Le langage des fleurs

The Language of Flowers

Published in 1848

Antique book on the symbolism of flowers

Illustrated with 20 beautiful colored plates

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

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.

Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century
In color. birds.

Engraving by Buffon - Natural History

From Balck Atlas of Œuvres Complètes de Buffon published in 1826 

Birds

Atlas of descriptive anatomy of the human body

Anatomy board

By Doctors Bonamy and Paul Broca

Draftsman: Emile BEAU

Published on July 1st 1854

Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy

Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel

Published in 1846

Atlas of Natural History - Botany

Cryptogamy

De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel

Botanical plate

Published in 1846

Atlas of Natural History - Botany

Phanerogamy

Wall decoration of Pompeii - Herculaneum mosaics: Chromolithographic plate

By Wilhelm Zahn

Published between 1832 and 1849

YOU ARE PURCHASING 1 SINGLE BOARD - NOT THE BOOK OR THE SET OF BOARDS

Antique surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796

Fish - Antique chart  by D'Orbigny - 1869

In colors

Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History

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

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

Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century

Antique surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796