A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, ... and (for Those Who Desire It) Exactly Coloured by the Author Eleazar Albin, ...

by Eleazar Albin

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222 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2010

About the author

Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690 – c. 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). He has been described as one of the "great entomological book illustrators of the 18th century".