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Hemiptera Gryllus morbillosus, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Hemiptera Gryllus morbillosus.

The Insects of China, complete set

By Edward Donovan, 1798

All 23 plates of The Insects of China as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 23 plates, each 12 × 14¼ in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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The Insects of China

Contents

Edward Donovan, 1798

  1. 1Hemiptera Gryllus morbillosus
  2. 2Hemiptera Fulgora – Candelaria
  3. 3Lepidoptera Pailio Paris
  4. 4Lepidoptera Papilio Crino
  5. 5Lepidoptera Papilio Telamon – Papilio Agamemnon
  6. 6Hemiptera Gryllus morbillosus
  7. 7Lepidoptera Papilio Menelaus or Papilio Rhetenor
  8. 8Lepidoptera Papilio Vesta
  9. 9Lepidoptera Papilio Glaucippe – Papilio Sesia
  10. 10Lepidoptera Papilio Jairus
  11. 11Lepidoptera Papilio Bernardus
  12. 12Lepidoptera – Papilio Oenone
  13. 13Lepidoptera, Sphinx Nechus, Sphinx Polymena
  14. 14Lepidoptera Papilio Oenone
  15. 15Lepidoptera – Phalæna Bubo
  16. 16Lepidoptera – Papilio Pyranthe – Papilio Philia
  17. 17Lepidoptera – Papilio Epius – Papilio Demoleus
  18. 18Lepidoptera – Papilio Coon – Papilio Agenor
  19. 19Lepidoptera – Papilio Peranthus
  20. 20Lepidoptera – Papilio Erymanthus
  21. 21Lepidoptera – Phalæna militaris – Phalæna lextrix
  22. 22Lepidoptera – Papilio Jacintha
  23. 23Lepidoptera Papilio Gambrisius

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

About the original

Edward Donovan (1768-1837), an Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator who later founded the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, published An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China in 1798: 50 hand-coloured engravings of butterflies, moths, lantern flies and other insects.

Donovan chose species that had not been illustrated before and set them against plants and flowers. It is the first of his three books on the insects of China, India and New Holland.

Title
The Insects of China
Published
1798
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
23

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