The book of nature
Subtitle: 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 ephermerus, the changes of flies, butterflies and beetles; with the original discovery of the milk-vessels of the cuttle-fish, and many other curious particulars.
By: With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave.  Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition, by Thomas Flloyd.  Rev. and improved by notes from Reaumur and others by John Hill.
Contributors: Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738; Flloyd, Thomas; Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Publisher: C.G. Seyffert
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Invertebrates; Insects
Other titles: The history of insects
Notes: Pages 21-24 (5th group) wanting, supplied in facsimile; duplicate p. 17-20 bound in.

Plate 53 bound after plate 50.