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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    • Worm, Villum
    • Mander, Carel van
    • Wingendorp, G., 17th cent.

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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

Ole Worm

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

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