(Trade Catalogue - Pharmaceutical Ceramics)TISSIER.   CATALOGUE GENERAL   EDITION 1895.       Paris,   1895.          A substantial and handsomely illustrated catalogue from Tissier (Ancienne Maison Acloque, Vimeux, Collin, Bertin, Tissier & Cie) the glass manufacturer located at 204, Faubourg St. Denis in Paris. A large variety of items are on offer and illustrated here: glass containers for the pharmacy and perfumery; laboratory glass of all sorts; decorated flasks, pots and vases for pharmacy display; etiquettes in "cristal" and in paper for pharmacies; pots, vases, mortars and other pottery in porcelain and faience, etc.; balances and weights for pharmacies and laboratories; miscellaneous laboratory and pharmaceutical apparatus such as boxes, seltzer water bottles, test-tube stands, filter papers, microscopes, electrical supplies, portable pharmacies, sterilizers; containers and devices for various laboratory operations; photographic papers and plaques, along with much, much more are included. Most impressive of all in this catalogue are the full chromolithographed illustrations of paper etiquettes for bottles, of store front display vases for pharmacies, decorated pharmacy pots, decorated and labeled glass bottles with their colored caps. A note in the text states that these special chromolithographs were issued hors texte and only sent on request from pharmaceutical installations. Two plates of decorated porcelain and ironware table services concludes the offerings. With prices, measurements and index in French, Spanish and Portuguese.   4to (27 x 20 cm); (iv) +310 pp. profusely illustrated with line engravings + 17 chromolithographed full page plates + xxxv pp.            Original cloth worn and stained; internally fine apart from occasional small damp-stains in outer margins. $1,200.00

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