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Zoologia, or the history of animals as they are useful in physick and chirurgery. Divided into four parts; the first treateth of the more perfect terrestial creatures. The second of birds. The third of fishes. The fourth of insects / by John Schroder.
Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664.Date: 1659- Books
Zoologia medicinalis Hibernica: or, a treatise of birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, or insects in this kingdom: giving an account of their medicinal virtues, and their names in English, Irish, and Latin. To which is added, a short treatise of the diagnostic and prognostic parts of medicine / [John K'Eogh].
K'Eogh, John, 1681?-1754Date: 1739- Books
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Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals : containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.
Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690Date: 1661- Books
General directions for collecting and preserving exotic insects and crustacea. Designed for the use of residents in foreign countries, travellers, and gentlemen going abroad ; with illustrative plates / by George Samouelle.
Samouelle, George.Date: 1826- Pictures
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Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896.Reference: 11921i- Books
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A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: 1707-1725- Books
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The naturalist's and traveller's companion. Containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, under the following heads: I. The Method of catching and preserving Insects for Collections, illustrated with a Copper-Plate. II. The Method of preserving Birds and other Animals. III. Directions for bringing over Seeds and Plants from distant Countries. IV. Method of analysing Medicinal or Mineral Waters. V. Experiments for discovering the Contents of the Air. VI. Directions for collecting Fossils, including Earths, Stones, Salts, Inflammables, Minerals, and Metals. VII. Directions for taking off Impressions or Casts, from Medals and Coins.
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the natural history of the Herbs and Trees, Four-Footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved; In large Copper-Plates as big as the Life. By Hans Sloane, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians and Secretary of the Royal-Society. In two volumes. Vol. I.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: 1707- Books
Bugged : the insects who rule the world and the people obsessed with them / David MacNeal.
MacNeal, David, 1985-Date: 2017- Books
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A natural history of fishes, and of reptiles, insects, waters, earths, fossils, Minerals, and Vegetables, compiled from the best authorities, and illustrated by a great variety of copper plates, comprising near one hundred figures, Accurately drawn from Nature, and beautifully engraved.
Jones, Stephen, 1763-1827.Date: 1795- Books
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Archives of entomology, containing the history, or ascertaining the characters and classes of insects not hitherto described, imperfectly known, or erroneously classified. Translated from the German of J. C. Fuessly; with notes, and the original plates, plates, fifty-one in number, coloured. To whic is added the French translation.
Fuessli, Johann Caspar, 1743-1786.Date: 1795- Books
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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, drawn and engraved from nature / by J. Hill.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1773- Books
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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia: containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: 1767- Books
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The naturalist's pocket magazine; or, compleat cabinet of the curiosities and beauties of nature. Containing, elegant coloured prints of Birds, Fishes, Flowers, Insects, Quadrupeds, Shells, and other natural productions. With descriptions. Vol. VI.
Date: [1800]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Observations on marine vermes, insects, &c. By Matthew Martin, member of the Bath Philosophical Society. With notes and quotations from different authors.
Martin, Matthew, 1748-1838.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The naturalist's pocket magazine; or, compleat cabinet of the curiosities and beauties of nature. Containing, elegant coloured prints of Birds, Fishes, Flowers, Insects, Quadrupeds, Shells, and other natural productions. With descriptions. Vol. V.
Date: [1800]- Books
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A theatre of politicall flying-insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described / Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject. By Samuel Purchase.
Purchas, Samuel, -approximately 1658.Date: 1657- Books
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The experienced bee-keeper, containing an essay on the management of bees: Wherein is shewn, from long practice, the most easy and profitable method of treating those useful insects; particularly intersting to the keepers of bees, and useful to every family. Together with an improved method of making mead, and other wines, with honey. By Bryan J'anson Bromwich, M.A.
Bromwich, Bryan I'Anson.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation. In two parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects. More particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency; and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals; as also in their Generation, &c. with answers to some objections. By John Ray, F. R. S.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Ephemera
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Hc45 Hydrocortisone Cream 1% : fast, effective relief for: insect bites, mild to moderate eczema, detergent hands, nickel allergy, plant allergy, irritation due to strong household chemicals.
Date: [1995?]- Books
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Optical essays, containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of ... microscopes ... II. The nature of vision in insects ... III. A catalogue of ... microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope ... V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in ... microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer, etc / By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [not before 1762]- Books
The history of four-footed beasts and serpents ... / Collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors, by Edward Topsel. Whereunto is now added, the theater of insects; or, lesser living animals ... by T. Muffet.
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?Date: M DC LVIII. [1658]- Books
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A treatise on the management of bees; wherein is considered the natural history of those insects: with the manner of keeping them in hives as well as in boxes. With directions for their construction. Assisted with exact drawings of each, engraved on copper. By Thomas Wildman.
Wildman, Thomas, -1781.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1761?]