Brown, Robert, Jun., F.S.A. ‘Researches into the Origin of The Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians Vol. II’ Williams & Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and 7, Broad Street, Oxford, 1900.

Original cloth (separation to uppermost 2 cm of front hinge; very light wear to foot of spine) with gilt-stamped illustration of archer to front board. [1 leaf] + [6-panel large fold-out diagram “The Sumero-Semitic Euphratean Planisphere”] + [3] + [pp. vii-ix] + [1] + [pp. xi-xx] + 148 + [6-panel wide fold-out star chart “The Babylonian Celestial Sphere”] + [pp. 149-261] + [7 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 second 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 1900. See also the separately listed Volume 1.