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

1888 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)

Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.

An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 9754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11942

1893 MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE

Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11726

1904 MURRAY, David (1842 – 1928)

Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.

Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…

GMN 7686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9858

1904 –1912 SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909); GÜNTHER, Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf) (1830 – 1914); THOMAS, Oldfield (1858 – 1929); LYDEKKER, Richard (1849 – 1915); BOULENGER, George Albert (1858 – 1937); POCOCKE, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947); SMITH, Edgar Albert (1847 – 1916); KIRKPATRICK, Randolph (1863 – 1950)

The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]

(Now the Natural History Museum, London). Vol. 1: Libraries; The Department of Botany; The Department of Geology; The Department of Minerals. Vol. 2.: Separate historical accounts of the several collections included i…

GMN 9318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11500

1924 –1929 MEISEL, Max

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9264

1946 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); TURNER, George Grey (1877 – 1951)

The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…

GMN 7641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9813

1964 HENRY, Robert S.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12646

1972 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

GMN 13714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15998

1978 ALTICK, Richard Daniel (1915 – 2008)

The shows of London.

Characterized on the dust jacket as "a panomaic history of exhibitions, 1600-1862." The first two chapters are a history of museums. Chapter 24, "The waxen and the fleshy", discusses "medica" or anatomical museums.

GMN 7697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9869

1980 SELLERS, Charles Coleman (1903 – 1980); PEALE, Charles Willson (1741 – 1827)

Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.

GMN 10444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12637

1985 IMPEY, Oliver (1936 – 2005); MACGREGOR, Arthur (1936 – )

The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.

A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.

GMN 7558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9730

1987 WATERSTON, Charles Dewar (1927 – ); STACE, Helen E.; PETTIT, Charles William A. (1937 – )

Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.

GMN 10897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13093

1988 SCHNAPPER, Antoine (1933 – 2004)

Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.

GMN 10605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12798

1992 OLMI, Giuseppe

L'inventario del mondo: Catalogazione della natura e luoghi del sapere nella prima età moderna.

GMN 10561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12754

1994 FINDLEN, Paula (1964 – )

Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.

GMN 7561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9733

1995 SCHNALKE, Thomas (1958 – )

Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.

GMN 7499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9671

1998 STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844); JACKSON, Christine Elisabeth (1936 – )

Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds

GMN 10434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12627

1998 HAUSNER, Ernst

The Fool's Tower: The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum at the Old General Hospital in Vienna.

GMN 10558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12751

1999 TILLES, Gérard; WALLACH, Daniel

Les musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.

GMN 11065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13261

2000 GROB, Bart; AUZOUX, Louis Thomas Jérôme (1797 – 1880)

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

GMN 13753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16037

2001 ASMA, Stephen T. (1966 – )

Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.

GMN 7635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9807

2002 MAURIÈS, Patrick (1952 – )

Cabinets of curiosities.

GMN 7559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9731

2003 ARNOLD, Ken; OLSEN, Danielle

Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.

A collective work edited by Arnold and Olsen.

GMN 7560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9732

2004 OLMI, Giuseppe

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

GMN 10560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12753

2005 YANNI, Carla

Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.

GMN 9119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11298

2006 GRINKE, Paul

From Wunderkammer to museum.

Revised and expanded finely printed edition of a rare book catalogue originally issued by Diana Parikian in association with Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

GMN 7571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9743

2007 KEPPIE, Lawrence

William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.

GMN 7590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9762

2009 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863); KNEPPER, Simon; KORTENRAY, Johan; MOORMAN, Anton; ROOY, Laurens de; BOGAARD, Hans van den (1947 – )

Forces of form. Laurens de Rooy and Hans van den Bogaard (photographs). Compliled and edited by Simon Knepper, Johan Kortenray, Antoon Moorman.

A visually spectacular panorama of extraordinary color photographs, with significant historical and interpretive text, of the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem…

GMN 7655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9827

2010 RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731); KOOIJMANS, Luuc

Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.

GMN 7656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9828

2011 ALBERTI, Samuel J. M. M.

Morbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.

GMN 7666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9838

2011 MAERKER, Anna

Model experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.

GMN 7675 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9847

2011 KAEPPLER, Adrienne Lois (1935 – )

Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.

A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustra…

GMN 7681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9853

2013 ALBERTI, Samuel J. M. M.; HALLAM, Elizabeth

Medical museums: Past, present, future.

A collective work edited by Alberti and Hallam. Includes many fine images in color. An unusual feature of the book is the artistic reconstruction in cross-section of John Hunter's home and his anatomy school and his p…

GMN 7617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9789

2014 BALLESTRIERO, Roberta; RICHARDSON, Ruth

Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.

GMN 7664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9836

2015 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); HANCOCK, E. Geoffrey; PEARCE, Nick; CAMPBELL, Mungo

William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.

Authoritative illustrated chapters on aspects of Hunter's collecting, including anatomy, zoology, entomology, fossils, numismatics, paintings, drawings, printed books and manuscripts. A collective work edited by Hanco…

GMN 7582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9754

2015 KNOEFF, Rina; ZWIJNENBERG, Robert (1954 – )

The fate of anatomical collections.

A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…

GMN 7637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9809

2015 HENDRIKSEN, Marieka M. A.

Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.

GMN 9870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12058

2016 HALLAM, Elizabeth

Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.

GMN 9872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12060

2017 DACOME, Lucia

Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.

"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …

GMN 9882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12070

2017 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863); ROOY, Laurens de; NAUGHTEN, Jim

Human anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.

Extraordinary stereoscopic photographs taken by Naughten from speciemens at the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem.

GMN 10559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12752

2017 DAVIDSON, Kathleen

Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.

GMN 10730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12924

2017 BARNDT, Kerstin; SINOPOLI, Carla M. (1956 – )

Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.

GMN 11296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13493

2018 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); CAMPBELL, Mungo; SÁNCHEZ-JÁUREGUI, Maria Dolores; FLIS, Nathan

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.

GMN 11113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13309