Accession number
PML 55613
Creator
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.
Published
Amstelædami. : Apud Joannem Oosterwyk... per dictam Mariam Sibillam Merian ..., [1717]
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
References: Not in Pritzel or Dunthorne.
The 153 uncolored plates designed and engraved by the author.
Translation by the author's daughter Dorothea M.H. Merian, of the author's Der raupen wunderbare verwandelung, first published in 2 parts, Nuremberg, 1679-1683. A third part in Dutch appeared in 1717, edited, with additions, by D.M.H. Merian, and here translated by her into Latin. Cf. Nieuwe Ned. Biog. Woortbuch.
Vignette at head of dedication.
The 153 uncolored plates designed and engraved by the author.
Translation by the author's daughter Dorothea M.H. Merian, of the author's Der raupen wunderbare verwandelung, first published in 2 parts, Nuremberg, 1679-1683. A third part in Dutch appeared in 1717, edited, with additions, by D.M.H. Merian, and here translated by her into Latin. Cf. Nieuwe Ned. Biog. Woortbuch.
Vignette at head of dedication.
Description
[10], 64 p., [155] leaves of plates : ill., port. (engravings) : 21 cm
Provenance
From the collections of Jane Norton Grew Morgan (Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.) and her son Henry S. Morgan.
Binding
Modern half brown morocco.
Classification
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