2 parts in one volume (lacking portion of the second part, starting on L2r, "The position of moles..." comprising pp. 243-299"). 12mo (142 x 80 mm). Title printed within ornamental border; woodcut frontispiece, woodcut plates (one with hand-coloring). Contemporary calf (rebacked to style). Provenance: early tracing of the palm frontispiece on blank recto with hand-coloring.

Fourth (stated) edition. Saunders studied hermeneutics and "practiced astrology and cheiromancy during the golden age of the pseudo-sciences in England" (ODNB). His work is rare in any edition: we trace only 7 copies sold at auction in over 50 years (most sold copies incomplete). ESTC R220938 (locating only 8 copies); see Wing S753.