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Leningrad watercolours
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- Creator
- Maria Sibylla Merian ; [edited by Ernst Ullmann]
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French, German, Russian
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974]
- ©1974
- Physical Details
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- 2 volumes : 196 color illustrations ; 48 cm
- ISBNs
- 0151498377, 9780151498376
- OCLC
- ocm01651069, ocm01651069
- "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
- Issued in a case.
- "Edited by Ernst Ullmann, Leipzig, with the assistance of Helga Ullman, Leipzig; Wolf-Dietrich Beer, Leipzig; and Boris Vladimirovich Lukin, Leningrad. Herr Gerrit Friese, Eberswalde (GDR), examined and supplemented the identification and description of the lepidoptera. The text was translated into English by George Baurley, Leipzig; into French by Daniel Poncin, Poitiers; and into Russian by Tatyana Lukina, Leningrad."--Title page verso
- "Designed by Albert Kapr, Leipzig. Typesetting and printing by Grafischer Grossbetrieb Völkerfreundschaft, Dresden. Binding by VEB Buchbinderei, Leipzig. The cover cloth, "Bouquet" design, was marbled by hand by Gerhard Hesse, Leipzig. Thus each copy is unique."--Title page verso
- "The originals of the fifty watercolors reproduced in this volume are in the possession of the Archives and Library of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Leningrad"--Title page verso
- World edition limited to 1,750 numbered copies, in Arabic numerals. 50 additional copies, not for sale, numbered with roman numerals."--Title page verso
- Vol. 1 consists of 50 loose plates (facsimile); each plate is accompanied by explanatory text. Vol. 2 (319 p., [16] leaves of plates)--includes 146 ill. on 16 folded leaves.
- Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, pages 151-161)-and indexes.
- Text in English, French, German, and Russian.
- v. 1. Facsimiles -- v. 2. Commentary