Author: MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA. Ullmann, Ernst, a.o. (eds).
Title: Maria Sibylla Merian. Leningrad watercolours.
Description: New York & London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974]. 2 vols. 50 fine col. facs. plates, each plate is accompanied by explanatory text. (= facsimile). - AND: 319 pp. 146 col. ills on [17] folding and double-page plts (= commentary vol.). Uniform hardcover (portfolio), gilt titles on vellum spines, cover of each vol. marbled by hand by Gerhard Hesse. In orig. slipcase. Folio. - Very light shelfwear; top edge op spine of vol. II sl. stained. (ca. 3 - 5 mm.).Published in a limited edition of 1750 copies with Arabic numerals (nr. 778). - - Text in English, French, German, and Russian. The originals of the watercolours reproduced in this facsimile are in the possession of the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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