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Erra Pater (pseud.)
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description
- A Prognostication For Ever, Made by Erra Pater, a Jew, Born in Jewry, Doctor in Astronomy and Physick: Very Profitable To Keep the Body in Health. And Also Ptolomeus Saith the Same. Together with the Fairs and High-Ways, and Several New Additions. London: Printed for Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswel, Samuel Smith, Benjamin Walford and George Conyers, 1695
- paper, ink, leather
8vo (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.; 146 x 89 mm). Woodcut vignette on title-page, title within border or printer's ornaments, full-page woodcut on title-page verso of a man taking measurements with a quadrant, text in roman and black letter; light browning, a few headlines shaved.
Provenance
Henry Cunliffe Armiger (bookplate)
Literature
This issue not in Wing or ESTC
Catalogue Note
An unrecorded or unknown issue of a popular work, first printed in 1598 and as late as 1700. The addenda include "a rule to know when the terms begin and end with their returns," a table calculating the waxing and waning of the moon, a table calculating interest at six percent, a chronological catalogue of fairs in England and Wales, mileage between towns on various roads and highways, and a sample of standard legal documents such as wills, bills of sale, etc.