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Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur… Adjicitur dilucidatio … Editio Nova.
Re-issue of the rare Latin translation first published in Utrecht, by Meinardus van Dreunen in 1684, of Swammerdam’s famous work on the metamorphosis of insects. The original Dutch edition was published in 1669 also by Van Dreunen.
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Plate from Kunstformen der Natur, or Art Forms in Nature, by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919)
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Death’s Head Hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) -larvae, pupa and faeces, August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof, 1774, copperplate with handcolouring. From “Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen Erste Sammlung” (Insect Amusements).
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Entomology Wallchart, from the special collections at Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
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top: Periplaneta americana - The American cockroach^ (native to Africa)
bottom: Forficula auricularia^ - (European earwig)
[more bugs…]
4 of these should be in the post to me soon!
Black Beauty Stick Insects Peruphasma schultei
Arents Cigarette Cards
1920s
Cuvier Day
Coleoptera.
Cuvier loved natural history from an early age. By twelve years of age, he’d largely committed Buffon’s massive Natural History compilation to memory.
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