Maria Sibylla Merian

Size: ~6 x 7.5 inches - Original Hand Colored Copperplate Engravings
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Raupenbuch
Flos Hyerosolomitanus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer001

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Viola Martia Purpurea
Date: 1713
Price: Sold
Print Code: Bomer001bis

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Pyrus Florens
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer002

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Tulipa Purpurea
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer002bis

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Vitis Labrusca
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer005

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Rosa Centifolia Rubra
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer006

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Spinus Prunus `
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer006bis

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Malva
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer007

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Aquilegia
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer008

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Consolida Regalis
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer011

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Papaver
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer013

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Viola Lutea Pleno Flore
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer015

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Carduus Mariae
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer015bis

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Flos Cuculi
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer016

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Vermes Miraculosi
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer017

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Iris Hortensis Latifolia
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer020

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Lilium Aureum
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer021

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Rubeus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer021bis

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Tithymalus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer022

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Rosa Multiplex
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer022bis

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Periclymenus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer023

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Cotonea Flos
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer024

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Convolvolus Minor
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer025

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Geranium Florens
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer026

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Pyrus Florens
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer027

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Nasturtium Indicum
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer027bis

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Rosa Versicolor
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer028

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Buphtalmum
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer028bis

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Grossularia Hortensis
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer029

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Cariophillus Variegatus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer031

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Acacia Germanica
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer033

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Anemone
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer034

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Gramen Virgineum
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer035

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Iris Hortensis Latifolia
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer035bis

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Plantago Major
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer036

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Salix
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer038

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Urticae
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer041

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Rosa
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer042

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Acaciae Germanicae Flos
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer044

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Convolvulus Major
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer045

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Rosa
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer045bis

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Abiegna Folia
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer046

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Jacea Moschata Purpurea
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer046bis

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Anemone Flore Coccineo
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer047

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Convolvulus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer047bis

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Fructus Prunorum
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer047tris

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Cyclamen Flore Purpureo
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer048

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Cariophillus Purpureus
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer049

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Quercus cum Fructu
Date: 1713
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Print Code: Bomer050

These rare hand colored copperplate engravings have been selected from a work entitled "Erucarum ortus, alientum et paradoxa metamorphosis", published in Amsterdam in 1713 under the supervision of Maria Sybilla Merian. First Latin Edition. First published in 1679 with the title "Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung".

FIRST LATIN EDITION of Sybilla Merian's Raupenbuch. 'Among the most important works in her oeuvre is her work on the feeding and growth of European caterpillars ... because these volumes contain both illustrations and texts, they provide a wealth of insights into Merian's interests with respect to art and nature, the intentions she sought in her work and the public for whom that work was intended.
A unique primary source of information about a baroque painter, the Raupenbuch is also an invaluable historical source as a document of the popularisation of natural history in the early Enlightenment period.' (Heidrun Ludwig, 'The Rapuenbuch. A popular natural history', in Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717 Artist and Naturalist, Ostfildern: Gerd Hatje, 1998, p.53). As both Ludwig and Kay Etheridge (SHNH Annual Meeting 2006, TCD) have shown, Merian was the first to emphasize the life cycles and interactions of her depicted species - starting with the first part of the Raupenbuch, published in Nuremberg in 1679, and culminating in her masterpiece Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium, 1705 - in effect publishing the first ecological studies. Nissen BBI 1342; Dunthorne 205; Hunt 483; Landwehr 135.