Astro-meteorologica, or, Aphorisms and discourses of the bodies cœlestial, their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air ... and other secrets of nature / collected from the observation at leisure times, of above thirty years, by J. Goad.

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Astro-meteorologica, or, Aphorisms and discourses of the bodies cœlestial, their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air ... and other secrets of nature / collected from the observation at leisure times, of above thirty years, by J. Goad.
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Goad, J. (John), 1616-1689.
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London :: Printed by J. Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave ...,
1686.
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Books Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-Yard.

DOctor Gell's Remains; being sundry pious and learned Notes and Observations on the whole new Testament, opening and explaining all the difficulties therein; wherein our Saviour Jesus Christ is yesterday, to day, and the same for ever. Illustrated by that Learned and Judicious Man, Dr. Robert Gell, Rector of Mary Aldermary, London, in Folio.

Christian Religions Appeal from the groundless prejudice of the Scepticks to the Bar of common Reason; wherein is proved that the Apostles did not delude the World. 2. Nor were themselves deluded. 3. Scripture matters of Faith have the best Evidence. 4. The Divinity of Scripture is as demonstrable as the being of a Deity. By John Smith, Rector of St. Mary in Colchester, in Folio.

The Case of Ministring at the Communion Table when there is no Eucharist, stated and discussed; upon occasion of a Treatise entituled, Parish Churches turned into Conventicles, &c. together with some preliminary Reflections made upon two Papers in answer to that Trea∣tise; in 4o.

Weighty Reasons for tender and consciencious Protestants to be in Union and Communi∣on with the Church of England, and not to forsake the publick Assemblies, as the only means to prevent the growth of Popery; on several Sermons on 1 Cor 1. 10. That ye all speak the same things, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same Mind, and in the same Judgement, on Heb. 10. 25. not forsaking the assembling our selves to∣gether, as the manner of some is; in 8o large.

The Psalms of King David paraphrased, and turned into English Verse, according to the common Metre, as they are usually sung in Parish Churches, by Miles Smith; in 8o large.

The Evangelical Communicant in the Eucharistical Sacrament, or a Treatise declaring who is fit to receive the Supper of our Lord, by Philip Goodwin; in 8o.

A Fountain of Tears, emptying it self into three Rivulets, viz. Of Compunction, Com∣passion, Devotion; or Sobs of Nature sanctified by Grace, Languaged in several Soliloquies and Prayers upon various Subjects, for the benefit of all that are in Affliction, and particu∣larly for these present times, by John Featly, Chaplain to his late Majesty.

A Course of Catechising, or the marrow of all Authors as have Writ or Commenced on the Church Catechism; in 8o,

A more shorter Explanation of the Church Catechism, fitted for the meanest capacity; in 8o. price 2 d. by Dr. Combar.

The true bounds of Christian Freedom, or a Treatise, wherein the Rights of the Law are vindicated, the Liberties of Grace maintained; by Sam. Bolton, D. D.

Fons Lacrymarum, or a Fountain of Tears; from whence doth flow England's complaint, Jeremiah's Lamentation, paraphrased with Divine Meditations, by John Quarles, in 8o.

Gregory Father Greybeard with his Vizard pull'd off, or News from the Cabal, in some Re∣flections upon a late Book, entituled, The Rehearsal Transprosed after the fashion it now obtains; in a Letter to Sir Roger L'Estrange; in 8o.

A Reproof to the Rehearsal transprosed in a discourse to its Author, by Dr. Parker; in 8o

A Good Companion, or a Meditation upon Death, by William Winstandly; in 12o.

Select Thoughts, or choice Helps for a Pious Spirit, a Century of Divine Breathings for a Ravished Soul, beholding the excellency of her Lord Jesus: To which is added the Brea∣things of the devout Soul, by Jos. Hall, Bishop of Norwich; in 12o.

The Remedies of Discontent, or a Treatise of Contentation; very fit for these present times; by Jos. Hall, Bishop of Norwich, in 12o.

The Curtezan unmask'd, or the Whoredoms of Jezebel painted to the Life, with an An∣tidote against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust; in 8o.

The admired piece of Physiognomy and Chyromancy, Mataposcopacy, the Symmetrical proportions, and Signal Moles of the Body fully and accurately explained, with their natu∣ral and predictive significations both to Men and Women, being delightful and profitable; with the Subject of Dreams made plain: whereunto is added the Art of Memory; by Richard Saunders; in Folio: Illustrated with Cuts and Figures.

Observations upon Military and Political Affairs; Written by the most Honourable George Duke of Albermarle; in Folio: Published by Authority.

Modern Fortification, or the Elements of Military Architecture, practised and designed by the latest and most experienced Ingeniers of this last Age, Italian, French, Dutch and En∣glish; and the manner of Defending and Besieging Forts and places: with the use of a Joynt Ruler or Sector, for the speedy description of any Fortification; by Sir Jonas Moore Kt. Master Surveyor.

A General Treatise of Artillery of Great Ordinance: Writ in Italian by Tomaso Morety of Brescia, Ingenier; first to the Emperour, and now to the most serene Republick of Venice, translated into English, with Notes thereupon; and some addition out of French for Sea-Gunners. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight: With an Appendix of Artificial Fire-works of War and Delight; by Sir Abraham Dager Knight, Ingenier: Illustrated with divers Cuts.

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The Art of War, and the way that it is at present practised in France, both for Horse and Foot; in Three parts; in 8o large.

A Mathematical Compendium, or useful Practises in Arithmetick, Geometry and Astro∣nomy, Geography and Navigation, Embatteling and Quartering of Armies, Fortifications and Gunnery, Gauging and Dialling; explaining the Loyerthius with new Judices, Napers, Rhodes or Bones, making of Movements, and the Application of Pendulums: With the projection of the Sphere for an Universal Dial. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight.

The Works of that most excellent Philosopher and Astronomer Sir George Wharton Baro∣net: giving an account of all Fasts and Festivals, observations in keeping Easter; Apotelef∣ma, or the Nativity of the World of the Epochae and Erae used by Chronologers: A Dis∣course of Years, Months, and days of Years; of Eclipses and Effects of the Crises in Di∣seases: With an excellent discourse of the names Genius and Species, efficient and final causes of all Comets; how Astrology may be restored from Morinus; in 8o large, cum multis aliis.

The practical Gauger, being a plain and easie method of Gauging all sorts of Brewing Vessels; whereunto is added a short Synopsis of the Laws of Excise: The third Edition with Additions: By John Mayne.

A Table for Purchasers of Estates, either Land or Houses; by William Leybourne.

Leyborn's Platform for Purchasers and Builders; in 8o large.

Sir Jonas Moore's Arithmetick, with new Mathematical Tracts, in 8o large.

Blagrave's Introduction to Astrology, in three parts; containing the use of an Epheme∣rides, and how to erect a Figure of Heaven to any time proposed; also the signification of the Houses, Planets, Signs and Aspects; the explanation of all useful terms of Art: With plain and familiar Instructions for the Resolution of all manner of Questions, and exempli∣fied in every particular thereof by Figures set and judged. The second treateth of Elections, shewing their Use and Application, as they are constituted on the Twelve Celestial Houses, whereby you are enabled to choose such times as are proper and conducible to the perfection of any matter of business whatsoever. The Third comprehendeth an absolute remedy for rectifying and judging Nativities; the signification and portance of Directions; with new and experienced Rules touching Revolutions and Transits, by Jo. Blagrave of Reading Gent. Student in Astrology and Physick; in 8o large.

Blagrave's Astrological Practise of Physick; discovering the true way to cure all kinds of Diseases and Infirmities which are naturally incident to the Body of Man, in 8o large.

Gadbury's Ephemerides for thirty years, 20 whereof is yet to come, and unexpired, in 4o.

Philosophy delineated, consisting of divers Answers upon several Heads in Philosophy, first drawn up for the satisfaction of some Friends, now exposed to publick View and Ex∣amination; by William Marshal, Merch. London; in 8o large.

The Natural History of Nitre, or a Philosophical Discourse of the Nature, Generation, place and artificial Extraction of Nitre, with its Virtues and Uses, by William Clark, M. Doctorum Londinensis.

The Sea-mans Tutor, explaining Geometry, Cosmography and Trigonometry, with re∣quisite Tables of Longitude and Latitude of Sea-ports, Travers Tables, Tables of Easting and Westing, Meridian miles, Declinations, Amplitudes, Refractions, use of the Compass, Kalendar, measure of the Earth Globe, use of Instruments, Charts, differences of sayling estimation of, a Ship-way by the Log, and Log-Line Currents. Composed for the use of the Mathematical School in Christs Hospital, London; his Majesties Charles II. his Royal Foundation. By Peter Perkins Master of that School.

Mr. Nich. Culpeppers last Legacy, left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publick good, being the choisest and most profitable of those secrets, which, while he lived, were locked up in his Breast, and resolved never to publish them till after his Death, containing sundry admirable experiments in Physick and Chyrurgery. The fifth Edition, with the Addition of a new Tract of the Anatomy of the Reins and Bladder, in 8o large.

Mr. Nich. Culpeppers Judgement of Diseases, called Symoteca Vranica; also a Treatise of Urine. A Work useful for all that study Physick, in 8o large.

Mr. Nich Culpeppers School of Physick, or the experimental practise of the whole Art, wherein are contained all inward Diseases from the Head to the Foot, with their proper and effectual Cures: such Dyet set down as ought to be observed in sickness and in health, in 8o large.

The compleat Midwifes practise enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernment of the Birth of Man, containing a perfect Directory or Rules for Midwifes and Nurses; as also, a Guide for Women in their Conception, Bearing and Nursing of Children, from the ex∣perience of our English, viz. Sir Theodoret Mayrn, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpepper, with the Instructions of the Queen of France's Midwife to her Daughter, in 8o large. Il∣lustrated with several Cuts of Brass.

Blagraves suppliment or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English Physitian, containing a description of the form, place and time, Celestial Government, of all such Plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his Book called the English Physitian, printed, in the same Volume, so as it may be bound with the English Physitian, in 8o Large.

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De Succo pancreatico, or a Physical and Anatomical Treatise of the nature and office of the Panecratick Joyce of Sweet-Bread in Men, shewing its generation in the Body, what Diseases arise by its Visitation; together with the Causes and Cures of Agues and inter∣mitting Fevers, hitherto so difficult and uncertain, with several other things worthy of Note. Written by that famous Physitian D. Reg. de Graff. Illustrated with divers Cuts in Brass; in 8o large.

Great Venus unmaskt, being a full discovery of the French Pox or Venereal Evil. By Gideon Harvey, M. D. in 8o large.

The Anatomy of Consumptions, the Nature and Causes Subject, Progress, Change; Signs, Prognostications, Preservations, and several Methods in curing Consumptions, Coughs, and spitting of Bloud; together with a discourse of the Plague. By Gidion Har∣vey, in 8o large.

Eleuchus of opinions concerning the Small Pox; by Tobias Whitaker, Physitian to his Ma∣jesty; together with problemical questions concerning the cure of the French Pox; in 12o.

The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mistery of Cookery, wherein the whole Art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method than hath bin published in any Language; ex∣pert and ready ways for the dressing of all sorts of Flesh, Foul and Fish, with variety of Sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of Past, the best directions for all sorts of Kickshaws; also the terms of Carving and Sewing. An exact account of all Dishes for all seasons in the year, with other admirable Curiosities, approved by the five and fifty years experience of Robert May in his attendance on several persons of great Ho∣nour; in 8o large.

The Queens Closet opened, incomparable secrets in Physick and Chirurgery, Preserving, Conserving, and Canding; which was presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of their times; in 12o large.

The Gentlemans Jockie and approved Farrier; instructing in the nature, causes and cures of all Diseases incident to Horses, with an exact method of Breeding, Buying, Die∣ting, and other ways of ordering all sorts of Horses; in 8o large.

The Countrymans Treasure, shewing the nature, cause and cure of ail Diseases iucident to Cattle, viz. Oxen, Cows and Calves, Sheep Hogs and Dogs, with proper means to pre∣vent their common Diseases and Distempers, being very useful receits, as they have been practised by the long experience of forty years; by James Lambert, in 8o large.

St. Foyne improved, a Discourse shewing the utility and benefit which England hath, and may receive by the Grass called St. Foyne, and answering all objections urged against it; in 4o.

Pharomand, that famed Romance, being the History of France, in twelve parts; by the Author of Cleopatra and Cassandra; in Folio.

Parthanessa, that famed Romance.

A short History of the late English Rebellion; by M. Needham, in 4o.

The ingenious Satyr against Hypocrites; in 4o.

Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassiu, or a sure guide to those admirable accomplish∣ments that compleat the English Gentyr, in the most acceptable qualifications of Discourse or Writing; in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing Witchcrafts of Eloquence and Love are made easie, in divers Tracts; in 8o large.

Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or the Art of Wooing and Complementing, as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, and other places; in 8o large.

The Maiden-head lost by Moon-light, or the adventure of the Meadow; by Joseph Kepple, in Quarto.

Vercingerixa, a new Droll; composed on occasion of the pretended German Princess. in 4o.

Meronides, or Virgil Traversly, being a new Paraphrase upon the fifth and sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneas in Burlesque Verse; by the Author of the Satyr against Hypocrites.

Gerania, a new Discovery of a little sort of People called Pigmies, with a lively descrip∣tion of their stature, habit, manners, building, knowledge and Government; by Joshua Barns of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, in 8o.

The Woman is as good as the Man, or the equality of both Sexes: Written originally in French, and translated into English.

Cleaveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, purged from many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name. To which is added many never before printed or pub∣lished, according to the Authors own Copies; with a narrative of his Life; in 8o large.

Newly re-printed the exquisite Letters of Mr. Robert Loveday, the late admired Transla∣tor of the three first Volumes of Clepatra, published by his Brother Mr. Anthony Loveday, in 8o large.

Troades, a Translation out of Seneca; in 8o.

Wallographea, or the Britan described, being a Relation of a pleasant Journey into Wales; wherein are set down several remarkable passages that occurred in the way thither, and also many choice observables and notable commemorations concerning the state and condition, the nature and humour, actions, manners, and customs of that Country and People, in 8o.

Troja Rediviva, or the Glories of London surveyed, in an Heroick Poem, in 4o.

Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems, corrected and amended with new Additions; in 8o large Adaga Scholica, or a Collection of Scotch Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, in 12o. very useful and delightful.

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The Batchelors Banquet, or fifteen degrees of Marriage, in 4o.

The Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter; ador∣ned with many Sculptures in Copper; by that Noble and ingenious Gentleman Elias Ash∣mole, Es{que} in Folio.

The perfect Statesman, or Minister of State; wherein are briefly set forth the true Na∣ture of the Subject, the endowment inherent to the person, the method of his Election, Institution and Reception; the object of his Office distinguished under such principles as are immediately requisite to the Establishment of a Commonweal, by Leonard Willin Esq; in Folio.

A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-monies, Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalty, Monopolies, Offices, Tyths, Raising of Coins, Hearth-money, Excise; and with several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Wars, the Church, Universities, Rents and Purchases, Usury and Exchange, Banks and Lumbards, Registers for Conveyances, Buyers, Insurances, Exportation of Money and Wool, Free Ports, Coyns, Housing, Liberty of Conscience: by Sir William Pette Knight; in 4o.

England described through the several Counties and Shires thereof, briefly handled; some things also premised to set forth the Glory of this Nation, by Edward Leigh Esq;

England's Worthies, Select Lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine down to this present year 1684. by William Winstandly Gent. in 8o large.

The Glories and Triumphs of his Majesty King Charles the II. being a Collectin of all Letters, Speeches, and all other choice passages of State since his Majesties return from Breda, till after his Coronation, in 8o large.

The Portugal History, describing the said Country, with the Customs and Uses among them, in 8o large.

A new Survey of the Turkish Government compleated, with divers Curs, being an exact and absolute discovery of what is worthy of knowledge, or any way satisfactory to curiosity in that mighty Nation, in 8o large.

The Antiquity of China, or an Historical Essay, endeavouring a probability, that the Language of the Empire of China, is the primitive Language spoken through the whole World before the confusion of Babel; wherein the Customs and Manners of the Chineans are presented, and Ancient and Modern Authors consulted with. Illustrated with a large Map of the Country, in 8o large.

An Impartial Description of Surynham upon the continent of Guiana in America; with a History of several strange Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Customs of that Colony, in 4o.

Ethecae Christianae, or the School of Wisdom. It was dedicated to the Duke of Mon∣mouth in his younger years, in 12o.

The Life and Actions of the late renowned Prelate and Soldier Christopher Bernard Van Gale Bishop of Monster, in 8o.

The Politician discovered, or considerations on the late pretensions that France claims to England and Ireland, and her designs and plots in order thereunto; in two serious Discour∣ses in 4o.

The Conveyancers Light, or the Compleat Clerk and Scriveners Guide, being an exact draught of all Precedents and Assurances now in use, likewise the Forms of all Bills, An∣swers and Pleadings in Chancery, as they were penned by divers learned Judges, Eminent Lawyers, and great Conveyancers, both Ancient and Modern, in 40 large.

The Priviledges and Practices of Parliaments in England, collected out of the Common Law of this Land, in 4o.

A Letter from Oxford concerning the approaching Parliament then called 1681. in vindi∣cation of the King, the Church, and Universities, in 4o.

The Antiquity, Legality, Right, Use, and ancient usage of Fines paid in Chancery, upon the suing out or obtaining some sorts of Original Writs retornable into the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, in 4o.

Brevia Parliamentaria Rediviva, in 13 Sections, containing several Catalogues of the numbers and dates of all Bundles of Original Writs of Summons and Elections that are now in the Tower of London, in 4o.

The new World of Words, or a general English Dictionary, cotaining the proper signifi∣cation and Etymologies of Words, derived from other Languages, viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Dutch, Saxon, useful for the ad∣vancement of our English Tongue; together with the definition of all those terms that con∣duce to the understanding of the Arts and Sciences, viz. Theology, Philosophy, Logick, Rhetorick, Grammar, Ethic, Law, Magick, Chyrurgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, Botanicks, Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Astrology, Physiognomy, Chyromancy, Navigation, Fortification, Dyaling, cum multis aliis, in fol.

Cocker's new Coppy-Book, or England's Pen-man, being all the curious Hands engraved in 28 Brass Plates; in folio.

Sir Robert Stapleton's Translation of Juvenals Satyr, with Annotations thereon; in folio.

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The Rudiments of the Latine Tongue, by a method of Vocabulary and Grammer; the for∣mer comprizing the Primitives, whether Noun or Verb, ranked in their several Cases; the latter teaching the forms of Declension and Conjugation, with all possible plainness: To which is added the Hermonicon, viz. a Table of those Latin Words, which their sound and signification being meerly resembled by, the English are the sooner learned thereby, for the use of Merchant Taylors School, in 8o large.

Indiculis Vniversalis, or the whole Universe in Epitomie, wherein the names of almost all the Works of Nature, of all Arts and Sciences, and their most necessary Terms are in En∣glish, Latin and French, methodically digested, in 8o large.

Farnaby's Notes on Juvenal and Persius, in 12o.

Clavis Grammatica, or the ready way to the Latin Tongue, containing most plain Demon∣strations for the regular Translating of English into Latin, with instructions how to construe and parse Authors, fitted for such as would attain to the Latin Tongue, by T. B. School∣master.

The English Orator, or Rhetorical Descents by way of declamation upon some notable Themes, both Historical and Philosophical, in 8o large.

M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistolarum Selectarum Libri tres, in 8o.

Fax Nova Lingua Latiua, in 8o large.

Mapps.

A New and exact Mapp of the whole World, with the late newest Discoveries of all the parts of Persia, with a Description thereof in French and English.

A New Mapp of Oxford.

A New Mapp of the Royal Exchange.

A large Mapp of the City of London, and its Ruines, faithfully surveyed, wherein is de∣clared its Original, Antiquities, Monuments, Customs, Knights, according to the Ancient Charter, granted to the said City by former Kings of England.

An Advertisement of an Excellent Water for the Preservation of the Eyes.

THere is sold by the said Obadiah Blagrave, a Water of such an excellent Nature and Operation for preservation of the Eyes, that the Eye being but washed therewith once or twice a day, it not only takes away all hot Rheumes and Inflamations, but also preserveth the Eye after a most wonderful manner; a Secret which was used by a most Learned Bishop: By the help of which Water he could read without the use of Spectacles at 90 Years of Age. A Bottle of which will cost but 1 s.

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