Nicholas Culpeper Semiotica Uranica 1658 or 1671

Culpeper, Nicholas ‘Semiotica Uranica, or Culpepper’s Judgement of Diseases Much Enlarged; Abraham Avenezra, of Critical Days’ (running title from first main page; publication details missing). Bound (as issued) with Culpeper, Nicholas, Student in Physick, and Astrology ‘Urinalia: or, a Treatise of the Crisis Hapning to the Urine: Through default either of the Reins, Bladder, Yard, Conduits, or Passages, with their Causes, Signs, and Cures’ Printed for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhil, London, 1658.

Leather (slightly worn at extremities of hinges and outer corners of boards). Semiotica: (lacks title page and some prefatory pages; present prefatory leaves torn slightly at tops of inner margins, affecting a few characters of text.) [Frontis., cut out and laid down on a later blank] + [6] (= ‘The Stationer to the Reader’ + table of contents) + 35 + [1] + [pp. 38-44] + [1] + [pp. 46-60] + [pp. 62-71] + [1] + [pp. 73-112] + p. 123 (1)] + [pp. 114-128] + [p. 119 (2) – 200]. Urinalia: [1 leaf] + [pp. 203-222] + [p. 123 (3)] + [p. 224]

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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased in the 2000s.

The revised and reset second or third edition (1658 or 1671) of famed 17th century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper’s main work on medical astrology. As our original of this edition lacks the main title page and they were essentially identical internally according to library records, we cannot be sure which of the two possible printings this one is. The Urinalia supplment is dated 1658.