Plate - 19th century colour engraving from Natural History

By Morris, circa 1870 - A History of British Birds

Birds Eggs - In colour

Antique surgical board

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

Natural History Board 

Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède, comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, des serpents, des poissons et des cétacés: accompagnées de 150 planches gravées sur acier, représentant au moins 500 animaux.

Published in 1836 by P.Duménil, Publisher in Paris

Snakes - Zoology

Color plates, watercolor and gummed engraving.

Board size: 22x13.5cm (In-8)

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.

Antique surgical board

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

Le corps de l'Homme

Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves

By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs

No date, circa 1900

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.

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

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Botany plate by Michel Etienne Descourtilz

From the Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles ou histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises.

Published in 1827/1833

Painted engraving from the 19th century

Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin

From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)

Published in 1867-1870

Chromolithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

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

Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition

Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé

From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation

Published in 1866

Lithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Atlas of descriptive anatomy of the human body

Anatomy board

By Doctors Bonamy and Paul Broca

Draftsman: Emile BEAU

Published on July 1st 1854

Man - Anatomical chart that can be disassembled

By Fernand Nathan Editeur publisher

Coloured chart with movable, cut-out and superimposed leaves

There are defects on the superimposed boards; the outer board, which was the man's torso, is missing, as are the lungs, which were above the heart. The left hand is missing, the arm being torn.