Museum wormianum seu Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authories servantur
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Museum wormianum seu Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authories servantur
Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1655
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Musei Wormiani historia
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Catalog of the Museum Wormianum, Copenhagen
Title page vignette with motto "Non solus", engraved head- and tailpieces, initials
Double-page plate (frontispiece) engraved interior view of the museum, engraved by G. Wingendorp
Includes index
Lacking portrait of the author
Engraved illustrations, many of New World specimens
Edited by the author's son, Villum Worm (preface, leaf *3 signed: W. Worm, Olai fil.)
Dedicated to Frederik III, king of Denmark
Detailed description of the natural history cabinet created by the Danish scientist Ole Worm. The text is divided into four books, the first three dealing with minerals, the plant and animal kingdoms. The fourth takes in manufactured objects, for example archaeological and ethnographical items, coins and some original works of art. The work is not merely a catalogue, but a scholarly work with references to, and quotations from, other writers. Cf. Website of The King's Kunstkammer at The National Museum of Denmark