THE TEXT-BOOK OF ASTROLOGY IN FIVE BOOKS: GENETHLIACAL ASTROLOGY, MUNDANE ASTROLOGY, ASTRO-METEOROLOGY, MEDICAL ASTROLOGY, AND ELECTIONS
Book Details + Condition: Mackie & Co., Ltd. (London). Second Edition, 1911. Hardcover. 487 pages and illustrated with frontis portrait, charts and graphs. INCLUDES ORIGINAL POEM handwritten by Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962). Poem is written on the first blank page: "Reason hath moons - / But moons not hers / Lie mirror'd in her sea / Confounding her astronomers / But oh, delighting me (1920)". Signature appears as his, and is the poem "Reason Has Moons," from his book POEMS, 1917. THE TEXT-BOOK OF ASTROLOGY, by noted English astrologer Alfred John Pearce, was first published as a combined edition in London in 1911. It includes the author's individual books on: Genethliacal Astrology, Mundane Astrology, Astro-Meteorology, Medical Astrology, Elections. This classic work is filled with numerous examples and its original publication was praised in the the Spiritualist community: "Even for those who desire only to obtain a general knowledge of the subject, or at most be able to cast and read an astrological figure, Mr. Pearce's book may be recommended as easily intellligible, and containing much interesting matter, besides the process that will be chiefly useful to the student whose aims are more ambitious." Rubbed corners and edges; shelf wear to boards, with some mottled discoloration; interior hinge cracked but binding remains firm overall; wear to spine edges and ends; missing front (black) endpaper; interior is clean and free of markings save inscription on first blank page.
