GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). Musaeum regalis societatis. Or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge ... whereunto is subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins for the author, 1681.

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GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). Musaeum regalis societatis. Or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge ... whereunto is subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins for the author, 1681.

2o (313 x 194 mm). Engraved portrait of Sir Daniel Colwall, founder of the Royal Society, 31 engraved plates, including one folding. Contemporary English mottled calf (upper joint cracked, some chipping to joints and spine ends). Internally very fine.

FIRST EDITION. As secretary to the Royal Society, Grew compiled this illustrated catalogue if its museum, housed then at Gresham College. "Published with the catalogue is Grew's study of the 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 one system of organs only by the comparative method" (Garrison-Morton). Cole, Comparative anatomy, pp. 245-51; Garrison-Morton 297; Wellcome III, p.164; Wing G-1952; Norman 945.

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GREW, Nehemiah. Cosmologia Sacra: or a discourse of the Universe as it is the Creature and Kingdom of God. London: for W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, 1701. 2o (316 x 191 mm). Title-page printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White. Contemporary English panelled calf (joints cracked, worn and rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Grew's final work. The second book includes several chapters on psychological phenomena. Hunter-Macalpine, pp. 285-87; Welcome III, p.164; Norman 947. (2)