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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: Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717

Publication date: 1719

Topics: Insects -- Pictorial works, Zoology -- Suriname, Botany -- Suriname, Booksellers' catalogs -- Netherlands, Imprint 1719

Publisher: Amstelædami, : apud Joannem Oosterwyk

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana; globallibraries

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Latin

[10], 67, 62-66 p., 72 leaves of plates : 53 cm. (fol.)

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