Bibliography of Astrology Page 9, Anonymous (38) – Anonymous (57)
Anonymous (38) ‘Des Lahrer Hinkenden Boten: Hundertjähriger Haus- und Volkskalender – Enthält die Erklärung und Deutung aller astronomischen und astrologischen Zeichen und Dinge, die im Kalender stehen, sowie viele wohlbedachte Wetter- und Bauernregeln und landwirtschaftliche Verrichtungen für alle Monate des Jahres – Gültig für das ganze 20. Jahrhundert’ Moritz Schauenburg in Lahr, 1921. Original decorative paper-covered boards (light wear to extremities of spine and outer corners) with raised coloured title label adhered to front board. All page-edges dyed turquoise. Contents printed in gothic script throughout. [3 leaves] + [pp. 5-18] + [pp. 19-21 of tables] + [pp. 22-103] + [1 page of advertisements]
Anonymous (38); intr. Schmitt, Viktor ‘Hundertjährige Kalender des Lahrer Hinkenden Boten – Enthält die Erklärung und Deutung aller astronomischen und astrologischen Zeichen und Dinge, die im Kalender Stehen, sowie viele wohlbedachte Wetter- und Bauernregeln und landwirtschaftliche Verrichtungen für alle Monate des Jahres – Gültig für das ganze 20. Jahrhundert’ 21.-30. Tausend – Moritz Schauenburg in Lahr, unclearly dated[1]. Original paper-covered boards (light chipping to top of spine; moderate wear to foot of spine, outer corners of boards, and parts of outer edge of rear board). Contents printed in gothic script throughout. [2 leaves] + [pp. 5-18] + [pp. 19-21 of tables] + [pp. 22-107] + [1 page of advertisements]
Anonymous (39) ‘Echter 100 jähriger Kalender’ 122- Tausend – Pendo-Verlag, Zurich, 1992. Card covers. 109pp + [3 pages of advertisements]
Anonymous (40)[2] ‘Räderwerk der Weltenschicksalsuhr: Chronologische Zeitfolge wichtiger Ereignisse der Zukunft (1924-1927)’ 14. Auflage – Verlagshaus zur Sonne, Dresden-Kemnitz 3, 1925[3]. Original thin card covers (5mm chip lost from foot of spine; 2mm from top of same). Contents printed in gothic script throughout. [2] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 7-13] + [pp. 15-62] + [pp. 63-73 of advertisements] + [pp. 74-80]
Anonymous (41) ‘Tables of Diurnal Planetary Motion’ American Federation of Astrologers, 6 Library Court, S. E., Washington, D. C., undated[4]. Large-format textured card covers. [1 leaf] + vi + [1] + [pp. 2-161 of tables] + [2 pages of advertisements]
Anonymous (42) ‘[Welches Schicksal haben Ihnen die Sterne bezüglich Charakter, Erfolgsaussichten, Beruf, Liebesleben und Gesundheit bestimmt?[5]] Der Einfluß der 12 Tierkreiszeichen auf das Wesen des Menschen’ Verlag Hans Baumgartner, (20a) Warpke (Post Billerbeck / Hann.), undated[6]. Original paper covers. Staplebound pamphlet. Contents from pp. 3-[28] in dual columns. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [1] + [pp. 2-27] + [1 page of advertisements] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
Anonymous (43) ‘Stillbirths and Early Death: Research Bulletin #2 Part I” American Federation of Astrologers, 327 A Street, S. E., Washington 3, D.C., 1948
Anonymous (44) ‘Wie man das Wetter einer Stadt bestimmen kann[7]’ No publisher or place stated, undated[8]. No covers. Paper spine. Subsurface staples through inner margins. Single-sided A4 leaves (once-folded). Printed in typescript throughout. [4pp]
Anonymous (45) ‘A-P Tables of Houses – Equator to 66º North Latitude – Including How to Use These Same Tables for Southern Latitudes’ The Aries Press, Chicago, 1940. Copy A with 2-page typed instruction relating to the present volume[9] laid in. Two, variantly bound copies. Copy A: Original cloth (wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards; moderate wear to spine hinges; light wear to some edges of boards). (Occasional former owner’s ink notes to top margins.) [3] + [150 pages of tables] + [7 pages of advertisements]. Copy B: Original card covers (light separation to very top of front hinge and foot of rear). Binding reinforced by staples through inner margins. [3] + [150 pages of tables]
Anonymous, ed. (46) ‘[Astrologische Universal Harmonien, Sonderdruck 27:] Marconi’s Lebens-Kurve: Troinskis Tertiärdirektionen in der Geburtsastrologie’ Baumgartner Verlag, (20a) Warpke-Billerbeck (Hann.), 1953. With 3-panel fold-out ‘Tabelle 6: Tabelle der Sternzeit’ laid in within rear flap, as issued. Original card covers with rear flap. (Blue-inked underlining and some marginal notes to pp. 7-8; pink underlining to one line on p. 52.) [1] + [pp. 2-49] + [pp. 50-3 of tables] + [pp. 54-6] + [pp. 1-15 of advertisements] + [1 page of advertisements]
Anonymous, ed. (47) ‘Ephemeriden 1850 bis 1942 der vier Transneptun-Planeten: Cupido, Hades, Zeus und Kronos: Aussage der Planeten in der Häusern’ Witte-Verlag, Ludwig Rudolph, Hamburg 22, undated[10]. Original card covers. Pamphlet. [1] + [4 pages of tables] + 24
Anonymous (48); tr. Flesch, Hans Werner ‘Ewig Währender Kalender: Des Simplicissimus’ Erb Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1982. Paper-covered boards. 142pp
Anonymous (49); tr. Frisvold Nicholaj de Mattos; ed. Warnock, Christopher ‘The Book of the Treasure of Alexander[11]’ Renaissance Astrology, no place stated, 2010. Card covers. [2] + [9] + 99 + [imprimatur]
Anonymous (50); ed. Recnartus[12] ‘Kleine Deutsche Astrologie, oder eine Enthüllung des menschlichen Lebens durch ein neues vollständiges Geburtstundenbuch, nach welchem die Schicksale eines jeden Menschen, dessen Geburtsstunde man genau kennt, im voraus bestimmt werden können – Mit einem Geleitwort von Recnartus nebst Abbildungen und astrologischen Tabellen’ Verlag Buchhandlung Gebr. Fändrich, Leipzig, undated[13]. Original cloth (moderate fraying to upper outer corner of rear board) in dj (light chipping to top of spine and parts of top edges of covers; 1.5 cm separation to foot of rear flap-fold; 7mm separation to tops of flap-folds; 3mm to foot of front flap-fold; 8mm tear to bottom edge of rear cover). (Separation at inner paper hinge after title page, but webbing beneath seems strong.) [Chart] + [2] + [pp. iii-vi] + [1 leaf] + 22 + [pp. 23-52 of tables] + [pp. 53-8] + [pp. 59-60 of tables] + [pp. 61-147] + [1 page of advertisements]
Anonymous (51) ‘Astrologische Bibliothek Band III: Häuser-tabellen von 40º bis 56º Geographische Breite, mit Einem Anhang: Mathematische Tafeln zum Gebrauche für die Astrologie’ II. Verbesserte Auflage – Theosophisches Verlagshaus, Leipzig, undated[14]. Former owner’s table pasted to ffep, and another, printed table pasted to rear paste-down. Further leaves of tables, from later publications, laid-in at front and rear. Rebound in half-cloth with paper-covered boards. [2 leaves of prelims.] + 96pp
Anonymous (51) ‘Astrologische Bibliothek Band III: Häuser-tabellen von 40º bis 56º Geographische Breite – Mit Einem Anhang: Mathematische Tafeln zum Gebrauche für die Astrologie – Diese Häuser-Tabellen Ermöglichen Es / Die Häuser Eines Horoskops Auch Ohne Rechnerische Mühe Annähernd Genau zu Bestimmen’ III. Verbesserte Auflage – Theosophisches Verlagshaus, Leipzig, undated[15]. Custom full-cloth with title label adhered to spine. (Previous owner’s inked correction of Scorpio glyphs to Sagittarius ones at heads of two columns on p. 53.) [1 leaf] + [2] + [pp. 1-72 of tables] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 75-82 of tables] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 85-96 of tables]
Anonymous (52)[16] ‘Das neu verbesserte große Planeten-Buch, bearbeitet nach den erprobten Angaben der berühmtesten Astronomen und Philosophen von der ältesten bis auf die neueste Zeit. Eine vollständige Anleitung zum Enthüllen der Zukunft, zum Wahrsagen aus dem gestirnten Himmel, – aus allen Theilen des menschlichen Körpers, namentlich aus seinem Gesicht, den Linien der Hand 2c[17]. – Nebst Angabe – wie man sich nach dem Stand der Sterne in allen Jahren, Monaten und Tagen zu verhalten habe, einer Philosophie der alten Weiber, eines Prognostigtons für Männer und Frauen und einer Tabelle über die Bedeutung der Träume nach den 12 himmlichen Zeichen’ Vierte Auflage – Mit vielen Bildern – H. R. Busse, Leipzig, undated[18]. Small-format old half-cloth with paper-covered boards. Page-edges marbled. Contents printed in gothic script throughout. [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-iv] + [pp. 5-352]
Anonymous (53), ed. ‘Ephemeriden 1890-1950 [Astrologica[19] Band III]’ Verlag Max S. Metz AG., Zürich, 1949. Original gilt-stamped cloth in dj (light tearing to extremities of spine; light chipping to extremities of flap-folds). (Former owner’s private library sticker to ffep.) [6] + [1 leaf] + [1] + [pp. 2-367 of tables] + [p. 369] + [pp. 370-9 of tables] + [p. 381] + [pp. 382-402 of tables] + [1] + [pp. 404-417 of tables] + [p. 419 of tables]. [Front and rear dj flaps with advertisements]
Anonymous (54), tr. Chu, W. K., Ph.D.; ed. Sherrill, W. A., M.A. ‘The Astrology of I Ching’ Arkana, Penguin Books Ltd., 27 Wrights Lane, London W8, 1993[20]. Glossy card covers (light wear to top of rear hinge)
Anonymous (55) ‘The Princess’s Infallible Fortune Teller[22]‘ Charles Dickens and Evans, 24, Great New Street, E. C., undated[23]. Original paper covers (tearing to central part of outer margin of front cover, with effects to rear cover and all pages within, mostly horizontal tears of up to 1 cm; a few small tears to spine and inner margin of front cover; bottom cm of spine lost; heavy crease across middle of whole publication from former ill-advised folding). Loosely string-bound pamphlet (lower cord lost). [1] + [pp. 3-32 inc. rear cover]
Anonymous (56) ‘The Educational Value of Astrology’ The Rosicrucian Fellowship, Oceanside, California, undated[24]. Paper covers. Staplebound pamphlet. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + 8pp + [6 pages of advertisements including rear cover]
Anonymous (57) ‘Reinhold Ebertin: Erkenntnisse eines altes Kosmobiologen 16.1.1901 bis 16.2.1986’ No publisher or place stated, presumed 1986 or soon after. Thin card covers (rear cover torn and scuffed at parts of inner margin; front cover adhered down inner margin to final page of another publication, ‘Reinhold Ebertin wird 80 Jahr’, q. v. under Anonymous (27) above). Staplebound pamphlet. Contents printed on thin card throughout. (Ebertin’s birth month as printed on front cover corrected in ink by a former owner to ‘2’). [7 pp inc. rear cover]
[1] A later printing of the above. As with the original edition, it is stated first published 1921; and no other date is present in this copy; but in view of the present printing being stated the 21st-30th thousand, this date is suspect. In fact, the details of this edition correspond to one held by the DNB and dated to 1924, which appears credible and can be presumed correct. The DNB considers it the second overall edition of the work after the one listed above
[2] Authorship of this work has been attributed by a former owner in an inked note on the title page to Lothar Schilde, q. v. below.
[3] It is not clear on what basis the 14. Auflage appellation rests. The DNB has only this edition and an unnumbered one, and ascribes publication of both to 1925
[4] Internal book advertisements indicate a timeframe of 1971-2
[5] This part of the title appears only on the front cover, and not on the internal title page
[6] No library records could be found; but one of the titles advertised within is dated by library records to 1950, which would appear a good approximation to the likely date of this one. The advertising does not include publications in the Astrologische Universal-Harmonien series, instead focusing on more popular-level titles, several of which are not listed in library records
[7] Said to be a “Lehrbrief aus der Zeitschrift Welten über uns, Lindenverlag Ottobrunn”. The publication in question is said to be edited by D. Zurlinden – i. e. Dorothea Zurlinden, q. v.; but the identity of the author of this article is not specified, and might or might not be her
[8] Presumed from internal references to have been published in early 1962 or late 1961
[9] It has been headlined “Tables of Houses” by hand in ink
[10] Not in German library records. Presumed mid-late 1930s or possibly early 1940s
[11] Translated from the Portugese translation of A.M. Alfonso-Goldfarb and S.A.C. Jubran, entitled Livro do Tesauro de Alexandre, Um estudo de hermética árabe na oficina da historia da ciencia, as published by Petropolis, Brazil, in 1999. The Portugese translation is said to have been made directly from three Arabic manuscripts. The original book is said to have been written in Greek and Latin before being translated into Arabic after its discovery in the 9th century in the city of Amuria
[12] A pseudonym for Heinrich Tränker, according to a previous owner’s laid-in note
[13] A previous owner’s laid-in note suggests circa 1924. DNB records give 1925. It is a revision of the anonymous work first published by Ebner in Ulm in 1853 under the slightly shorter title: “Die Enthüllung des menschlichen Lebens, oder neues vollständiges Geburtsstundenbuch, nach welchem die Schicksale eines jeden Menschen, dessen Geburtsstunde man genau kennt, im Voraus bestimmt werden können”. The 1853 edition extends to 160 main pages according to German library records
[14] There are no firm records of date in library records for this edition, which is not held by the DNB. Swiss Library records enigmatically record “1910 / 1919”, but whether this is a range of possible dates or a firm declaration that the edition is from 1919 is unclear. Since the third edition was published in 1920 and the first in 1910, a dating of 1919 would be somewhat surprisingly close to that of the third edition and distant from that of the second
[15] DNB records give 1920 for this edition
[16] An anonymous 19th century German author
[17] The character that looks like a ‘2’ is difficult to interpret owing to the gothic script. Its function appears to be to represent ‘et’ as in ‘etc.’, but I have not seen this orthographic form elsewhere
[18] Seems to be a revision of the first edition thus of 1852, which was published by Ebner, Ulm, according to library records. The 1852 edition is reported to have 340 pages, but this one has 352. There are lists of the most important eclipses from 1862 to 1930 in the present edition, which could date it to any time in that period. The lunar eclipse table may hold a clue. Until 1899, total lunar eclipses are expressly marked thus. After that year, none is, suggesting a lack of confident knowledge of which eclipses will be total in dates beyond 1899. This would strongly suggest that publication was in the late 19th century. What relation the 1852 edition in itself had to Sebastian Brenner’s 16th century “Groß Planeten-Buch” other than by way of inspiration is not entirely clear. He is not named as the author here, but the implication of the title would be a major revision of his work
[19] A series of publications collectively edited by Heinrich Kündig, Zürich
[20] After the original edition published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1976
[22] To this title is prefixed, on the front cover, but not on the inner title page, ‘Something to Read and’. The publication is notable for its charming illustrations. The contents cover a broad range of divinatory topics, and include one four-page chapter on the Sun signs.
[23] The University of London open-endedly proposes a 20th century date. From the appearance and from the other items it survived with, I would narrow this down to no later than the 1910s and quite possibly earlier
[24] Presumed early-mid 20th century
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