Museum 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 Reiss-Beschreibungen ... : wie auch selbst-eigenen Erfahrung, zum Vorschub der studirenden Jugend, Materialisten ... u.s.w. also verfasset, und mit etlich hundert sauberen Kupfferstücken unter Augen geleget

Valentini, Michael Bernhard, 1657-1729 · 1714 · Franckfurt am Mayn : Verlegt von Johann David Zunners Sel. Erben, und Johann Adam Jungen · 25 pictures

Museum museorum is a 1714 German materials-and-spices compendium by Michael Bernhard Valentini, published in Frankfurt am Main for students and apothecaries, drawing on other cabinets and East and West Indian travel accounts. Its copperplate pages show plants arranged in tidy specimen groups with Latin and German labels, offering a designer dense, orderly botanical plates with small engraved leaves, seed pods and bracketed sprigs.

Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works · Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800 · Botany -- Pre-Linnean works · Paleontology -- Early works to 1800 · Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1800

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