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Aranei, or A Natural History of Spiders including The Principal Parts of the well known work 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
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Thomas Martyn At his Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, 1793 A good to very good copy of the first edition of this extremely scarce work. With hand coloured frontispiece, 28 hand coloured plates, and 2 plates of medals. Thomas Martyn is principally known as a draughtsman of natural history works. This publication is drawn from Charles Clerck's study dated 1757 and Eleazor Albin's Natural History of Spiders from 1736. The binding has a newer black morocco leather spine with decorative gilt bands and gilt titles. The boards are probably as issued by the publisher. There is rubbing and wear to the spine joints - particularly the top of the front joint - and rubbing to spine ends. The boards have a lot of wear to the marbled paper and the corners - which look to have been leather-covered at some point - are very worn. The endpapers are newer and with a small label of E W Classey to the front pastedown. Contents: hand coloured frontispiece; engraved title; advertisement 2pp; original preface by Clerck pp i-vii; 2 numismatic plates; text pp 1-70; plates numbered 1-11; title dated 1793; text pp 1-31; plates numbered 1-17; final blank. Page edges are untrimmed. Contents are generally clean with brown toning at the edges. There is light foxing to the advertisement and pp i-iii of the preface; some offsetting from the numismatic plates; and some spotting and marking to p70. The plate paper is lightly toned and there is a small stain to the bottom edge of plate 17. Pages 30 and 31 of the second section have a small burn mark in the top margin. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. Book size: 36.8 cm x 29.2 cm.
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- Bookseller
- E C Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033099
- Title
- Aranei, or A Natural History of Spiders including The Principal Parts of the well known work English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also The Whole of the celebrated publication on Swedish Spiders By Charles Clerk, Revised, Enlarged and Designed Anew
- Author
- Thomas Martyn
- Illustrator
- Basire, Carwitham, Smith
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Martyn At his Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1793
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- thomas martyn; eleazar albin; spiders; aranei; clerck; eighteenth century natural history;
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY; Invertebrates;
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About the Seller
E C Books
Biblio member since 2011
Birsay, Orkney
About E C Books
E C Books is a small online bookselling business, specialising in pre 20th century works:natural history, science, history, and travel, aiming for rarer and more unusual books. Our largest stock area is Natural History, where we have a good range of books from the 1700-1800's, many finely illustrated. Other areas include children's books, particularly late 1800's-early 1900's - again illustrated; and literature pre 1900.When you order books from us we ensure that they are properly packed to protect condition, and we always use recorded or 'signed for' postal services for more secure delivery. Please note that we have recently moved to the beautiful Orkney Islands, where we intend to open a bookshop over the next year. Because of our location we cannot guarantee 'next day' delivery but we will get your purchase to you as quickly and safely as we can.Please note that the buyer is responsible for the payment of any tax or duty on import.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Marbled Paper
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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