Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium
In 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
by Maria Sibylla Merian
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Notes on the plants contributed by Caspar Commelin.
Text in Latin. Originally published under title: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705.
A 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.
Published also in editions with text in Latin and French, Latin and Dutch, and Dutch alone.
Title vignette.
Leaves unsigned; frontispiece (p. [1], 1st count, with blank verso, p. [2]) conjugate with title page (p. [3])
Plates numbered 1-72.
Bookseller's announcement (p. [4], 1st count)
Running 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.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:248.
European Americana 719/109.
Pritzel 6105.
Nissen, C., Botanische Buchillustration, 1341.
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