Museum Wormianum
Subtitle: seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quæ Hafniæ Danorum in œdibus authoris servantur
By: adornata ab Olao Worm ...
Publisher: Apud Johannem Elsevirium ...
Published: 1655
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Natural history; Natural history museums; Archaeological museums and collections; Museums; Natural History; Archaeology; Museum Wormianum
Other titles: Historia rerum rariorum.
Description: Detailed description of the natural history cabinet created by the Danish scientist Ole Worm. The text is divided into four books, the first three dealing with minerals, the plant and animal kingdoms. The fourth takes in manufactured objects, for example archaeological and ethnographical items, coins and some original works of art. The work is not merely a catalogue, but a scholarly work with references to, and quotations from, other writers. Cf. Website of The King's Kunstkammer at The National Museum of Denmark.
Notes: "Variis & accuratis iconibus illustrata."

Catalog of the Museum Wormianum, Copenhagen.

Elsevier device on title page (Kahir M9)

Engraved head and tailpieces and initials.

Frontispiece engraved by G. Wingendorp; portrait of the author by Carol van Mander, engraved.

Rahir. Cat. ... de volumes imprimès par les Elzeviers, no. 775; Copinger, no. 5232; Willaert, no. 772.

Includes index.

Incomplete: Lacking frontispiece.