Dickie, John

Uranoscopia or the contemplation of the heavens in a perpetuall speculliam or genarell prognostication for ever. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with pen-drawn astronomical diagrams, etc. Inside the upper cover 'Written at Kilmarnock by me John Dickie'. His name also appears inside the lower cover. Produced in Kilmarnock.

1728/9

1 volume 55 ll. + 75 bl. ll. 4to. 18 x 131/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding, stamped 'LOV/IS' on the top cover, and 'GV/ALY' on the bottom cover.

Purchased 1916.

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).