Saunders, Richard ‘The Astrological Judgment and Practice of Physick. Deduced from the Position of the Heavens at the Decumbiture of the Sick Person: Wherein the Fundamental Grounds thereof are most clearly displayed and laid open: Shewing by an Universal Method not only the Cause, but the Cure and End of all manner of Diseases incident to humane Bodies. Also divers notable Experiments, of great use to all the Industrious Students in Physick and Astrology. Being the XXX years Practice and Experience of Richard Saunders Student in Astrology and Physick’ Printed for L.C. and are to be sold by Thomas Sawbridge at the three Flower-de-luces in Little Britain, London, 1677. Old manuscript table of planetary Howers (sic) glued to front paste-down. Old manuscript diagram glued to rear paste-down. Two small old manuscript notes laid in at rear.

Leather (outer corners of boards worn). Occasional old ink annotations to margins. [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [15] + [24] + 202 + [201 (2)] + [pp. 204-208] + 169 + [pp. 171-214].

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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original 1677 first edition, which is complete. Purchased from Krown and Spellman Booksellers of California in the 2000s.

Richard Saunders’s The Astrological Judgment and Practice of Physick is one of the most celebrated 17th century English-language source texts on medical astrology