Goad, [John] ‘Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Discourses of the Bodies Coelestial, Their Natures and Influences. Discovered From the Variety of the Alterations of the Air, Temperate, or Intemperate, as to Heat or Cold, Frost, Snow, Hail, Fog, Rain, Wind, Storm, Lightnings, Thunder, Blasting, Hurricane, Tuffon, Whirlwind, Iris, Chasme, Parelij, Comets their Original and Duration, Earthquakes, Vulcano’s, Inundations, Sickness Epidemical, Maculae Solis, and other Secrets of Nature. Collected from the Observation at leisure times, of above Thirty years; by J. Goad.’ Printed by J. Rawlins, for Obadiah Blagrave at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-Yard, over against the Little North-door, London, 1686.

Leather (rebacked; worn to outer corners of boards). (Internal front and rear paper hinges split, but binding solid beneath.) [1 leaf] + [6] + 36 + [p. 40] + [pp. 38-9] + [p. 37] + [pp. 41-72 (1)] + [p. 72 (2)] + [pp. 74-101] + [p. 103] + [p. 102] + [pp. 104-162 (1)] + [p. 159 (2) – 162 (2)] + [pp. 167-186] + [p. 181 (2)] + [p. 188] + [p. 199 (1)] + [pp. 190-203] + [pp. 205 (1) – 206] + [p. 205 (2)] + [p. 210 (1)] + [pp. 208-265] + [p. 264 (2)] + [pp. 267-272] + [pp. 263 (2)] + [pp. 274-350 (1)] + [pp. 347 (2) – 392] + [illegibly faint page number] + [pp. 394-7] + [p. 368 (2)] + [pp. 399-450] + [illegibly faint page number] + [pp. 452-478]^[1] + [pp. 489-500 (1)] + [p. 500 (2)] + [pp. 502-509 (1)] + [1] + [p. 509 (2)] + [3 pages of advertisements]

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

John Goad’s Astro-Meteorologica (1686) is a pioneering major work on astrological weather-forecasting or astro-meteorology, and includes an extensive tabulated diary of the weather over a period of time alongside details of the astrological conditions prevailing then, thus exhibiting the author’s meticulous research