New SIL Title with Assouline Publishing

This spring, six unique volumes from the Smithsonian Libraries’ collections will be featured in Botanicals, with text by SIL’s Curator of Natural History Rare Books, Leslie Oversteet.

Exquisite plates from the volumes below illustrate this stunning work, which is focused on flowers, fruits and butterflies. Click the links to preview the illustrations in our Galaxy of Images!

• Maria Sibylla Merian’s Raupen wunderbare . . ., 1730.
• Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium,[1705]
• E.A. Séguy’s Insectes, 1927.
• E.A. Séguy’s Papillons, 1925.
• Jean Jules Linden’s Iconographie des Orchidées, 1885-1906
• Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora , 1807.

Click here to purchase your own copy!

Image featured: Plate II from Maria Sibylla Merian's Raupen wunderbare, 1730.

Comments

[peacay]

Psst! Both Merian links are the same. I would search further but I'm getting cold fusion errors on 'surinamensium' or 'merian'.

By the way: great to see you guys have a blog!

[Smithsonian Libraries]

Thanks for catching the URL error ... it should be fixed now.

Thanks for reading, come back soon!