The book of knowledge : treating of the wisdom of the ancients : in four parts : I. Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's calendar ...
A cheap American reprint of the Erra Pater almanac-and-astrology compendium, issued by Evert Duyckinck in New York in 1806 for farmers and household readers wanting weather lore, physic receipts, physiognomy and palmistry. Crude relief-cut woodcuts show a zodiac man ringed by animal signs, a face mapped with planetary glyphs, a stargazer with globe and trumpet-telescope, and dense planetary-hour tables.
