Entomology.- Albin (Eleazar) A Natural History of Spiders, and other

Entomology.- Albin (Eleazar) A Natural History of Spiders, and other Curious Insects, first edition, list of subscribers, woodcut initials and decorations, engraved frontispiece and 53 plates, all hand-coloured (with plate 35 bis and no plate 52), some light offsetting and toning, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, Printed by John Tilly, 1736. *** Subscribers include Richard Mead, Sir Hans Sloane, Herman Boerhave and the Empress of Russia.

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