Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1655.
Museum Wormianum. Seu, Historia rerum rariorum tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur.
First edition of this illustrated description of the remarkable cabinet of curiosities collected by the Danish polymath, Ole Worm (1588-1654), a physician, linguist, naturalist, and a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Worm amassed an expansive collection, housed in his “Museum Wormianum”, consisting of an assortment of bizarre..... More