Title
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
Title Variants
Uniform: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Related Titles
Related/Analytical:
Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten
Related/Analytical:
Verandering der Surinaamsche insecten
By
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Commelin, Caspar, 1667?-1731
Mulder, Joseph, 1659 or 60-
Ottens, Frederik.
Seba, Albertus, 1665-1736
Sluyter, Peter, 1645-1722
Stopendael, Daniel, ca 1740
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
t'Amsterdam, By Joannes Oosterwyk, boekverkoper op den Dam in de Boekzael, 1719
Notes
Notes on the plants contributed by Casparus Commelin.
Originally published in Latin and Dutch editions under titles: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium = Ofte verandering der Surinaamsche insecten (Amsterdam, 1705).
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.
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.
Title vignette. Dedication with coat of arms.
Plates unnumbered, designated in the text as: De I. [-LXXII.] Afbeelding.
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.
Running title (p. 1-70): Verandering der Surinaamsche insecten; running title (p. 71-72): Aanhangsel der Surinaamsche insecten.
Landis, D.C. European Americana, | 719/110
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, | 1341
Muller, F. Amer., | 1476
Subjects
Botany
,
Description and travel
,
Development
,
Insects
,
Surinam
,
Suriname
,
Zoology
BHL Collections
Early Women in Science
Women in Natural History
Call Number
QL481.S96 M56 1719
Language
Dutch
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69889
OCLC:
48595622
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