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  • Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.
  • An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.
  • A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.
  • A man in bedclothes prising insects (?) off his bed-curtains with a fork into a saucepan. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects : and on the good effects of intercrossing / by Charles Darwin.
  • A wolf walking towards a dog and away from a sheep, surrounded by various flowers and insects. Engraving by P. Williamson, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Dissection of the female reproductive organs, showing an ectopic pregnancy, together with illustrations showing surgical apparatus (?) and two insects mating. Engraving with etching, 17--?.
  • Above, two starfish, two worms, a fin whale, a fish, a cockroach and two fish; below, a fish, two snakes (boas), and two insects. Engraving by Heath.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • A Vanitas tableau of a life sized head, on one side resembling Queen Elizabeth I, the other half a skull with attendant insects and reptiles, made from wax.
  • Various insects, serpents and multi-legged animals below a row of leaves with flowers; an image from a graphic Illustration competition by Etchepareborda François by the Groupe SIDA Genève. Colour lithograph.
  • Above, a bird, a cricket, an insect, a branch and fruit of the guaiacum tree, an eel and a sea-pie; below, a sprig of a flower, three molluscs, two insects and a piece of a ferric oxide ore. Engraving by Heath.