GREW NEHEMIAH Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or A Catalogue De

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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], 43, [1]; 386, [2]; [4] pages, including blank 3D3, with The Comparative Anatomy of Stomach and Guts bound before the catalogue. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, modern calf; title reinforced along fore edge on verso, blank outer corners of last 2 plates restored. London: W. Rawlins, 1681

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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.