Butterflies. Heliconia Erato, H.Cynisca, H.Sylvana, Lizars, coloured engraving, circa 1840.Size 10 x 17 cm. Price £40.00 / $80.00 (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. £30.00 /$60.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Red Admiral, White Admiral, Scotch Argos, Peacock Butterfly. Coloured print from Beautiful Butterflies by H.G.Adams, published by Groombridge and Sons, 1854. 12 x 17.5 cm Condition good. £35.00 /$70.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Painted Lady, Scarce Painted Lady, Comma Butterfly. Coloured print from Beautiful Butterflies by H.G.Adams, published by Groombridge and Sons, 1854. 12 x 17.5 cm Condition good. £35.00 /$70.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Entomology, Beetles,Coleoptera, Genus Lucanus, Dermestes, Silpha. Milton, Copperplate engraving, Pubished as the Act directs by Longman, 1814. 20 x 26 cm Condition good £40.00 / $80.00 (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 £40.00 / $80.00 (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. £40.00 /$80.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Beetles 6. The National Encyclopedia, published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860. 16 x 24 cm Condition good. £28.00 /$56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Arachnida Spider. Bird Spider, Scorpion, tick MiteBeetles 6. The National Encyclopedia, published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860. 16 x 24 cm Condition good. £28.00 /$56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Insects, William Henry Hall, Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved by I. Taylor, 1778. 22 x 37 cm Condition good. £56.00 /$112.00 (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. £60.00 /$120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Cicada plebeia, and Cicada septendecim. Lizars, coloured engraving circa 1840. 10 x 15 cm Condition good £38.00 /$76.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Lizards. Agama aculeata, Striped Dragon, Stellio cordylinus, Chirotes lumbricoides. The National Encyclopedia, published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860. 10 x 15 cm Condition good £28.00 /$56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Urodela Salamander. Spotted Salamander, Great Water Newt, Menopoma alleghaniensis- hellbender. The National Encyclopedia, published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860. 24 x 15 cm Condition good £28.00 /$56.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (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 / $76.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top