Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in 1705..... More

Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in 1705..... More

Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in..... More

Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. They returned to Amsterdam and Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in..... More

Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1771. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 14 x 8 5/8 inches, sheet measures 18 3/8 x 13 inches. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) was a naturalist and an artist. She and her daughter Dorothea traveled to Surinam in order to study metamorphosis. They stayed in the Dutch colony from 1699 to 1701, studying and painting insects, animals, and plants. In 1705 Merian published her seminal work on Surinam in Amsterdam. Daniel Rabel..... More

Red Fox Press, 2012. Color photographs. Square 12mo, black cloth-backed grey boards with pictorial inset on cover. Red Fox Press, 2012. Fine. Number 24 of 169 copies. Signed by both author/photographer. More

New York: Monacelli Press, 2008. Preface by Glenn O'Brien. Numerous photographic illustrations. Tall 4to, pictorial boards (corners a bit bumped and with a repair at base of front hinge. New York: Monacelli Press, (2008). First Edition. Overall about very good. Signed by Galella in silver ink, facing title page. More

Boston: Bulfinch, 1997. Replete with 650 color, 450 halftone, and 150 duotone illustrations. 304 pages. Tall 4to, black cloth, d.w. A Bulfinch Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, (1997). First Edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. With Essays by several authors. More

New York: Gagosoan Gallery, 2002. Color plates, including 2 folding. Slim square 4to, white cloth with purple type. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002). First Edition. Fine. Published on the occasion of the March 14 - April 20, 2002 New York exhibition, and the March 21 - May 4, 2002 Beverly Hills Exhibition. More

Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts. Folio with title-page, 49 of 50 color loose collotype plates after photographs. In original cloth-backed illustrated boards, with stains, chips and wear, three green cloth ties, present but worn. Some light scuffs to plates, corner of plate 8 is chipped lower left. Plate 36 missing. Beautiful arrangements of flowers, leaves, vines, and grasses, printed in unusual colors. Chrysanthemums, begonias, poppies, ferns and many more flowers are depicted. The floral designs include ornamental friezes, carpets, among..... More

New York: Whitney Museum, 1998. Numerous illustrations in color and in black & white. 214 pages, stiff pictorial blue wrappers. New York: Whitney Museum, (1998). First Edition. Corners very slightly bumped, still a near fine copy. Presentation in blue ink, by the artist, Bill Viola, with a full page drawing on the title-page, dated 2010. Published on the occasion of a major retrospective of the video artist. More

New York: Schirmer/Whitney, 2004. Numerous color illustrations. 160 page, tall slim 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: Whitney and Shirmer/Mosel. (2004). First Edition. Fine. More

New York: Harper, 1971. 8vo, maroon boards & cloth spine, d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First Edition. Fine. Basis for a 1973 film. More