Fleta minor. The lavvs of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover (or assay-master general of the empire of Germany) in V. books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses. By Sir John Pettus, of Suffolk, Kt. of the Society for the Mines Royal. Illustrated with 44 sculptures

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  • Fleta minor. The lavvs of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover (or assay-master general of the empire of Germany) in V. books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses. By Sir John Pettus, of Suffolk, Kt. of the Society for the Mines Royal. Illustrated with 44 sculptures
  • Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten. English
  • Fleta minor, spagyrick laws, the second part
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Imprint
London: printed [by Thomas Dawks] for and sold by Stephen Bateman at the sign of the Bible over against Furnivals-Inn Gate in Holbourn, MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
Added name
Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.
Publication year
1686
ESTC No.
R181745
Grub Street ID
72196
Description
[48], 345, [89], 81-133, [5] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 2°.
Note
A translation of: Beschreibung aller f"urnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten

Title page in red and black

The first two and last two leaves are blank

"Fleta minor, spagyrick laws, the second part. ... by Sir John Pettus" has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "printed, for the author, by Thomas Dawks, ... 1683"

A reissue, with cancel general title page, of the 1683 edition.