spider

Thomas Martyn's Aranei translated into English Carl Alexander Clerck's Svenska spindlar/Aranei Svecici (Stockholm, 1757), the founding text on modern scientific nomenclature for spiders, with illustrations originally published in Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Spiders (London, 1736). Eleazar Albin's meticulous drawings for his own spider book were bought by Thomas Martyn at the sale of the Dowager Duchess of Portland's collections.