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Property from the collection of Marqués de Casa Torres
MERIAN | Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. 1719]
Lot Closed
November 17, 01:23 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the collection of Marqués de Casa Torres
MERIAN, MARIA S.
Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. [Amsterdam: Joannes Oosterwyk, 1719]
Folio (507 x 345mm.), 72 plain engraved plates by Sluyter after Merian, old stiff card wrappers, lacks preliminaries, last 2 plates defective, others with repairs, binding worn, sold as a collection of plates not subject to return
Fernando de Aragón, VIII Marqués de Casa Torres; thence by descent to the present owner