Featuring engravings from the "cabinet of curiosities" assembled by 18th-century zoologist and collector Albertus Seba, this fascinating collection crawls with beetles, ants, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, centipedes, flies, mosquitoes, dragonflies, and other insects. It includes latter-day images... read more
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Product Description:
Featuring engravings from the "cabinet of curiosities" assembled by 18th-century zoologist and collector Albertus Seba, this fascinating collection crawls with beetles, ants, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, centipedes, flies, mosquitoes, dragonflies, and other insects. It includes latter-day images as well, encompassing 642 illustrations — 206 of them in full, glorious color.
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Includes 642 images: 436 black-and-white images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF) plus 206 full-color images saved in JPEG format.
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