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PETTUS, John. Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of confin'd Metals,, London: Thomas Dawks for the Author, 1683, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts, 2°, 43 engraved illustrations (lacking frontispiece portrait, perforation stamp on title, accession number at foot of first page of dedication, dampstained, spotted, a few leaves with small paper-fault holes), old half calf (rebacked in cloth, covers worn). [Wing P1906; cf. Hoover 633 (1686 edition)]
The first part is a translation from the German of Lazarus Ercker's work on metallurgy, the second part a dictionary of metallurgical terms, the first such in English.
The first part is a translation from the German of Lazarus Ercker's work on metallurgy, the second part a dictionary of metallurgical terms, the first such in English.