GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society...Wherunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins, 1681. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 31 engraved plates (one folding). Small folio, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked; some early marginalia (a few leaves with some words inked-out). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952.

细节

GREW, NEHEMIAH. Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society...Wherunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins, 1681. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 31 engraved plates (one folding). Small folio, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked; some early marginalia (a few leaves with some words inked-out). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 297; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952.

拍品专文

Important fo the Appendix relating to the stomach and guts. Grew was the first to use the term "comparative anatomy" on the title of a zoological work and his book represents the first comparative study of a single system of organs.