Stramonium - Poison - Pharmacy ointment jar

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary vial 

Also known as devil's weed, angel's trumpet, madman's herb or devil's herb

Its absorption (ingestion or inhalation) causes hallucinations, abnormal behaviour, mental confusion, amnesia, delirium, sometimes leading to coma and then cardiac and respiratory arrest

Beautiful POISON labels with skull and crossbones and Poisonous Substance from the 1908 Codex

EMPTY

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.

Box of Cocaine Menthol Borate Lozenges

From THEVENOT Laboratories in Dijon

From the 1900s to the 1950s, it was common to find cocaine as an ingredient in certain lozenges, particularly those used to treat throat ailments.

SOLD EMPTY

Histoire Générale des drogues -General History of Drugs- (in 2 volumes) In French

General History of Drugs, Simple and Compound, covering the three classes of Plants, Animals & Minerals, everything that is the subject of Physics, Chemistry, Pharmacy, & the Arts most useful to human society. By Sieur Pomet, Grocer & Apothecary

By Pierre Pomet, a famous apothecary of the time.

1735 edition, second edition revised and expanded by Joseph Pomet, son

In two volumes with full leather binding from the period - Good condition

A fascinating journey through the pharmacopoeia of the Grand Siècle, a centrepiece for any cabinet of curiosities

Evian grains - Health pills

Antique tin box - Early 20th century

The sweetest laxative

Defects: paint chips, dents, difficult to open