Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum : tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur
A printed catalogue of Ole Worm's Copenhagen cabinet of curiosities, issued posthumously by his son Willum in 1655 by the Elzevirs at Leiden for learned collectors and naturalists. Woodcuts isolate single specimens—horseshoe crab shells, coral branches, spiny seed pods, fruits, fossils and antiquities—on bare paper, built from dense parallel hatching and stipple, giving designers cut-out natural forms with legible outlines.




































































































