The collection offered here has been carefully curated by a collector over the past 30 years, and represents some of the finest examples of microscope slides by a range of professional and amateur slide prepares, the collection offers an incredible range of subjects many testaments to the lost art of the Victorian preparer. Many of these slides have been carefully selected as fine examples of their type taking into consideration condition and rarity The cabinet is English, c.1880, constructed of French polished mahogany with two sets of glazed doors opening to reveal two banks of thirty drawers, with one extra deep drawer, four deep drawers and twenty-four shallow drawers on each side, each drawer capable of holding thirty tree slides giving a total capacity of one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, dimensions (cm) 73 x 43 x 33 The slides include arranged foraminifera from soundings, full insects by various makers, arranged slides by Baker, groups of arranged diatoms by Barber, impressive human pathology slides, deep mounted slides by Clarke & Page, human pathology disease slides by Hunter Barron, good full insect slides, slides by Cole, arranged diatoms by Cole, Hett deep mount slides, a collection of micrometer slides with some in cases, an attractive group of slides retailed by Dancer, Manchester, good group of butterfly wing slides, wood sections by various makers, chemical crystals, a very good group of full insects by Enoch, red wax sealed slides retailed by Beck, approximately one thousand seven hundred slides