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[picture: Front Cover, Sibly Astrology Book]

A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by Ebenezer Sibly [1751-1800], M.D. F.R.H.S., Embellished with Curious Copper-Plates, London, 1806.

Part of this text is online courtesy of Joseph H. Peterson, and a search for Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences, Book 4 should find it; since he doesn’t allow any further reproduction, I have not linked to it directly.

The copy i have used for scans is one that i bought at D & E Lake Books on King Street in Toronto back in the early 1990s. It’s one of the few books i have listed for sale, mostly because we’re short of groceries.

Title: Astrology

Author: Sibly, Ebenezer

City: London

Date: 1806

Total items: 44

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Frontispiece, Judges V. 20.]

Frontispiece, Judges V. 20.

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of the mark by showing people in what appears to be a Greek (pre-Christian) temple, one of whom plots a chart, another, a young man wearing a tunic, carried [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Libra (the scales)]

Libra (the scales)

Zodiac sign for Libra taken from The Zodiac [$]

[picture: The Signs and Planets]

The Signs and Planets

A TABLE exhibiting at one View the Natures Dignities, Triplicities & Affections of the Signs and Planets.

Opposite Vol I p. 107. [$]

[picture: Paracelsus receives from the Inspiration of Spirits]

Paracelsus receives from the Inspiration of Spirits

The actual caption in the figure is PARACELSUS Receits from the Inſpiration of Spirits. [more...] [$]

[picture: Nativity Chart for Erasmus]

Nativity Chart for Erasmus

NASC-Erasmus. Born Oct. 27 16H.30m.P.M. 1467. From Origanus. [more...] [$]


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