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.
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