Butler, Hiram E. ‘Solar Biology: a Scientific Method of Delineating Character, Diagnosing Disease; Determining Mental, Physical and Business Qualifications, Conjugal Adaptability, etc., etc., from Date of Birth’ Stated Second Edition^[1] – Esoteric Publishing Company, 478 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, [Mass.], 1887.

Cloth (heavy wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards). (Internal front and rear paper hinges cracked down whole length, but webbing beneath holding for now; paper hinges between some internal gatherings also cracked or non-existent in the first place, but cords holding; 4 cm tear to upper margin of penultimate printed leaf.) [Frontis.] + [3] + [pp. iv-vii] + [pp. ix-xxxix] + 290 + [161] + [3 pages of advertisements]

[1] This is stated on the spine; yet internally there is no evidence of it being so, suggesting that it may be an unaltered second printing or binding from the original sheets

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the apparent first edition of 1887.

Pioneering esoteric astrologer Hiram Erastus Butler of Boston, Massachusetts, founder of the Esoteric Fraternity that eventually settled in Applegate, California, unleashed a revolution in astrology with his 1887 book Solar Biology, introducing a heliocentric perspective and giving particular prominence to the influence of the natal Sun and Moon signs upon human personality.

NB: Although the spine of our source copy is incongruously marked ‘Second Edition’, there is no indication in the internal print of it being anything other than the first.