1575 SPECULUM ASTROLOGIAE by Francesco Giuntini ASTRONOMY ASTROLOGY antique

Francesco Giuntini (1523-1590)

Speculum Astrologiae.

Lyon: Sumptibus Philippi Tinghi, 1575.


 large quarto, woodcut printer's device to title;
author's woodcut portrait on *8 verso;
some scattered early marginalia;


nicely bound in full vellum over boards; spine with raised bands and manuscript title

Very good condition, a reader has neatly nipped off the bottom outside corners of a few sections in the text to facilitate easy finding of the tables


Size  7 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches

Text in Latin
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Francesco Giuntini (or Junctinis or Junctinus ) ( Florence , 1523 – Lyon , 1590 ) was an Italian theologian and astrologer .

He was one of the most famous astrologers of the second half of the sixteenth century.
A Carmelite and doctor of theology , he spent most of his life in Lyon . He wrote a weighty treatise in defense of astrology , containing the Greek text and the Latin translation of the Tetrabiblos of Claudius Ptolemy with his personal commentary, a collection of astrological aphorisms and a synthesis of the theories and techniques of Arab astrologers , illustrated by more than four hundred birth charts
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