The Newest, Best, And Very-much Esteemed Book Of Knowledge ... -

London: A. Wilde, 1764. The title, acting as a sort of table of contents, continues: "... Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations ... Together with The husbandman's practice ... And the shepherd's perpetual calendar for the weather. Also a brief discourse on the natural causes of meteors ... And observations on the weather ... A brief collection of all the members of man physiognomiz'd. - Signification of moles on man or women. - Interpretation of dreams ... With a particular account of the earth and sea ... " Quite rare.. 16 cm; [12],154 (of 156) pages, printed on foolscap, with full-page woodcut frontispiece of a man sighting stars through a telescope, and 12 woodcut illustrations. LACKS ONE PRELIMINARY LEAF with text. Very early cloth-bound book, bound crudely in contemporary cloth with leather backstrip; pages deeply toned and thumbed. Condition: well-used. References: NLM 18th century, 323; English Short Title Catalog, ESTCN11126.