The book of nature, or, The history of insects : reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species : and illustrated with copper-plates : including the generation of the frog, the history of the ephemerus, the changes of flies, butterflies, and beetles : with the original discovery of the milk-vessels of the cuttle-fish, and many other curious particulars

Title Variants

Alternative: Book of nature

Alternative: History of insects

Uniform: Bybel der natuur

By

Swammerdam, Jan, 1637-1680 , author

Hill, John, 1714?-1775 , editor
Flloyd, Thomas. , translator
Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738 , author
Fritzsch, J. C. G., approximately 1720-1802 , engraver
Seyffert, C. G., active approximately 1756-1764 , publisher

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for C. G. Seyffert, Bookseller, in Dean-Street, Soho, MDCCLVIII [1758]

Edition

Revised and improved by notes from Reaumur and others / by John Hill, M.D.

Notes

In two parts with separate paging and register; with six final index leaves, errata and binder's instructions on final leaf

Includes a list of subscribers

Engraved title vignette and some of the plates, signed: J.C.G. Fritzsch

Title page printed in red and black; text in two columns

Poems in honor of Jan Swammerdam in Latin and Greek after page xx

Subjects

1637-1680 , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Insects , Invertebrates , Mollusks , Pre-Linnean works , Swammerdam, Jan, , Zoology

Call Number

QL362 .S97

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/11003702
OCLC: 6591912