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100 1 $aMerian, Maria Sibylla,$d1647-1717.
240 10 $aMetamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.$lLatin.
245 10 $aMariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium :$bIn quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula; /$comnia manu ejusdem matronæ in America ad vivum accurate depicta, & nunc æri incisa. Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, & ranarum in pisces.
260 $aAmstelædami, :$bapud Joannem Oosterwyk,$cM D CCXIX. [1719]
300 $a[10], 67, 62-66 p., 72 leaves of plates :$bill., coat of arms ;$c53 cm. (fol.)
500 $aNotes on the plants contributed by Caspar Commelin.
500 $aText in Latin. Originally published under title: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705.
500 $aA new edition, with 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 supplied by Albert Seba; also, a frontispiece has been added.
500 $aPublished also in editions with text in Latin and French, Latin and Dutch, and Dutch alone.
500 $aTitle vignette.
500 $aLeaves unsigned; frontispiece (p. [1], 1st count, with blank verso, p. [2]) conjugate with title page (p. [3])
500 $aPlates numbered 1-72.
500 $aBookseller's announcement (p. [4], 1st count)
500 $aRunning titles (p. 1-67, 2nd count, 62-64, 3rd count) Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium; running titles (p. 65-66, 3rd count): Appendix Metamorph. insect. Surinamensium. Text for these latter pages, and plates 71-72, by Albert Seba.
510 4 $aBrown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800,$c3:248.
510 4 $aEuropean Americana$c719/109.
510 4 $aPritzel$c6105.
510 4 $aNissen, C., Botanische Buchillustration,$c1341.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 1, bound in contemporary calf, has handcolored plates, frontispiece, vignette and coat of arms. Plates facing text leaves. The versos of all plates contain a handwritten translation of the corresponding text into English.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 2, bound in contemporary calf, has plain plates, frontispiece and vignette. Plates at end of text. The text leaves are gathered in 2's. The title page is that of the first edition in Latin: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. In qua eruces ac vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus, ad vivum delineantur & describuntur, singulis eorum in plantas, flores & fructus collocatis, in quibus reperta sunt, tum etiam generatio ranarum, bufonium rariorum, lacertarum, serpentum, araneorum & formicarum exhibetur; omnia in America ad vivùm naturali magnitudine picta atque descripta per Mariam Sibyllam Merian. Amstelodami, sumptibus auctoris, habitantis in de Kerk-straat, tussen de Leydse- en Spiegel-Straat, ubi impressa & colorata prostant. Venduntur & apud Gerardum Volk op den Dam, in de Waakende Hond. Anno M DCCV. [1705]. The frontispiece is that used as the title page of later editions in French, with cartouche titled : Receuil [sic] des plantes des Indes par M.S. Merian. A Paris chez Huquier vis-àvis le grand Chatelêt. S.d. [ca. 1745]
650 0 $aInsects$xPictorial works.
650 0 $aZoology$zSuriname.
650 0 $aBotany$zSuriname.
650 4 $aBooksellers' catalogs$zNetherlands.
653 $aImprint 1719.
700 11 $aCommelin, Caspar,$d1667?-1731.
700 11 $aSeba, Albert,$d1665-1736.
740 01 $aDissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium.
752 $aNetherlands$dAmsterdam.
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