MUELLER, Gottfried.

Thermae Volccensteinenses, Historice, Physice, Moraliter ac Theologice descriptae; oder Historisch-physicalische Beschreibung auch Moral-theologische Betrachtung des Warmen Bades unter Wolckenstein, und mit Anfügung einer besondern Bade-Predigt...ans Licht gestellet.

Title printed in red & black. 8 p.l., 352 pp.; 208, [42] pp., [3] pp. of errata. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, later 18th-cent. boards. Dresden & Leipzig: J.J. Winckler's Widow, 1721. First edition of this very rare book; OCLC locates no copy in the U.S. In the first part Mueller, pastor of Wolkenstein, has provided a very detailed history of the most notable mineral springs of the world. He then describes the springs of his own town and gives accounts of the famous people who have taken the waters there. The springs of Wolkenstein, located in the Erz mountains of the Czech Republic, are famous for their great heat and radioactive qualities. Mueller gives accounts of the various maladies which could be cured by taking and bathing in the waters. Fine copy. Finely engraved bookplate of Philipp Heinrich Boecler (1718-59), a member of a prominent medical family in Strasbourg (see Hirsch, I, pp. 591-92).

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