182 - Technology - Mining - Hoffmann, Friedrich. A Brief Yet Thorough Description of the Salt Works in Halle. In which many curious physical questions concerning salt, the origin of salt springs, the distinction and uses of salt, as well as its preparation, are explained, designed for the common good. Halle, Orphanage, 1708. 4 leaves, 60 pp., 2 leaves. 17 x 14 cm. 19th-century half-linen binding (slightly scuffed).

Technology - Mining - Hoffmann, Friedrich. A Brief Yet Thorough Description of the Salt Works in Halle. In which many curious physical questions concerning salt, the origin of salt springs, the distinction and uses of salt, as well as its preparation, are explained, designed for the common good. Halle, Orphanage, 1708. 4 leaves, 60 pp., 2 leaves. 17 x 14 cm. 19th-century half-linen binding (slightly scuffed). First edition. - The physician and early Enlightenment thinker Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742) was the inventor of Hoffmann’s drops. In addition to a purely practical description of the saltworks, this treatise contains many “physicalische curieuse quaestiones” on the subject of salt. - Tanned, closely trimmed, with occasional partial loss of letters. *