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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of MetamorphosisTODD, Kim
ISBN: 9781845114312
I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., London, 2007, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards dark green/gilt, light green endbands, decorated end papers, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs and copies of pen and ink drawings by Maria Merian, 328 pp.
Boards clean and firm, very gentle rubs to head and tail of spine, neat inscription on half title page, no annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Wrapper clean and crisp, gentle rubs to top edge and spine head. Lovely copy.
BIOGRAPHY, MARIA MERIAN, FEMALE NATURALIST, ARTIST, SCIENTIST, EXPLORER, 17TH & 18TH CENTURY
46411 BIOG/M £26.50