Manoah Sibly Collection of Thirty Remarkable Nativities 1789

[De Titis, Placido], [tr. Anonymous], revised Sibly, Manoah ‘A Collection of Thirty Remarkable Nativities, To Illustrate the Canons, and Prove the True Principles of Elementary Philosophy. Translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus. To which is prefixed, To facilitate Astronomical Calculations, Tables of Right Ascension, Declination, and Ascensional Difference; Tables of Double Horary Times, Semi-diurnal and Nocturnal Arcs; Sexagenary Tables, and Logistical Logarithms; Tables for equating the Seven Erratics; Table of Fixed Stars, &c. &c. The whole arranged in a concise and regular Method, and exemplified with suitable Matter to elucidate Elementary Agency, and to form an Adept in the Sideral and Sublime Mysteries. Beautified and Embellished with Thirty-Six[1] Elegant Engravings, And the Nativity of that wonderful Phaenomenon, Oliver Cromwell’ 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, Piccadilly; Messrs. M. and J. Sibly, Goswell-Street; and Mr. Edmund Sibly, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, 1789.

Quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards. [Frontis.] + 24 + [plate] + [pp. 25-32] + [plate] + [pp. 33-40] + [plate] + [pp. 41-44] + [plate] + [pp. 45-50] + [plate] + [pp. 51-6] + [plate] + [pp. 57-62] + [plate] + [pp. 63-68] + [plate] + [pp. 69-72] + [plate] + [pp. 73-78] + [plate] + [pp. 79-82] + [plate] + [pp. 83-86] + [plate] + [pp. 87-94] + [plate] + [pp. 95-100] + [plate] + [pp. 101-108] + [plate] + [pp. 109-112] + [plate] + [pp. 113-120] + [plate] + [pp. 121-128] + [plate] + [pp. 129-132] + [plate] + [pp. 133-136] + [plate] + [pp. 137-140] + [plate] + [pp. 141-148] + [plate] + [pp. 149-154] + [plate] + [pp. 155-158] + [plate] + [pp. 159-162] + [plate] + [pp. 163-168] + [plate] + [pp. 169-172] + [plate] + [pp. 173-176] + [plate] + [pp. 177 (1)-184 (1)] + [plate] + [pp. 177 (2)-180 (2)] + [plate] + [pp. 181 (2)-184 (2)] + [plate] + [pp. 185-7]

[1] NB: for the tables promised by the title, see the separate entry for the separately bound volume ‘Supplement to Placidus de Titus’: they are not included in this one. Note also that only 32 plates (inc. frontis.) are present in this volume, as compared with the 36 promised, but the count of 32 corresponds with other copies advertised

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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased in the 2000s.

Manoah Sibly, brother to Ebenezer, edited and published in two volumes the text content of an anonymous privately procured English translation of 17th century Italian astrologer Placido de Titis’s Tabulae Primi Mobilis (1657) in 1789. This is the second of the two volumes of his edition. For the first, please see Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy.