Aranei, or a natural history of spiders including the principal parts of the well known work on English spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the whole of the celebrated publication on Swedish spiders by Charles Clerk revised, enlarged and designed anew by Thomas Martyn, author of the Universal conchologist, English entomologist, &c., at his Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, no. 1...
2 parts in 1 volume (various pagings) color illustrations 36 cm (folio)
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
England
Sweden
Date:
1793
Notes:
Engraved title page
Part 2 has a special title page (engraved), only, with title: Figures of English spiders, a work originally given by Eleazar Albin, revised and designed anew by Thomas Martyn
The engraved title page in part 1 is signed: Tomkins scr., Vincent scu., and the engraved title page in part 2 is signed: Vincent scr. & scu. The plates are ascribed by Nissen to J. Basire, J. Carwitham and Jas. Smith
The first part has [6], ii, viii, [1], 70 pages and [1], 11 leaves of plates; the second part has [4], 31, [1] pages and 17 leaves of plates
Two engraved leaves with facsimiles of medals ("aurea numismata") are bound in following the title page in part 1
English short title catalogue T85942
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 2724
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SCNHRB copy 39088016912446 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has a later red half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, a gilt-tooled spine, and top edge gilt. There is a brief handwritten pencil annotation in an unknown hand on plate 10