First edition of treatise on the origin and migration of man and animals, a posthumously published work by the Dutch linguist and minister Abraham van der Myl (1563-1637). "It was only after the discovery of America that the attention of naturalists was powerfully drawn to the wonderful differences between the animal population of the central and southern parts of the new world and that of those parts of the old world which lie under the same parallels of latitude. So far back as 1667 Abraham Mylius, in his treatise "De Animalium origine et migratione populorum," argues that, since there are innumerable species of animals in America which do not exist elsewhere, they must have been made and placed there by the Deity" (Huxley). "lncludes a curious dissertation on the origin of the American races" (Sabin). A German translation appeared in 1670.
The front board is detached, but still present. The work is lightly browned throughout. BMC NH, suppl. p. 840; T.H. Huxley, The problems of the deep sea (1873); Leclerc 383; Palau 169293; Sabin 48982.