174 - Kühn, H. Reasonable Thoughts on the Origin of Springs and Groundwater, also of other related matters... translated from Latin into German, and augmented with useful additions, also provided with necessary indexes. Berlin and Leipzig, Haude & Spener, 1746. 8 leaves, 240 pages. With engraved frontispiece by Sysang after D. Schultz, engraved publisher's logo on the title page and 2 folded engraved plates. 20th-century half-linen binding (cover heavily rubbed).

Kühn, H. Reasonable Thoughts on the Origin of Springs and Groundwater, also of other related matters... translated from Latin into German, and augmented with useful additions, also provided with necessary indexes. Berlin and Leipzig, Haude & Spener, 1746. 8 leaves, 240 pages. With engraved frontispiece by Sysang after D. Schultz, engraved publisher's logo on the title page and 2 folded engraved plates. 20th-century half-linen binding (cover heavily rubbed). VD 18 10193987; ADB 17, pages 341. - First German edition of 'Meditationes de origine fontium & aquae putealis' (Bordeaux 1741), translated by the author himself. This work was awarded first prize by the Academy of Sciences in Bordeaux in 1740 and was based on investigations that Kühn had carried out in 1736 at the spring Das Hohe Wasser near the Oliva Monastery not far from Danzig. - Inner hinges cracked, rear mirror with Soviet bookplate and stamps.