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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: Nativity Chart for Bishop Hall]

Nativity Chart for Bishop Hall

Bishop Hall. Born July 1. 5H.A.M. 1574 [more...] [$]

[picture: Aquarius (the water carrier)]

Aquarius (the water carrier)

Zodiac sign for Aquarius taken from The Zodiac [$]

[picture: Full-page border with tiny vintage laurel leaves and hand-drawn box]

Full-page border with tiny vintage laurel leaves and hand-drawn box

This full-page border comes from an engraving, so it’s slightly irregular, but only slightly, almost hand-drawn in effect. It’s made from a thin straight line around the page and, inside it, repeating pairs of leaves, probably laurel leaves, with a small circle at the top middle. I coloured the outer straight border brown and made the outlines of [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Sagittarius (the Archer, or Centaur)]

Sagittarius (the Archer, or Centaur)

Zodiac sign for Sagittarius taken from The Zodiac [$]

[picture: The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (second version).]

The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (second version).

Pictures representing The twelve houses of the zodiac. These vintage images are made by scanning impressions of metal type made on paper in 1806; they are slightly different from the [...] [more...] [$]


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