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Scheme of Colours color wheel from Harris' Exposition of English insects

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Libellulae wings expanded, tab XII from Harris' Exposition of English insects

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Syrphidae from Harris' An exposition of English insects

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Cover of Harris' An exposition of English insects

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Libellulae, dragonflies, from Harris' Exposition of English insects

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Life cycles of several moths from Moses Harris's The Aurelian, or, Natural history of English insects

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Life cycle of a butterfly from Moses Harris's The Aurelian, or, Natural history of English insects

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Adult, caterpillar, and pupa of the death's head hawk moth from Moses Harris's The Aurelian, or, Natural history of English insects

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Actiniae Seeanemonen, Kunstformen der Natur

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Photograph of Konrad Gessner's book, Historiae animalium, Liber 1

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Hamilton surveying a site on Somma-Vesuvius from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Hamilton surveying a site on Mount Vesuvius from Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei: observations on the volcanos of the Two Sicilies

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Title Scheme of colours from Harris' Exposition of English insects

Agent (Role) Harris, Moses, 1731?-1785? (Author)

Date 1782

Artwork/Object Type Paintings

Is Part Of Exposition of English Insects

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Library, F-5: Harris, Moses. 1782. Exposition of English Insects : Including the Several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, & Diptera, or Bees, Flies, & Libellulæ : Exhibiting on 51 Copper Plates near 500 Figures, Accurately Drawn & Highly Finished in Colours, from Nature : The Whole Minutely Described, Arranged & Named, According to the Linnean System, with Remarks : The Figures of a Great Number of Moths Not in the Aurelian Collection : Formerly Published by the Same Author and a Plate with an Explanation of Colours, Are Likewise Given in the Work. London: Sold by Mr. White ... & Mr. Robson.

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Repository American Museum of Natural History

Publication History AMNH Library, QH45 .N273 2012: Baione, Tom, ed. 2012. Natural Histories : Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library. New York: Sterling Signature.

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