Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge
Nehemiah Grew's 1681 catalogue of the Royal Society's natural and artificial rarities at Gresham College, printed in London for the author, serves as an illustrated inventory of a early scientific collection. The engraved plates show fossil teeth, a bird's egg and a bird skull, animal intestines and bladders, and bivalve and univalve shells drawn in fine hatched line with plain labels, a model for scientific specimen plates with clear captioning.
