GREW (Nehemiah): Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College. Whereeunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London, W R Rawlins, 1681. Infolio, fawn calf, spine ribbed, red mar. title, boards decorated with fillets, central lace and stamped corner fleurons, red speckled edges. A very nice copy of this rare edition of ref 1989 and today. It is complete with the engraved portrait of Daniel Colwal, founder of the Royal Society Museum and the 31 engraved plates including the beautiful plate of the crocodile skeleton. Garrison-Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952
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GREW (Nehemiah): Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College. Whereeunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London, W R Rawlins, 1681. Infolio, fawn calf, spine ribbed, red mar. title, boards decorated with fillets, central lace and stamped corner fleurons, red speckled edges. A very nice copy of this rare edition of ref 1989 and today. It is complete with the engraved portrait of Daniel Colwal, founder of the Royal Society Museum and the 31 engraved plates including the beautiful plate of the crocodile skeleton. Garrison-Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952