Lilly, William ‘Christian Astrology Modestly Treated of in three Books. The first containing the use of an Ephemeris, the erecting of a Scheam of Heaven; nature of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack, of the Planets; with a most easie Introduction to the whole Art of Astrology. The second, by a most Methodicall way, Instructeth the Student how to Judge or Resolve all manner of Questions contingent unto Man, viz. of Health, Sicknesse, Riches, Marriage, Preferment, Journies, &c. Severall Questions inserted and Judged. The third, containes an exact Method, whereby to Judge upon Nativities; severall ways how to rectifie them; How to judge the generall fate of the Native by the twelve Houses of Heaven, according to the naturall influence of the Stars; How his particular and Annuall Accidents, by the Art of Direction, and its exact measure of Time by Profections, Revolutions, Transits, a Nativity Judged by the Method preceding’ Printed for Tho. Budenell for John Partridge and Humph. Blunden, in Blackfriers at the Gate going into Carter-lane, and in Corhil, 1647. Early manuscript geniture dated 1680 glued to front paste-down. Early manuscript notes to front endpapers.
Leather. With one (of two) original brass clasps still present. Frontis. + [1 leaf] + [43] + [7][1] + [pp. 25-86] + [p. 17] + [pp. 88-93] + [p. 95] + [p. 94] + [pp. 96-103] + [p. 66 (2)] + [pp. 105-130] + [p. 113 (2)] + [pp. 132-169] + [pp. 174-175] + [pp. 172-173] + [pp. 170-171] + [pp. 176-200] + [2 pages with page numbers cut out] + [pp. 203-224] + [p. 229 (1)] + [pp. 226-245] + [p. 244 (2)] + [pp. 247-277] + [p. 279] + [p. 29 (2)] + [p. 280-314] + [p. 215 (2)] + [pp. 316-317] + [p. 218 (2)] + [p. 319-420] + [p. 412(2)] + [pp. 422-429] + [p. 431] + [p. 430] + [pp. 432-468] + [p. 473] + [pp. 470-472] + [9] + [pp. 482-486] + [1 leaf] + [1] + [pp. 490-1] + [8] + [pp. 500-508] + [1] + [pp. 510-525 (1)] + [p. 525 (2)] + [pp. 527-45] + [pp. 538 (2) – 539 (2)] + [pp. 548-9] + [pp. 542 (2) – 543 (2)] + [pp. 552-559] + [p. 561 (1)] + [pp. 561 (2)-574] + [p. 755 (1)] + [pp. 576-582] + [p. 783] + [pp. 584-586] + [p. 787 (1)] + [pp. 588-695] + [p. 296 (2)] + [p. 697-710] + [1] + [p. 712] + [1] + [pp. 714-716] + [1] + [pp. 718-721] + [1] + [pp. 723-764] + [16] + [pp. 781 (1) – 789] + [pp. 780-781 (2)] + [pp. 792-793] + [p. 795] + [p. 794] + [pp. 796-832] + [22]
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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original purchased from Weiser Antiquarian Books in the 2000s. An outstanding copy of the true 1647 first edition.
William Lilly’s celebrated work on horary and natal astrology, Christian Astrology, was his main astrological teaching manual, and has become one of the foundational texts of the contemporary Renaissance astrology revival movement since the 1980s.