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GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College . . . Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Daniel Colwall, founder of the Museum, and 30 (of 31) plates; lacks plate 31. [12], 386, [2]; [4], 43 pages, including blank 3D3. Folio, modern 1/4 morocco; dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume, scattered contemporary corrections in ink, some soiling on plates, several plates reinforced along edges, folding plate repaired on verso. London: W. Rawlins, 1681
first edition of a catalogue of the specimens in the museum of the Royal Society, also including Grew's study of the stomach organs. Garrison-Morton 297; Wing G1952.
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