Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are c

"Full-scale details reproduced from hand-colored transfer prints in the second edition of Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis of the insects of Suriname"--P. [

Includes more than three centuries of drawings culled from the rare books library of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, each page in Bot

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