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Condizione: Good. Folio. 23.7 x 37.7cm. (14¾ x 9½"). Contemporary vellum, rebacked but retaining earlier spine strip and label. .Volumes II & III (of 3), bound together. [22]; 196; 116; [8], 228, [11] pp. Text in blackletter German. With 80 copper-engraved plates including added engraved title (33 of them folding), and several in-text engravings and woodcuts.Museum Museorum (1714) is a seminal work by German physician Michael Bernhard Valentini, acting as a comprehensive catalog of 17th-century "cabinets of curiosities" or Wunderkammern. It documents early collections of natural and man-made objects, serving as a foundational text for modern museology and displaying items like fossils, exotic animal skins, and scientific instruments.The second and third volumes of Valentini's monumental compendium of art, commerce, science, and nature. Valentini's project is important not only for natural history, but as an early study of collections, including his own, the Repositorium Valentinianum. The "Museum of Museums" is thus an early text in the study of curation and museums. The fantastic plates include depictions of the world's marvels including: shells, fossils, religious symbols occurring in nature, plants (including a banana), native fishermen, snakes, hippos, lions, boars, bears, a unicorn, birds, insects, a library, a zoo, mechanical devices, hydraulics, vacuum bottles, firearms, an airship, fountains, slide projectors, divining rods, and more. Valentini's work stands at the threshold where natural science emerges from the bestiary. As such, Museum Museorum includes a critical account of the legends of the unicorn and includes illustrations of purported specimens of fabulous creatures and monsters. The title given above is that in the first volume - the titles on the second and third volumes present here vary: II - Musei Museorum, Oder Der Vollständigen Schau Bühne frembder Naturalien Zweyter Theil.; III - Neu-auffgerichtetes Rüst- und Zeughauß Der Natur. Valentini's work would have major reverberations among collectors, with many compiling their own rarities books or catalogues after his influence. Light ownership stamp on title page.Condition:Some soiling and stains to vellum; front hinge just starting, occasional staining, foxing, and toning, a few repaired worm trails; very good.Nissen, 2035; Hirsch, VI, 57; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:247319300; [12] Bl., 196, 116 S., [4] Bl., 208 S., 209*-216*, S. 209-228, [6], [48] Bl., [31] gef. Bl. Kupfert., 79 Ill. (Kupferst.), zahlr. Ill. (Kupferst.) 2°.