Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Movfeti Londinâtis operâ sumptibusq; maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: et ad vivum expressis iconibus suprà quingentis illustratum
Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum is a 1634 London entomology compendium by Thomas Moffett, built on earlier work by Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny, and addressed to naturalists and scholars. Its woodcuts show insects in close, carefully ruled detail: moths with wing patterns, beetles in outline, and flies and wasps arranged in tidy columns, with some plates set against printed text, giving a designer clear models for natural-history line work and layout.
