MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA Leningrad Watercolors. 50 color plates reproducing watercolors of natural history subjects by Merian. With volume

of explanatory text in German, English, French, and Russian, including 146 illustrations on 17 fold-out sheets. 2 volumes. Folio, facsimile plates unbound, loose in vellum-backed marbled board folding case, text volume in vellum-backed marbled boards; slipcase. New York, (1974) ONE OF 1800 NUMBERED SETS. First publication of a collection of watercolors acquired by Peter the Great in 1717 and now in the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.