| Description | published 1976, number 97 of a limited edition of 1750 copies offered for sale, authentication certificate, notes on plates, 120 plates printed in colour, tissue guards each printed with key table and numbered, all contained in cloth-bound box with marbled boards, together with text volume consisting of Foreword, History, Significance of the Work Biographically and in the History of Merian's Work with text in English, French, German and Russian, facsimile of the ‘Notes' with modern German printed text, indices, bibliography, identification of insects, bound in simulated half-calf with marbled boards all contained in slipcase for text volume and plate box, an important facsimile work of the famous collection of original watercolour paintings housed in the St Petersburgh Museum, over 1,550 specimens are depicted of moths, butterflies, flies, beetles and other insects mostly with some or all early life stages, this facsimile is an opportunity to examine the work of Maria Merian. McGovern-Hill International Book Co. |
