TY - BOOK AU - Erra Pater. AU - Thomas, Isaiah, TI - The new book of knowledge: 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 U1 - 001 PY - 1767///?] CY - Boston: PB - Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street, near the Mill-Bridge. KW - Astrology KW - Fortune-telling KW - Dreams KW - Disasters KW - Weather forecasting N1 - Attributed to Erra Pater, whose is named as author in many editions of this work; Date of publication from internal evidence, p. ix and p. 166. Another issue, printed for Andrew Barclay (Bristol B2790), has imprint date 1767; Frontispiece and cuts throughout engraved by Isaiah Thomas. Cf. Thomas's ms. notes in the American Antiquarian Society copy; Subscription and registration required for access; Evans; 10699; Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series; Electronic text and image data; [Chester, Vt.; Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc; 2002-2004; Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text; (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 10699); Mode of access : World Wide Web UR - http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/10699 ER -