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The English entomologist exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England ... / drawn and painted after nature. Arranged and named according to the Linnean system by Thomas Martyn.

Thomas Martyn · 1792 · London : His Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, 1792. · 38 pictures

An illustrated survey of English beetles, drawn and hand-coloured after nature and arranged by Linnaean system by Thomas Martyn, issued from his London academy for natural-history painting in 1792 for collectors and students of insects. Numbered beetles float in symmetrical rows on bare cream plates, most under an inch, with glossy black bodies, fine legs and antennae, and ruled borders.

Coleoptera · United Kingdom

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