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Above, an insect, a monkey, a plant (bromelia), a shell and three birds; below, a beetle, a cactus and two plants. Engraving by Heath.
Date: 1806Reference: 40488i- Books
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The emulation of the insects: or, a minister chosen. A fable. Inscribed to His Grace John, Duke of Argyle.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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The florist's manual, or, hints for the construction of a gay flower-garden ; with directions for preventing the depredations of insects / By the authoress of Botanical dialogues, and sketches of the physiology of vegetable life [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
Henry, Mary Jackson.Date: 1822- Books
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The natural history of insects / compiled from Swammerdam, Brookes, Goldsmith, etc. Embellished with copper-plates. Intended as a companion to Buffon's Natural history.
Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680.Date: 1792- Pictures
Above, small arachnids (lice and ticks), sturgeons and a warted snake; below, kingfishers, a puffin, plants, insects and a bird. Engraving by Heath.
Date: 1 March 1806Reference: 40483i- Pictures
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Above, two hogs, an insect, a sea horse, a tanager bird, and a large tapeworm; below, an ibis, a tapir, a teredo (ship-worm), two tortoises and a mollusc. Engraving by Heath.
Reference: 40536i- Pictures
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Above, three fish, four chitons (marine molluscs), a chimaera (a cartilaginous fish of the family Chimeridae), a chrysis (quiescent pupa of butterfly or moth), a cicada, two clematis flowers and three insects; below, flowers and sprig of the coccoloba and a male and a female cochineal insect. Engraving by Heath.
Date: 1 June 1806Reference: 40493i- Books
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Institutions of entomology: being a translation of Linnæus's Ordines et genera insectorum; or, systematic arrangement of insects. Collated with the different systems of Geoffroy, Schæffer and Scopoli; together with observations of the translator. By Thomas Pattinson Yeats.
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.Date: 1773- Books
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A description of above three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copperplates. Whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: M.DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The English entomologist exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England ... / drawn and painted after nature. Arranged and named according to the Linnean system by Thomas Martyn.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: 1792- Books
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An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China. Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species; together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. The figures are accurately drawn, engraved and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnæus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors / By E. Donovan.
Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.Date: 1798- Books
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Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities. By E. Donovan, Author of the Natural Histories, of British Birds, and Insects.
Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.Date: 1794- Books
Institutions of entomology: being a translation of Linnaeus's ordines et genera insectorum; or, Systematic arrangement of insects, collated with the different systems of Geoffrey, Schaeffer and Scopoli ; together with observations of the translator / by Thomas Pattinson Yeats.
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.Date: 1773- Pictures
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Above, a bird, a Cretan sheep and two African sheep, an insect and a mollusc; below, three butterflies, a bird of paradise and a titmouse. Engraving by Heath.
Date: 1 September 1806Reference: 40527i- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription a natural history of English insects. Illustrated with near one hundred copper-plates, ... colour'd by the author Eleazar Albin, ...
Albin, Eleazar, active 1713-1759.Date: [1713]- Books
[Beyträge zur Natur- und Insecten-Geschichte ... Als ein Anhang zu den Röselischen Insecten-Belustigungen. Theil I / [Christian Friedrich Carl Kleemann].
Kleemann, Christian Friedrich Carl, 1735-1789.Date: 1761-1776]- Books
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Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British insects also for collecting and preserving British crustacea and shells ... / By Abel Ingpen.
Ingpen, Abel, -1854.Date: 1827- Books
Edible insects : future prospects for food and feed security / by Arnold van Huis [and six others].
Date: 2013- Books
Insects, experts, and the insecticide crisis : the quest for new pest management strategies / John H. Perkins.
Perkins, John H.Date: [1982], ©1982- Pictures
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Above, a musk rat, a lemming, three birds and a weasel (mustela); below, three insects, a stoat, a bird, a sprig and fruits of myrtle, and an ant eater on a tree trunk. Engraving by Heath.
Reference: 40524i- Archives and manuscripts
A face, insect and "S" shapes (artwork)
Date: c.1949Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/5/3/9Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
Insects of the Pacific world / C.H. Curran.
Curran, Charles Howard, 1894-1972.Date: 1945- Books
The natural history of the Bible ; or, A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged / by Thaddeus Mason Harris.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842.Date: 1824- Books
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Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.Date: 1792- Books
Insects and man : an account of the more important harmful and beneficial insects, their habits and life-histories, being an introduction to economic entomology for students and general readers / by C.A. Ealand.
Ealand, C. A. (Charles Aubrey), 1877-Date: 1915