ASTRONOMICA. With an English translation by G. P. Goold.
Pp. cxxii+388+8(advertisements), coloured frontispiece map, 2 folding star charts printed in blue & black, text figures and tables, appendix, index; f'cap. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the bords a trifle warped, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and rubbed, edges slightly split, backstrip faintly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top fore-corner of a couple of leaves slightly creased; William Heinemann/Harvard University Press, London/ Cambridge, Mass., 1977. The Loeb Classical Library series. *The first English prose translation, with copious explanatory notes. 'Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial phenomena, and then proceeds to treat of the signs of the zodiac and the twelve temples; there follow instructions for calculating the horoscoping degree, and details of chronocrators, decans, injurious degrees,. zodiacal geography, paranatellonta, and other technical matters' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183446
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