Partridge, John, Physician to Her Present Majesty, and Student in Astrology ‘Opus Reformatum: Or, a Treatise of Astrology, in which the Common Errors of that Art are Modestly Exposed and Rejected. With an Essay Serving towards the Reviving the True and Ancient Method Laid Down for our Direction by the Great Ptolomy; and More Agreeable to the True Principles of Motion and Nature, than that Commonly Practised and Taught. In Two Parts’ Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1693.

Leather. (The leaf comprising pp. iii-iv has had its outer margin repaired, with the loss of a few words of text on each side.) [1 leaf] + xiii + [1] + 90 + [p. 98 (1)] + [pp. 92-168]

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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased from a professional antiquarian bookseller in the 2000s.

John Partridge was a key figure in English astrology in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Opus Reformatum is one of his three major astrological works, and is an argumentative treatise upon astrological techniques