The use of the astronomical playing-cards
Subtitle: teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty
Contributors: Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1837:7
Publisher: printed by J. Moxon, and are to be sold at the sign of the Atlas in Warwick Lane
Published: 1692
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Sky -- Early works to 1800; Constellations -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: With a caption title on p.15: Here follows the ancient stories of the several stars and constellations. Shewing the poetical reasons why such various figures are places in heaven. Collected from Dr. Hood

Signatures: A-D(-D8)

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library

Wing (2nd ed.) M3027A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1837:7).