Ercker, Lazarus. 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 334103
ESTC number: R498473
Wing number: P1906
Folger call number: 154- 825f
Folger holdings ID: 485581
Accession Number: 154825

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General notes

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

Item information about Folger 154- 825f

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

Uniform title: Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten. English
Extended 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
Alternate titles: Laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals

Metallurgy Assaying Metals

author: Ercker, Lazarus, -1594
associated with: Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690
printer: Dawks, Thomas, 1636-
former owner: Cholmley, Nathl. Esqr., (Nathaniel)