Astrolearn Vintage Astrology CD 10:
Placido de Titis (Placidus)
Contents of CD 10:
This particular CD contains the scans of four original antiquarian volumes from Astrolearn’s private collection, as detailed below.
- [De Titis, Placido], [tr. Anonymous], the whole carefully revised by Sibly, Manoah ‘Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy, Translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus: Wherein is shewn, from Physical and Astronomical Principles, the Nature of Atmospherical Influx, communicated to Earthly Substances by the Motion, Aspects, and Position of the Heavenly Bodies, in forming the whole Anima of Nature, particularly in Man, the Epitome of the Creation! – the World in Miniature! – The whole comprehending, by these efficient Causes and their Effects, the true Doctrine of calculating Nativities, in so plain and simple a Method, as to be perfectly attainable by the meanest Capacity, and in a Manner superior to any yet published in the English Language. To which are added, Introductory Notes and Observations, With a Concise Method of judging Horary Questions, select Aphorisms, and every other Requisite to elucidate Elementary Agency, and to form a complete Body of Astral Knowledge’ Printed by W. Justins, Blackfriars; and sold by Mr. Bew, Pater-noster Row; Mr. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Mr. Mathews, in the Strand; Mr. Debrett, Picadilly; Messrs. M. and J. Sibly, Goswell-Street; and Mr. Edmund Sibly, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, London, 1789. Cloth. Third-from-last leaf loose from binding. Lower outer corners of leaves comprising pp. 7-10 cut off with partial loss to a few words of text (but the missing characters easily inferred) to pp. 7 and 8. [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-14] + [2 plates] + [pp. 15-30] + [plate] + [pp. 31-54] + [p. 5 (2)] + [pp. 56-64] + [two pages with numbers cut out] + [pp. 67-72] + [1] + [p. 74] + [plate] + [pp. 75-78] + [plate] + [pp. 79-80] + [plate] + [pp. 81-90] + [plate] + [pp. 91-122] + [plate] + [pp. 123-126] + [plate] + [pp. 127-202] + [p. 181 (2)] + [pp. 204-250] + [plate] + [pp. 251-2] + [2 plates] + [pp. 253-4] + [12]
- [De Titis, Placido], [tr. Anonymous], revised Sibly, Manoah ‘A Collection of Thirty Remarkable Nativities, To Illustrate the Canons, and Prove the True Principles of Elementary Philosophy. Translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus. To which is prefixed, To facilitate Astronomical Calculations, Tables of Right Ascension, Declination, and Ascensional Difference; Tables of Double Horary Times, Semi-diurnal and Nocturnal Arcs; Sexagenary Tables, and Logistical Logarithms; Tables for equating the Seven Erratics; Table of Fixed Stars, &c. &c. The whole arranged in a concise and regular Method, and exemplified with suitable Matter to elucidate Elementary Agency, and to form an Adept in the Sideral and Sublime Mysteries. Beautified and Embellished with Thirty-Six[1] Elegant Engravings, And the Nativity of that wonderful Phaenomenon, Oliver Cromwell’ Printed by W. Justins, Blackfriars; and sold by Mr. Bew, Pater-noster Row; Mr. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Mr. Mathews, in the Strand; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Messrs. M. and J. Sibly, Goswell-Street; and Mr. Edmund Sibly, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, 1789. Quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards. [Frontis.] + 24 + [plate] + [pp. 25-32] + [plate] + [pp. 33-40] + [plate] + [pp. 41-44] + [plate] + [pp. 45-50] + [plate] + [pp. 51-6] + [plate] + [pp. 57-62] + [plate] + [pp. 63-68] + [plate] + [pp. 69-72] + [plate] + [pp. 73-78] + [plate] + [pp. 79-82] + [plate] + [pp. 83-86] + [plate] + [pp. 87-94] + [plate] + [pp. 95-100] + [plate] + [pp. 101-108] + [plate] + [pp. 109-112] + [plate] + [pp. 113-120] + [plate] + [pp. 121-128] + [plate] + [pp. 129-132] + [plate] + [pp. 133-136] + [plate] + [pp. 137-140] + [plate] + [pp. 141-148] + [plate] + [pp. 149-154] + [plate] + [pp. 155-158] + [plate] + [pp. 159-162] + [plate] + [pp. 163-168] + [plate] + [pp. 169-172] + [plate] + [pp. 173-176] + [plate] + [pp. 177 (1)-184 (1)] + [plate] + [pp. 177 (2)-180 (2)] + [plate] + [pp. 181 (2)-184 (2)] + [plate] + [pp. 185-7]
- [Sibly, Manoah] ‘Supplement to Placidus de Titus; Containing the Nativity of that Wonderful Phaenomenon, Oliver Cromwell. Calculated methodically, according to the Placidian Canons, By the Ingenious Mr. John Partridge, M. D. To which is Prefixed, Primum Mobile, or a Complete Set of Astronomical Tables, for the Exact Calculation and Direction of Nativities’ Printed by W. Justins, Blackfriars; and sold by Mr. Bew, Paternoster Row; Mr. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Mr. Mathews, in the Strand; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Messrs. M. and J. Sibly, Goswell-street; and Mr. Edmund Sibly, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, London, 1790. Half-leather (heavily scuffed; separating at front hinge) with paper-covered boards (scuffed and edge-torn). [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [6 leaves of tables] + [pp. 3-86] + [p. 78 (2)] + [pp. 88-179]
- De Titus, Didacus Placidus; [tr. Anonymous]; ed. Cooper, John ‘Primum Mobile, with Theses to the Theory, and Canons for Practice; wherein is demonstrated, from Astronomical and Philosophical Principles, the Nature and Extent of Celestial Influx upon the Mental Faculties and Corporeal Affections of Man; containing the Most Rational and Best Approved Modes of Direction, both in Zodiac and Mundo: exemplified in Thirty Remarkable Nativities of the Most Eminent Men in Europe, According to the Principles of the Author, laid down in his “Celestial Philosophy”. – Originally written in Latin, By Didacus Placidus de Titus, Mathematician to His Serene Highness Leopold William, Archduke of Austria. – The whole carefully translated, and corrected from the best Latin editions. Illustrated with Notes and an Appendix, containing several useful Additions to the Work, by John Cooper, Teacher of the Mathematics’ Printed and Published by Davis and Dickson, No. 17, St. Martin’s le Grand, Newgate Street, Cheapside, London, undated[2]. Cloth. [Frontis.] + [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-xv] + [1] + [plate] + 462
[1] NB: for the tables promised by the title, see the separate entry for the separately bound volume ‘Supplement to Placidus de Titus’: they are not included in this one. Note also that only 32 plates (inc. frontis.) are present in this volume, as compared with the 36 promised, but the count of 32 corresponds with other copies advertised
[2] Library records show 1814