[Rarebooks] FS: Ptolemy's astrology translated by Ashmand. London: 1822

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(ASTROLOGY) Ptolemaeus, Claudius. PTOLEMY’S TETRABIBLOS, OR QUADRIPARTITE: 
Being Four Books of the Influence of the Stars. Newly Translated from the 
Paraphrase of Proclus. With a Preface, Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix, 
Containing Extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy, and the Whole of His Centiloquy; 
Together with a Short Notice of Mr. Ranger’s Zodiacal Planisphere, and an 
Explanatory Plate. By J. M. Ashmand [trans.]. London: Printed and Published by Davis 
and Dickson. 1822. (4),xxviii,240pp. (including 1 page of publisher’s ads). 
Illus. with a text diagram and several tables (but not the plate called for in 
the title – which is also lacking in the Library of Congress copy). Cont. sheep, 
scuffed & chipped, over marbled boards (rubbed). Front hinge partially split 
but holding.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of this translation. It is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott in 
appreciation of his restoring interest in astrology in “Waverly.”

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