Culpeper, Nicholas, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology ‘Semeiotica Uranica. Or an Astrological Judgment of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick; 1. From Aven Ezra by way of Introduction. 2. From Noel Duret by way of Direction. Wherein is layd down, The way and manner of finding out the Cause, Change and End of a Disease; Also whether the Sick be likely to live or dye, and the Time when Recovery or Death is to be Expected; To which is added The Signs of Life or Death by the Body of the Sick Party according to the judgment of Hippocrates’ Printed for Nathaniell Brookes at the golden Angel on Cornhill, near the Exchange, London, 1651

Leather (slightly scuffed). (Binding internally reinforced by later flexible white plasticky tape threaded through inner margins, occasionally affecting a character of text and leaving some of the innermost text slightly difficult to see, although still legible.) [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [8] + [4 pages of advertisements] + [8] + 41 + [plate] + [1] + [pp. 44-51] + [plate] + [1] + [pp. 54-119] + [p. 220] + [pp. 121-143] + [p. 154 (1)] + [pp. 145-169] + [p. 171] + [illegibly corrected page number] + [pp. 172-3] + [pp. 175-176 (1)] + [pp. 176 (2) – 190]

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The true first edition of famed 17th century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper’s main work on medical astrology using the technique of decumbiture, Semeiotica Uranica, or an Astrological Judgment of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick