Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The class of Arachnida does not consist of spiders alone but also contains ten other orders - harvestmen, ticks and mites, wind spiders, tailless whip spiders, whip spiders, scorpions, palpigrades, pseudoscorpions, schizomids and ricinuleids - nearly all of which have eight... More about Arachnids
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, with a focus on spiders that can be identified in the field. Containing over 300 stunning photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new... More about Britain's spiders: a field guide
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and poorly understood groups. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first comprehensive guide to all 68 families of spiders in... More about Common spiders of North America
Frenchs Forest: Reed New Holland, (2008. reprint). Octavo, paperback, 200 colour photographs, colour drawings. An easy-to-use and practical field manual. More than 100 of the most frequently encountered Australian spiders are shown, with information on toxicity, habitat and prey capture. Gives advice on first aid for treating bites from Australia's dangerous spiders. More about Spiderwatch: a guide to Australian spiders
London: A & C Black, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Stephen Dalton's detailed photographs chronicle the diversity of the spider world. Chapters are divided along broad ecological themes, with each focusing on different species, their habitats, hunting techniques, ecology and behaviour. Also featured are chapters on spider anatomy, and a.... More about Spiders: the ultimate predators
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. An accessible visual guide to the top 150 insects, spiders, and other crawling creatures combines readable text, representative photographs, and explanatory illustrations to highlight key features of body shape, life cycle, and behavior. Organized by scientific taxonomy, the book offers... More about National Geographic guide to the insects and spiders of North America
New York: Oxford University Press, (1996. second edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Talks about various aspects of spider biology. This work emphasises ecology and systematics., This work is an updated translation by the author of the second German-language edition from Thieme Verlag, published under licence agreement with that... More about Biology of spiders
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and other illustrations. Covers the anatomy, physiology, behaviour and ecology of both native New Zealand and introduced spiders. For ease of use, the chapters group spiders in different ways, such as habitat, size, and web type. There are also chapters... More about Spiders of New Zealand and their worldwide kin
Sofia: Pensoft, 2003. Small quarto, laminated boards, 166 colour plates. Spiders of Australia: an introduction to their classification, biology and distribution describes and illustrates over 150 species of Australian spiders. A detailed summary of spider morphology, biology and classification is also included. All families are described in detail and the... More about Spiders of Australia: an introduction to their classification, biology and distribution
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings. Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather... More about Spider behaviour: flexibility and versatility
Archerfield: Steve Parish Publishing, 2008. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs, distribution maps. Covers the identification, behaviour and habitats of common Australian spiders. More about Spiders: a wild Australia guide
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs. An introduction to spiders. By observing and studying spiders in the world around her, and learning from experts and biologists, the author came to love these misunderstood members of the animal kingdom. As well as being... More about Spiders: learning to love them
London: Reaktion Books, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. The spider has a rich symbolic presence in the human imagination. Seen as representing death, due to its poisoned fangs and pitiless, predatory nature, the spider can also represent both creativity and creation... More about Spider
Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Over the last few decades innovations such as the internet, increased computing capabilities, molecular techniques and new imaging technologies have altered the way we do research in the 21st century. The result is a great increase in multi-disciplinary research and... More about Spider research in the 21st century
Manchester, Siri Scientific Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Provides close up macrophotographs and notes on the biology and uses of more than 500 non-marine plant and animals species of interest, including those most likely to be seen during a short visit to the country. More about Field guide to wildlife of the Gambia: an introduction to common flowers and animals
Sofia: Pensoft, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. Zoo Keys 123. The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae are an ancient and iconic lineage of basal araneomorph spiders, characterised by a specialised araneophagic ecology and unique, ‘pelican-like' cephalic morphology. Found throughout the rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and mesic... More about Australian assassins, part 1: a review of the assassin spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of...
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. Zoo Keys 191. The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae from southern Australia are revised, with a new genus (Zephyrarchaea gen. n.) and nine new species described from temperate, mesic habitats in southern Victoria... More about Australian assassins, part II: a review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae,...
London: Harper Collins, (2001. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Over 450 species illustrated. This comprehensive field guide to spiders is a must for all arachnophiles everywhere and a vital introduction for all other naturalists. It provides general information on the structure and biology of spiders, together with detailed illustrations of webs... More about Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe
Keene: American Arachnologial Society, 2005. Quarto, spirally bound, line drawings. This beautifully illustrated guide to the spiders of North America, north of Mexico, provides more than 1,400 illustrations and keys to the genera in 68 spider families. The book includes more than 550 genera. The manual contains 72 chapters and... More about Spiders of North America: an identification guide
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book covers topics such as taxonomy, identification, misidentification, life history, characteristics and biology. Infamous for causing serious skin injuries and, in very rare cases, death, this book looks at medical aspects of envenomations, medical conditions misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites... More about The brown recluse spider
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, colour photographs. There are only three species known in the family Periegopidae and all are in one genus, Periegops. These rare spiders have only ever been found in relict forests at limited locations in New Zealand (Banks Peninsula, Riccarton Bush, the... More about Fauna of New Zealand Number 70: Periegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae