Pettus (Sir John). Fleta Minor. The Laws 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, 1st edition, London: printed for the author by Thomas Dawks, 1683, 43 numbered engraved illustrations, bound without the portrait frontispiece, small repair in text of p. 43 affecting one or two letters, p. 219 lower corner renewed, slight dust-soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stains, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, modern brown full crushed morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, one or two small marks, folio (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). ESTC R5570; Wing P1906. Sir John Pettus (1613-1690) was appointed by Cromwell as deputy-governor of the mines. His Fleta Minor is one of the most important 17th-century works on mining and metals.
Pettus (Sir John). Fleta Minor. The Laws 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, 1st edition, London: printed for the author by Thomas Dawks, 1683, 43 numbered engraved illustrations, bound without the portrait frontispiece, small repair in text of p. 43 affecting one or two letters, p. 219 lower corner renewed, slight dust-soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stains, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, modern brown full crushed morocco, spine gilt lettered and decorated, one or two small marks, folio (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). ESTC R5570; Wing P1906. Sir John Pettus (1613-1690) was appointed by Cromwell as deputy-governor of the mines. His Fleta Minor is one of the most important 17th-century works on mining and metals.
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