Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, in qua origo, pabulum, transformatio ... tempus, locus et proprietates erucarum, vermium, papilionum, phalaenarum, muscarum, aliorumque hujusmodi exsanguium animalculorum exhibentur
By: [Maria Sibylla Merian]
Contributors: Merian, Dorothy Maria Henrietta
Publisher: J. Oosterwyk
Published: 1718
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: lat
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Insects; Botany; Development; Caterpillars; Lepidoptera
Notes: Translated from the German and pt. III added by the author's daughter, D.M.H. Graf.

Based on the Dutch ed., published in 3 pts. 1713-17. In this ed. the three parts of text are no longer bibliographicly distinct but the plates remain in three sequences, each with separate engr. t.p. (without lettering)

Copy 1 Note: Port., pts. ii-iii of plates and engr. t.ps. to all three pts. wanting.