The new book of knowledge. : Shewing the effects of the planets ... : together with the husbandman's practice: or, prognostication for ever .. a brief discourse of the natural causes of meteors; with an account of several remarkable earthquakes, rains, thunders ... and observations on the weather, and signs foretelling rain. A brief collection of the members of man physiognomiz'd: the signification of moles on man or woman: the interpretations of dreams: and Pythagoras's wheel of fortune. : With several other secrets of art and nature, not to be found in any other book of this kind and price.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Erra Pater.

Contributor:

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10699.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrology.

Fortune-telling.

Dreams.

Disasters.

Weather forecasting.

Physical Description:

x, 11-172 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street, near the Mill-Bridge., [1767?]

Notes:

Attributed to Erra Pater, whose is named as author in many editions of this work.

Date of publication from internal evidence, p. ix and p. 166. Another issue, printed for Andrew Barclay (Bristol B2790), has imprint date 1767.

Frontispiece and cuts throughout engraved by Isaiah Thomas. Cf. Thomas's ms. notes in the American Antiquarian Society copy.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10699).

Cited in:

Evans 10699

OCLC:

55821988