Bird-eating spider with humming bird Product:Postcard Leith and Glasgow Steam Wharf

Leith and Glasgow Steam Wharf

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Steve Marriott and Ian McLagan

he was arguably one of the great orators of his age

Bird-eating spider with humming bird Product:Postcard Leith and Glasgow Steam WharfStudy of a bird eating South American spider (a tarantula or possibly the Goliath birdeater Theraphosa blondi) with humming bird prey. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Showing the inscription lower left 'P Sluiter Sculp.' The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in