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LISTER, MARTIN; TRANSLATED BY MALCOLM DAVIES AND BASIL HARLEY Martin Lister's English Spiders, 1678
Harley Books, 1990, 1st English edition in translation; originally published in 1678.Paper covers.0 946589 41 0.As new/No Jacket.Although the original Latin work was translated into German as long ago as 1778, this is the first English translation of a classic work on spiders, De araneis.Lister, as the Foreword by J.L.Cloudsley-Thompson indicates, was a ""voluminous writer"" whose first publication on spiders appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1671.Despite the outdated taxonomy this work is a pioneering study.Although the book is generally 'as new' condition, the folding plates between pages 69 and 71 have suffered from some mishandling.xv, (1), 208 pp. In English.
Offered for GBP 20.00 = appr. US$ 32.72 by: Acanthophyllum Books - Book number: 2446
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