A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects
By: by Eleazar Albin ; illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands
Contributors: Montagu, Richard, active 18th century, bookseller; Brindley, John, -1758, bookseller; Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739, bookseller; Worrall, John, -1771, bookseller; Worrall, Thomas, -1767, bookseller; Boreman, Thomas, active 18th century, bookseller; Corbett, Charles, 1710-1752, bookseller; Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703; Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703; Mead, Richard, 1673-1754; Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1736
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Spiders; Early works to 1800; Insects; Arachnida; Fleas; Lice
Notes: In the numbering of plates, XXXV is repeated, and LII is omitted.

Includes: "Microscopial observations on the Carter spider and jumping spider by the late Dr. Hooke, F.R.S." (p. 57-63); "Of the tarantula [and the scorpion]; by the learned Dr. Mead." (p. 64-68); "Observations on the flea, and louse; by the late ingenious Dr. Hooke, F.R.S." (p. 69-76).

Head- and -tail piece; initial.

With a list of subscribers.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.