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, by Sir John Pettus, of Suffolk, kt., of the Society for the Mines Royal ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.
1683
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Title
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, by Sir John Pettus, of Suffolk, kt., of the Society for the Mines Royal ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.
Uniform title
Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten. English
Created/published
London : Printed for the author by Thomas Dawks, His Majesty's British printer, at the west-end of Thames-Street, 1683.
Description
[44], 345, [1]; [88], 81-133, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 36 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Note
A translation of: Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralishcen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten.
Variant states of the title page have been identified: "metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses" [transcribed above] or "metallick words, alphabetically composed, as a dictionary. Wing does not distinguish between these variants; the ESTC describes them separately.
Last three lines of text on g2r in two settings. Variant A has "Twenty four English Letters"; Variant B has XXIV. English Letters".
Second part has its own dated title page, pagination and register.
Signatures: [superscript pi][A]² [superscript pi]B-C² A² a-g² B-4S² 4T²(-4T2); ²A-2M² 2N1.
Frontispiece portrait (plate) of author lettered: Aet. 70. 1683; R. White sculp.
Marginal notes and printed fists.
Includes index.
Errata: leaves g2v and ²B2v.
Variant states of the title page have been identified: "metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses" [transcribed above] or "metallick words, alphabetically composed, as a dictionary. Wing does not distinguish between these variants; the ESTC describes them separately.
Last three lines of text on g2r in two settings. Variant A has "Twenty four English Letters"; Variant B has XXIV. English Letters".
Second part has its own dated title page, pagination and register.
Signatures: [superscript pi][A]² [superscript pi]B-C² A² a-g² B-4S² 4T²(-4T2); ²A-2M² 2N1.
Frontispiece portrait (plate) of author lettered: Aet. 70. 1683; R. White sculp.
Marginal notes and printed fists.
Includes index.
Errata: leaves g2v and ²B2v.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R5570
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R498473
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P1906
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R498473
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P1906
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
154- 825f
Folger-specific note
Title page has "metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses;" g2r has "XXIV. English letters." Armorial bookplate (motto: Cassis tutissima virtus): Nathl. Cholmley, Esqr. Errata corrected in manuscript Bound in calf, rebacked in goat, with gold spine titling. Bought from Gibb's (955:253), 1955.10.27.
Folger accession
154825