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Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam: dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez

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Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam: dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez
Additional title: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Names
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 (Author)
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717 (Artist)
Sluyter, Peter, 1645-1722 (Engraver)
Mulder, Joseph, b. 1659 or 60 (Engraver)
Rousset de Missy, Jean, 1686-1762 (Translator)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1726
Library locations
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Shelf locator: *KB+++ 1726 (Merian, M. S. Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam)
Topics
Insects -- Suriname
Botany -- Suriname
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Notes
Statement of responsibility: French translation by Jean Rousset de Missy.
Publications: First published in Latin and Dutch, Amsterdam, 1705, under title: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.
Content: On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées, & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin. On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons
Content: Added t.-p. in Latin.
Statement of responsibility: Plates engraved by P. Sluyter and I. Mulder.
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 5 preliminary leaves, 72 pages. 72 colored plates. fol.
Title in red and black, with vignette.
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
French
Latin
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 17366694
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14274444
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 17.01.5003
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cd297aa0-c5ea-012f-a4b2-58d385a7bc34
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Item timeline of events

  • 1647: Creator Born
  • 1717: Creator Died
  • 1726: Issued
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2019: Found by you!
  • 2020

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Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1726. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f02d92c0-ad53-0135-125b-79e6b695e2af

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Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. (1726). Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f02d92c0-ad53-0135-125b-79e6b695e2af

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Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam