The new book of knowledge
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, engraver
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41739.
Publisher: Printed [by Zechariah Fowle] for A. Barclay, near the Three Kings, in Cornhill.
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Astrology; Fortune-telling; Disasters; Weather forecasting; Dreams
Notes: Attributed to Erra Pater, whose is named as author in many editions of this work.

Frontispiece and cuts throughout engraved by Isaiah Thomas. Cf. Thomas's ms. notes in the American Antiquarian Society copy. Thomas was employed by Zechariah Fowle at this time.

Bristol B2790

Shipton & Mooney 41739

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985]. 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41739).