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• Early works to 1800

• Beetles -- Early works to 1800
• Insects in art -- Early works to 1800
• Lepidoptera -- Early works to 1800
• Lice -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Anatomy -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Austria -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Behavior -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- China -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Classification -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Development -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- England -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Germany -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Host plants -- Catalogs and collections -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Illustrated works -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Larvae -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Physiology -- Early works to 1800
• Insects -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800

• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes (L. L. Grefing, 1752), by Charles De Geer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamenta entomologiae, quae ... praeside (Apud J. Edman, 1767), by Carl von Linné, Andreas Dahl, J. G. Forsskåhl, Eric Olaf Rydbeck, Anders Johann Bladh, and Michael Andreas Baeckner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Antonii Scopoli ... Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena ... (typis Ioannis Thomae Trattner ..., 1763), by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Johann Thomas von Trattner, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der krebsartige Kiefenfuss mit der kurzen und langen Schwanzklappe (Regensburg : Gedruckt bey Emanuel Adam Weiss, 1756, 1756), by Jacob Christian Schäffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Q.F.F.S. (Upsaliæ, 1758), by Carl von Linné, Ericus Ol. Rydbeck, Erik Olof Rydbeck, and Uppsala 1758 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural history of birds. (printed for F. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street, 1775), by Samuel Ward and Francis Newbery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire abrégée des insectes : dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique (Chez Durand, 1764), by M. Geoffroy and Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index alphabeticus in J. C. Fabricii Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta, ordines, genera et species contimens (Proft et Storch, 1796), by Johann Christian Fabricius and Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noxa Insectorum ... (Typis Laurentii Salvii, 1752), by Carl von Linné, Michaël Andreas Baeckner, and Uppsala 1752 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1734), by René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, IV Brunet, Hélène Dumoutier de Marsilly, Claude Lucas, Jean-Baptiste Haussard, Pierre Filloeul, and Philippe Simonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimenta circa generationem insectorum (Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1671), by Francesco Redi and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opusculorum pars prior, sive, Experimenta circa generationem insectorum (Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685), by Francesco Redi, Henricus Wetstein, Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Friedrich Lachmund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theologie des insectes (Chez Jean Swart ..., 1742), by Friedrich Christian Lesser and Pierre Lyonet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia insectorum generalis (Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Johannem van Abkoude, Bibliopolam, 1733, 1733), by Jan Swammerdam and Heinrich Christian de Hennin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuzhat-nāmah-yi ʻAlāʼī. (1404), by active 11th century Shahmardān ibn Abī al-Khayr, Casey A. Wood, known as Ṣāyigh al-Shīrāzī al-Murshidī 'Ali ibn Maḥmūd, and of Tabaristan ʻAlāʼ al-Dawlah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farrukh-nāmah-i Jamālī. (1201), by Abū Bakr Muṭahhar Jamālī Yazdī, Casey A. Wood, and 'Alī Ramaḍān Valī Quṭb al-Dīn 'Alī mash'hūr bi Naqīb Arbāb Ṭarīq-i Fārs 899 [1493] (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of nature (Printed for C.G. Seyffert ..., 1758), by Jan Swammerdam, Herman Boerhaave, Thomas Flloyd, John Hill, and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the Microscope: Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc., by George Adams, ed. by Frederick Kanmacher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Metamorphosis naturalis. English (York : Printed by John White for M.L., 1682), by Johannes Goedaert, Francis Place, and Martin Lister (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dissertatio inauguralis medica De insectis Coleopteris nec non de plantis quibusdam rarioribus, cum ic. (litteris Erhardianis, 1755), by Georg Friedrich Sigwart, Johann Philipp Erhard, Striedbeck, and Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1734), by René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, IV Brunet, Hélène Dumoutier de Marsilly, Claude Lucas, Jean-Baptiste Haussard, Pierre Filloeul, and Philippe Simonneau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité anatomique de la chenille : qui ronge le bois de saule, augmenté d'une explication abregée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi, pour anatomiser à la loupe & au microscope, & pour déterminer la force de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement (P. Gosse Jr. & D. Pinet et M. M. Rey, 1762), by Pierre Lyonet, Marc-Michel Rey, and Pierre Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité anatomique de la chenille : qui ronge le bois de saule, augmenté d'une explication abregée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi, pour anatomiser à la loupe & au microscope, & pour déterminer la force de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement (P. Gosse Jr. & D. Pinet et M. M. Rey, 1762), by Pieter Lyonnet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissertatio epistolica de bombyce .. (Apud Joannem Martyn & Jacobum Allestry, 1669), by Marcello Malpighi and Henry Oldenburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité anatomique de la chenille : qui ronge le bois de saule, augmenté d'une explication abregée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi, pour anatomiser à la loupe & au microscope, & pour déterminer la force de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement (P. Gosse Jr. & D. Pinet et M. M. Rey, 1762), by Pieter Lyonnet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees: Presented In Severall Letters and Observations To Sammuel Hartlib; With The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm, Containing Many Excellent and Choice Secrets, Experiments, and Discoveries For Attaining of National and Private Profits and Riches (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1655), by Samuel Hartlib
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• Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms : extracted from the treatises of the Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, and Pullein : with a preface, giving some account of the rise and progress of the scheme for encouraging the culture of silk, in Pennsylvania, and the adjacent colonies. (Printed by J. Crukshank, and I. Collins, 1770), by abbé Boissier de Sauvages and Samuel Pullein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutliche Anweisung wie sich bey Anziehung derer weissen Maulbeerbäume : sowol blos durch Saamen, als durch deren Pflanzung und Fortsetzung allenthalben zu verhalten ; ingleichen, was ben Zucht und Wartung der Seidenwürmer vornamlich zu beobachten und wie die Seide zu zubereiten. Zu eines jeden Unterricht offentlich mitgetheiler. ([Berlin?], 1754) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationes circa Bombyces, sericum et moros ex antiquitatum, historiarum, juriumque penu depromptae. (Sumptibs Erhardianis, 1757), by Gottfried Daniel Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• raité sur la culture des muriers blancs. (I'Imprimerie de Couret de Villeneuve, Imprimeur du Roi & de l'Évêché, 1763), by L. Pomier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cartilla de la agricultura de moreras y arte para la cria de la seda : sus reglas y varias observaciones para el mejor modo de practicarlas ... (Imprenta G. Ramirez :, 1761), by Antonio de Elgueta y Vigil (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la culture des mûriers. (Chez Gaude, 1763), by abbé Boissier de Sauvages (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio epistolica de bombyce .. (Apud Joannem Martyn & Jacobum Allestry, 1669), by Marcello Malpighi and Henry Oldenburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• De bombyce dissertatio (Typis & sumptibus Friderici Kargeri, 1665), by Johannes Colerus, Friedrich Karger, and Adam Tribbechow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vermicello dalla seta del Corsuccio da Sascorbaro (Appresso Gio. Simbeni, 1581), by Giovanni Andrea Corcucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istruzione pel governo de' bachi da seta per uso del territorio mantovano. (In Mantova : Per l'erede di Alberto Pazzoni, regio-ducale stampatore, 1777., 1777), by Eredi di Alberto Pazzoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thaumatographia naturalis. English (London : Printed by John Streater ..., and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London, 1657), by Joannes Jonstonus, Andreas Libavius, and John Rowland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Virginia's discovery of silke-vvorms, with their benefit and the implanting of mulberry trees : also the dressing and keeping of vines, for the rich trade of making wines there : together with the making of the saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of timber and clapbord, to build with-all, and its conversion to other as profitable uses. (London : Printed by T.H. for John Stephenson ..., 1650), by Edward Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Virgo triumphans, or, Virginia in generall, but the south part therof in particular including the fertile Carolana, and the no lesse excellent island of Roanoak, richly and experimentally valued : humbly presented as the auspice of a beginning yeare, to the Parliament of England, and councell of state / by Edward Williams, Gent. (London : Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Stephenson, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1650), by Edward Williams and John Ferrar (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Apologeticall speech, directed to the worshipfull masters and wardens of Beggars Hall. (London : Printed by Tho. Harper, 1634), by Daniel Heinsius and James Guitard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Traité anatomique de la chenille : qui ronge le bois de saule, augmenté d'une explication abregée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi, pour anatomiser à la loupe & au microscope, & pour déterminer la force de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement (P. Gosse Jr. & D. Pinet et M. M. Rey, 1762), by Pierre Lyonet, Marc-Michel Rey, and Pierre Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité anatomique de la chenille : qui ronge le bois de saule, augmenté d'une explication abregée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi, pour anatomiser à la loupe & au microscope, & pour déterminer la force de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement (P. Gosse Jr. & D. Pinet et M. M. Rey, 1762), by Pieter Lyonnet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum (Klett et Franck, 1988), by Franz von Paula Schrank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Theologie des insectes (Chez Jean Swart ..., 1742), by Friedrich Christian Lesser and Pierre Lyonet (page images at HathiTrust)

• An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China : comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species, together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. : the figures are accurately drawn, engraved and coloured, from specimens of the insects : the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors (Printed for the author, by T. Bensley, and sold by White, Fleet-Street, Faulder, Bond-Street, Bell, Oxford-Street, &c., 1798), by E. Donovan, Joseph Bell, Robert Faulder, John White, and Thomas Bensley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Naturgeschichte, Klassification und Nomenclatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht : als der fünften Klasse fünfte Ordnung des Linneischen Natursystems von den Insekten, Hymenoptera : mit häutigen Flügeln (in der Hermannischen Buchhandlung, 1791), by Johann Ludwig Christ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theologie des insectes, ou demonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les insectes (chez Jean Swart ..., 1752), by Friedrich Christian Lesser, Jean Swart, Pierre Lyonnet, and Jacob van der Schley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theologie des insectes, ou demonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les insectes (chez Jean Swart ..., 1752), by Friedrich Christian Lesser, Jean Swart, and Pierre Lyonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genera insectorum : eorumque characteres naturales secundam numerum, figuram, situm et proportionem, omnium partium oris adiecta mantissa specierum nuper detectarum (Litteris Mich. Friedr. Bartschii, 1776), by Johann Christian Fabricius, Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University), and Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Systematic arrangement of insects (Printed for R. Horsfield, 1773), by Carl von Linné, Thomas Pattinson Yeats, and Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historische beschryvinghe van den oirspronk, aerd, eygenschappen ende vreemde veranderinghen (By Jaques Fierens..., 1662), by Johannes Goedaert, Jaques Fierens, Willem Cornelisz. Eversdijck, Reinier van Persyn, and Johannes de Mey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Europische insecten, naauwkeurig onderzogt, na 't leven geschildert, en in print gebragt (By J.F. Bernard, 1730), by Maria Sibylla Merian and Jean Marret (page images at HathiTrust)

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