[MANUSCRIPT IN GERMAN]. Etliche Lufti gevud bewerte Probier büchleinn. Auf alleriei Ercz vund Metallem A: 1577. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wood board, dated 1577 on front cover (as well as the manuscript title), one metal clasp intact, the other gone, binding badly cocked and moderately soiled. 251 ¼ pages of manuscript in Gothic German script, much of it in small script and difficult to decipher. A portion of the text is on metallurgy, with several references to gold, silver, and copper, some measurements. $300 - $400 Estimate $300-400
PROVENANCE: Estate of Ambassador and Mrs. William H.G. FitzGerald, Washington, DC, by descent from Ignaz Petschek and Nikodem Caro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
