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GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and

GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College... Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Daniel Colwall, founder of the Museum, and 30 (of 31) plates; lacks plate 31. [12], 386, [2]; [4], 43 pages, including blank 3D3. Folio, modern 1/4 morocco; dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume, scattered contemporary corrections in ink, some soiling on plates, several plates reinforced along edges, folding plate repaired on verso. London: W. Rawlins, 1681

  • Notes: first edition of a catalogue of the specimens in the museum of the Royal Society, also including Grew's study of the stomach organs. Garrison-Morton 297; Wing G1952.

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