"Since deemed to have been published after the 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Linnaeus 1758) - which marks the official starting point of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature - Svenska spindlar is the earliest available work to contain valid scientific names for species of animals"--Wikipedia, viewed 1 Aug. 2010.

Engraved headpiece, signed: L. Gottman del., C. Bergquist sculpsit.

Plate 1 signed: Eric Borg delin, Carl Bergquist sculps.

Hand-colored illustrations.

Includes index.

Errata: p. 154.

Signatures: pi1 )(⁴ 2)(⁴ (-2)(4?) A-T⁴ U² (-U2).

Leaf E2 is missigned as B2.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 916

Antiquariaat Junk; purchase; 4/2010; $3100.00

Text in Swedish and Latin.

SCNHRB copy 39088010945566 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. An older bookplate was apparently removed at some point in the past from the verso of the front free endpaper.

SCNHRB copy has an old full leather binding with raised bands, gilt-ruled spine, marbled endpapers and edges; re-backed. All plates are present.