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Swammerdam, Jan (1637-1680) The Book of Nature; or the History of Insects.
London: Printed for C.G. Seyfert, 1758.
First edition in English, folio, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, illustrated with fifty-three full-page plates of insects, frogs, snails, and other creatures anatomized and viewed under maginfication; bound in full contemporary russia with gilt-tooled spine, front joint repaired with Japanese tissue, ex libris Lord Keith, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Oliver Howard, with their armorial bookplates, inner joints reinforced with red tape, 16 x 10 in.
ESTC T22987; Dibner 191; Nissen 4057; Norman 2037.
