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.
| Author/creator | Erra Pater |
| Other author | Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831 engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street, near the Mill-Bridge, [1767?] |
| Description | x, 11-172 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10699. ^A478749 |
| General note | Attributed to Erra Pater, whose is named as author in many editions of this work. |
| General note | Date of publication from internal evidence, p. ix and p. 166. Another issue, printed for Andrew Barclay (Bristol B2790), has imprint date 1767. |
| General note | Frontispiece and cuts throughout engraved by Isaiah Thomas. Cf. Thomas's ms. notes in the American Antiquarian Society copy. |
| References | Evans 10699 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10699). |
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