Shemaya, Ebn^[1] ‘The Star; Being A Complete System of Theoretical and Practical Astrology. Containing Rules and Astronomical Diagrams, for Finding the Right Ascensions, Ascensional Differences, Declinations, &c. of the Planets and Fixed Stars. The Whole Art of Directions, According to Principles Strictly Mathematical, with an Easy Method of Rectifying Nativities. Rules to Erect a Theme of the Heavens for any Latitude, by Trigonometry and the Celestial Globe. Precepts for Judging Nativities, Whereby Every Important Event In Life May Be Discovered from the Cradle to the Tomb. The whole illustrated by the Nativity of the Author, with Several Other Remarkable Genitures, with Many Hundreds of Directions Calculated in Full’ Published for the Author, By S. Cornish & Co., 126, Newgate Street, London, 1839.

Two copies. Copy A: cloth. Copy B:. Both copies: [1 leaf] + [Frontis.] + [iii-viii] + 203 + [1]

[1] A pseudonym of David Parkes

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Carefully scanned in full colour from one of our two complete original printings of the 1839 first edition.

Ebn Shemaya was the pseudonym adopted by an astrologer named David Parkes. This, his only published book on astrology, is focused chiefly on the technical mathematical calculations involved in primary directions and their application to the study of nativities.