Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.

17 leaves of loose plates (46 x 32 cm.) of flowers and insects painted in Surinam from 1698-1701, issued in a bound portfolio that contains a biography of Merian and descriptions for each plate. Separate sheet with a brief introductory biography of Merian in 6 languages is inserted in volume.

Line engraving, hand-colored, on cream paper; mat 36 x 30 cm. Floral wreath and insects around illustration of beehive in countryside.

Four engravings, colored by hand, on cream laid paper, mat 72 x 56. Each image includes a flowering plant and one or more moths and/or butterflies in several stages of growth except egg stage.

Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Single flowering hyacinth stalk, two beetles, and a frog in various life stages.

Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Flowering and fruiting branch. Caterpillar, cocoon and moth.

Engraving, hand-colored on cream paper, matted and framed 66 x 55 cm. Flowering and fruiting branch. Two moths, two caterpillars eating leaves, 1 cocoon, 1 pupa.

Thirty-six color leaves of plates showing flowers, depicted as single specimens, in bouquets and as wreathes. Some plates include insects or birds.