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A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.

Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Traité de la culture du nopal : et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique. Précédé d'un voyage a Guaxaca ... Auquel on a ajouté une préface, des notes & des observations relatives à la culture de la cochenille ... / Le tout recueilli & publié par le Cercle des Philadelphes établi au Cap-Français.

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.

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Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.

A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.