Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis.. exhibentur. Amsterdam: Johan Oosterwyk, [?1718]. 3 parts in one volume, small 4 (199 x 147mm). Engraved frontispiece by Schynvoet, one blank section title only (of 2), 150 plates by Merian, dedication leaf with engraved headpiece. (Lacking portrait of Merian by Houbraken, and section title to part III, repair to foot of title, plates 31-37 in part I spotted, plates 49 and 50 from part I misbound at end of part II.) Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, joints split). The Latin edition of Merian's Raupenbuch , a work with a complex publishing history. Although the first two volumes had originally been printed in Nuremberg in 1679 and 1683, the third -- entitled Die rupsen Begin -- was only published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1717, the year of the author's death. The present work contains the plates to all three parts with text in Latin, it was available with the plates coloured or, as here, uncoloured. The first folio editions were the separate Dutch and French language editions which J. F. Bernard issued in 1730. Ultimately, it became part of the Histoire gnrale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe , issued by the Paris publisher, L. C. Desnos, in 2 volumes, 1777. Cf. Landwehr 135 (coloured copy); Nissen BBI , 1342; Wettengl, Maria Sibylla Merian p.247 cat. no. 155.
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis.. exhibentur. Amsterdam: Johan Oosterwyk, [?1718]. 3 parts in one volume, small 4 (199 x 147mm). Engraved frontispiece by Schynvoet, one blank section title only (of 2), 150 plates by Merian, dedication leaf with engraved headpiece. (Lacking portrait of Merian by Houbraken, and section title to part III, repair to foot of title, plates 31-37 in part I spotted, plates 49 and 50 from part I misbound at end of part II.) Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, joints split). The Latin edition of Merian's Raupenbuch , a work with a complex publishing history. Although the first two volumes had originally been printed in Nuremberg in 1679 and 1683, the third -- entitled Die rupsen Begin -- was only published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1717, the year of the author's death. The present work contains the plates to all three parts with text in Latin, it was available with the plates coloured or, as here, uncoloured. The first folio editions were the separate Dutch and French language editions which J. F. Bernard issued in 1730. Ultimately, it became part of the Histoire gnrale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe , issued by the Paris publisher, L. C. Desnos, in 2 volumes, 1777. Cf. Landwehr 135 (coloured copy); Nissen BBI , 1342; Wettengl, Maria Sibylla Merian p.247 cat. no. 155.
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