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A spider, both enlarged and life size. Coloured engraving.

A red water-spider (Hydrachna coccinea). Coloured engraving.

A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.

Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.

Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

A microscopic animal (Aseroe rubra) and a spider, both with anatomical segments. Engraving by Sparrow, ca. 1792, after J. Piron.

Leaf and flowers of skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidum), a type of mollusc (Doris argo) and a dragon lizard (Draco volans). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.

A large barbary spider with her young in her web. Etching by J. Pass, ca. 1796, after J. E. Ihle.

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

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences : tenuë dans la sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le cinquiéme Decembre mil Sept cens neuf.

The life of the spider / by J. Henri Fabre ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées, en latin et en françois : à laquelle l'on a joint l'analyse chimique de cette soye, avec quelques autres piéces. Qui ont été faites à ce sujet / par Mr. Bon.

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

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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.

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences : tenuë dans la sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le cinquiéme Decembre mil Sept cens neuf.

The life of the spider / by J. Henri Fabre ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées, en latin et en françois : à laquelle l'on a joint l'analyse chimique de cette soye, avec quelques autres piéces. Qui ont été faites à ce sujet / par Mr. Bon.

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.