Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium
Subtitle: In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula
By: omnia manu ejusdem matronæ in America ad vivum accurate depicta, & nunc æri incisa. Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, & ranarum in pisces
Contributors: Commelin, Caspar, 1667?-1731; Seba, Albert, 1665-1736
Publisher: apud Joannem Oosterwyk
Published: 1719
Place of publication: Amstelædami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Insects; Zoology; Botany; Pictorial works; Booksellers' catalogs
Other titles: Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium.
Work titles: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Notes: Notes on the plants contributed by Caspar Commelin.

Text in Latin. Originally published under title: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705.

A new edition, with 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 supplied by Albert Seba; also, a frontispiece has been added.

Published also in editions with text in Latin and French, Latin and Dutch, and Dutch alone.

Title vignette.

Leaves unsigned; frontispiece (p. [1], 1st count, with blank verso, p. [2]) conjugate with title page (p. [3])

Plates numbered 1-72.

Bookseller's announcement (p. [4], 1st count)

Running titles (p. 1-67, 2nd count, 62-64, 3rd count) Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium; running titles (p. 65-66, 3rd count): Appendix Metamorph. insect. Surinamensium. Text for these latter pages, and plates 71-72, by Albert Seba.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:248.

European Americana 719/109.

Pritzel 6105.

Nissen, C., Botanische Buchillustration, 1341.