Astronomy.- [Edwards (John)] Cometomantia. A Discourse of Comets, first and only edition, lacking initial blank, title browned and laid down, lower right corner of title defective with loss to a few words, mostly of imprint, blind stamp of Unitarian Home Missionary College, N1 with tear to inner margin, affecting some text, U4 with small hole to a couple of letters, some light spotting and finger-soiling, front free endpaper detached, later vellum, rebacked, leather label to spine, [Wing E199], 8vo, Printed for Brab. Aylmer, 1684.

⁂ Rare in commerce, we can trace one other copy at auction since 1946. The book treats both the physics and meaning of comets, discussing (as the title page indicates) their "substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially their prognosticks, significations and presages."