Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum
Subtitle: tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur
By: adornata ab Olao Worm ... ; variis & accuratis iconibus illustrata
Publisher: Apud Iohannem Elsevirium
Published: 1655
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Natural history collections; Archaeological collections; Cabinets of curiosities; Early works to 1800; Natural history; Catalogs and collections; Pre-Linnean works; Antiquities; Private collections
Other titles: Historia rerum rariorum
Notes: Two other issues of 1655 have as printers Officina Elseviriorum, and Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios. The present issue was actually printed by Johannes and Daniel Elzevier, though only Johannes is credited on t.p. See Rahir.

Edited by Worm's son Willum, who signed the dedication. See Willems.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p. with motto Non solus. Engraved plates comprise a full-page port. of the author by G. Wingendorp after C. van Mander, and a double-page view of the interior of the author's cabinet by Wingendorp, tipped onto a stub at the centerfold. Of additional in-text ill., 11 are engravings (2 full page), the remainder woodcuts. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: *⁶ A-3C⁴.

Includes index.

"Authores quorum in hoc opere mentio sit"--P. [10] of preliminaries.

Willems, A.  Elzevir, 772

Rahir, E.  Elzevier, 775