Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium, ofte, Verandering der Surinaamsche insecten : waar in de Surinaamsche rupsen en wormen met alle des zelfs veranderingen na het leven afgebeeld en beschreeven worden, zynde elk geplaast op die gewassen, bloemen en vruchten, daar sy op gevonden zyn : waar in ook de generatie der kikvorschen, wonderbaare padden, hagedissen, slangen, spinnen en mieren werden vertoond en beschreeven, alles in America na het leven en levensgroote geschildert en beschreeven / door Maria Sibylla Merian.; Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium; Verandering der Surinaamsche insecten

Creator:

Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 author, illustrator, publisher.

Timespan:

Suriname.; 1705

Date:

1705

Description:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.; Schimmel Collection copy bound by Elisabeth Menalda (with her stamp "ELISABETH MENALDA, AMSTERDAM 1948" in green ink on back pastedown and her initials "EM" and date "1948" stamped in gold at foot of spine) in half green morocco over marbled boards; spine tooled in gold; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; gilt tops; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.; Schimmel Collection copy has printed paper slip with biographical information about binder Elisabeth Menalda laid in.; Schimmel Collection copy: first 20 plates numbered in manuscript by a contemporary hand; remaining 40 plates numbered in manuscript in pencil by a contemporary hand.

Identifier:

9978102924003681; ndn- m.s, n.t- enEe (3) 1705 (Q); (OCoLC)8161565; (OCoLC)ocm08161565

Language:

Dutch; Flemish

Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Publisher:

Tot Amsterdam : Voor den auteur, woonende in de Kerk-straat, tussen de Leydse en Spiegel-straat, over de Vergulde Arent, alwaar de zelve ook gedrukt en afgezet te bekoomen zyn : Als ook by Gerard Valck, op den Dam in de waakende Hond, [1705]

Subject:

Plants -- Suriname -- Early works to 1800.; Insects.; Insects -- Suriname -- Early works to 1800.; Plants.

Resource Type:

Books

Physical Description:

[4], 60 pages, [60] leaves of color plates : color illustrations; 54 cm (fol.)

Personal Name:

Stopendael, Daniel, engraver.; Sluyter, Peter, 1645-1722, engraver.; Herolt, Johanna Helena, 1668-1728, illustrator.; Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726, bookseller.; Menalda, Elisabeth, 1895-1997, binder.; Gsell, Dorothea Maria, 1678-1743, illustrator.; Mulder, Joseph, 1659 or 1660- engraver.

Corporate Name:

Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Geographic Subject:

Netherlands -- Amsterdam.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Imprint date from STCN.; Published also under title: Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium.; Sixty engraved illustrative plates after Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughters Johanna Helena Herolt and Dorothea Maria Gsell, of which 59 are counterproof prints. Some copies of this work were hand-colored at Merian's workshop. See E. Reitsma, "Maria Sibylla Merian," Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Tielt: Lannoo, 2016), page 17, and H. Mulder and M. van Delft, "The production of Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium 1705," Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Tielt: Lannoo, 2016), pages 43-44.; "Most of the engravings (35 of them) were made by Pieter Sluyter ... Joseph Mulder ... made a further 21, and there is one engraving by Daniël Stopendaal ... Three of the plates are unsigned; these have been attributed to Merian herself, or to her daughter Dorothea Maria, but we cannot be certain who was responsible for them."--H. Mulder and M. van Delft, "The production of Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium 1705," Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Tielt: Lannoo, 2016), page 46.; Woodcut title ornament and initial.; Also published in Latin (Amsterdam: Merian and Valck, 1705); see STCN 300349602.; Signatures: [A]-[Q]².

Physical Location:

Portfolio Schimmel Fiction 6245

Collection:

Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)