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

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1736
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by John Tilly for R. Montague [etc.], 1736.

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

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/148/43

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In the numbering of plates, XXXV is repeated, and LII is omitted
"Of the tarantula [and the scorpion]; by ... Dr. Mead": p. 64-68
"Observations on the flea, and louse; by ... Dr. Hooke, F.R.S": p.69-76.

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