Bronze Dragon Hand Candle Holder – Troubadour Style from the Napoleon III Era

Bronze cellar rat, also known as a passageway candle holder or thumb candle holder.

Featuring a fire-breathing dragon motif.

19th century.

Sold without candle

Large brass candlestick - Candleholder

20th century

Height 42cm Weight: 1.65kg

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

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.

Box of Cocaine Menthol Borate Lozenges

From THEVENOT Laboratories in Dijon

From the 1900s to the 1950s, it was common to find cocaine as an ingredient in certain lozenges, particularly those used to treat throat ailments.

SOLD EMPTY

Floral Candelabra - Chiselled Brass and Painted Flowers - Circa 1900 - Candlestick

Late 19th century - Early 20th century: Belle Époque / Art Nouveau: 1895-1910

Sold without candles

19th century oil or paraffin lamp stand

Late 19th century, Neo-Renaissance style from the Napoleon III period

Made in Babbitt metal

Can be used as a support, pedestal or candle holder

19th century oil or paraffin lamp stand

Made of brass with a Paris porcelain body painted with rose and ribbon motifs

Can be used as a support, pedestal or candle holder

Histoire Générale des drogues -General History of Drugs- (in 2 volumes) In French

General History of Drugs, Simple and Compound, covering the three classes of Plants, Animals & Minerals, everything that is the subject of Physics, Chemistry, Pharmacy, & the Arts most useful to human society. By Sieur Pomet, Grocer & Apothecary

By Pierre Pomet, a famous apothecary of the time.

1735 edition, second edition revised and expanded by Joseph Pomet, son

In two volumes with full leather binding from the period - Good condition

A fascinating journey through the pharmacopoeia of the Grand Siècle, a centrepiece for any cabinet of curiosities

Entomological frame - Papilio Blumei

Species: Papilio Blumei butterfly from Indonesia also called Peacock swallowtail