Sayce Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians 1874

Sayce, Rev. A. H. ‘The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians’ in ‘Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 9, Conduit Street, W. – Vol. III’ Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Paternoster Row, London, 1874.

Half-leather (heavy scuffing to extremities of spine and wear to outer corners of boards). (Slight traces of damp-marking to upper outer margins of first c. 450 pages, not affecting text.) [Pp. 145-339] in vol. whose overall collation is: [3] + [p. iv] + 26 + [coloured folding plate] + [pp. 27-8] + [coloured folding plate] + [pp. 29-30] + [coloured folding plate] + [pp. 31-4] + [folding plate] + [pp. 35-6] + [folding plate] + [pp. 37-8] + [coloured folding plate] + [pp. 39-42] + [coloured folding plate] + [pp. 43-112] + [3 folding plates] + [pp. 113-388] + [folding plate] + [pp. 389-424] + [2 very wide folding plates] + [pp. 425-480] + [folding plate] + [pp. 481-6] + [2 wide folding plates] + [pp. 487-639] + 10

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The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians was a scholarly extended paper by the Reverend Archibald Sayce and one of the earliest pieces of published modern academic research on ancient Babylonian astrology.  It has proved enduringly popular, with multiple reprints appearing since the late 20th century.