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.

Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition

Antique surgical board

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

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1749

Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates

Atlas de poche des Oiseaux De France (Pocket Atlas of the Birds of France)

from Switzerland and Belgium - Useful or Harmful

72 colored plates and 4 black plates representing 70 birds, 28 eggs, and 4 nests

This is not a reissue but the original edition of 1908.

La Botanique d'Andrée by Émilie Carpentier

Circa 1885 

Splendid publisher’s binding with plates by Albert Souze

Butterfly - Natural History color plate 

Entomology

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1761

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century

Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831

Anatomy of Man

Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography

By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob

Théâtre à la maison (Theatre at home) by B. Vadier

Circa 1880

Splendid publisher’s binding with cardboard plates from the Hetzel Collection

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

L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will 

By Millot - With illustrated plates 

Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition

The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...

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

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank

Original heraldic engraving on copper (1722) in colour - A System of Heraldry - By Alexander Nisbet

The vignette was cut from an original folio sheet and then hand-enhanced with a subtle watercolor painting.

The event is presented under a modern passe-partout

Family coat of arms: McClellan of Barclay