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A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.

Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including th cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Traité de la culture du nopal : et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique. Précédé d'un voyage a Guaxaca ... Auquel on a ajouté une préface, des notes & des observations relatives à la culture de la cochenille ... / Le tout recueilli & publié par le Cercle des Philadelphes établi au Cap-Français.

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

The conclusion of letters on the culture of silk, with additional accounts of both kinds of bread fruit trees and the distribution of nopal plants, on the coast of Coromandel: by James Anderson, M.D. and A. M. Physician General, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and Member of the Society of Planters of St. Helena.

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.

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Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including th cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.