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  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • The birth of Christ; the Virgin kneels before the manger. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
  • A large paeony (Paeonia species) surrounded by various flowers and moths. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.
  • A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Grass-hoppers, dragon-flies and other insects. Woodcut, 1716.
  • Beetle. Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Various insects and flowers illustrating a frontispiece. Engraving by C. H. Hemerich.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • A leopard facing left surrounded by various named flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1662, after himself.
  • A wolf walking towards a dog and away from a sheep, surrounded by various flowers and insects. Engraving by P. Williamson, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Seven insects, including an earwig, a glow worm and four different beetles. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • A spider, both enlarged and life size. Coloured engraving.
  • A red water-spider (Hydrachna coccinea). Coloured engraving.
  • A variety of insect life including beetles, wasps and dragonflies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • Four mussel shells, one with the contents exposed, and a dragonfly. Watercolour.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.
  • Flowers, stem and leaf of a tropical plant (Dillenia pentagyna) and five skin beetles (Dermestes species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.
  • Textiles: laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving attributed to B. Cole, 1749.
  • A flowering branch of medlar (Mespilus germanica) with butterfly, chrysalis and caterpillar of a Papilio species. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1816.
  • Twenty five different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.