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MARIUS, Jean. Traité du castor, dans lequel on explique la n…
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151
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MARIUS, Jean. Traité du castor, dans lequel on explique la n…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
MARIUS, Jean. Traité du castor, dans lequel on explique la nature, les propriétés & l'usage médico-chymique du castoreum dans la médecine. Augmenté des observations de cet auteur... A Paris, chez Durand, 1746. Small in-12, (2)-LX-280-IV pp. 3 plates. Contemporary marbled fawn basane (binding rubbed, headbands missing, worm work on the lower cover crossing the lower margin and sometimes touching the text). The work opens with a preface and an extract from a letter from Sarrasin, the King's physician in Canada, on the anatomy of the beaver; it is followed by 280 pp. of text. Illustrated with three copper-engraved folding plates in black, accompanied by 4 leaves explaining the figures.
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