Cooke, Christopher ‘A Plea for Urania, Being a Popular Sketch of Celestial Philosophy; with Observations on the Impolicy of the Law Which is Supposed to Prohibit the Practice of Astral Sciences in the Present Age’ Piper, Stephenson, & Spence, 23, Paternoster Row, London, 1854.

Two copies. Both copies: Cloth. Copy B: (Worn at extremities of spine. Many pages still unopened at tops.) Copy A: [3] + [pp. vii-xxxii] + 388pp. Copy B: [1 leaf] + [3] + [pp. vii-xxxii] + 388pp

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Carefully reproduced in full colour from one of our two original printings of the 1854 first edition.

Christopher Cooke was a 19th century lawyer notable for having represented the astrologer Zadkiel (Commander Richard Morrison) in court. In A Plea for Urania he argues the case for astrology.