Bishop, John (attrib.) ‘The Marrow of Astrology. In Two Books. Wherein is contained the Natures of the Sines and Planets, with their several Governing Angels, according to their Respective Hierarchies. And the Method of Directions according to the AEgyptians and Chaldeans, with several other useful Examples. Also a Table of Houses, exactly calculated for the Latitude of London, with Tables of the Mundane Aspects, and all that is requisite for the Rectifying and Directing Nativities; according to the true Intent and Meaning of Ptolomy: Wherein is discovered the Errors of most of our Modern Authors: Unto which is added an Appendix, Adapted to the Use and Illustration thereof, in a Nativity exemplified according to the Doctrine of Mundane Aspects. The like never done in English. Two which is prefix’d a Preface in Commendation of the Author and his Method, by Henry Coley’ Printed for William Fisher, and Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, London, 1689.

Quarter-leather with paper-covered boards. (Some damage to leaf comprising A Table of Twilight for the Latitude of 50 and 51 Degrees.) [1 leaf] + [9] + [4] + `121 + [1 leaf] + [4] + 81 + [15] + [1 leaf] + 6^[1] + [pp. 9-11 (1)] + [pp 11 (2)-12] + [pp. 14-16]

[1] NB: content is continuous between pp. 6 and 9 of the final part and between pp. 12 and 13 of same.

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased in the early 2010s.

The Marrow of Astrology was originally credited to the team of Richard Kirby and John Bishop on its first printing in 1688. The present edition, published a year after the first, was credited solely to Bishop. It was an enduringly influential English astrological text in the early modern period.