Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten, :
waer in de Surinaemsche rupsen en wormen, met alle derzelver veranderingen, naer het leeven afgebeeldt, en beschreeven worden; zijnde elk geplaest op dezelfde gewassen, bloemen, en vruchten, daer ze op gevonden zijn; beneffens de beschrijving dier gewassen : waer in ook de wonderbare padden, hagedissen, slangen, spinnen, en andere zeltzame gediertens worden vertoont, en beschreeven /
alles in Amerika door den zelve M.S. Meiraen [sic] naer het leeven, en leevensgrootte geschildert, en nu in 't koper overgebracht ; benevens een aenhangsel van de veranderingen van visschen in kikvorschen, en van kikvorschen in visschen.

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Main Author

Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.

Related Names

Ottens, Frederik.
Stopendael, Daniel, d. ca. 1740.
Mulder, Joseph, b. 1659 or 60.
Sluyter, Peter, 1645-1722.
Seba, Albert, 1665-1736.
Commelin, Caspar, 1667?-1731.

Language(s)

Dutch

Published

t'Amsterdam, : By Joannes Oosterwyk, boekverkoper op den Dam in de Boekzael ..., 1719.

Subjects

Insects > Insects / Development.
Botany > Botany / Surinam.
Zoology > Zoology / Surinam.
Insects > Insects / Surinam.
Suriname > Suriname / Description and travel.

Note

Running title (p. 1-70): Verandering der Surinaamsche insecten; running title (p. 71-72): Aanhangsel der Surinaamsche insecten.
Imprint includes: Alwaer dit werk als ook de Europeesche Insecten in quarto van deselve Juffrouw Meriaen naer 't leven geschildert en afgezet te bekomen zyn. 1719.
Plates unnumbered, designated in the text as: De I. [-LXXII.] Afbeelding.
Title vignette. Dedication with coat of arms.
Published also in editions with text in Latin, Latin and Dutch, and Latin and French. Also, a different issue in Dutch is known, without a publisher's statement, and with some slight changes in the title.
A new edition, with 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 (nos. 71-72) by Albert Seba who also provided the accompanying text. The plates in this edition are counter-proofs, reversed as compared with those in the 1705 and other 1719 editions, and the names of the engravers are omitted (Pieter Sluyter, Joseph Mulder, Daniel Stoopendael). Also, as in the other 1719 editions, a frontispiece by Frederik Ottens has been added.
Originally published in Latin and Dutch editions under titles: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium = Ofte verandering der Surinaamsche insecten (Amsterdam, 1705).
Notes on the plants contributed by Casparus Commelin.

Physical Description

[8], 72 p., 72, [1] leaves of plates : col. ill. (engravings), coat of arms ; 53 cm. (fol.)

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