Hand-colored engraving
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647—1717).
Metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium . . . Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam.
The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1726
Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library

 
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