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

AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGYBook Details + Condition: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (London). First Edition thus of this format, 1835. Very scarce in this edition. Hardcover. 342 pages, with printer's advertisements to end. Illustrated. Includes Appendix of "Explantation of the Hieroglyphics", or astrological symbols. 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 horary astrology ever written in English. The "Christian" part of the title was most likely incorporated to protect the author from suggestions that