[De Titis, Placido], [tr. Anonymous], the whole carefully revised by Sibly, Manoah ‘Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy, Translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus: Wherein is shewn, from Physical and Astronomical Principles, the Nature of Atmospherical Influx, communicated to Earthly Substances by the Motion, Aspects, and Position of the Heavenly Bodies, in forming the whole Anima of Nature, particularly in Man, the Epitome of the Creation! – the World in Miniature! – The whole comprehending, by these efficient Causes and their Effects, the true Doctrine of calculating Nativities, in so plain and simple a Method, as to be perfectly attainable by the meanest Capacity, and in a Manner superior to any yet published in the English Language. To which are added, Introductory Notes and Observations, With a Concise Method of judging Horary Questions, select Aphorisms, and every other Requisite to elucidate Elementary Agency, and to form a complete Body of Astral Knowledge’ Printed by W. Justins, Blackfriars; and sold by Mr. Bew, Pater-noster Row; Mr. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Mr. Mathews, in the Strand; Mr. Debrett, Picadilly; Messrs. M. and J. Sibly, Goswell-Street; and Mr. Edmund Sibly, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, London, 1789.
Cloth. Third-from-last leaf loose from binding. Lower outer corners of leaves comprising pp. 7-10 cut off with partial loss to a few words of text (but the missing characters easily inferred) to pp. 7 and 8. [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-14] + [2 plates] + [pp. 15-30] + [plate] + [pp. 31-54] + [p. 5 (2)] + [pp. 56-64] + [two pageswith numbers cut out] + [pp. 67-72] + [1] + [p. 74] + [plate] + [pp. 75-78] + [plate] + [pp. 79-80] + [plate] + [pp. 81-90] + [plate] + [pp. 91-122] + [plate] + [pp. 123-126] + [plate] + [pp. 127-202] + [p. 181 (2)] + [pp. 204-250] + [plate] + [pp. 251-2] + [2 plates] + [pp. 253-4] + [12]
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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased in the 2000s.
Manoah Sibly, brother of Ebenezer Sibly, edited and published an anonymous privately procured translation of the text contents of Placido de Titis’s Tabulae Primi Mobilis (1657) in a multi-volume edition, of which this was the first volume of two. For the sequel, see his Collection of Thirty Remarkable Nativities.