KIRCHMEYER, Carl Valerius.

Uralter Kukus-Brunn, anjetzo erneuerte Gradlitzer Brunn-Quell, dessen Ursprung, Gelegenheit, Althertum, heylsame Mineralien, Würckung, Nutzbarkeit, und rechter Gebrauch. ...Prag, Wolffgang Wickhart, 1718. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and two engraved folding plates. Contemporary speckled boards, red sprinkled edges.

(12), 91 pp. Blake 243; Karlsruher Virt. Kat (9 copies)OCLC WorldCat (9 copies).Second, extended, edition of Kirchmeyer's work on the medicinal springs at Kukus, or Kuks, in the Czech Republic. With information on minerals, their effects and their usefulness as cures to various illnesses, and on spa treatments specifically. Also with a litany for the ill, geographical information, and information on the history of the spa and it's renowned guests. Dedicated to the founder of the spa, the Bohemian count Franz Anton von Sporck, who had ordered the establishment of the boroque style spa complex in 1692. The project took over forty years to complete and wasn't yet finished when Kirchmeyer's work appeared in it's here present second edition. The spa is particularly famous for it's allegorical statues by Bartolomé Zwengs, Mathias Bernard Braun and Jan Bedrich Kohl, depicting twelve good and twelve bad habits. With a frontispiece by Antonin Birkhard showing the "ascension of Mary chapel" and with two folding plates showing the spa's convent and it's main building.A good copy. An interesting publication on the spa at Kukus.

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