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100 1 $aMerian, Maria Sibylla,$d1647-1717.
240 10 $aRaupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sondebare Blumen-Nahrung.$lLatin
245 10 $aErucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis :$bin qua origo, pabulum, transformatio, nec non tempus, locus & proprietates erucarum, vermium, papilionum, phalaenarum, muscarum, aliorumque hujusmodi exsanguium animalculorum exhibentur : in favorem, atque insectorum, herbarum, florum, & plantarum amatorum, tùm etiam pictorum, limbolariorum, aliorumque commodum exactè inquisita, ad vivum delineata, typis excusa, compendiosèque descripta /$cper Mariam Sibillam Meriam.
260 $aAmstelaedami :$bApud Joannem Oosterwyk ...,$c[1718]
300 $a[14], 64 p. (p. [1]-[2] (1st count) blank), [154] leaves of plates :$bill., port. ;$c25 cm. (4to)
500 $aSignatures: [pi]⁴ *⁴ (-*1) A-H⁴ (pi 1 blank, pi 2 engraved).
500 $aPublication date from the Hunt botanical cat., no. 483 note.
500 $aTranslated from the German by the author's daughter, Dorothea Maria Henriette Merian, who also wrote pt. 3.
500 $a"This work in its earliest form was published as Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blummennahrung (Nuremberg, 1679-1683) with 100 plates and Die rupsen Begin, voedsel, en wonderbaare verandering (Amsterdam, [1713-1717]) with 150 plates. It became Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis (Amsterdam, [1718] with 150 plates. In 1730 the work was issued in Dutch as De Europische Insecten ... Ultimately it became part of the combined Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe, edited and enlarged by P.J. Buc'hoz (Paris, 1771)"--Hunt botanical cat., no. 483 note.
500 $aIn this edition the three parts of text are no longer bibliographically distinct, but the plates remain in three sequences; each part has a special engraved title page consisting of a floral wreath design, without lettering; plates are numbered 1-50, I-L, 1-50.
500 $aAll ill. are engravings; portrait of the author signed in the plate: "Jak. Houbraken sculpcit"; frontispiece, classical style, depicts the Merians and children collecting and drawing insects and plants, signed in the plate: "Schÿnvoet. del. et fec. 1717."
500 $aEngraved armorial vignette at head of dedication to Theodore Huyghens.
500 $aInitials; tail-pieces.
510 4 $aPfeiffer, M.A. Merian,$cp. 27
510 4 $aNissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.),$c1342
650 0 $aLepidoptera.
650 0 $aCaterpillars.
650 0 $aCaterpillars$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aLepidoptera$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aInsects$xDevelopment.
650 0 $aBotany$vPictorial works.
655 7 $aEngravings$zNetherlands$y18th century.$2rbgenr
700 1 $aMerian, Dorothea Maria Henriette,$d1678-1745.
700 1 $aHoubraken, Jacobus,$d1698-1780,$eill.
700 1 $aSchijnvoet, Jacobus,$dactive 1704-1733,$eill.
700 1 $aHuyghens, Theodore,$ededicatee.
700 1 $aOosterwyk, Johannes,$eprinter.
700 1 $aTaeuber, Hans W.,$eformer owner.$5hou
752 $aNetherlands$dAmsterdam.
988 $a20030219
906 $0OCLC