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Old Ashmolean Reprints Digges, Leonard
1555 Prognostication of Leonard Digges
In the series "Old Ashmolean Reprints" no. III. It bears the modern note "This reprint has been prepared for members of the British Association meeting in Oxford in 1926. The original work doubtless supplied Humphrey Cole, the greatest instrument-maker of the Elizabethan Age with "Copy" for several of his scientific instruments". 3 copies. (Also 2 proof copies).
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1926
A (Stack)Digges, Leonard
A Prognostication of Right Good effect, fruitfully augmented, contayning playne, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules, to iudge the wether for euer, by the Sunne, Moone, Sterres, Cometes, Raynebowe, Thunder, Cloudes, with other Extraordinarie tokens, not omitting the Aspectes of Planetes, with a brefe Iudgemente for euer, of Plentie, Lacke, Sickenes, Death, Vvares &c. Openinge also many naturall causes, woorthy to be knowe, to these and others, now at the last are adioyned, diuers generall pleasaunte Tables: for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of any understanding:
therefore agayne published by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1555. Imprynted at London, within the blacke Fryars, by Thomas Gemini. 1555. Bound rotograph copy (negative photostats).
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1555