1645 - ANCIENT AND MODERN PROPHECIES - William Lilly, 1st Ed - ASTROLOGY OCCULT

A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN PROPHECIES CONCERNING THESE PRESENT TIMES, WITH MODEST OBSERVATIONS THEREON. THE NATIVITIES OF THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, AND WILLIAM LAUD, LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, HIS MAJESTIES GREAT FAVORITES; ASTROLOGICAL JUDGEMENTS UPON THEIR SCHEMES; AND THE SPEECH INTENDED BY THE EARL OF STRAFFORD TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN AT DEATH. Book Details + Condition: Printed for John Partridge and Humphries Blunden (London). First Edition, 1645. Original pamphlet has been bound in soft covers. 54 pages, with b&w in-text illustrations. Lilly's very scarce, first edition treatise on past, present and future divination. Due to the tragedies of the Great Plague and the English Civil War, the work sparked a renewed interest in divination, prophecy and astrology - notably, attracting the attention of many members of Parliament and Sir Oliver Cromwell. For more information on William Lilly, please see below. Firm binding; toning to original pages; small inked notation to b