Cookeson, William

A treatise of judicial astrology. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn horoscopic figures, one of which on p. 246 is dated 8 November 1665. The work appears to be holograph: it is signed by Cookeson on p. 86 and again on p. 158, and is possibly the copy prepared for the press.

c. 1665

1 volume 5 ll. + 264 pp. 4to. 18 x 14 cm. Original calf binding damaged. The title-page, and all before the preface, together with the end are wanting.

Purchased at Sotheby's 15/6/1908, Lot 36.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Phillipps MS. 7001.