Item #42184 Astrology: The Wisdom of Solomon in Miniature, being a New Doctrine of Nativities, Reduced to Accuracy and Certainty; or The Art of determining Future Events by the only True Method, The Radical Figure of Birth. A Science by many years intense Study and Labour, brought to a Degree of Perfection hitherto unknown, The Whole Containing The Essence, Beauties, and Substance of all Pieces, Ancient and Modern, conjoined; a Variety of new Matter added; the Jargon of obsolete, and the Errors of Modern Authors expunged; and digested in a Manner so plain, familiar, and easy, that a Person of the meanest Capacity may become Proficient in it. Demonstrating to a Certainty Every Person's future Rise or Fall in the World, And shewing him whether he is subject to have Riches, Poverty, Honour, Dignities, Sickness, Health, Marriage, Children, Friends, Enemies, No Matter whether descended from a Prince or a Beggar, Also, A Curious Collection of Nativities, Never Before Published. C. HEYDON.
Astrology: The Wisdom of Solomon in Miniature, being a New Doctrine of Nativities, Reduced to Accuracy and Certainty; or The Art of determining Future Events by the only True Method, The Radical Figure of Birth. A Science by many years intense Study and Labour, brought to a Degree of Perfection hitherto unknown, The Whole Containing The Essence, Beauties, and Substance of all Pieces, Ancient and Modern, conjoined; a Variety of new Matter added; the Jargon of obsolete, and the Errors of Modern Authors expunged; and digested in a Manner so plain, familiar, and easy, that a Person of the meanest Capacity may become Proficient in it. Demonstrating to a Certainty Every Person's future Rise or Fall in the World, And shewing him whether he is subject to have Riches, Poverty, Honour, Dignities, Sickness, Health, Marriage, Children, Friends, Enemies, No Matter whether descended from a Prince or a Beggar, Also, A Curious Collection of Nativities, Never Before Published.
Astrology: The Wisdom of Solomon in Miniature, being a New Doctrine of Nativities, Reduced to Accuracy and Certainty; or The Art of determining Future Events by the only True Method, The Radical Figure of Birth. A Science by many years intense Study and Labour, brought to a Degree of Perfection hitherto unknown, The Whole Containing The Essence, Beauties, and Substance of all Pieces, Ancient and Modern, conjoined; a Variety of new Matter added; the Jargon of obsolete, and the Errors of Modern Authors expunged; and digested in a Manner so plain, familiar, and easy, that a Person of the meanest Capacity may become Proficient in it. Demonstrating to a Certainty Every Person's future Rise or Fall in the World, And shewing him whether he is subject to have Riches, Poverty, Honour, Dignities, Sickness, Health, Marriage, Children, Friends, Enemies, No Matter whether descended from a Prince or a Beggar, Also, A Curious Collection of Nativities, Never Before Published.

Astrology: The Wisdom of Solomon in Miniature, being a New Doctrine of Nativities, Reduced to Accuracy and Certainty; or The Art of determining Future Events by the only True Method, The Radical Figure of Birth. A Science by many years intense Study and Labour, brought to a Degree of Perfection hitherto unknown, The Whole Containing The Essence, Beauties, and Substance of all Pieces, Ancient and Modern, conjoined; a Variety of new Matter added; the Jargon of obsolete, and the Errors of Modern Authors expunged; and digested in a Manner so plain, familiar, and easy, that a Person of the meanest Capacity may become Proficient in it. Demonstrating to a Certainty Every Person's future Rise or Fall in the World, And shewing him whether he is subject to have Riches, Poverty, Honour, Dignities, Sickness, Health, Marriage, Children, Friends, Enemies, No Matter whether descended from a Prince or a Beggar, Also, A Curious Collection of Nativities, Never Before Published.

London: A. Hamilton, 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. viii + 222pp + (2pp of adverts.) Modern quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt rules to top & bottom and of the spine and black gilt-lettered leather titlelabel. New endpapers. Charts & tables. A curious introductory work on astrology - with a particular focus on Nativities and their interpretation - that was issued to meet the renewed interest in the subject that emerged in England in the late eighteenth century. The author - or his publisher - apparently tried to take advantage of the renown of soldier, Member of Parliament, and author of the famous work "A Defence of Judiciall Astrologie" (1603), Sir Christopher Heydon (1561- 1623), by publishing it under the pseudonym C. Heydon. The ploy evidently worked, and indeed continues to work, as a number of cataloguers attribute the book to Sir Christopher Heydon, apparently oblivious of the fact that all the sample nativities at the rear of the book are of individuals who were born over a century after he died. One other interesting facet of the book is that it makes open reference to homosexuality and paederasty, and suggests that sexual-orientation (in men, anyway) is strongly influenced by the stars: "If Mars and Venus are alone in aspect together, or if Jupiter bears testimony to them, the native will be openly lascivious, indulging himself in all excesses with women; but if one of these stars be occidental, and the other oriental, in Quartile or Opposition, he will then be disposed to both men and women, but not above measure; if both these planets be found occidental, configurated, the native's company should be avoided, for he will burn with unnatural lust after men and boys; if the aspect falls in masculine signs, the inclination is most astonishingly inclined to this very infamous, abominable, and most shocking practice" (p. 182 - 183). Lacks first leaf, which was probably a half-title page. Fresh binding is fine. Interestingly the text block has never been trimmed by a binder, so the margins and page sizes are not uniform at the front or bottom edge. Some chipping to page edges, first half-a-dozen leaves have considerable pale foxing, occasional browning throughout, including some marginal staining. Still a VG copy of a very scarce edition. Item #42184

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