Valentini, Michael Bernhard Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen / nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung (...) Aus andern Material- Kunst- und Naturalien- Kammern (...). 2 vols. With 2 copper titles, 95 (35 folded) copper plates, ca. 290 text engravings and several (1 folio-sized) woodcuts. Frankfurt a. M., Johann David Zunner's heirs, 1714. 13 vols., 520 p., 2 vols., 76 p., 2 vols., 119 p., 6 vols., 11 vols., 196 p., 116 p., 4 vols., 228 (recte 236) p., 6 vols. Fol. Pgt. d. Zt. with mont. R label (scuffed, rubbed and bumped, stained). Nissen BBI 2035 a. ZBI 4217 - Pritzel 9663 - Ferguson II, 493f. - Sabin 98357 - Hoover 803 - Arents Suppl. 585 - Hünersdorff 1528f. - Relevant edition of the comprehensive and richly illustrated repertory, vol. 2 (II. tomus divided into two and three volumes) in first edition. Deals with curious and rare objects as well as overseas products as they were found in cabinets of curiosities or natural history cabinets of the time: Minerals, metals, fossils and earths, numerous animals and plants, shells, spices and their use in medicine, technology and the household, artefacts from antiquity, anatomical curiosities, etc. - With detailed chapters on coffee, cocoa, silk, tobacco, vanilla, etc. - Part 3 describes inventions and instruments from physics and technology, including barometers, binoculars, airships, microscopes, etc., with an appendix containing a detailed treatise on the Vallemont divining rod (Klinckowstroem 61 f.). - Also contains detailed descriptions of famous cabinets of curiosities with list of exhibits. - Somewhat browned and with large, mostly faint tidemark throughout, occasional faint spotting in margins, occasional foxing. Front cover of vol. 1 with hole in white margin, front flyleaf of vol. 1 somewhat trimmed on the outside, occasional backed defects. Overall in very good condition with splendid copper illustrations and plates in strong impression throughout. 2 vols. With 2 copper engraved titles, 95 (35 folded) engraved plates, ca. 290 text engravings and some (1 full-page) woodcuts. Cont. vellum bindings with mount. label on spine (scuffed, rubbed and bumped, stained). Relevant edition of the extensive and richly illustrated repertory, vol. 2 (II. tomus divided into two and three volumes) in first edition. Treats curious and rare objects as well as overseas products as they were found in cabinets of curiosities or natural history cabinets of the time: Minerals, metals, fossils and earths, numerous animals and plants, shells, spices and their use in medicine, technology and the household, artefacts from antiquity, anatomical curiosities, etc.. - Somewhat browned and with large, mostly faint waterstain throughout, occasional faint spotting in margins, occasional foxing. Front cover of vol. 1 with hole in white margin, front flyleaf of vol. 1 somewhat trimmed on the outside. Overall in very good condition with splendid engraved illustrations and plates in strong impression throughout.