PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY: A SIMPLE METHOD OF CASTING HOROSCOPES. THE LANGUAGE OF THE STARS EASILY COMPREHENDED.
Book Details + Condition: Laird and Lee (Chicago). First Edition, 1901. Hardcover (7.5" x 5"). 257 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Comte C. de Saint-Germain's famous work "unfolding the wonderful wisdom of the Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek & Arabian astrologers, without any of the complicated, discouraging operations required by other me" (from the title page). In the second half of the book, Saint-Germain associates the zodiac with the major and minor arcana of tarot. Chapters include:
- The Planets and the Zodiac
- The Signs of the Zodiac
- The Planets
- The Twelve Solar Houses
- The Aspects
- Yearly Horoscopes
- Casting a Horoscope
- And much more.
A scarce first edition in very good condition, with firm binding; slight lean; minor shelf wear to boards; toning to endpapers and interior pages, which are otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
