Maria Sybilla Merian

Lot 1015 limit € 90

2 cassettes in total with slipcase, Leningrad watercolors, large-format, elaborate facsimile, one-time limited edition of 1,750 (handwritten) Arabic numbered copies (here No. 1294), Volume I with 50 plate illustrations, texts in German, English, French and Russian Language, the text volume (volume II) also contains numerous facsimiles of the manuscript, here on fold-out colored plates, ed. by Ernst Ullmann, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1st edition, 1974, half parchment with gold embossing, cover and case covered with marbled paper, slipcase made of green linen, minor signs of age and wear