1771 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.
Largely based on specimens he had access to from the British collections of Thomas Pennant and Anna Blackburne, this was Forster's attempt to systemize on the Linnean model the fragmented field of natural history stud…
GMN 11615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13815
1771 BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
Aldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou catalogue des animaux, quardupedes, reptiles, oseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les Trois-Évechés.
A catalogue of "over 1100 quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, worms and mollusks native to Lorraine. Buc’hoz follows the classification schemes of Argenville, Brisson, Buffon, Daubenton and Geoffro…
GMN 13011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15261
1778 RYMSDYK, Jan van (Rijmsdijck, Riemsdyk, Remsdyke) (1730 – 1790); RYMSDYK, Andreas van (1754 – 1786)
Museum 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.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9834
1778 FALCONAR, Magnus
Museum falconarianum. A catalogue of the entire and capital museum of anatomical preparations, and other subjects of natural history; a great variety of chirurgical, anatomical, and philosophical instruments; medicaments, cabinets, preparation-glasses, and other effects; of the late Mr. Magnus Falconar, surgeon, and professor of anatomy, deceased: which, by order of the adminstrator, will be sold by auction, by Mr. Paterson, at his Great Room, No 6. in King-Street, Covent-Garden, London, on Monday the 12th of October 1778, and the nine following evenings, to begin precisely at five o'clock. To be viewed on Wednesday the 7th instant, and to the time of sale. Catalogues, price one shilling, may be had at the place of sale; where also may be had, Mr. Falconar's synopsis of his course of lectures on anatomy and surgery, printed only for the use of his pupils, and never before published, Price five shillings.'
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14089
1778 GRONOVIUS, Laurens Theodoor (1730 – 1777)
Museum 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.
Catalogue of Gronovius's museum which was sold at auction starting on October 7, 1778 and on succeeding days. Digital facsimile from docnum.unistra.fr at this link.
GMN 12977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15225
1782 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); COMBE, Charles (1743 – 1817)
Nummorum veterum populorum et urbium, qui in museo Gulielmi Hunter asservantur, descriptio figuris illustrata. Opera et studio Caroli Combe . . .
The only published installment of the catalogue of William Hunter's magnificent collection of coins, a collection regarded as one of the finest in the world. Hunter began collecting coins around 1770, and by the time …
GMN 7581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9753
1782 RACKSTROW, Benjamin ( – 1772)
A descriptive catalogue (giving a full explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum : consisting of a large and very valuable collection of most curious anatomical figures, and real preparations; also figures resembling life; with a great variety of natural and artificial curiosities to be seen at No. 197, Fleet-Street ... London.
Digital facsimile of the 1792 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9835
1782 COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
Privately printed catalogue of Cobres’ natural history library, comprising descriptions, with collations and notes, of about 2500 books on botany, zoology, geology, etc. The catalogue is divided into subject sections …
GMN 11095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13291
1787 GEVERS, Abraham (1712 – 1780)
Museum 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.
Posthumously published classified listing of the immense museum of natural history specimens collected by Gevers, member of the town council, may of Rotterdam, and director of the Dutch East-Indian Company (VOC). Digi…
GMN 12976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15224
1790 POLE, Thomas (1753 – 1829)
The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds, by injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c.
The first monograph on the preparation of anatomical specimens for museums, from various parts of the human body. Includes a method for injecting colored solutions to show the blood vessels of the head, and a method f…
GMN 7329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9500
1790 LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
A companion to the museum, (Late Sir Ashton Lever's) removed to Albion Street, the Surry end of Black Friar's Bridge.
A room by room, case by case guide to Lever's celebrated museum of natural history and ethnography, authorshop of which is unidentified. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9829
1793 –1835 SANDIFORT, Eduard (1742 – 1814); SANDIFORT, Gerard (1779 – 1848)
Museum anatomicum academiae Lugduno-Batavae. 4 vols.
This work, complete in over 1000 pages, with hundreds of full page plates, was begun by Eduard Sandifort and completed 42 years later by his son Gerard. Many of the plates illustrate diseases of bone. Digital facsimil…
GMN 11312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13510
1794 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities.
Digital text available from ECCO TCP Eighteenth Century Collections Online at this link.
GMN 7659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9831
1796 WALTER, Johann Gottlieb (1734 – 1818); WALTER, Friedrich August (1764 – 1826)
Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.
Includes fine hand-colored plates of kidney stones and gall stones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9895
1801 YATE, Walter Honywood; GREENE, Richard (1716 – 1793)
A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W. H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester: being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor.
Publication date is estimated. Digital facsimile from the Beinicke Library, Yale University, at this link.
GMN 7683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9855
1801 BERTRAND RIVAL, Jean François
Précis historique, physiologique et moral des principaux objets en cire préparée et coloriée d'après nature qui composent le muséum de J.-Fois. Bertrand-Rival.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13846 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16136
1804 DELACOSTE, J. B.
Catalogue of the natural productions and curiosities, which compose the collections of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened for public exhibition, at No. 38, William-Street, New-York.
One of the first natural history museums in the U.S., supported by subscription. According to the text, David Hosack and Wright Post were among the supporters of the project. The copy at the U.S. National Library of M…
GMN 11317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13515
1806 LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788); DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
Catalogue of the Leverian Museum : part I[-VI] ... the sale of the entire collection by Messrs. King and Lochee will commence on Monday, the 5th of May, 1806 at twelve o'clock.
Auction catalogue in six parts. Digital facsimile from Biodiviersity Heritage Library at this link. Facsimile reprint, London: Harmer Johnson and John Hewett, 1979 with a 69-page manuscript appendix of an extra five d…
GMN 7658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9830
1806 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.
Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…
GMN 10379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12571
1808 WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.
GMN 7682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9854
1808 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
GMN 7685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9857
1809 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
Directions for preserving animals and parts of animals for anatomical investigation; and concerning extraneous fossils.
"The following Directions, framed by the late Mr. John Hunter, are intended to facilitate, and render effectual, the Endeavours of such Friends to scientific Inquiries as shall be inclined to futher the designs of the…
GMN 7610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9782
1809 BULLOCK, William (1773 – 1849)
A companion to the Liverpool Museum, containing a brief description of upwards of seven thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities and productions of fine arts, collected during several years of arduous research, and at an expense of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. And now open for inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new.
Bullock founded his Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street in Liverpool in 1795. While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801 he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armor, objec…
GMN 10465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12658
1813 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); LASKEY, John C.
A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, & c. in that celebrated collection.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9758
1814 –1828 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
Lectures on comparative anatomy, in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection
Home plagiarized this large work from the manuscripts of John Hunter, his late father-in-law, and, as a result, of immense importance for publication of Hunter’s researches, and for aspects of Hunter's collection on w…
GMN 315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/146
1815 DICK, Peter ( – 1821)
A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.
Publication date is estimated.
GMN 7684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9856
1818 HEAVISIDE, John (1748 – 1828)
Catalogue of the museum of John Heaviside, Esq.: Comprising human anatomy, natural and morbid, comparative anatomy, and natural history.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12807
1818 SEIDEL, Johann Friedrich
Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.
Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.
GMN 13644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15925
1820 LOBSTEIN, Jean Georges Chrétien Frédéric Martin (1777 – 1835)
Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg sur l'état actuel de son muséum anatomique suivi du catalogue des objects qu'il renferme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. See also Lobstein's Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médicine de Strasbourg sur les travaux anatomiques exécutés à l'amphithéâtre de cette faculté pendant les années 18…
GMN 7632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9804
1823 DELEUZE, Joseph-Philippe-François (1753 – 1835)
Histoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15620
1824 HORNER, William Edmonds (1793 – 1853); WISTAR, Caspar (1761 – 1818)
Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.
This 36-page pamphlet is the earliest printed record of Caspar Wispar's museum collection. It was augmented by William Horner, whom Wistar appointed to manage the collection. The combined collections beame known as th…
GMN 11315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13513
1825 KING, Frederick Gore (1801 – 1829)
Catalogue of the anatomical museum in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9775
1826 BLEULAND, Jan (1756 – 1838)
Descriptio musei anatomici.
Bleuland's catalogue of his museum of anatomical and pathological specimens. Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.
GMN 7511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9683
1827 FOX, George Townsend (1810 – 1886)
Synopsis 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.
Ornithologist and collector Marmaduke Tunstall began collecting for his private museum in London in the 1770s, acquiring numerous 'curiosities brought by Captain Cook'; he moved the collections in 1776 to his home at …
GMN 13198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15459
1828 BLEULAND, Jan (1756 – 1838)
Otium academicum, continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustrator.
Issued in 12 fascicules from 1826 to 1828. Consists of 3 parts concerning anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy specimens and pathological specimens. Includes 37 plates printed in color; 35 plates in black & whi…
GMN 7512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9684
1828 BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné, of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. etc. Part the first; and of the anatomical preparations; part the second, which will be sold by auction in various lots about the middle of May, unless the whole be previously purchased by private contract, including the large and interesting department of nature history, etc. & c., the catalogue of which is now preparing, and will be published as speedily as possible. Likewise the extensive premises....2 vols.
Brookes initially tried to sell his collection en bloc before consigning it to auction in 1830. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9777
1829 HODGKIN, Thomas (1798 – 1866)
A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy’s Hospital arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the Hospital, and of the teachers of the Medical and Surgical School.
Digital facsimile of Part II, Morbid Anatomy, from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9669
1830 BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
Museum 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
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9776
1830 –1860 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Parts I-II , Plants and invertebrate animals in the dried state (1860); Part III, The human and comparative osteology (1830); Part IV, Fasiculus I, Comprehending the first division of the preparations of natural history in spirit (1830); Part V, comprehending the preparations of monsters and malformed parts in spirit, and in a dried state (1831); Part VI, Comprehending the vascular and miscellaneous preparations in a dried state (1831).
By numerous authors, many unidentified. All published. From the Preface to part I: "The present Volume... completes the series of Hunterian Catalogues. The specimens included in it consist of Plants and Invertebrate A…
GMN 7606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9778
1831 MAYER, August Franz Joseph Karl (1787 – 1865)
Icones selectae praeparatiorum Musei Anatomici Universitatis Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae.
Discussion of various specimens in the anatomical museum of Medical Faculty of the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, highlighting a number of embryological, teratological and obstetrical items, some of…
GMN 7741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9913
1831 RIEMER, Pieter de (1760 – 1831)
Beredeneerde beschrijving van het Museum Anatomico-Physiologicum van P. de Riemer.
Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.
GMN 9807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11995
1831 PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
GMN 10441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12634
1833 –1840 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons of England]. 5 vols.
I. Organs of motion and digestion. 1833.--II. Absorbent, circulating, respiratory, and urinary systems. 1834.--III. pt. I. Nervous system and organs of sense. pt. II. Connective and tegumentary systems and peculiariti…
GMN 326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/188
1833 FAWDINGTON, Thomas (1795 – 1843)
A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13506
1834 –1840 HOUSTON, John (1802 – 1845)
Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Vol. I. (Anatomy). Vol. 2. (Pathology).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12572
1836 KNOX, Frederick John (1794 – 1873)
The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion; being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums.
"Dr Frederick Knox was the librarian of New Zealand's first public library. He emigrated from Scotland in July 1840 and within days of arriving in Port Nicholson became involved in establishing the country's first pub…
GMN 7674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9846
1836 LAUGIER DE CHARTROUSE, Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren (1772 – 1843)
Catalogue des oiseaux.
Catalogue of the collection of over 3400 New World, Africa, Asian, Australian and European stuffed birds gather by the ornithologist, botanist and politican, following the order of the display of these specimens in La…
GMN 13037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15287
1837 EHRMANN, Charles Henri (1792 – 1878)
Musée d'anatomie de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, ou Catalogue méthodique de son cabinet d'anatomie physiologique, comparée et pathologique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. See also Ehrmann's Nouveau catalogue du musée d'anatomie normal et pathologique de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (1843) and his Notice sur les accroissements du …
GMN 7633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9805
1838 GANNAL, Jean-Nicolas (1791 – 1852)
Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et de l'histoire naturelle suivie de procédés nouveau.
Gannal discovered the efficacy of solutions of aluminum acetate and chloride for preserving anatomical preparations. His method of embalming involved injection of solutions of aluminum salts into the arteries. Transla…
GMN 7672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9844
c. 1838 MUSSEY, Reuben Dimond (1780 – 1866)
Anatomical cabinet, belonging to R. D. Mussey, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Ohio. Printed for the use of pupils.
This 20-page pamphlet described Mussey's personal collection of anatomical and pathological specimens. No place of printing or date of publication is indicated in the pamphlet; because of the reference to the Medical …
GMN 11310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13508
