A Decade of Curious Insects: some of them not describíd before: shewn in their natural size; and as they appear enlargíd 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.
A Decade of Curious Insects: some of them not describíd before: shewn in their natural size; and as they appear enlargíd 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.
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- Autore
- Hill (John)
- Editori
- London: Printed for the Author, to be sold by B. White and, others, 1773.
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- ENTOMOLOGY ZOOLOGY INSECTS SCIENCE MICROSCOPE COLOURED PLATE, BOOKS
Descrizione
4to (300 x 230 mm), 24, [2]pp., 10 hand-coloured engraved plates (the plates are printed in on larger paper than the letterpress text), some occasional spotting and offsetting, as issued in the orig. stitched marbled wrappers, spine worn, some light creasing to page edges, stitching becoming loose. First published the previous year under the title Insects in their Natural Size; and as they appear before the microscope, this issue has a cancel title-page and added index. The plates, each with short accompanying text, show the insects in their natural size, and also much enlarged, as seen under a microscope. A note in letterpress to the verso of the title reads ìLadies who may chuse to paint these insects themselves may have sets of the cuts on Royal Paper printed pale for that purposeî. John Hill MD (1714-1775) was best known for his monumental botanical work The Vegetable System published in 26 folio volumes 1761-1775. Nissen ZBI, 1938; Freeman, 1686.
