European lobster - Beauchêne explosion style under glass

Homarus gammarus

By Will Never Die

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 

Happiness Key by  "Marius à Paris"

With its little embroidered sachet containing lavender

Papuan engraved horse bone dagger 

Papuan handicraft

Papuan engraved horse bone dagger 

Papuan handicraft

Sculpture on deer antlers 

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

Anatomy of Man by Cloquet

Anatomical lithography in black and white 

The plates date from circa 1852

Stamp of the Franco-Belgian Literary and Artistic Convention of 22 August 1852