Theater of the Dance Macabre - Dance of Death

Victorian miniature theater

Entirely handmade in France

European lobster - Beauchêne explosion style under glass

Homarus gammarus

By Will Never Die

Available in shop only - No shipping

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

Manuel d'Anatomie descriptive du corps humain - Atlas

Anatomical Atlas - Manual of Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body

In quarto

By Dr Cloquet - 1831 - IN COLOUR - Volume III only

Atlas consisting of 172 lithographed plates, most in colour

Binding very damaged, the leather has been torn from the boards, the first few leaves are fragile, even loose, but the rest is in good condition, the plates are very beautiful.  see photos.

Attention this is Volume 2 of the Atlas, there are no plates from Volume 1 of the Atlas. The title pages at the beginning of the book are missing.

Buffalo horn sculpture

Mammoths

Provenance: Indonesia - Unique piece

Skull and octopus 

Sculpture on deer antlers 

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 

Entomological shattering at La Beauchêne under glass case

Chrysochroa buqueti - the jewel beetle

The red speckled jewel beetle

By La Thanatothèque

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

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

Anatomy - Antique chart by D'Orbigny - 1869

In colors

Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History

Birds - Antique chart  by D'Orbigny - 1869

In colors

Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History