8 results filtered with: Insects - Early works to 1800
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Relation of the most miraculous swarms of flies : that were seen flying in innumerable bodies through London, and dropping in great heaps like showers of rain, and appearing as white as snow on the ground, on Saturday the 19th of July, to the great admiration of thousands of people, who stood to admire their vast numbers in several parts both of city, the suburbs, and in Southwark: with the opinions of most learned persons concerning this surprizing prodigy. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1675?]- Books
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Fundamenta entomologiæ: or, an introduction to the knowledge of insects. Being a translation of the Fundamenta Entomologiae of Linnaeus, farther Illustrated with Copper Plates and Additions. By W. Curtis, Apothecary.
Blad, Anders, 1748-1834.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- 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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Some papers lately read before the Royal Society concerning the fresh-water polypus; an Insect, which hath this surprising Property, That being cut into several Pieces, each Piece becomes a perfect Animal, as complete as that of which it was originally only a Part. Collected and published by Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. &c. Secretary of the Royal Society.
Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Historia insectorum. Autore Joanne Raio, Collegii S. Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses, & Societatis Regiae olim Socio. Opus posthumum jussu Regiæ Societatis Londinensis editum. Cui subjungitur appendix de Scarabæis Britannicis, autore M. Lister S. R. S. ex Mss. Musaei Ashmolaeani.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: M.DCC.X. [1710]- Books
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A natural history of English insects. Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously Engraven from the Life: And exactly coloured by the author Eleazar Albin, Painter. To which are added, large notes, and many curious observations. By W. Derham, D. D. Fellow of the Royal Society.
Albin, Eleazar, active 1713-1759.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- 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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A catalogue of British insects. By John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S.
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]