Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

Antique illustrated pharmacopoeia - 1760

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

Histoire Naturelle des Drogues Simples (Natural History of Simple Drugs)

Volume 2: Botany

By Guibourt - Antique Book circa 1860

Pharmacopée royale galénique et chymique - 1753

Antique and Illustrated Pharmacopoeia

By Moyse CHARAS 

This book contains all the plants, minerals and animals that went to make up the remedies used in those days. Some of them are quite surprising to our modern eyes.

Botany plate by Édouard-Adolphe Duchesne

From the Atlas du Répertoire des plantes utiles et des plantes du globe published in 1846 

19th-century color lithograph

Abrégé de l'histoire des plantes usuelles - 1782 - By Chomel

Summary of the history of common plants

L'Albert Moderne ou nouveaux secrets éprouvées et licites - Grimoire book of 1768

by Pons Augustin Alletz

Published by Veuve Duchesne, Bookseller rue St Jacques, Au temple du Goût

Antique surgical board

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

Ancient engraving - board of Natural History XIXth century.
In color. Mammals.

Anatomy - Antique chart by D'Orbigny - 1869

In colors

Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History

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.

Plate - Antique natural history engraving in color

XIXth century

botany - mushroom - snake - bird

Birds - Antique chart  by D'Orbigny - 1869

In colors

Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History

Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845

Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration

Followed by his Atlas in black and white

By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob