A decade of curious insects : some of them not describ'd before, shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd 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 (1773)

Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950, former owner DSI · London : Printed for the author, in St. James's-Street, and sold by B. White, in Fleet-Street; P. Elmsly, in the Strand; Parker, in Cornhill; Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row; Ridley, St. James's Street; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh · leaf 34

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