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Rabin, Sheila J. ‘Two Renaissance Views of Astrology: Pico and Kepler – City University of New York Ph. D 1987’ UMI Dissertation Services, ProQuest Company, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2007[1]. Cloth. [4 leaves] + [3] + [pp. iv-vii] + [2] + 265
Rabuse, Georg ‘Der Kosmische Aufbau der Jenseitsreiche Dantes: Ein Schlüssel zur Göttlichen Komödie’ Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz-Köln, 1958. Original silver-stamped cloth (light wear towards lower outer corner of front board) in dj (1 cm separation to foot of front hinge and top of rear hinge; 3mm separation to foot of rear hinge; minimal chipping to top of front hinge; moderate separation and wear to tops of flap-folds; light chipping to foot of rear flap-fold; light wear to foot of front flap-fold). [1 leaf] + [2] + [pp. 5-9] + [pp. 11-200] + [1 leaf of plates] + [pp. 201-307] + [pp. 309-320]
Racaud, Didier ‘L’Astrologie des Initiés selon Dom Néroman’ Publisher Not Specified, 1965
Raclet, Louis-Marie ‘Astrologie Pratique: Cours Complet – Thème de Nativité: Fascicule No I’ Louis-Marie Raclet, 165 rue Pelleport, Paris (20ème), undated. Looseleaf supplement headed ‘Corrigé de la Leçon No I’ laid in. Original large-format thin card covers (detached from book-block within) in makeshift paper dj with printed numerical label adhered to front cover. Main book block bound by staples through inner margins, which have worked loose from the covers. Contents printed on single-sided leaves in typescript throughout. Main book: [Leaves 1-28]. Supplement: [Leaves 1-3]
Raclet, Louis-Marie ‘Astrologie Pratique: Cours Complet – Thème de Nativité: Fascicule 2’ Louis-Marie Raclet, 165 rue Pelleport, Paris (20ème), undated. Original large-format thin card covers (separation down central portions of front hinge) in makeshift paper dj with printed numerical label adhered to front cover. Main book block bound by staples through inner margins, connected to rear cover. Contents printed on single-sided leaves in typescript throughout. [Leaves 1-17]
Raclet, Louis-Marie ‘Astrologie Pratique: Cours Complet – Thème de Nativité: Fascicule No 3’ Louis-Marie Raclet, 165 rue Pelleport, Paris (20ème), undated. Original large-format thin card covers in makeshift paper dj with printed numerical label adhered to front cover. Main book block bound by staples through inner margins, connected to rear cover. Contents printed on single-sided leaves in typescript throughout. [Leaves 1-28]
Raclet, Louis-Marie ‘Ce Que Doit Etre Un Horoscope (première chronique)’ No publisher or place stated, undated. Large-format sheets printed in typescript and bound by staples at upper and lower inner margins. No covers. (Leaves 27-35) + (leaf 35 bis)
Raclet, Louis-Marie – see also under Supplément d’«Astres» in Journals section, French-language, above
Rafaelli, Enrico G. ‘[Simor γ: Collana di Studi Orientali[2]:] L’Oroscopo del Mondo: Il Tema di Nascita del Mondo e del Primo Uomo Secondo l’Astrologia Zoroastriana[3]’ Associazione Culturale Mimesis, via Torricelli 9, 20136 Milano, 2001. Card covers (bookseller’s label adhered to rear cover). [1 leaf] + [5] + [pp. 9-11] + [pp. 13-57] + [pp. 59-135] + [pp. 137-175] + [pp. 177-187] + [pp. 189-196] + [pp. 197-216 of Pahlavi source text] + [6 pages of advertisements] + [imprimatur]
Ragozin, Zénaïde A., Member of the “Société Ethnologique” of Paris; of the “American Oriental Society”; Corresponding Member of the “Athénée Oriental” of Paris ‘[The Story of the Nations:] The Story of Chaldea from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria (Treated as a General Introduction to the Study of Ancient History)’ Second Edition, Revised – G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York / T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1889. Cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards; light surface wear to uppermost part of spine surface). [1 page of advertisements] + [Frontis.] + [3] + [pp. v-xi] + [pp. xiii-xv] + [pp. xvii-xx] + [3-panel wide green folding plate printed only on outer two panels] + 118 + [3-panel wide monochrome folding plate printed only on outer two panels] + [pp. 119-369] + [pp. 371-381] + [6 pages of advertisements]
Raghudas, Ra Rishikavi ‘The Astrology of Bond – James Bond’ The Wessex Astrologer Ltd, Swanage BH19, 2022. Matt paper-covered boards in outwardly glossy dj. [7] + [pp. ix-xi] + [1] + [pp. xiii-xv] + [2] + 87 + [2] + [pp. 90-119] + [2] + [pp. 122-387] + [imprimatur]
Raghudas, Ra Rishikavi ‘The Astrology of Bond – James Bond’ The Wessex Astrologer Ltd, Swanage BH19, 2022. Outwardly glossy card covers
Ragozin, Zénaïde A., Member of the “Société Ethnologique” of Paris; of the “American Oriental Society”; Corresponding Member of the “Athénée Oriental” of Paris ‘[The Story of the Nations:] The Story of Chaldea from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria (Treated as a General Introduction to the Study of Ancient History)’ Second Edition, Revised – G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York / T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1893[4]. Publisher’s original flyer for ‘The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States’ by Edwin A. Barber laid in. Cloth (heavy wear to extremities of spine; wear to outer corners of boards; light wear to bottom edges of boards and parts of front hinge of spine). (Heavy cracking down front inner paper hinge, but webbing beneath strong; light separation between pp. 120-1 and between lower parts of pp. 264-5.) [1 page of advertisements] + [Frontis.] + [3] + [pp. v-xi] + [pp. xiii-xv] + [pp. xvii-xx] + [3-panel wide green folding plate printed only on outer two panels] + 118 + [3-panel wide monochrome folding plate printed only on outer two panels] + [pp. 119-369] + [pp. 371-381] + [4 pages of advertisements]
Rajesh, Dr. K. Guru ’[Jaimini Jyotisha Series:] Raghava Bhatta’s Jataka Sara Sangraha’ No publisher or place stated, 2018. Matt card covers
Rakela, Christine ‘The Love Relationship Formula: Predicting Romantic Success with Astrology’ Llewellyn Publications, Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., St. Paul, MN, 2004
Rakela, Christine ’Traveling by the Stars’ Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit, an imprint of Schiffer Publishing Limited, 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA, 2021. Matt card covers
Ralley, Robert and Kassell, Lauren, eds. ‘[Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences – Volume 41 Issue 2: Special Issue -] Stars, Spirits, Signs: Towards a History of Astrology 1100-1800[5]’ Elsevier, Amsterdam / Boston / London etc., 2010. Large-format paper-covered boards. Contents printed on glossy paper throughout. Main text contents in dual columns. (Separation between table of contents leaf and first internal text page, but cords beneath holding.) [2] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 67-168] + [2 pages of advertisements]
Ramadayalu, tr. / ed. Sastri, V. Subrahmanya, B.A., Asst. Secretary to the Government of Mysore (Retd.) ‘Ramadayalu’s Sanketanidhi’[6] (internal title) / ‘Sanketanidhi of Ramadayalu’ (title to front board) – Printed by Sree Mallikarjuna Press, 195, Ranasinghet, Police Road, Bangalore-53, 1976[7]. Quarter-cloth (lightly worn) with paper-covered boards (heavily worn at outer corners). [2] + [pp. iii-iv] + [2-panel fold-out chart] + [1] + xiii + 232 + [p. 23 (2)] + [pp. 234-334] + [pp. 1-2 of advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Ashtakavarga System of Prediction’ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1962. Original textured cloth with (somewhat faded) silver titling to front board and spine, in textured paper dj (light chipping to foot of front hinge). [1 leaf] + [2] + [1 leaf] + 27 + [pp. 28-33 of tables] + [pp. 34-184] + [rear dj cover with advertisement]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Ashtakavarga System of Prediction’ Second Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1967[8]. Original patterned cloth (light wear to extremities of spine and lower outer corners of boards) with silver titling to front board. [2] + [2 leaves] + [pp. vii-viii] + 185 + [3 pages of advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Fellow of the Astronomical Society; Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Astrology and Modern Thought[9]‘ Fourth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1958[9a]. Pebbled cloth in dj (5mm tear to top of rear hinge; light wear to top of spine and to foot of front flap-fold). [2] + ii + [pp. 5-143] + [1] + [pp. 145-6] + [1 page of advertisements] + [imprimatur]. [Advertisements to both dj flaps.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Fellow of the Astronomical Society; Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Astrology and Modern Thought’ Fifth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1965[10]. Cloth (light wear to most outer corners of boards) with silver-stamped titling to front board. [2] + ii + [pp. 5-146] + [1] + [pp. 148-9] + [2 pages of advertisements] + [1]
Raman, Bangalore Venkat, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Astrology and Modern Thought’ Sixth Edition – Ibh Prakashana, Gandhinagar, Bangalore-9, 1972. Patterned cloth (wear to top edge of rear board) with blind-stamped titling to front board. [1 leaf] + [5] + 135 + [1] + [pp. 137-8]
Raman, B. V. ‘Astrology in Predicting Weather and Earthquakes’ Seventh Reprint – UBS Publishers’ Distributors Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi etc., 2005
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Graha and Bhava Balas: a Unique Treatise for Measuring the Strengths of Planets and Houses Numerically’ Seventh Edition (Revised) – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1961[11]. Original cloth (stained) with silver titling to front board, in dj (5 mm tear to top of front flap fold; light wear to foot of same). [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-iv] + [2 leaves] + 99 + [pp. 100-106 of tables] + [pp. 107-112]. [Dj with advertisements to both flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Graha and Bhava Balas: a Unique Treatise for Measuring the Strengths of Planets and Houses Numerically’ Eighth Edition Revised[11a] – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1970. Textured cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine) with originally silver titling to front board (faded), in dj (moderate chipping to foot of spine and lower inner corner of front cover; light chipping to extremities of front flap-fold and top of spine; former bookseller’s price label adhered to margin of front flap). (Leaves comprising pp. 83-6 cut too wide at outer margins for page block, with resultant creasing.) [2 leaves] + [pp. v-vi] + [1 leaf] + 99 + [pp. 100-6 of tables] + [pp. 107-12]. [Advertisements to dj rear cover and both flaps.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine; intr. Havemann, Dr. Hans A.; Fagan, Cyril ‘A Hindu in America’ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1969. Cloth (light wear to outer corners of boards) with silver titling to front board and spine, in dj (chipped at extremities of spine, most extremities of flap folds, and parts of top and bottom edges of rear cover). [3] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 5-144] + [16 pages of monochrome photographic plates] + [pp. 145-285] + [imprimatur]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, M.R.A.S., Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘[Sree] Hindu Predictive Astrology – Being a Complete and Comprehensive Treatise on Judicial Astrology’ Third Edition – Raman Publications, P.O. Malleswaram, Bangalore, 1943[11b]. Original cloth in dj (chipped at extremities of spine and tops of flap-folds; wear to rear spinehinge). [Photographic frontis.] + [2] + [photographic plate] + [1] + [pp. vi-xxiii] + [p. xxi (2)] + 79 + [2] + [pp. 82-216] + [pp. 217-9 of charts] + [pp. 220-304] + [pp. 305-7 of tables] + [pp.308-12]. [Advertisements to dj flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkat, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘[Sree] Hindu Predictive Astrology’ Tenth Edition – Raman Publications, Bangalore, 1970[12]. Lightly textured cloth (some staining to outer margin of front board; titles faded) in dj (1 cm tear to rear cover; short tears to tops of flap-folds). [4] + [pp. 9-358] + [pp. 359-365 of tables] + [pp. 366-372] + [imprimatur]. [Advertisements to dj flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘How to Judge a Horoscope Volume One (I to VI Houses)’ Seventh Edition – IBH Prakashana, Bangalore 560 009, 1979[13]. Card covers (top of spine heavily chipped; separation down whole length of front hinge and to top 3 inches of front hinge, with further splitting towards centre of bottom 2 inches of spine). [4] + [pp. v-viii] + 327
Raman, Bangalore Venkata ‘How to Judge a Horoscope (Part Second: III, IV and V Bhavas)’ Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore 20, 1960[14]. Original cloth with silver titling to front board, in dj. [3 leaves] + [pp. vii-viii] + [pp. 9-203] + [1]. [Dj with advertisements to both flaps and rear cover]
Raman, Dr. B. V., M.D. (Hom.); intr. Rao, Prof. B. Suryanarain, B.A., M.R.A.S., etc.[14a] and Sastrin, Jyotirbhusan Dr. V. V. Ramana, M.A., Ph.D., etc. ‘A Manual of Hindu Astrology (Correct Casting of Horoscopes)’ The Author, “Suryalaya”, P.O. Bettahalsoor, Bangalore (India), [1935][14b]. Original textured cloth (chipping and fraying to extremities of spine, with wear to spine hinges, heavier towards extremities of front hinge; moderate wear to outer corners of boards). (Former London bookseller’s label adhered to lower margin of title page. Green-inked underlining of keywords on pp. 15-16. Small red-inked fractions marked to heads of columns of table on p. 105.) [2 leaves] + [pp. v-x] + [monochrome photographic plate] + [pp. xi-xiii] + [pp. xv-xvii] + [sepia photographic plate] + [pp. xix-xxix] + [3 pages of advertisements] + 106 + [pp. 107-118 of tables] + [pp. 119-125] + [1]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, M.R.A.S., Editor, The Astrological Magazine; intr. Rao, Prof. B. Suryanarain, B.A., M.R.A.S., Etc. ‘A Manual of Hindu Astrology (Correct Casting of Horoscopes)’ Third Edition – Raman Publications, P. O. Malleswaram, Bangalore, 1946[15]. Original quarter-cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine) with paper-covered boards (heavy wear to outer corners; wear to parts of bottom and top edges of front board). [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-ix] + [1] + [pp. xi-xiii] + [1] + [pp. xv-xxii] + [1 leaf] + 92 + [pp. 93-114 of tables] + [pp. 115-119] + [1 page of advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine; intr. Rao, Prof. B. Suryanarain ‘A Manual of Hindu Astrology (Correct Casting of Horoscope)’ Fifth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore 3, 1953[15a]. Original cloth (light wear to lower outer corners of boards) in dj (slight tearing to top of spine, especially at rear hinge). [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 3-7] + [pp. 9-13] + [2] + [pp. 17-24] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 27-123] + [pp. 124-145 of tables] + [pp. 146-150]. [Advertisements to dj front and rear flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine; intr. Rao, Prof. B. Suryanarain ‘A Manual of Hindu Astrology (Correct Casting of Horoscope)’ Eighth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1966. Holographically patterned cloth with silver titling to front board, in dj (slight chipping to extremities of spine hinges and of flap-folds; tear across middle of spine). [1 leaf] + [pp. v-xiii] + [pp. xv-xvii] + 14 + [2] + [pp. 33[15b]-152] + [pp. 153-181 of tables] + [pp. 182-8] + [2 pages of advertisements]. [Advertisements to dj front and rear flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Notable Horoscopes[16]‘ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore 3, 1956. Original pattern-textured cloth (light wear to some outer corners of boards) in textured paper dj (a few short tears to top of spine; 1 cm separation to foot of rear flap-fold; light tearing to extremities of front flap-fold). [1 leaf] + [2] + [pp. v-vii] + [1] + [pp. ix-xvi] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 3-405] + [pp. 406-8 of tables] + [pp. 409-415] + [1 page of advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Notable Horoscopes’ Third Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1968[17]. Original pattern-textured cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine hinges; light wear to some outer corners of boards) in dj (light chipping to foot of front hinge; minimal chipping to top edge of front cover; old liquid-staining to part of front cover). [2] + [pp. 3-5] + [1] + [pp. 7-453] + [pp. 454-6 of tables] + [pp. 457-463] + [imprimatur]. [Dj with advertisements to both flaps and rear cover]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata ‘Planetary Influences on Human Affairs (Revised and enlarged edition of the book previously published as ‘Astrology and Modern Thought’)’ Twelfth Edition, Third Reprint – UBS Publishers’ Distributors Ltd., 5 Ansari Road, New Delhi / Bombay – Bangalore – Madras – Calcutta – Patna – Kanpur – London, 1994.[17a] Card covers. [1] + [1 page of advertisements] + [2] + [1 leaf] + [pp. vii-x] + 228
[Raman, B. V., attrib.] ‘Prasna Marga Pt. I’ [MLBD, attrib.], 2002
[Raman, B. V., attrib.] ‘Prasna Marga Pt. II’ [MLBD, attrib.], 2002
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Sree Bhavartha Ratnakara (English Translation) With Original Texts in Devanagari’ Fourth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore 3, 1958[17b]. Original cross hatch-textured cloth (light wear to extremities of spine hinges and lower outer corners of boards) with (somewhat faded) silver titling to front board, in paper dj (light chipping to top of front flap-fold). (Separation down central swathe of front inner paper hinge.) [2] + [pp. iii-xii] + 246 + [1 page of advertisements] + [imprimatur]. [Dj flaps and rear cover with further advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Sree Bhavartha Ratnakara (English Translation) With Original Texts in Devanagari’ Fifth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1970[18]. Original cross hatch-textured cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine hinges; light wear to upper outer corners of boards) in dj (light wear to some extremities of spine hinges). [2] + [pp. iii-iv] + [1 leaf] + [pp. vii-xv] + 236 + [1 page of advertisements] + [imprimatur]. [Dj flaps and rear cover with further advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, D. Sc., F.R.A.S., M.R.A.S., Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Sri Muhurtha or Electional Astrology’ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, Bangalore-3, 1948. Original cloth in glossy dj (7 mm chip lost from top of front hinge; light chipping to foot of spine and extremities of flap-folds; 2 cm separation to feet of both flap-folds; 1 cm to top of rear flap-fold). [2] + ii + [1 leaf] + 201 + [pp. 203-218] + [dj flaps and rear cover with advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Sri Muhurtha or Electional Astrology’ Fourth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1969. Cloth (light wear to extremities of spine and upper outer corners of boards) in dj (some staining to front cover). [1 leaf] + [pp. v-vi] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 9-200]. [Dj flaps and rear cover with advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkat [sic], Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Sri Neelakanta’s Prasna Tantra[19] (Horary Astrology): English Translation’ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore, 1970[20]. Original cross-hatch-patterned cloth (light wear to extremities of spine hinges and some outer corners of boards) in dj (2mm tear to top of front hinge; minimal chipping to foot of front flap-fold). [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-v] + [pp. vii-xvi] + 264. [Dj flaps and rear cover with advertisements]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, The Astrological Magazine ‘Studies in Jaimini Astrology’ Stated First Edition – Raman Publications, Bangalore-3, 1950. Original cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards) with (faded) gilt titling to front board. [2 leaves] + ii + [6] + [pp. 17-196]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Three Hundred Important Combinations, Part I’ Second Edition – Raman Publications, P.O. Malleswaram, Bangalore, 1951[21], bound with[22] ‘Three Hundred Important Combinations, Part II’ Second Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore 3, 1954[23]. Original textured cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine; light wear to outer corners of boards) with (very faded) gilt titling to front board and spine, in dj. Part I: [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-vii] + [pp. ix-xiii] + [pp. 15-167] + [imprimatur]. Part II: (Leaves comprising pp. 27-38 separated from binding at top 7 cm. Binding cracked down whole length between pp. 206 and 207, with underlying spine partly unglued: needs repair.) [2] + [pp. iii-vi] + [2] + [pp. 9-207]. [Advertisements to dj flaps and rear cover.]
Raman, Bangalore Venkata, Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Three Hundred Important Combinations’ Fifth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1965. Original cross hatch-patterned cloth with silver titling to front board, in paper dj (wear to tops of spine hinges; light tearing to top of front flap-fold). [2] + [pp. iii-ix] + [pp. xii-xv] + [pp. 15-140] + [p. 114 (2)] + [pp. 142-310] + [advertisements to dj flaps and rear cover]
Raman, Bangalore Venkat [sic], Editor, the Astrological Magazine ‘Varshaphal or The Hindu Progressed Horoscope’ Eighth Edition – Raman Publications, “Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1969[24]. Original cross hatch-patterned cloth (wear to top of spine; moderate wear to foot of spine and outer corners of boards; former owner’s hand-inked title label adhered to spine) with (faded) silver titling to front board. [1 leaf] + [pp. v-xv] + [1 page of advertisements] + [pp. 17-169] + [1] + [pp. 171-7 of tables] + [pp. 179-184]
Raman, B. V. and Vaidya, R. V. ’Nirayana Tables of Houses for Latitudes to 60º N. (57º, 58º and 59º excepted) – Including Rules for calculation for Southern Latitudes – An entirely original computation according to Sripathi’ Second Edition – Raman Publications, ”Sri Rajeswari”, Bangalore-20, 1969[24a]. Lightly textured cloth (wear to extremities of spine; moderate wear to outer corners of boards) with silver titling to front board and spine, in dj (chipping to extremities of spine and of flap-folds, and to upper outer corner of rear cover; 1.5 cm tear to foot of rear hinge; 6 cm separation to foot of front flap-fold, with 2 cm separation to tops of both flap-folds; former bookseller’s label adhered to margin of front flap). (Heavy staining to lower part of p. 249, crossing some figures in table, but without loss to legibility.) [3 leaves] + [pp. vii-xvi] + [1] + [pp. 2-465 of tables] + [pp. 467-474 of tables] + [1 page of advertisements] + [imprimatur]. [Advertisements to dj flaps and rear cover.]
Rāmānujāchārya, ed. Sharma, Chandrashekhar, D.M.E., A.F.I.I., A.I.I.S.A., ’Bhāvārtha Ratnākar’ No publisher or place stated, undated. Medium-format matt card covers
[Ramasami, Periyar E. V.], tr. Dharmalingam, Prof. M. ‘Periyarana’[25] Stated First Edition – Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, Trichy-17, 1975. Bound with a 60-page work in Sanskrit, and an 84-page work, also in Sanskrit, in their original paper covers. Custom quarter-cloth (faded, and frayed to extremities; hand-inked paper title label adhered to spine), with paper-covered boards. Presumed original pictorial paper front cover or frontis. (heavy vertical tear from top edge, mostly repaired with clear tape on inside) + [4] + 124 + [original paper rear cover]
[1] A bound photocopy-based reprint of the dissertation originally published 1987
[2] A series of publications directed by Antonio Panaino
[3] The core of this volume is a transliteration, transcription, and Italian translation of chapters V A and VI F of the Bundahishn, a ninth-century Zoroastrian text (pp. 66-80). The remainder is introduction and commentary, including upon two other astrological sections in the Bundahishn (not reproduced here), V and V B. Appendices briefly discuss (pp. 137-162) several relevant texts by other authors, including two other zoroastrian texts, three classical texts, one Indian, three Arabic, and three grouped under the subheading “Byzantine and late medieval”.
[4] Seems an identical reprint of the above except for the fewer advertisements at the end
[5] A collection of ten essays by different scholars, including Charles Burnett, Laura Ackerman Smoller, Hilary M. Carey, Jean-Patrice Boudet, H. Darrel Rutkin, Darin Hayton, Monica Azzolini, Claudia Brosseder, and Ralley, with an introduction by Kassell
[6] The author is described in the preface as ‘one Sri Ramadayalu belonging to the Advaita Brahmin class[,] evidently a saivite’; and the age of the source text is indicated as being ‘the middle of the 19th century’. In common with other 1970s editions of translations by Sastri, the Sanskrit source text is integrally presented with its English translation throughout the book, making this an ideal scholarly reference edition for those able to read Sanskrit as well as English.
[7] The preface is dated 1943; and the original edition was published by V.B. Soobbiah of Bangalore in 1944, according to Worldcat library records. By 1976, Sastri was deceased, but the foreword to the second edition is provided by his presumed relative K. Subrahmanyan
[8] Said to have been thoroughly revised from the original edition of 1962, with many of the charts ‘reworked’ for accuracy
[9] This volume notably includes a transcript of a letter sent by C. G. Jung to the author in September 1947, detailing Jung’s then philosophical position on astrology
[9a] Expanded from the first edition of 1946, with subsequent editions having been published in 1950 (82 pages), and 1956 (116 pages). See below for the following fifth edition
[10] After the fourth edition of 1958, q. v. above. The following sixth edition of 1972 appears according to library records to have been reduced to 138 pages, for reasons unknown
[11] The first edition is dated to 1940, and the sixth is said to have been published ‘four years ago’, i.e. 1957 or 1956
[11a] This edition is said by Raman himself to have been ‘thoroughly revised and improved’ although there is no change in page count from the previous one
[11b] The first edition is dated to 1938, with the preface to it, dated February 1938, retained. The preface to the third edition suggests that the second dates to within two years before it, so is presumed to have been published in 1941
[12] The first edition is dated to 1938, with the preface to it, dated February 1938, retained. Other editions recorded by libraries include the 5th of 1951, the 6th of 1955 and the 8th of 1963
[13] The seventh edition is stated ‘thoroughly revised’; the preface to the first edition, dated 1941, is retained within. The earliest edition recorded in Worldcat is the fifth of 1953, with an unspecified edition of 1971 (presumed the sixth) also listed, as well as an eighth edition of 1981
[14] Ostensibly the first edition of this volume, billed as a belated sequel to Part One, which is said to have been first published in 1943
[14a] Here credited as ‘Editor, Astrological Magazine and Author of more than Seventy works on Astrology and other subjects’
[14b] There is no copyright page or date on the title page, but the preface is dated October 1935 and this is generally accepted as correct for this first edition; although on the title page, the author makes reference to some works of his that have not yet been published by this stage, the evidence suggests he had already been working on them and his plans to publish them were therefore underway. One of the works to which he lays claim, ‘A Text-Book of Hindu Astrology’, would never appear under that name, becoming instead ‘Hindu Predictive Astrology’ when eventually published in 1938
[15] Said to have been ‘entirely revised, recast and at some places re-written’. The preface to the first edition is retained and dated October 1935
[15a] After the fourth edition of May 1949, the retained preface of which indicated that it was ‘entirely revised, re-cast and at some places re-written’. For the third edition of 1946, see above
[15b] The error appears to be in the pagination as Chapter 1 starts on p. 33 and there is not any content apparently missing
[16] A collection of 76 nativities, including the author’s detailed interpretations, for an international assortment of famous individuals, also including the author and B. Suryanarain Rao. Many are said to have been revised from articles previously published in a feature called ‘Horoscope of the Month’ in The Astrological Magazine
[17] The preface is dated 1956 and appears to belong to the first edition
[17a] After the first printing thus of 1992
[17b] After the original edition of 1944, whose preface is retained
[18] Said to have been ‘thoroughly revised’ from the fourth edition. The preface to the first edition, retained internally, is dated 1944.
[19] According to the translator, the original version of this treatise on horary astrology was composed in 1567. It is believed by some authorities to have formed the 3rd and final division of Neelakanta’s work Tojaka Neelakanteeya
[20] The translator’s introduction is signed August 1969
[21] The preface to the first edition is retained, dated July, 1947
[22] Sheets from the two originally separately published parts of the second edition have been bound up into a single volume by the publisher. The paper quality of the two parts is distinctly different, confirming this. In later editions, the pagination would be unified
[23] The preface to the first edition is retained, dated August, 1950
[24] This edition is said to have been ‘almost completely rewritten’ from the earlier editions, with new chapters on Muntha and Yogas added, the treatment of Sahams extended to cover 35 of them, and the author’s views on the Tajaka having been revised. The preface to the first edition, retained here, is dated 1938. Library records show the first edition to have comprised 80 pages, and the seventh (of 1961) 101 pages.
[24a] Tables said to be corrected from the original edition of April 1953
[25] This work is billed as a translation of some of Periyar’s speeches. The paper label to the spine describes it as an ‘Indian critique of [Astrology]’
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