Grimaldi, the Reverend A. B., M. A. ‘A Catalogue of Zodiacs and Planispheres, Originals and Copies, Ancient and Modern, Extant and Nonextant, from B.C. 1320 to A.D. 1900 – Arranged according to countries and in chronological order’ Gall and Inglis, 25 Paternoster Sq., London, and Edinburgh, 1905. This copy signed to ffep: ‘With the author’s kind regards, 1924’, and bearing the former ownership label to front paste-down of Arthur E. Covington of Ottawa, Canada[1].
Original outwardly textured paper-covered boards (later adhesive tape wrapped around spine and inner margins). [2] + [pp. iii-viii] + [pp. 9-180]. [Advertisements to rear board]
[1] A notable Canadian astrophysicist.
About this Book Scan
We know little about the Reverend A. B. Grimaldi. He is recorded as having been a reputed cleric in his day, and was a member of the British-Israel-World Federation.
His Catalogue of Zodiacs and Planispheres (1905) remains a valuable reference to surviving pictorial representations of the zodiac in different world cultures over a very wide period of history, spanning 1320 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E..
Our scan is a full-colour reproduction of the first edition in our library.