Museum Wormianum. Seu, Historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur. Adornata ab Olao Worm ...

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Worm, Ole, 1588-1654 [Browse]
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Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Johannem elsevirium, Acad. Typograph., 1655
Description
[12], 389, [3] p. double front., illus., port. 36 cm.

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    • Elsevier device on title page (Kahir M9)
    • Engraved head and tailpieces and initials.
    • Frontispiece engraved by G. Wingendorp; portrait of the author, by Carol van Mander, engraved
    • Rahir. Cat. ... de volumes imprimès par les Elzeviers, no. 775; Copinger, no. 5232; Willaert, no. 772.
    • Book I: fossils and stones (including gems, metals and magnets); Book II: plants, including a number of New World varieties (among them the pineapple, palm tree and peanut plant); Book III: animals (including a raccoon, narwhal, walrus, the first depiction of the great auk, and the first detailed depiction of the bird of paradise, showing that it did indeed have feet); Book IV: man-made artifacts and material culture.
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    23645168
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