[Rolleston, Frances] ‘Mazzaroth; or, the Constellations: First Part’ Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, London, 1862, bound with ‘… Second Part’ (same publication details), bound with ‘… Third Part’ (same), bound with Rolleston, F., the late ‘… Fourth Part’ Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, London / High Street, Oxford / Trinity Street, Cambridge, 1865, bound with Rolleston, F., the late, Keswick ‘Mizraim; or, Astronomy of Egypt’ no publisher stated, no date stated (presumed 1865 or soon after).

Cloth (worn at extremities of spine, and relatively lightly at outer corners of boards). First Part: [3] + 24. Second Part: [3] + [p. iv] + [bound-in errata slip] + 136. Third Part: [3] + 6 + [2] + [pp. 9-32]. Fourth Part: [3] + [2] + [pp. 3-19]. Mizraim: [1 leaf] + [very large folding plate] + 22 + [plate] + [pp. 23-9]

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our bound volume of the original printings of all four parts of Mazzaroth: or, the Constellations as well as the separate short treatise Mizraim; or Astronomy of Egypt.

19th century scholar Frances Rolleston’s treatise on the constellations in four parts published from 1862 to 1865 was an enduringly influential work. It belongs more to cultural astronomy and the history of astronomy than to astrology, but is nonetheless of considerable interest to many astrologers.