Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Brass insectoscope
Small pocket microscope that allowed for quick observation of insects, small minerals, flowers, etc. in nature.
These small microscopes were sold from the 1850s until around the 1930s.
Consisting of two detachable parts with lenses at each end, one being a biconvex magnifying lens placed on a cage and the other a square Stanhope lens placed in an eyepiece above a tube.
A non-period pin can be inserted into the slots in the cylindrical body, allowing the object to be examined, such as a plant or insect, to be positioned in line with the biconvex lens, the one with the cage.
You can read an interesting article about these pocket microscopes on the Compendium website: pocket microscope
Height: approx. 6.5 cm - Diameter: 2.5 cm
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
4 compartments
Ref A - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History
By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds
In colour.
Infangyl Carlier
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions
Quéry's - Mosquito Repellent Box
Rare, still-sealed item
Early 20th century, circa 1915–1919
Features the famous logo of a monkey blowing on one of the insecticide cones.
Dry sodium iodide
Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary
Anatomic lithography: "Traité complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme"
by Dr Bourgery and draughtsman Jacob
Volume 3 - 1844
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria - Panama wood - 19th century
Atlas of descriptive anatomy of the human body
Anatomy board
By Doctors Bonamy and Paul Broca
Draftsman: Emile BEAU
Published on July 1st 1854
Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century
Antique glass eye - Semi-finished
Genuine antique ocular prosthesis
Color variations and irises of different sizes
The price is per unit, for one eye only
Floral Candelabra - Chiselled Brass and Painted Flowers - Circa 1900 - Candlestick
Late 19th century - Early 20th century: Belle Époque / Art Nouveau: 1895-1910
Sold without candles
Teinture de Cantharides - POISON
Lytta vesicatoria - Spanish fly
Antique blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Early 20th century - Blown glass.
Antique ARTHUR MAURY postage stamp catalog
for collections of all postage stamps from the beginning to 1900
Published in 1904/1905
Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History
By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds
Birds Eggs - In colour
Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base
Anatomical dental model for dentists
19th century
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
