Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.

A collection of 'anti-boche' - ie. anti-German - medicine bottles, next to a scorpion about to be pulverised. Lithograph.

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Fruiting branch of a sapodillo tree (Manilkara zapota) and four mites. Coloured etching, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.

Ten spiders, showing much variation in shape and colour. Gouache painting.

Scorpions and arachnids: eleven figures, including two examples enclosed in ventilated bottles. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.

5 unnumbered leaves, 76 pages, 53 leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour frontispiece ; (4to)

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

The Ixodoidea of Canada / by John D. Gregson.

Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 7 juin 1838. I, Donner les caractères des arachnides ... [etc.] / par Adolphe-Augustin Six, de Lille (Nord).

1 print : engraving ; platemark 17.6 x 27.1 cm

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 25 x 19.3 cm

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Arachnida

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A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

The Ixodoidea of Canada / by John D. Gregson.

Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 7 juin 1838. I, Donner les caractères des arachnides ... [etc.] / par Adolphe-Augustin Six, de Lille (Nord).

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Fruiting branch of a sapodillo tree (Manilkara zapota) and four mites. Coloured etching, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.

Arachnida

Images from the collections

Images referencing Arachnida

Works from the collections

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

The Ixodoidea of Canada / by John D. Gregson.

Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 7 juin 1838. I, Donner les caractères des arachnides ... [etc.] / par Adolphe-Augustin Six, de Lille (Nord).

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Fruiting branch of a sapodillo tree (Manilkara zapota) and four mites. Coloured etching, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.

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