Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
Floroscope - Brass insectoscope - pocket microscope
These small microscopes, also known as Floroscopes or botanist's microscopes, were sold in France from the 1850s to the 1930s.
These small pocket microscopes, made of brass and glass lenses, enabled rapid observation of insects, small minerals, flowers etc. in nature.
Warning: These small microscopes usually consist of two different parts, but this is not the case here. The floroscope consists of two identical systems: two Stanhope lenses.
It is used for magnifications greater than ten times. The Stanhope lens is very rudimentary, consisting of a cube, prism or cone made of glass with a flat surface.
I suppose that the single lens with its original cage must have been lost and replaced by a second Stanhope lens...
Late 19th - early 20th century
Perfect for any self-respecting budding entomologist!
Height: 5.5cm Diameter: 2.5cm
Here's an illustration of what this floroscope looked like in a period advertisement:
(Source: The Compendium - www.lecompendium.com)
Collodion
Used as a liquid dressing
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb
500cm3
in its original box - Still full
Antique and large drum microscope
In it's mahogany wooden box
For botanist, entomologist
This is a larger model than those usually found on the market
Essence of star anise
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Bundle of 100 stamps tied with string
Red 10 centimes stamp of the Semeuse type
Issued from 1903 to the end of the 1930s
Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History
By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds
In colour.
DERNIERS JOURS - LAST DAYS
Antique Cinema painted plywood sign
Cinema sign announcing the final days of a film's run
Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea
Antique blown glass pharmacy jar
Apothecary
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
UNOBTAINABLE
"Génial Lucifer"- Vintage bicycle headbadge
Brass & Blue Enamel to be placed on the bicycle tube at the front
The 1930s
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Poison label - Ref A
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Antique pharmacy jar: Illicium verum (Fruit) / Star anise
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Glycérine pure officinale
Pure pharmaceutical-grade glycerine
Antique BLUE glass pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Antique cardboard lithographed demijohn headdress - Andrea Cioni & Figlio (Empoli, Tuscany)
Period: Circa 1913-1920 (Italy)
Period packaging that caps the neckline of large wicker transport demijohn to seal the neck.
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
