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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 ... whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts. London: W. Rawlins, 1681. 2 parts, small 2° (314 x 193mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Daniel Colwall, founder of the Royal Society Museum, 31 engraved plates, including on folding (folding plate a little creased). Contemporary calf (front joints split but cords holding, extremities worn). Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (book-label).
FIRST EDITION, a clean copy from the library of H.F. Norman. Grew "was one of the early comparative anatomists to use the microscope and he introduced the term 'comparative anatomy.' His treastise on the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts is an early classic in the field, and the thirty-one plates are particularly fine." Other plates depict mineral crystals, shells, fish, skulls of birds and mammals, fossils, and insects. Heirs of Hippocrates 420; Garrison & Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Norman 947; Wellcome III, p. 164.
FIRST EDITION, a clean copy from the library of H.F. Norman. Grew "was one of the early comparative anatomists to use the microscope and he introduced the term 'comparative anatomy.' His treastise on the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts is an early classic in the field, and the thirty-one plates are particularly fine." Other plates depict mineral crystals, shells, fish, skulls of birds and mammals, fossils, and insects. Heirs of Hippocrates 420; Garrison & Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Norman 947; Wellcome III, p. 164.
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