The Spurge Sphinx. Sphinx Euphorbiae. Coloured engraving, circa 1880. Size 8 x 6.5 cm. Price £20.00 / $32.00 (plus packing and postage). Click for info

An Insect is a small invertebrate animal usually with a body in three segments, head, thorax, abdomen, six legs on thorax, and 2 or 4 wings.

Cats is 'dogs' and rabbits is 'dogs' and so's Parrats, but this 'ere 'Tortis' is a insect, and there ain't no charge for it.

      Punch vol.1vi, p96. 1869

Insecta is synonymous with Aristotle's term Entoma, meaning the body is cut into and divided into numerous segments

Insects fly, walk, leap, swim, dive, mine into the earth, bore into wood, build structures which astonish us with their instinctive reasoning

Insects furnish us with silk, wax, honey, cochineal. Some are eaten by various tribes, others are food for mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes, and the carnivorous of their own class. Some are remarkable for their beauty, for splendour of colouring, for gracefulness and delicacy.

Selected Insect prints currently in stock

Butterflies. Coloured print circa 1860. 12.5 x 20 cm Condition good. £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Swallow-tail, Marbled White. Coloured print from Beautiful Butterflies by H.G.Adams, published by Groombridge and Sons, 1854. 12 x 17.5 cm Condition good. £35.00 /$56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Large Tortoise-shell, Camberwell Beauty. Coloured print from Beautiful Butterflies by H.G.Adams, published by Groombridge and Sons, 1854. 12 x 17.5 cm Condition good. £35.00 /$56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology, Hemiptera, Genus Chermes,Cimex, Thrips, Nepa, Aphis. Milton, Copperplate engraving, Published as the Act directs by Longman 1818. 20 x 26cm Condition good £32.00 / $52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology, Aptera. Genus Lepisma, Podura, Termes. Great African White Ant. Milton, Copperplate engraving published as the Act directs by Longman, 1819. 20 x 25 cm Condition good. £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology. Order Diptera Genus Musca. Copper plate engraved by Milton, published as the Act directs by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818. 21 x 28 cm Condition good. £30.00 /$48.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Silkworms and Silk-Culture. Showing Mulberry, Larvae, cocoons and more. Reichart, Coloured engraving, published by W.and R. Chambers, circa 1880. 27.5x 26 cm Condition good. £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Winged Insects. Flies, Beetles, Locusts, Mantis, crickets. Copperplate engraving, engraved by Royce, published by Alex.Hogg circa 1780. 22 x 36cm Condition good. £48.00 /$78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Winged Insects. Cicadas, Butterflies, Bees, and more. Copperplate engraving, engraved by Royce, published by Alex.Hogg circa 1780. 22x 36 cm Condition quite good. £48.00 /$78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Orthopterous Insects. Prisopus Horridus and others, circa 1860. 16 x 24 cm Condition good. £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology Genus Monoculus Oniscus Scolopendra. Julus order Aptera. Centipedes. Copperplate engraving,hand coloured, engraved by J.Boyd, circa 1818. 20 x 26 cm Condition fair. £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

The Cicada of North America. Copperplate engraving from Gentleman's Magazine, 1766. 12 x 19 cm Condition fair. £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology order Diptera, Genus oestrus, Tipula, and Diopsis. Copper plate engraving, engraved by Milton 1813. 22 x 37 cm Condition good. £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Microscopic Objects of the Animal Kingdom in their natural size and as they appear when magnified. Showing a Louse, Trips, Mite, Flea, Lobster Insect, Itch Insect and a non descript Insect of the Hemiptera Class. Copperplate engraving, published by C.Cook 1795. 21 x 36 cm Condition good, but has slight spotting. £48.00 /$78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

6 Beetles. Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, coloured engraving, published by Fullerton, circa 1840. 22 x 14 cm Condition good. £34.00 /$58.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Beetles Plate l. Stag-beetles, Scissor-jawed Beetle, Australian Rose Beetle and others. The National Encyclopedia. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published by William Mackenzie circa 1884. 16 x 24 cm Condition good £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Beetles Plate 2. Leaf beetle, Large Water-beetle, Glow-worm and others. The National Encyclopedia. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published by William Mackenzie circa 1884. 16 x 24 cm Condition good £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Gangetic Crocodile. Heath, Copperplate engraving, published in 1801 21x 12 cm Condition good £32.00 /$52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Cape Lizard from Tachard. Copperplate engraving, showing lizards with habitat backround, engraved by G.Child, circa 1740. 16.5 x 23 cm Condition good £48.00 /$78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Chameleon, Gecko and White Amphisbena. The National Encyclopedia, published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860. 24 x 15 cm Condition good £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Krokodile, Alligator. Showing 4 different species. Meyers Konversation Lexikon, Leipzig, 1905. 24 x 15 cm Condition good £28.00 /$46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Pipa. Copper plate engraving, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good Price £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Brasilian Toad. Copper plate engraving, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Mitred Toad. Copper engraving, hand coloured, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Embroidered Boa. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Viper-Headed Snake. Copper plate engraving, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Snakes III. Specht; Chromolithograph with 5 snakes, from Meyers Konversation Lexikon, Leipzig, 1905. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £28.00 / $46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Loggerhead Turtle.Copper plate engraving, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Green Turtle. Copper plate engraving, published by G. Kearsley 1801. 21 x 12.5 cm Condition good £38.00 / $62.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top