Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century

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

1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

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

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

La Botanique d'Andrée by Émilie Carpentier

Circa 1885 

Splendid publisher’s binding with plates by Albert Souze

Engraving by Buffon - Natural History

From Balck Atlas of Œuvres Complètes de Buffon published in 1826 

Birds

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

Circa 1880

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

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1749

Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates

Anatomic lithography: "Traité complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme"

by Dr Bourgery and draughtsman Jacob 

Volume 3 - 1844

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.

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.

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...

Botanical Plank - English Botany

Published in 1804

Original copper engraving, enhanced with a hand-made watercolor coloration 

Painted watercolor engraving from the 19th century

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

Antique surgical board

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