1655 Ole Worm "Museum Wormianum"very rare!
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WORM, Ole :Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur... Leiden, Elzevir, 1655 Folio (350 x 220 mm), pp [xii] 389 [3], with engraved portrait of Worm, double-page engraved plate view of the museum, 139 woodcuts and 13 engravings in text; a few leaves slightly browned, otherwise a very bright, crisp in contemporary vellum. First edition of this catalogue of the leading North European Wunderkammer, assembled by the Danish physician Ole Worm (1588-1654). 'A gifted polymath, Worm collected many types of objects, especially those of natural history and man-made artifacts, which he carefully arranged and classified, following a rigorous method... His museum, which became one of the great attractions of Copenhagen, included the skull of a narwhal properly described; previously narwhal tusks had been supposed to be the horns of unicorns. T were many prehistoric stone implements, but Worm did not conclude that they belonged to a stone age and were artifacts; he labelled them "Cerauniae, so called because they are thought to fall to earth in flashes of lightning"- a belief widely held at that time. This is curious, because Worm recognized the tip of a stone harpoon point embedded in a marine animal found in Greenland,
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