Auction 487/round/2 BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 22, 2020 (your local time)
Italy
 Via Pontaccio 12, 20121 Milano

Auction 487

22 September 2020

II session - 3.30 pm, from lot 135 to lot 270

Venue: Via Pontaccio 12, Milano

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LOT 167:

GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712) - Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and ...

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GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712) - Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial rarities. London: W. Rawling, 1681. The catalogue of the museum of the Royal Society, then housed at Gresham College, compiled by Nehemiah Grew whilst secretary of the Society. "Published with the catalogue is Grew's study of stomach organs, which is the first zoological book to have the term "comparative anatomy" on the title page, and also the first attempt to deal with the system of organs by the comparative method" (Garrison-Morton). 2 parts in one volume, folio (320 x 196mm). Engraved portrait and 31 numbered plates of which one folding (some light spotting and browning, few scattered stains). Speckled calf, marbled edges (joints splitting, some rubbings, corners bumped). Provenance: several corrections in the text.