ALBIN, Eleazar (fl.1713-59). A Natural History of Spiders, and other Curious Insects. London: for John Tilly (and others), 1736. 4° (283 x 228mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece by J. Scotin incorporating a portrait of the author on horseback, and 53 plates, most hand-coloured. 18th-century calf, covers with gilt floral border and central lozenge made up of floral tools, spine gilt in compartments, red edges (joints cracking, extremities rubbed, surface flaking). Lowndes I,25: "... this well-known work ..."; Nissen ZBI 60. A FINE COPY INTERNALLY OF THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION.