Milius,A. A worthy discourse on the origin of animals and the origin of peoples... Translated from the Latin into the German language, and with many meaningful and rare remarks... about the efficiency of bread and the harmful abuse of meat and wine. By Joh. Christoph Bitterkraut. Salzburg, Mayr 1670. 12°. With engraved title. Title (G.A. Wolfgang sc.). 7 pp., 400 p., 18 pp. d. prgt. (damaged, missing the clasps). VD 17, 39:140873 K. Alden-Landis 670/141. Sabin 48983: "Includes a curious dissertation on the origin of American races". Krivatsy 8233 Weiss 2566 - First German edition, the Latin original was published in Geneva in 1667. - Contains Bitterkraut's appendices on bread, meat and wine etc. from p. 278. On the history, use and abuse of wine pp. 367-395 - "It was under the impression made by this new array of facts that in 1667 Abraham Milius published at Geneva his book on The Origin of Animals and the Migration of Peoples. This book shows, like that of Acosta, the shock and strain to which the discovery of America subjected Cf. White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom [online]). - Some browning.