The book of knowledge : treating of the wisdom of the ancients ; in four parts / written by Erra Pater, a Jew doctor in astronomy and physic, born in Bethany, near Mount Olivet, in Judea ; made English by W. Lilly, student in physic and astrology ; to which is added, the true form of all sorts of bills, bonds, counter-bonds, indentures, letters of attorney and licence, deeds of gift, bills of exchange, &c.
An astrology and folk-almanac compendium attributed to Erra Pater and translated by William Lilly, printed by Peter Edes in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1795 for a general American readership, mixing occult lore with legal forms. The pictures are crude woodcuts of a zodiac man with signs on the body, a palmistry hand, and a stargazer with a telescope under a crescent moon, offering a designer rough, folkish emblems of celestial and bodily correspondence.
