GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum regalis societatis or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge [sic]... Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins for the author, 1681. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Daniel Colwall, founder of the Royal Society and 31 engraved plates, including one folding. 2 parts in one vol., folio, contemporary sheep, rebacked, worn, upper cover detached. FIRST EDITION. 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; Wellcome III, p. 164; Norman 947.