Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium
$775.00 USD • Used
Facsimile of the book that made M S Merian famous. Sumptuously produced deluxe facsimile of the copy of the original first edition, Amsterdam 1705 --- Maria Sibylla Merian: Metamorphosis insector...
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Facsimile of the book that made M S Merian famous. Sumptuously produced deluxe facsimile of the copy of the original first edition, Amsterdam 1705 --- Maria Sibylla Merian: Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. Ofte verandering der Surinaamsche insecten. Leipzig, VOB Kunst- und Verlagsbuchbinderei Leipzig, (1975, Large Folio 20.75" x 15.00" (53x38cm) (4),60p., with 60 numbered text pages, each text page opposed by a single-side printed color-plate; 1 sheet colophone, all on thick special paper. Printed in 600 numbered copies, this is No. 193. Gilt paneled, mottled artificial calf, (designed after the original leather binding) gilt inside dentelles, marbled endpapers, original solid cloth slipcase Sumptuously produced deluxe facsimile of the copy of the original edition, published in Amsterdam in 1705, based on the copy in the Landesbibliothek Dresden, under Signatur Zool. 145. MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647-1717), German Entomologist, Naturalist and scientific Illustrator; one of the earliest European Naturalists to document Observations about Insects directly. As in this case documenting the metamorhose of the butterfly during an almost 3-year visit to Surinam. FINE COPY in VERY GOOD slipcase.
Product Info
Publisher: VOB Kunst- und Verlagsbuchbinderei Leipzig
Year: 1975
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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