A decade of curious insects: some of them not describ'd before: shewn in their natural size; and as they appear enlarg'd before the lucernal microscope; in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated. With their history, characters, manners and places of abode; on ten quarto plates, and their explanations ...

Title Variants

Alternative: Curious insects

Alternative: Insects, engraved from nature

By

Hill, John, 1714?-1775

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for the author, 1773

Notes

"Ladies who may chuse to paint these insects themselves may have sets of the cuts on royal paper printed pale for that purpose"--Verso of t.p.

Includes index.

BM (NH) | v. 2, p. 845

Horn & Schenkling. Index litt. entomologiae, | 10386

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | I, 1938

Subjects

Early works to 1800 , Insects , Microscopes , Pictorial works

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.65150
OCLC: 6636192