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1771A catalogue of the animals of North America: Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
1771Aldrovandus Lotharingiae, ou catalogue des animaux, quardupedes, reptiles, oseaux, poissons, insectes, vermisseaux et coquillages qui habitent la Lorraine et les Trois-Évechés.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
1778Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum, illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects: and with distinct explanations of each figure.
RYMSDYK, Jan van (Rijmsdijck, Riemsdyk, Remsdyke) (1730 – 1790) RYMSDYK, Andreas van (1754 – 1786)
1778Museum falconarianum. A catalogue of the entire and capital museum of anatomical preparations, and other subjects of natural history; a great variety of chirurgical, anatomical, and philosophical instruments; medicaments, cabinets, preparation-glasses, and other effects; of the late Mr. Magnus Falconar, surgeon, and professor of anatomy, deceased: which, by order of the adminstrator, will be sold by auction, by Mr. Paterson, at his Great Room, No 6. in King-Street, Covent-Garden, London, on Monday the 12th of October 1778, and the nine following evenings, to begin precisely at five o'clock. To be viewed on Wednesday the 7th instant, and to the time of sale. Catalogues, price one shilling, may be had at the place of sale; where also may be had, Mr. Falconar's synopsis of his course of lectures on anatomy and surgery, printed only for the use of his pupils, and never before published, Price five shillings.'
FALCONAR, Magnus
1778Museum Gronovianum sive index rerum naturalium tam mammalium amphibiorum piscium insectorum conchyliorum zoophytorum plantarum et mineralium exquisitissimorum quam arte factarum nonnullarum.Inter quae eminet herbarius siccus plantarum a Tournefortio Claintonio Lannaeo aliisque botanic collectarum.
GRONOVIUS, Laurens Theodoor (1730 – 1777)
GRONOVIUS, Laurens Theodoor (1730 – 1777)
1782Nummorum veterum populorum et urbium, qui in museo Gulielmi Hunter asservantur, descriptio figuris illustrata. Opera et studio Caroli Combe . . .
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) COMBE, Charles (1743 – 1817)
1782A descriptive catalogue (giving a full explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum : consisting of a large and very valuable collection of most curious anatomical figures, and real preparations; also figures resembling life; with a great variety of natural and artificial curiosities to be seen at No. 197, Fleet-Street ... London.
RACKSTROW, Benjamin ( – 1772)
1782Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
COBRES, Joseph Paul Edler von (1745 – 1823)
1787Museum Geversianum, sive, index rerum naturalium: Continens instructissimam copiam pretiosissimorum omnis generis ex tribus regnis naturae objectorum: Quam dum in vivis erat magna diligentia multaque cura comparavit Abrahamus Gevers.
GEVERS, Abraham (1712 – 1780)
1790The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds, by injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c.
POLE, Thomas (1753 – 1829)
POLE, Thomas (1753 – 1829)
1790A companion to the museum, (Late Sir Ashton Lever's) removed to Albion Street, the Surry end of Black Friar's Bridge.
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
1793​–1835Museum anatomicum academiae Lugduno-Batavae. 4 vols.
SANDIFORT, Eduard (1742 – 1814)
SANDIFORT, Eduard (1742 – 1814) SANDIFORT, Gerard (1779 – 1848)
1794Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1796Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.
WALTER, Johann Gottlieb (1734 – 1818) WALTER, Friedrich August (1764 – 1826)
1801A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W. H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester: being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor.
YATE, Walter Honywood
GREENE, Richard (1716 – 1793)
GREENE, Richard (1716 – 1793)
1801Précis historique, physiologique et moral des principaux objets en cire préparée et coloriée d'après nature qui composent le muséum de J.-Fois. Bertrand-Rival.
BERTRAND RIVAL, Jean François
1804Catalogue of the natural productions and curiosities, which compose the collections of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened for public exhibition, at No. 38, William-Street, New-York.
DELACOSTE, J. B.
1806Catalogue of the Leverian Museum : part I[-VI] ... the sale of the entire collection by Messrs. King and Lochee will commence on Monday, the 5th of May, 1806 at twelve o'clock.
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788)
LEVER, Sir Ashton (1729 – 1788) DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1806A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
1808A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
1808Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1809Directions for preserving animals and parts of animals for anatomical investigation; and concerning extraneous fossils.
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
1809A companion to the Liverpool Museum, containing a brief description of upwards of seven thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities and productions of fine arts, collected during several years of arduous research, and at an expense of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. And now open for inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new.
BULLOCK, William (1773 – 1849)
BULLOCK, William (1773 – 1849)
1813A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, & c. in that celebrated collection.
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783) LASKEY, John C.
1814​–1828Lectures on comparative anatomy, in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
1815A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.
DICK, Peter ( – 1821)
1818Catalogue of the museum of John Heaviside, Esq.: Comprising human anatomy, natural and morbid, comparative anatomy, and natural history.
HEAVISIDE, John (1748 – 1828)
1818Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.
SEIDEL, Johann Friedrich
1820Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg sur l'état actuel de son muséum anatomique suivi du catalogue des objects qu'il renferme.
LOBSTEIN, Jean Georges Chrétien Frédéric Martin (1777 – 1835)
LOBSTEIN, Jean Georges Chrétien Frédéric Martin (1777 – 1835)
1823Histoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
DELEUZE, Joseph-Philippe-François (1753 – 1835)
1824Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.
HORNER, William Edmonds (1793 – 1853)
WISTAR, Caspar (1761 – 1818)
WISTAR, Caspar (1761 – 1818)
1825Catalogue of the anatomical museum in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
KING, Frederick Gore (1801 – 1829)
1826Descriptio musei anatomici.
BLEULAND, Jan (1756 – 1838)
1827Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly The Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To which are prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the collection; with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor.
FOX, George Townsend (1810 – 1886)
1828Otium academicum, continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustrator.
BLEULAND, Jan (1756 – 1838)
1828A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné, of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. etc. Part the first; and of the anatomical preparations; part the second, which will be sold by auction in various lots about the middle of May, unless the whole be previously purchased by private contract, including the large and interesting department of nature history, etc. & c., the catalogue of which is now preparing, and will be published as speedily as possible. Likewise the extensive premises....2 vols.
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
1829A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy’s Hospital arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the Hospital, and of the teachers of the Medical and Surgical School.
HODGKIN, Thomas (1798 – 1866)
HODGKIN, Thomas (1798 – 1866)
1830Museum Brookesianum: A descriptive and historical catalogue of the remainder of the anatomical & zootomical museum, of Joshua Brookes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. &c.: comprising nearly one half of the original collection, and embracing an almost endless assemblage of every species of anatomical, pathological, obstetrical, and zootomical preparations, as well as subjects in natural history, of the choicest and rarest species in every department : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Wheatley & Adlard, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, Great Marlborough Street, on Monday, the 1st of March, 1830, and 22 following evenings, (Saturdays & Sundays excepted,) at half-past six o'clock precisely
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
BROOKES, Joshua (1761 – 1833)
1830​–1860Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Parts I-II , Plants and invertebrate animals in the dried state (1860); Part III, The human and comparative osteology (1830); Part IV, Fasiculus I, Comprehending the first division of the preparations of natural history in spirit (1830); Part V, comprehending the preparations of monsters and malformed parts in spirit, and in a dried state (1831); Part VI, Comprehending the vascular and miscellaneous preparations in a dried state (1831).
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
1831Icones selectae praeparatiorum Musei Anatomici Universitatis Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae.
MAYER, August Franz Joseph Karl (1787 – 1865)
1831Beredeneerde beschrijving van het Museum Anatomico-Physiologicum van P. de Riemer.
RIEMER, Pieter de (1760 – 1831)
1831Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
PEALE, Titian Ramsay (1799 – 1885)
1833​–1840Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons of England]. 5 vols.
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
1833A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
FAWDINGTON, Thomas (1795 – 1843)
1834​–1840Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Vol. I. (Anatomy). Vol. 2. (Pathology).
HOUSTON, John (1802 – 1845)
1836The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion; being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums.
KNOX, Frederick John (1794 – 1873)
1836Catalogue des oiseaux.
LAUGIER DE CHARTROUSE, Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren (1772 – 1843)
1837Musée d'anatomie de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, ou Catalogue méthodique de son cabinet d'anatomie physiologique, comparée et pathologique.
EHRMANN, Charles Henri (1792 – 1878)
1838Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et de l'histoire naturelle suivie de procédés nouveau.
GANNAL, Jean-Nicolas (1791 – 1852)
c. 1838Anatomical cabinet, belonging to R. D. Mussey, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Ohio. Printed for the use of pupils.
MUSSEY, Reuben Dimond (1780 – 1866)
MUSSEY, Reuben Dimond (1780 – 1866)