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Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium

Publication Type:Book
Year of Publication:1719
Authors:M. S. Merian
Number of Pages:[72]
Publisher:Johannem Oosterwyk
City:Amstel‘dami
Other Numbers:Papyrus 4503
Keywords:FOODPLANT, SATURNIIDAE, SPHINGIDAE, SURINAM
Abstract:

Full title: Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium: in quâ, præter vermes et erucas surinamenses, earumque admirandum metamorphosin, plantae, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & in quibus suerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, aranæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula; omnia manu ejusdem matronæ in America ad vivum accurate depicta, & in nunc æri incisa. Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, & ranarum in pisces.

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