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PETTUS, John (1613-1690). Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of Confin'd Metals. London: Printed for the Author by Thomas Dawks, 1683.
2 volumes in one, 2o (354 x 222 mm). Frontispiece portrait (some creasing), 43 engravings in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Pettus from Lazarus Ercker's German edition of 1574. Considered "second only to Agricola in the number of original contributions to the literature of mining and metallurgy and the beauty of graphic treatments of the craft" (Dibner Heralds of Science 89). See Ferguson I:245; see Hoover 633; Wing P-1906.
2 volumes in one, 2
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Pettus from Lazarus Ercker's German edition of 1574. Considered "second only to Agricola in the number of original contributions to the literature of mining and metallurgy and the beauty of graphic treatments of the craft" (Dibner Heralds of Science 89). See Ferguson I:245; see Hoover 633; Wing P-1906.