Lot 300
Merian, Maria Sibylla. The Surinam Album. The Folio Society, London, 2006. No. 297 of a limited edition of 1,000. Like New. Containing 91 watercolor facsimiles from the Maria Sibylla Merian Collection in the British Museum. Introduction by Julie Harvey of the Entomology Library at the Natural History Museum. Quarter bound in the finest Nigerian goatskin leather. Blocked in gold and silver with a design by David Eccles. Buckram-bound solander box. 91 pages. 91 facsimile prints tipped in by hand. 20¼" x 18" x 4¼". Commentary book by Maria Sibylla Merian. In publisher's original shipping box. $400 - 600
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