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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 509718, member: 33&quot;]Are these the prints, or the books? -- Oh, never mind... I think you mean the books.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have visited the Oppenheimer Gallery in Chicago. (they run the audubonart website I linked earlier.) They had some original Merian plates on display. That whole store is like a museum! They changed locations a couple of years ago and I haven&#039;t been to their newer store. The old one was in the ground floor of the historic Wrigley Building.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a scientist. How I became interested in her work had to do with a purchase from years ago, that is described in this old thread here.</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/what-is-the-best-deal-you-have-ever-gotten.13971/#post-196063" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/what-is-the-best-deal-you-have-ever-gotten.13971/#post-196063">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/what-is-the-best-deal-you-have-ever-gotten.13971/#post-196063</a> -- Mine is #9, if that link doesn&#039;t go there. The image I used is <b>NOT</b> taken from the engraving that I bought. But the lines are eerily the same and I think mine is probably taken from one of her original plates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plates in the&nbsp; <i>Neues Blumenbuch</i> were in a smaller format than the very large plates in her later work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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