Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia [electronic resource] : containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.