Eleazar Albin
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects, 1736, contemporary calf gilt
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 4
6. May - 18. May 2022
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 4
6. May - 18. May 2022
Estimate: 600 - 800 GBP
Price realised: 1.890 GBP
Price realised: 1.890 GBP
Description
Eleazar Albin
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects. London: John Tilly for R. Montagu, J. Brindley, O. Payne, J. Worrall, T. Worrall and T. Boreman, 1736
FIRST EDITION, 4to (285 x 220mm.), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 53 engraved plates numbered 1-53 (numbers 1-46 hand-coloured, with plate 35bis, and no plate numbered 52), contemporary mottled calf gilt (plausibly by John Brindley), spine gilt in compartments, lacking list of subscribers, joints starting to crack
A fine copy of Albin's extensive treatise on British spiders, based on Joseph Dandridge's unpublished work, complemented by Robert Hooke's observations on the Carter spider, the jumping spider, the flea and various lice, and Richard Mead on the tarantula and the scorpion. The frontispiece incorporates a portrait of the author on horseback.
LITERATURE:
ESTC T64158; Nissen ZBI 60
PROVENANCE:
price £1-15-0 on flyleaf; Sir John Barker, 6th Bart (1724-1757) of Grimston Hall, Suffolk, armorial bookplate; William Fellowes, 2nd Lord de Ramsey (1848-1925), father-in-law to Henry Rogers Broughton, bookplate with crested monogram WF at rear of volume
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects. London: John Tilly for R. Montagu, J. Brindley, O. Payne, J. Worrall, T. Worrall and T. Boreman, 1736
FIRST EDITION, 4to (285 x 220mm.), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 53 engraved plates numbered 1-53 (numbers 1-46 hand-coloured, with plate 35bis, and no plate numbered 52), contemporary mottled calf gilt (plausibly by John Brindley), spine gilt in compartments, lacking list of subscribers, joints starting to crack
A fine copy of Albin's extensive treatise on British spiders, based on Joseph Dandridge's unpublished work, complemented by Robert Hooke's observations on the Carter spider, the jumping spider, the flea and various lice, and Richard Mead on the tarantula and the scorpion. The frontispiece incorporates a portrait of the author on horseback.
LITERATURE:
ESTC T64158; Nissen ZBI 60
PROVENANCE:
price £1-15-0 on flyleaf; Sir John Barker, 6th Bart (1724-1757) of Grimston Hall, Suffolk, armorial bookplate; William Fellowes, 2nd Lord de Ramsey (1848-1925), father-in-law to Henry Rogers Broughton, bookplate with crested monogram WF at rear of volume
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Eleazar Albin achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in May last year. In the The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I auction, the work A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects, 1736, contemporary calf gilt sold for GBP 1,890.00 (€ 2,223.41) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 800.00. Admittedly, works by Eleazar Albin have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work A natural history of birds [and A natural history of English insects, 1738-1749, 4 volumes, contemporary calf|AID711744] in May last year with an auction result of GBP 12,600.00 (€ 14,822.70).
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Eleazar Albin erzielte im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I wurde die Arbeit A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects, 1736, contemporary calf gilt für GBP 1.890,00 (€ 2.223,41) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 800,00. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Eleazar Albin auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit A natural history of birds [and A natural history of English insects, 1738-1749, 4 volumes, contemporary calf|AID711744] im Mai letzten Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 12.600,00 (€ 14.822,70).
Eleazar Albin - Auction history
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![Eleazar Albin - [Moths and Butterflies]: Two Plates](/images/eleazar-albin_moths-and-butterflies-two-plates_AID647199_320x320.jpg)
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