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Natural History Museums / Wunderkammern (83)

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1565De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquote, plerique nunc primum editi.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) KENTMANN, Johannes (1518 – 1574)
1584De reconditis et praecipuis collectaneis ab honestissimo et solertissimo Francisco Calceolario Veronensi in Musaeo adservatis, Joannis Baptistae Olivi medici testificatio.
CALCEOLARI, Francesco (Calzolari) (1522 – 1609) OLIVA, Giovanni Battista (Olivi)
1599​–1667Opera omnia. 13 vols.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605)
1599Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano Libri XXVIII. Nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante et animali; sin hora non date in luce.
IMPERATO, Ferrante (1525 – 1615)
1609Le iardin, et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire de Poictiers.
CONSTANT, Paul (1562 – 1629)
1613Hortus Eystettensis: Sive, diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium, ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis viridariis arcem episcopalem ibidem cingentibus, hoc tempore conspiciuntur, delineatio et aduiuum repræsentatio.
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
1616​–1622Fasciculus rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum incidi curavit atque evulgavit.
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
1622Musaeum Franc. Calceolari Jun. Veronensis, a Benedicto Ceruto, medico, inceptum, et ab Andrea Chiocco, med. physico, descriptum et perfectum.
CERUTI, Benedetto ( – 1620) CHIOCCO, Andrea ( – 1624) CALCEOLARI, Francesco (Calzolari) (1522 – 1609)
1622Continuatio rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum indici curavit atque evulgavit....
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
1628Les oeuvres de Jacques et Paul Contant pere et fils maistres apoticaires de la ville de Poictiers. Divisées en cinq traictez. 1. Les commentaires sur Dioscoride. 2. Le second Eden. 3. Exagoge mirabilium naturae e gazophylacio. 4. Synopsis plantarum cum ethymologiis. 5. Le jardin & cabinet poëtique ....
CONSTANT, Jacques ( – 1588) CONSTANT, Paul (1562 – 1629)
1648Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... labore, et studio composuit cum indice copiosissimo.
ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605)
1655Museum 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)
1656Note 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)
1656Musaeum 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)
ASHMOLE, Elias (1617 – 1692)
ASHMOLE, Elias (1617 – 1692)
1663Rariora musaei Henrici Fuiren medicinae doctoris quae Academie Regiae Hafniensi legavit.
FUIREN, Thomas (1623 – 1675)
1664Musaeum Septalianum Manfredi Septalae.
TERZAGO, Paolo Maria (1625 – 1695)
1674Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer: worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet : vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret.
OLEARIUS, Adam (1599 – 1671)
1677Museo 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)
1678Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum.
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
1681Musaeum 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)
1692Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les antiquitez de la religion des Chrétiens, des Egyptiens, & des Romains, des tombeaux, des poids & des medailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des minéraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rares et les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises.
DU MOLINET, Claude (1620 – 1687)
1693Museum 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
1696Museum 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)
1704Museum 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)
1706Wondertooneel 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)
1709Musaeum 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)
1710Museum curiosum auctum Oder Neu-Verbesserte Beschreibung Derer raren und Ausländischen Sachen...Bey Tit. Herrn Christian Nicolai.
WARLITZ, Christian (1648 – 1717) NICOLAI, Christian
1716Rariora 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)
1717Metallotheca opus posthumum, auctoritate, & munificentia Clementis undecimi pontificis maximi e tenebris in lucem eductum; opera autem, & studio Ioannis Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii illustratum.
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
MERCATI, Michele (1541 – 1593)
MERCATI, Michele (1541 – 1593)
1718Catalogus zahlreicher, nützlicher, und sonderbahrer von Natur- und Kunst gebildeter Seltenheiten, in Regno Animali, Vegetabili, und Minerali, welche ehemals mit grosser Mühe, langer Zeit und schweren Kosten gesammelt, und zusammen gebracht hat.
SPENER, Christian Maximilian (1678 – 1714)
1726Promtuarium rerum naturalium et artificalium Vratislaviense.
KUNDMANN, Johann Christian (1684 – 1751)
1726Danubius pannonico-mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus et in sex tomos digestus. 6 vols.
MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando [MARSIGLI] (1658 – 1730)
1734​–1765Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissmis expressio per universam physices historiam. 4 vols.
SEBA, Albertus (1665 – 1736)
SEBA, Albertus (1665 – 1736)
1740Catalogus ofte naamlyst der voornaamste zaken, dewelke op de anatomie-kamer der stadt Rotterdam te zien zyn.
ROTTERDAM ANATOMICAL THEATRE
1742Index testarum conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri ... et methodice distributae exhibentur tabulae CX.
GUALTIERI, Niccoló (1688 – 1744)
GUALTIERI, Niccoló (1688 – 1744)
1743Museum Richterianum continens fossilia animalia, vegetabilia marina.
HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernest (1703 – 1757)
1746Description abregée du fameux cabinet de Mr. Le Chevalier de Baillou pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des pierres précieuses, métaux, minéraux, et autre fossiles.
BAILLOU, Johann Ritter von (Giovanni Baillou; Jean Baillou) (1679 – 1758) SAINT-LAURENT, Joannon de (1746 – )
1754​–1764Hans Maj:ts Adolf Frideriks vår allernådigste konungs naturalie samling innehållande sällsynte och främmande djur, som bevaras på kongl. lust-slottet Ulriksdahl beskrefne och afrit. Museum Adolfi Friderici ... in quo animalia rariora imprimis, et exotica: Quadrupedia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermis. Vol. 2: Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis Svecorum, Gothorum, Vandalorumque &c. &c. &c. in quo Animalia rariora imprimis & exotica: Aves, Amphibia, Piscis describuntur. Tomi secundi Prodromus.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
1758Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de preparer, de conserver, et d’envoyer les diverses curiosités d’histoire naturelle; auquel ... Avis pour le transport par mer, des arbres, des plantes vivaces, des semences, & diverse autres curiosités d'histoire naturelle.
TURGOT, Étienne-François
1767Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l’art, qui composent le cabinet de M. Davila, avec figures en taille-douce. 3 vols.
ROMÉ DE L'ISLE, Jean-Baptiste Louis (1736 – 1790) DÁVILA, Pedro Franco (1711 – 1788)
1771A 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.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
1771Aldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou catalogue des animaux, quardupedes, reptiles, oseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les Trois-Évechés.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
1778Museum 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)
1778Museum 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)
1782Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
1787Museum 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)
1790A companion to the museum, (Late Sir Ashton Lever's) removed to Albion Street, the Surry end of Black Friar's Bridge.
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
1794Instructions 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.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1801A 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.
YATE, Walter Honywood
GREENE, Richard (1716 – 1793)
GREENE, Richard (1716 – 1793)
1804Catalogue 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.
DELACOSTE, J. B.