Natural History Museum: The Spider notebook

The stunning print on notebook has been sourced from the archives of London's Natural History Museum. Gerardus Sandifort was a Dutch professor of medicine, an anatomist, and a taxidermist. He published throughout his lifetime and his last work, Tabulae Craniorum Diversarum Nationum, was a study of craniums of different races and people across the continents, published in 1834-1843. The intricate spider print on this 128-page lined notebook is Plate 69, from Volume 1 of Albertus Seba's Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri, published in 1734.