2 volumes (one of text and one of plates). Text and most titles in German, Russian, English and French. Text volume with 146 colored illusts on 17 folding leaves. Plate volume with 50 color facsimile reproductions of the original drawings on vellum, each with accompanying 2 leaves of text. (Folio) 18½x14, text in original quarter vellum; plates unbound in matching box; housed together in board slipcase.

Beautiful facsimile edition with extensive commentary. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an extraordinary painter, traveller and entomologist. This work includes some of the subjects she painted in Surinam.