Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum : tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur / adornata ab Olao Worm ... ; variis & accuratis iconibus illustrata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worm, Ole, 1588-1654.

Contributor:

Worm, Villum, 1633-1701.

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Worm, Ole, 1588-1654--Natural history collections.

Worm, Ole.

Worm, Ole, 1588-1654--Archaeological collections.

Worm, Ole, 1588-1654.

Museum Wormianum.

Natural history--Catalogs and collections.

Natural history.

Natural history museums--Denmark--Copenhagen.

Natural history museums.

Archaeological museums and collections.

Denmark--Copenhagen.

Archaeological museums and collections--Denmark--Copenhagen.

Penn Provenance:

Krumbhaar, Edward Bell (autograph) (stamp)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 389 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 38 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Museum Wormianum

Historia rerum rariorum

Musei Wormiani historia

Place of Publication:

Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Iohannem Elsevirium, Acad. typograph, 1655.

Notes:

Edited by the author's son, Villum Worm (preface, leaf *3 signed: W. Worm, Olai fil.).

One of three editions, printed in 1655, by different members of the Elzevier family. Cf. Berghman.

Signatures: *⁶ A-3C⁴.

Added engraved t.p.: Musei Wormiani hisotria.

Includes index.

Includes many New World specimens.

Cited in:

Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 5232

Berghman, G. Suppl. à Willems, 245

Willems, A. Elzevier, 772

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 775

The Age of the marvelous (ed. by J. Kenseth) 17 (p. 238-239).

OCLC:

63550686