Brown, Robert, Jun., F.S.A., M.R.A.S. ‘Researches into the Origin of The Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians Vol. I’ Williams & Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and 7, Broad Street, Oxford, 1899.
Original cloth (wear to lower outer corner of front board and upper outer corner of rear board) with gilt-stamped illustration of archer to front board. (Separation at inner paper hinge between pp. 352-3; very slight separation between pp. 288-9; pp. 320-1; and pp. 336-7.) [3 leaves] + [pp. ix-xv] + [1] + 118 + [12-panel large fold-out star map “The Northern Hemisphere”] + [pp. 119-282] + [plate “Boôtês”] + [pp. 283-338] + [plate “Portion of the Babylonian Heaven Cancer and some Stars adjacent”] + [pp. 339-361] + [6 pages of advertisements]
About this Book Scan
Robert Brown Junior (1944-1912) was a private scholar whose writings on the ancient constellations quite frequently appeared in the Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology in the 1880s and 1890s.
His main book of relevance to astrology was his two-volume Researches into the Origin of The Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians, originally published in 1899 and 1900 respectively, of which this is the first volume.
Although some of his conclusions are now considered invalid by up-to-date scholarship, this work had a significant impact on thinking in its day, and is thus of historical interest in itself.
Our full-colour scan is taken from our original printing of the true first edition of 1899. See also the separately listed Volume 2.