Zodiakus

Zodiakus[1]

Full title:

  • Zodiakus: Erste deutsche Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Astrologie (all issues held)

Editor:

  • Bethor, Alexander (all issues held)

Publication credits:

  • Jos A. Balling, München, Augustenstraße 53 (1. Jahrgang 1. Heft – 2. Heft)
  • Alexander Bethor, Schwindstrasse 22/I, München (1. Jahrgang 3. Heft – 3. Jahrgang 3. Heft)
  • Alexander Bethor, Burgstrasse, Garmisch (3. Jahrgang 4. Heft – 3. Jahrgang 5. Heft)

Holdings:

  • 1. Jahrgang, 1909/1910, [index]. [4]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 1. Heft, Juli 1909. 30 + [2 pages of advertisements]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 2. Heft, August 1909. [pp. 31-54]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 3. Heft, September 1909. [pp. 55-72][2]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 4. Heft, Oktober 1909. [pp. 79-109] + [1 page of advertisements]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 5. Heft, November 1909. [pp. 111-134]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 6. Heft, Dezember 1909. [pp. 135-166]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 7. Heft, Januar 1910. [pp. 167-182]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 8. Heft, Februar 1910. [pp. 183-197] + [1 page of advertisements]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 9. Heft, [März 1910]. [pp. 199-213] + [1 page of advertisements]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 10. Heft, [April 1910]. [pp. 215-238]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 11. Heft, [Mai 1910]. [pp. 239-244] + [2 pages of advertisements]
  • 1. Jahrgang, 12. Heft, [Juni 1910]. [pp. 245-260]
  • 2. Jahrgang, 1910/1911, [index]. (Several short tears to outer edges of covers.) [1 leaf] + [2]
  • 2. Jahrgang 1. Heft, [Juli] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + 24 + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 2. Heft, [August] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 25-40] + [1] + [pp. 42-8 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 3. Heft, [September] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 49-59] + [pp. 60-1 of tables] + [pp. 62-4] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 4. Heft, [Oktober] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 65-80] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 83-8 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 5. Heft, [November] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 89-112] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 6. Heft, [Dezember] 1910. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 113-128] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 131-6 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 7. Heft, [Januar] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 137-152] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 8. Heft, [Februar] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 153-168] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 9. Heft, [März] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 169-184] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 187-192 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 10. Heft, [April] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 193-216] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 2. Jahrgang 11. Heft, [Mai] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 217-224] + [pp. 225-232 of tables] + [lower half and whole of inner margin of rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements[3]]
  • 2. Jahrgang 12. Heft, [Juni] 1911. (Lower half of rear cover separated from spine; most of lower half of front cover separated from spine, but holding at lower staple; light separation to top 1.5 cm of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 233-245] + [pp. 246-7 of tables] + [p. 248] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 3. Jahrgang 1. Heft, [Juli-August] 1911. (Light chipping to top of spine; 2 cm separation to foot of front hinge.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + 24 + [1] + [pp. 26-32 of tables] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 35-40 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 3. Jahrgang 2. Heft, [September-Oktober] 1911. [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 41-68] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 3. Jahrgang 3. Heft, 19. März 1912[4]. (3 cm separation to foot of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 69-101] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 105-110 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 3. Jahrgang 4. Heft, 6. September 1912. (Light chipping to extremities of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 111-134] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 137-142 of tables] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
  • 3. Jahrgang 5. Heft, [Oktober-Dezember] 1912. (1-inch separation to foot of spine; light chipping to extremities of spine.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [pp. 143-174] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 177-182 of tables + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]

Binding format and presentation notes:

  • All issues of 2. Jahrgang and 3. Jahrgang held as original separate pamphlets in original paper covers
  • 2. Jahrgang 1. Heft – 2. Jahrgang 6. Heft; 2. Jahrgang 9. Heft; and 3. Jahrgang 1. Heft – 3. Jahrgang 5. Heft bound by staples through inner margins
  • 2. Jahrgang 7. Heft – 2. Jahrgang 8. Heft; and 2. Jahrgang 10. Heft – 2. Jahrgang 12. Heft conventionally staplebound pamphlets
  • 1. Jahrgang issues held together without original separate issue covers in old half-leather vol. (leather scuffed at extremities of spine and towards extremities of spine hinges; wear to outer corners of boards) with gilt-stamped spine, adhered to cloth-covered boards. All pages-edges dyed red
  • Duplicate of 2. Jahrgang held in an old half-leather vol. matching the one described above, in similar condition, also bound without the original covers, but complete in contents

 

[1] Month datings from 1. Jahrgang 9. Heft onwards for this journal are mostly approximate estimates based on available evidence and inference, since none is expressly stated, except for the third-to-last and second-to-last issues that carry printing dates to the insides of the rear cover

[2] There is no obvious explanation for the lack of pages numbered 73-8. The article ending on p. 72 is followed by a particular type of printed spacer that appears at the end of the feature content of both previous issues as well as the following one, suggesting that it is where this issue essentially ends. Further, there is nothing in the volume index to indicate any expectation of content between pp. 73-8. Perhaps there were six pages of advertisements in the original issue, that the owner of this copy decided not to retain at the time of having the set bound up, or perhaps a 24-page issue was envisioned only for this not to have been realised.

[3] A previous owner has cut out most of the upper half

[4] The title page labels this issue 1911, but it was printed on 19. März 1912, as shown by the notice to the foot of the inside of the rear cover. It is presumed that it was meant to be published in December 1911 but was delayed considerably. Publication had first moved from monthly to bimonthly, but by now was thoroughly erratic

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