INSECTS

OR

The Smallest Animals

THEATER:

Formerly by

EDWARD WOTTON.

CONRAD GESSNER.

AND THOMAS PENNY

begun:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM.

Finally

THO. MOFFETT of London, with the greatest labor and expense, compiled, augmented, and perfected:

And illustrated with over five hundred icons expressed from life.

A woodcut illustration features a central square frame containing a woven beehive (skep) positioned on a simple four-legged wooden table. Several bees fly around the hive, while one enters the base and another sits on the surface. Surrounding this frame are individual depictions of various arthropods. On the left side, arranged vertically, are a stag beetle, a smaller beetle, a caterpillar, a moth with patterned wings, and a scorpion. On the right side, arranged vertically, are a common fly, a bumblebee or larger hairy fly, a spider, and two smaller winged insects (possibly a fly and a wasp). Below the central beehive frame, a large, thick, segmented caterpillar or larva extends across the width of the image area.

London, from the printing house of Thom. Cotes. And they are available for sale at Benjam. Allen’s, in the alley which in English is called Popes-head Alley. 1 6 3 4.