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Lot 231

PETTUS (JOHN)
Fodinae regales. Or, the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining Some Difficult Words Relating to Mining, FIRST EDITION, H.L. and R.B. for Thomas Basset, 1670

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PETTUS (JOHN)

Fodinae regales. Or, the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining Some Difficult Words Relating to Mining, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (one with neat tear, shaved at one margin), 2 engraved illustrations of coats of arms (one with printed slip pasted beneath), thin trail of worming in blank upper corner, nineteenth century blindstamped calf, gilt lettered on spine within raised bands, slightly rubbed [Wing P1908; Duveen, p.468; Goldsmiths 1930; Hoover 634], small folio (288 x 180mm.), H.L. and R.B. for Thomas Basset, 1670

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First edition of the standard English treatise on mining in the seventeenth century, with much information on metallurgy and coinage, as well as mining.

Provenance: "Sum ex libris Jacobi Chase ex dono ingeniosi [crossed out] authoris", early inscription in upper margin of title.

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