Title
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
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