Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium
Subtitle: in quâ, praeter vermes & erucas surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantae, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, & ranarum in pisces
By: Mariae Sibillae Merian
Contributors: Rousset de Missy, Jean, 1686-1762
Publisher: Apud Joannem Oosterwyk
Published: 1719
Place of publication: Amstelaedami
Language: lat; fre; dut
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Insects; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Zoology; Metamorphosis
Other titles: Mariae Sibillae Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium; Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Work titles: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Description: The Metamorphosis resulted from Merian's trip, after her mother's death, with her daughter Dorothea to Surinam in 1699. The two women spent two years studying and recording plants and insects, returning to Amsterdam, after contracting malaria, with a series of finished drawings on vellum, sketches, and specimens, from which they continued to work. The first edition of their labours appeared in 1705 in Latin. Later editions contain 12 additional plates by Merian's older daughter Johanna. S. Peter Dance in "The Art of Natural History" (1978), refers to this series as "easily the most magnificent work on insects so far produced... combining science and art in equal proportions...."
Notes: Added t.-p., engraved and colored.

Issued also in editions with text in Latin, Dutch, or Latin and Dutch.

French translation by Jean Rousset de Missy.

Index in French.

Originally published: Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam : Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck, 1705. Text in Latin and Dutch.