WILLIAM LILLY + ZADKIEL, INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY - 1st, 1835 - ZODIAC PROPHECY

Book Details + Condition: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (London). First Edition thus of this format, 1835. Hardcover. 342 pages, with printer's advertisements to end. Scarce in this edition. Illustrated with charts and tables. Includes Appendix of "Explantation of the Hieroglyphics", or astrological symbols. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; astrological notes and charts to front endpapers; interior pages are clean and free of markings. Full title: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY; BY WILLIAM LILLY: BEING THE WHOLE OFTHAT AUTHOR’S RULES FOR THE PRACTICE OF HORARY ASTROLOGY, DIVESTED OF THE SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: IN WHICH ARE ADDED, NUMEROUS EMENDATIONS, ADAPTED TO THE IMPROVED STATE OF THE SCIENCE IN THE PRESENT DAY. "Christian Astrology" is the most significant work of the foremost 17th-century English astrologer, William Lilly (1602 - 1681), who famously predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is renowned as the most definitive work on hor