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Selected Bibliography:
Maria Sybilla Merian
(1647-1717)

By Marja Smolenaars,
Leiden University

M. A. Pfeiffer, Die Werke der Maria Sybilla Merian (Meissen, 1931). Bibliography of her works to 1771.

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensis, ed. E. Rücker and W. T. Stearns (London, 1980). Facsimile edition of the water-colours in the Royal library, Windsor Castle.
Leningrad Watercolours, ed. E. Ullman (New York and London, 1974). Contains essays by H. Ullmann, D. Beer and B. V. Lukin; texts in various languages; also published with German or French titles, but content is the same.
Neues Blumenbuch: Nachdruck der 1680 in Nürnberg erschienenen Ausgabe nach dem Exemplar der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek in Dresden, ed. H. Deckert (Leipzig, 1987).
Schmetterlinge, Käfer und andere Insekten: Leningrader Studienbuch, ed. I. N. Lebedeva, W. D. Beer, G. Friese (Leipzig/Lucerne, 1976). Facsimile of MSM's journal and essays by the editors.
Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung: Part 1 (Nürnberg, 1679); Part 2 (Frankfurt/Leipzig, 1683); Part 3 (Amsterdam, 1717).

N. Z. Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 140-202.
H. Kaiser, Maria Sybilla Merian: eine Biographie (Düsseldorf/Zürich, 1997).
M. Pfister-Burkhalter, Maria Sybilla Merian. Leben und Werk. 1647-1717 (Basel, 1980).
T. A. Lukina, Mariia Sibilla Merian, 1647-1717 (Leningrad, 1980). In Russian.
U. Keppler, Die Falterfrau. Das Ungewönliche Leben der Maria Sybilla Merian (Heilbronn, 1963).
J. Stuldreher-Nienhuis, Verborgen Paradijzen. het leven en de werken van Maria Sybilla Merian 1647-1717 (Arnhem, 1944-45). Dated, but still valuable.

K. Wettengl, red., Maria Sybilla Merian 1647-1717: Künstlerin und Naturforscherin (Frankfurt am Main/Ostfildern, 1997). Exhibition catalogue with several very informative essays. Also published in Dutch as Maria Sybilla Merian 1647-1717: Kunstenares en Natuuronderzoekster (Haarlem/Bloemendaal, 1998); and in English as Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717: Artist and Naturalist (1998).
E. Rücker and W. T. Stearns, Maria Sybilla Merian in Surinam: Kommentar zur Facsimile-Ausgabe der "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensis" (Amsterdam 1705) = Commentary to the facsimile edition, London, 1982. Parallel German and English text; contains MSM's correspondence and a bibliography of her work.
E. Rücker, "Maria Sybilla Merian 1647-1717. Ihr Werken in Deutschland und Holland," Nachbarn. Zeitschrift der Presse und Kulturabteilung der königlichen niederländischen Botschaft 24 (Bonn, 1980).
I. N. Lebedeva, "De Nalatenschap van Maria Sybilla Merian in Sint-Petersburg," in Peter de Grote en Holland, red. R. Kistemaker (Amsterdam, 1996).
S. Valiant, "Maria Sybilla Merian: Recovering an Eighteenth-Century Legend," Eighteenth-Century Studies 3 (1993): 467-79. Review essay.
W. Blunt and W. T. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration, rev. and enl. ed. (Woodbridge, 1994).
H. Deckert, Maria Sybilla Merians "Neues Blumenbuch" (Nürenberg, 1680); reprinted Leipzig, 1982. Text accompanying the facsimile of the Dresden copy.

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