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  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Twenty five different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel, a stove, and two insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A quotation from the Psalms with a border of dog roses and insects. Chromolithograph.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • The guinea worm and insects of central America. Pencil drawing by Thomas Malie, c. 1730.
  • A lion surrounded by flowers and insects. Etching by J. Dunstall, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • A Chinese physician sitting on a throne (?) surrounded by fruits, flowers and insects. Engraving.
  • Above, two perches, two insects and a hairy spider. Engraving by Heath.llitory of the wall, a peacock, a limpet, the stalk of a flower, a fish (pegasus), two insects, a pelican and a bird; below, a pe.
  • A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.
  • Two insects of the order orthoptera surrounded by parts of their bodily structure. Etching by Lebrun after Blanchard.
  • Five insects of the Orthoptera order, including a grasshopper, locust and mantid. Coloured engraving by J. O. W.
  • A cossack holds a spear on which insects are impaled; advertising Zacherl's insecticide. Colour lithograph, ca. 1870-1880.
  • A leopard facing left surrounded by various named flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1662, after himself.
  • Seven insects, including an earwig, a glow worm and four different beetles. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • A griffin facing left surrounded by various flowers, fruits and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Eleven insects of the order Hemiptera including aphids and cicadas, with piercing or sucking mouthparts. Engraving by Milton, 1804.
  • Seven different types of insects including the bee, the butterfly and the dragonfly. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1804.
  • A variety of insects including the dragon fly, the lantern fly, the cricket and the caterpillar. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • Six winged insects and a cross-section of a proboscis of the phanaeus lancifer. Coloured engraving by W. H. Lizars.
  • Seven insects of the order Lepidoptera, with four scale-covered wings, including butterflies and moths. Line engraving by Milton, 1806.
  • A large elephant with a monkey on its back and various flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscope; a general history of insects, etc / [George Adams].
  • A can of the insecticide Le Nicotiné de St. Julien attacks insects with a sword and kills them. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscope; a general history of insects, etc / [George Adams].
  • Shelltox (Shell Tox) insecticide: red men spraying it at insects, and below examples of branded cans and sprays. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.