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Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern

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1709 CEMusaeum Kircherianum sive musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu iam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum descriptum, & iconibus illustratum....a Philippo Bonanni.
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680) BONANNI, Filippo [BUONANNI] (1638 – 1723)
1648 CEMusaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... labore, et studio composuit cum indice copiosissimo.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605)
1681 CEMusaeum Regalis Societatis, or a catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College. Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts.
GREW, Nehemiah (1641 – 1712)
GREW, Nehemiah (1641 – 1712)
1664 CEMusaeum Septalianum Manfredi Septalae.
TERZAGO, Paolo Maria (1625 – 1695)
1656 CEMusaeum Tradescantianum: Or, a collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.
WHARTON, Thomas (1614 – 1673)
WHARTON, Thomas (1614 – 1673)
TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638)
TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638)
TRADESCANT, John the Younger (1608 – 1662)
TRADESCANT, John the Younger (1608 – 1662)
ASHMOLE, Elias (1617 – 1692)
ASHMOLE, Elias (1617 – 1692)
1677 CEMuseo Cospiano: annesso a quello del famoso Vlisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall' illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi ..., fra' gli Accademici Gelati il Fedele, e principe al presente de' medesimi.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605) LEGATI, Lorenzo ( – 1675) COSPI, Fernando (1606 – 1686)
1778 CEMuseum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum, illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects: and with distinct explanations of each figure.
RYMSDYK, Jan van (Rijmsdijck, Riemsdyk, Remsdyke) (1730 – 1790) RYMSDYK, Andreas van (1754 – 1786)
1830 CEMuseum Brookesianum: A descriptive and historical catalogue of the remainder of the anatomical & zootomical museum, of Joshua Brookes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. &c.: comprising nearly one half of the original collection, and embracing an almost endless assemblage of every species of anatomical, pathological, obstetrical, and zootomical preparations, as well as subjects in natural history, of the choicest and rarest species in every department : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Wheatley & Adlard, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, Great Marlborough Street, on Monday, the 1st of March, 1830, and 22 following evenings, (Saturdays & Sundays excepted,) at half-past six o'clock precisely
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
1710 CEMuseum curiosum auctum Oder Neu-Verbesserte Beschreibung Derer raren und Ausländischen Sachen...Bey Tit. Herrn Christian Nicolai.
WARLITZ, Christian (1648 – 1717) NICOLAI, Christian
1787 CEMuseum Geversianum, sive, index rerum naturalium: Continens instructissimam copiam pretiosissimorum omnis generis ex tribus regnis naturae objectorum: Quam dum in vivis erat magna diligentia multaque cura comparavit Abrahamus Gevers.
GEVERS, Abraham (1712 – 1780)
1778 CEMuseum Gronovianum sive index rerum naturalium tam mammalium amphibiorum piscium insectorum conchyliorum zoophytorum plantarum et mineralium exquisitissimorum quam arte factarum nonnullarum.Inter quae eminet herbarius siccus plantarum a Tournefortio Claintonio Lannaeo aliisque botanic collectarum.
GRONOVIUS, Laurens Theodoor (1730 – 1777)
GRONOVIUS, Laurens Theodoor (1730 – 1777)
1850 CE​–1863 CEMuseum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt, mit kritischen Anmerkungen und Beschreibung der neuen Arten, systematisch bearbeitet von Jean Cabanis. 4 vols.
CABANIS, Jean Louis (1816 – 1906)
CABANIS, Jean Louis (1816 – 1906) HEINE, Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand (1809 – 1894)
1704 CEMuseum museorum, oder, Vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen : nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung, Election, Nutzen und Gebrauch, aus andern Material-, Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost-und-West-Indischen Reisz-Beschreibungen, Curiosen Zeit- und Tag-Registern, Natur- und Artzney-Kündigern, wie auch selbst-eigenen Erfahrung, zum Vorschub der Studirenden Jugend, Materialisten, Apothecker, und deren visitatoren, wie auch anderer Künstler, als Jubelirer, Mahler, Färber, u.s.w. also verfasset, und mit etlich hundert sauberen Kupfferstücken unter Augen geleget
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
1696 CEMuseum regium, seu, Catalogus rerum tam naturalium, quam artificialium, quae in basilica bibliothecae augustissimi Daniae Norvegiaeq[ue] monarchae Christiani Quinti, Hafniae asservantur.
JACOBAEUS, Oliger (Holger Jacobi) (1650 – 1701)
1743 CEMuseum Richterianum continens fossilia animalia, vegetabilia marina.
HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernest (1703 – 1757)
HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernest (1703 – 1757)
1693 CEMuseum Spenerianum, sive Catalogus Rerum tam artificiosarum, quam naturalium, tam antiquarum, quam recentium, tam exoticarum, quam domesticarum, quas Johannes Jacobus Spener in Academia Hallensi dum viveret, singulari industria & indefesso labore paravit atque collegit. Das Spenerische Cabinet, Oder Kurtze Beschreibung Aller So wol künstlich- als natürlicher, alter, als neuer, fremder, als einheimischer curiösen Sachen. Compiled by Johann Martin Michaelis.
SPENER, Johann Jacob
MICHAELIS, Johann Martin
MICHAELIS, Johann Martin
1655 CEMuseum Wormianum, seu, historia rerum rariorum: tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur.
WORM, Ole (1588 – 1654)
WORM, Ole (1588 – 1654)
1976 CENatural history auctions 1700-1972. A register of sales in the British Isles compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. With articles by S. Peter Dance, Peter G. Embrey, W. D. Ian Rolfe, Clive Simson, William T. Stern, J. M. Chalmers-Hunt, Alwyne Wheeler.
CHALMERS-HUNT, J. M.
1987 CENatural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ) STACE, Helen E. PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )
1656 CENote overo memorie del museo di Lodovico Moscardo....Nel primo si disorre delle cose antiche, le quali in detto museo si trouano. Nel secondo delle petre, minerali, e terre. Nel terzo de corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute.
MOSCARDO, Lodovico (1596 – 1672)
1872 CENotice sur le musée d'histoire naturelle de Colmar et aperçu historique sur le musée des Unterlinden en général.
FAUDEL, Charles Frédéric (1826 – 1893)
2017 CEObject lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.
BARNDT, Kerstin SINOPOLI, Carla M. (1956 – )
1862 CEOn the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history.
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
1599 CE​–1667 CEOpera omnia. 13 vols.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605)
2017 CEPhotography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
DAVIDSON, Kathleen
1726 CEPromtuarium rerum naturalium et artificalium Vratislaviense.
KUNDMANN, Johann Christian (1684 – 1751)
1663 CERariora musaei Henrici Fuiren medicinae doctoris quae Academie Regiae Hafniensi legavit.
FUIREN, Thomas (1623 – 1675)
1716 CERariora Musei Besleriani quae olim Basilius et Michael Rupertus Besleri collegerunt, aenesique tabulis ad vivum incisa evulgarunt: nunc commentariolo illustrata a Johanne Henrico Lochnero…
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629) LOCHNER, Johann Heinrich (1696 – 1715)
LOCHNER, Michael Friedrich (1662 – 1720)
LOCHNER, Michael Friedrich (1662 – 1720) BESLER, Michael Rupert (1607 – 1661)
1678 CERomani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum.
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
1998 CESarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844) JACKSON, Christine Elisabeth (1936 – )
1827 CESynopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly The Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To which are prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the collection; with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor.
FOX, George Townsend (1810 – 1886)
1904 CE​–1912 CEThe history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909) GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929)
THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929) LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937)
BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937) POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947)
SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916)
SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916) KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)
1706 CEWondertooneel der nature, geopent in eene korte beschryvinge der hoofddeelen van de byzondere zeldsaamheden daar in begrepen; in orde gebragt en bewaart.
VINCENT, Levinus (1658 – 1727)
VINCENT, Levinus (1658 – 1727)