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Maria Sibylla Merian's Leningrad Watercolors
by MERIAN, Maria Sibylla
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- Condition
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About This Item
Leipzig: Leipzig: Edition, 1974. Limited Edition of 1750. Elephant folios (19x15 inches) housed together in a plain green board slipcase. very good. Maria Sibylla Merian: Leningrader Aquarelle / Leningrad Watercolours; text in English, German, French, Russian.
Edition Leipzig, 1974. Limited. hardcover. Maria Sibylla Merian. 50 fine large color facsimiles of original watercolors in 2 volumes -- plate volume with 50 fasicles loose as issued in a velum-backed hand-marbled board clamshell case. The text volume (319 pages of commentary in Russian, English, French and German) in a matching binding has 146 smaller color reproductions on 17 folding plates. Elephant folios (19 x 15 x 4.5 inches) housed together in a plain green board slipcase. Edition limited to 1750 copies. -- Very heavy, requires extra shipping! -- The original watercolors are in Peter the Great's collection, housed in the Archives and Library of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Leningrad. 2 volumes -- plate volume with 50 fasicles loose as issued in a velum-backed hand-marbled board clamshell case. The text volume (319 pages of commentary in Russian, English, French and German) in a matching binding has 146 smaller color reproductions on 17 folding plates. Elephant folios housed together in a plain green board slipcase.
Edition Leipzig, 1974. Limited. hardcover. Maria Sibylla Merian. 50 fine large color facsimiles of original watercolors in 2 volumes -- plate volume with 50 fasicles loose as issued in a velum-backed hand-marbled board clamshell case. The text volume (319 pages of commentary in Russian, English, French and German) in a matching binding has 146 smaller color reproductions on 17 folding plates. Elephant folios (19 x 15 x 4.5 inches) housed together in a plain green board slipcase. Edition limited to 1750 copies. -- Very heavy, requires extra shipping! -- The original watercolors are in Peter the Great's collection, housed in the Archives and Library of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Leningrad. 2 volumes -- plate volume with 50 fasicles loose as issued in a velum-backed hand-marbled board clamshell case. The text volume (319 pages of commentary in Russian, English, French and German) in a matching binding has 146 smaller color reproductions on 17 folding plates. Elephant folios housed together in a plain green board slipcase.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Books Honolulu
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 922ho
- Title
- Maria Sibylla Merian's Leningrad Watercolors
- Author
- MERIAN, Maria Sibylla
- Format/Binding
- Elephant folios (19x15 inches) housed together in a plain green board slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition of 1750
- Publisher
- Leipzig: Edition
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1974
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Limited Editions; Illustrated Books; Science;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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