Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens paper basket This 1863 first edition "The

This 1863 first edition "The Circus" Story Book for Boys by a Mrs

Easy to frame just showing the drawing--quite a striking little piece

I especially love the slogan on the front of the box: "to keep busy the little hands and little head

the delicate white flowers of which are counterpointed by their thorny stalks

and with this wonderful very thin strip of what I believe is cut paper snaking down the front of the bodice

Set of 8 French c. 1900 Microscope Slides with Insect Specimens paper basket This 1863 first edition "TheIt seems beautiful glass microscope slides are finding me lately and these antique French ones with handwritten specimen descriptions on lithographed paper labels I think are just so lovely. Silkworm and foot of a caterpillar happily need no translation, and then there appears to be the scale of a sole (fish I assume) and mouth of a ?, and something human! (perhaps your deciphering skills will be better than mine!) All of the specimens are visible