Author: FRANCK, Johann.:
Title: Castorologia, explicans Castoris animalis naturam & usum medico-chemicum [...]. [Investigations on Beavers, III.]
Description: Augsburg: Koppmayer, 1685; facsimile reprint Bern: G. Pilleri, 1984. Large 8vo. Pp. 9,xiv,224, frontisp., 5 figs. Orig. stiff wrs. - Edition limited to 600 copies. With a short introduction by Prof. Giorgio Pilleri. The original work is of great rsrity. Because of the beaver's popularity in early medical and pharmaceutical practice, another edition appeared in 1725 whereas a French translation was published in 1746.

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