Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"
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Flowers, Butterflies and Insects - Maria Sibylla Merian
Copyright © 1991 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
This Dover edition, first published in 1991, is a republication of all the plates from Erucarum Ortus, Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, originally published in Amsterdam in 1718. A publisher’s note has been written for this edition.
We are grateful to the Print Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, for the loan of one of the images for reproduction.
DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES
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