Astrological Devices and other Non-Book Astrology Items in the Library:

[Astro-Research Society of Saint Louis] Programme of Astro-Research Society of Saint Louis for meetings at the American Legion Hall, 3525 Pine Street, 1946-7. Textured paper covers. Staplebound pamphlet. 8pp

Bart, Belle ’The Barascope’ Barascope Corporation, 200 West 57 Street, New York, N. Y., 1927. With original separate working volvelle device printed on heavy card stock, entitled ’Barascope’^[0], in its original string-tied printed envelope (torn along some edges). Original small-format paper covers (detached; 1-inch tear to inner margin of front cover; 4 cm separation to foot of spine). (Defective copy: original first and last internal leaves missing. Lacks pp. C-D and pp.  [116-117].) (Second and penultimate internal leaves present and joined to each other but detached from binding as a result of loss of contact with staples.) [Front cover backed with advertisement] + [pp. E to V] + [pp. W (1) – W (4)] + [pp. 10-115] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]

[Benjamine, Elbert] ’The Church of Light Aspect Finder’ Rising Star Press, November 1949. Original thin card sheet (former owner’s address label adhered to upper margin) overlain with moveable central volvelle, the whole structure pinned to a solid wooden board (matching former owner’s address label adhered to its reverse side)

[Brahé, Gine] ’Astrolabe de Gine Brahé’ Paul Leymarie Éditeur, 42, Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris-Ve, 1933. Original cloth folder featuring instructions to inside of front cover and central spindle within a printed chart to inside of rear cover, complete with clear perspex aspect-finder overlay and six chart blanks on matching card for use with the device

[Erlewine, Michael] Circle Books Aspect Finder – American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., Tempe, AZ, undated. Original double-sided printed card sheet with rotating volvelle device superimposed on one side

[Fischer, Rudolf] Lot of five bundles of chart blanks formerly in the possession of Rudolf Fischer of Pforzheim, each held in its own separate clear document sleeve. Comprises:

• Block of Ebertin-Verlag HSF1 Halbsummen-Positionen graph blanks (gluebound at top edges)
• Group of Karl Rohn Verlag Transitübersicht table blanks
• Group of Karl Rohn Verlag Monats-Transitübersicht table blanks
• Block of Ebertin-Verlag KP 2 Kosmopsychogramm chart blanks (gluebound at top edges)
• Group of Karl Rohn Verlag Großes Horoskop-Formular chart blanks

[Halgar] A4 folded flyer for ‘Sagittarius, the Archer: Halgar 1932 Forecast 1933’, copyrighted 1931

[Hazelrigg, John] ‘[No. 72:] Astrological Fate Cards’ The U.S. Playing Card Company, Cincinnati, U.S.A., 1908. Set of 67 cards with 15-panel fold-out diagram, 4-page presentation slip and staplebound instruction booklet in original gilt-stamped box (torn along inner edge of lid, with wear to upper outer corner of same and to three corners of bottom of box; early owner’s address label adhered across lid)

Kissling, Monica & von Rohr, Wulfing, eds. ’Astrodata Horoskopkarten’ Astrodata AG, Albisriederstraße 232, CH-8047 Zürich, 1993. Set of 64 small playing cards and two cards printed with publication details, together with 12 large playing cards and 12 identically sized pictorial cards bearing the same pictures to the front sides as the playing cards but without the text overlay or image to the reverse, presented with 8-page looseleaf printed instruction booklet and publisher’s original order postcard in publisher’s original printed cardboard box

[Kündig, Heinrich] ’Heinrich Kündig’s Feldergerät – Houses of Heaven Instrument – Instrument à Champs – Strumento per Campi’ Ansata-Verlag / Paul A. Zemp, Ch-3150 Schwarzenburg, undated^[0a]. Device comprising large aluminium disc on central spindle, with five^[0b] accompanying house cusp-calculation overlays on hemispherically-formed translucent printed plastic sheets, together with professionally printed instruction brochure. In original loose card folder (small hole in centre of one panel from piercing by spindle; original publisher’s label substantially peeled away by former owner; former postage label adhered to same panel). Brochure: Printed in equal-spaced font throughout. Staplebound pamphlet. [Title page] + [pp. 2-8]

Lewi, Grant and Greene, Liz ’The Astrology Kit’ Eddison Sadd Editions, 2005^[0c].Volvelle device printed on glossy card, held together with two accompanying books and a notepad and pencil in a box. Books comprise:

• The Astrology Kit: How to Cast a Horoscope. Outwardly glossy card covers
• The Astrology Kit: The Horoscope Readings. Medium-format outwardly glossy card covers

MacAlister, Paul, R., F.R.S.A.-F.I.D.S.A.; Etting, Floylydia M., F.R.S.A., Designers ’Trilogy of Time’ – Paul MacAlister & Associates, Lake Bluff, Illinois, U.S.A., 1976. Set of instruments supplied on cardboard cut-out sheets designed to be cut out from a central clasp around which they are packaged, with separate instruction booklets, in publisher’s original branded printed cardboard folder (wear to both closures; 9 cm separation to flap-fold). Contents comprise:

• Nocturnal (booklet). 4pp
• Perpetual Calendar (booklet). 4pp
• Sundial (booklet). 4pp
• Plates I & II
• Perpetual Calendar. Plate III
• Plate IV

[Moodie, Richard Bennett] ’Solar-Scope Home Astrologer’ Solar-Scope Company, 143 West 49th Street, New York, N.Y., 1934. Large colour-printed volvelle device on thick card stock, with accompanying 15-page instruction booklet, in original cardboard box (scattered moderate edgewear to box)

Muchery, Georges ’Règle à Calcul des Aspects Astrologiques’ Éditions du Chariot, Paris, 1957. Device comprising double-sided strip of card printed in twin columns and designed to be moved vertically within a card wrapper set with twin slots cut as windows in its front panel and printed with the ruled degrees of the tropical zodiac

Naylor, R. H. ’Naylor’s Horoscope Reader 1934-5’ Corker Toys Ltd., 125, Pall Mall, London, S. W. 1. Original illustrated front card wrapper and rear card cover integrating volvelle device to inside (1 cm tear to bottom edge of front cover; light wear to spine). Booklet bound in by (rusty) staples within front flap-fold. Volvelle consists of card overlay with four panels cut out, mounted on central spindle over printed diagram. Booklet: 16 pp

[Partridge, A. E., presumed] ’Instantaneous Aspectarian’ Simplex Publishing Co., Seattle, Wash., copyrighted 1910^[1]. Card square printed with different astrological charts on each side, with working volvelle mounted to front side only, as issued. With original storage envelope (heavily torn along one fold)  featuring contemporaneous advertising for eight Simplex Publishing Co. products, including three devices, two books by A. E. Partridge, 1 book by C. Tousey Taylor, and two low-cost charts.

[Partridge, A. E., presumed] ’Instantaneous Horoscope Delineator’ The Simplex Publishing Co., Seattle, Wash., copyrighted 1916-1929^[2]. Card square printed with astrological chart on front side and instructions on reverse, with working volvelle mounted to front side only, as issued. Held together with Planetary Hour Dial (q. v.) with a single original storage envelope (heavily torn along and near to part of one fold, tear crossing some advertising text)  featuring contemporaneous advertising for ten Simplex Publishing Co. products^[3]

[Partridge, A. E., presumed] ’The Planetary Hour Dial: the Key to Success – the Psychological Moment by the Watch’ The Simplex Publishing Co., Seattle, Wash., copyrighted 1910-1927^[4]. Card square printed with astrological chart on front side and instructions on reverse, with working volvelle mounted to front side only, as issued. Held together with Instantaneous Horoscope Delineator (q. v.) with a single original storage envelope (heavily torn along and near to part of one fold, tear crossing some advertising text)  featuring contemporaneous advertising for ten Simplex Publishing Co. products^[5]

Pyle, W. P. ’The Zodiacal Indicator’  The Esoteric Fraternity, Applegate, California, unclearly dated^[5a]. Circular thick cardstock device with moving volvelle on thinner cardstock mounted  on central spindle

[Reich, Heinrich] Large 6-panel folded  art deco-style zodiacal art chart on paper, representing in turn the ruling planets, glyphs and zodiacal pictures for each of the 12 signs, in segments sequentially ordered from 1-36 in a spiral pattern radiating outwardly from a central point. Signed ‘Tuanima’, strongly indicating that it is the work of Heinrich Reich^[6], q. v. in books section

[Richter, Paul Heinrich] ‘Tattwatabelle von Paul Heinrich Richter und Jan Jansen’^[7], published by Bernhard Sporn, Zeulenroda i. Thür, undated. Narrow card folder (separation down lower half of outer edge) printed on both sides with instructions, with front-facing window. (Handwritten table of Sonnenaufgang for various named German, French and Swiss cities adhered to inner margin of rear cover by former owner.^[8]) With separate strip of card printed in five alternating bands of colours, designed to be slid up and down through the window

Riemann, Fritz ’Psychoanalyse und Astrologie: Referant anläßlich des IV. Internationalen Forums für Psychoanalyse in New York, 1972’ No publisher or place stated, undated. No covers. Staplebound pamphlet. (Evidence of liquid-staining and rippling from past soaking throughout booklet. Horizontal crease across all pages, suggestive of past folding.) 6 + [2]

Rottler, Peter and Tannhäuser, Peter ‘RoTan – ein Astrologie programme unter MS-Dos sofort lauffähig’ Peter Rottler, Im Sachsenhausen 5, D 6101, Bickenbach, März 1992. Laminated textured card covers bound by plastic comb threaded through holes punched in inner margins, with 5.25-inch floppy diskette held within paper sleeve adhered to the inside of the rear cover. Text printed on single-sided leaves throughout within manual.

[Specht, Heinz] Photos, 25-45, 1^[9]. Large-format padded vinyl-covered ring binder with custom volume identification label adhered to spine. Contents comprise, in order:

• 14 double-sided display sleeves filled on both sides with a selection of old black-and-white prints
• 1 sleeve with a single large monochrome photographic portrait^[10] on one side only
• 1 sleeve with a colour painting of the same subject on one side only
• 1 double-sided display sleeve filled on both sides with a selection of old black-and-white prints
• 1 double-sided display sleeve filled on both sides with a selection of old postcards
• 1 double-sided display sleeve filled on one side with a selection of old black-and-white prints and on the other with a selection of old postcards

[Waite, A. E.] The Rider Tarot Deck – U. S. Games Systems, Inc. 38 East 32nd Street, New York, N. Y., copyrighted 1971. Set of 78 cards with separate instruction booklet. Booklet: Paper covers. Staplebound pamphlet. [Front cover] + [pp. 3-46] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]

Webster, Roderick S.; ill. MacAlister, Paul R., F.R.S.A.-F.I.D.S.A.; Etting, Flolydia M, F.R.S.A. ’The Astrolabe: Some Notes on its History Construction and Use’ Second Edition – Lake Bluff, Illinois, 1984^[11]. Large-format textured card covers. Staplebound pamphlet. [Front cover backed with annotated illustration] + [2] + 22 + [Rear cover featuring 2 pages of assembly instructions]. In publisher’s original branded printed cardboard folder (tearing across one closure; 7 cm separation to flap-fold). Supplied in folder with:

• MacAlister, Paul & Assocs, Designers, ’Astrolabe Parts’. Set of 4 cardboard cut-out sheets of printed Astrolabe Parts, designed to be cut out and assembled on the central metal pivot upon which they are packaged

 

[0] The instruction booklet however indicates that five separate planetary overlays are needed, for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; these are missing from this set

[0a] Internal advertising references suggest around 1976

[0b] Was originally missing the sheet that should be called Horizonscheibe IV (3/8), but this was retrospectively supplied by the seller, and so the device should now be complete

[0c] Said to have been first published by Century Hutchinson Limited in 1987

[1] The included advertisement for the book ‘Fortunate Hours’ suggests a date no earlier than 1924 for the issue of this copy, unless there was an unrecorded earlier issue of the book unrecorded in Worldcat

[2] The original copyright is dated 1916, but this was obviously a later printing or revision from 1929 or soon after

[3] This envelope is clearly a different issue from the one for the Instantaneous Aspectarian, as two additional products are listed, although the print style is the same

[4] The original copyright is dated 1910, but this was obviously a later printing or revision from 1927 or soon after

[5] This envelope is clearly a different issue from the one for the Instantaneous Aspectarian, as two additional products are listed, although the print style is the same

[5a] Copyrighted 1898, but there is evidence that it was still in production and being sold as late as 1939, and the date of this issue is therefore difficult to determine

[6] An astrologer and abstract painter who wrote a book called ‘Tuanima – Bilder antworten der Seele’ (1955) and had another one published by his own ‘Tuanima-Verlag’ in 1953

[7] To compare with the inserts in Karl Brandler-Pracht’s book “Tattwische und Astrale Einflüsse”, q. v.

[8] This table is a complement to the printed table on the rear cover of the folder. The times given differ from those on the printed table by over half an hour in some cases. The handwritten table is presented on lined paper and torn at outer and lower margins but perfectly legible

[9] The title on the spine is presumed to indicate that this was the first of multiple ring binders of photographs belonging to Specht spanning the years 1925 to 1945

[10] This is presumed, in common with other pictures in the album, to be of Heinz Specht as a young man

[11] After the first of 1974