'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf Plate 53 from volume I

Plate 53 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina

Elizabeth of Woodville

View of the Guildhall with the giants Gog and Magog on either side

Robert Vaughn

Plate 329 from chapter 119 of Gleanings of natural history

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf Plate 53 from volume IStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.