Author: Lendorff,Gertrud Title: MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN 1647-1717 ihr Leben und ihr Werk Mit acht bisher unveroffentlichten Aquarellen
Description: Basel, Gute Schriften 1955 Colour plates (8) of flowers and insects by Maria Sibylla Merian (with additions by her daughter Johanna Helea Herolt & Willem de Heer) . Octavo green patterned boards (tips bit rubbed) [64]pp + 8 color plates. Text paper edge tanned plates entirely clean and on better paper. Text in German. *Pictures have not been previously printed. Some are preliminaries to illustrations published in her Raupenbuch, some as embroidery patterns, some painted from memory or imagination but all are minutely detailed and executed.
Keywords: floral art Maria Sibylla Merian
Price: GBP 4.00 = appr. US$ 5.71 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: A73003
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