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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0674995163 . A 2006 revision of a work first published in 1977. A Latin didactic poem in five books, in which the ancient Roman astrologer Marcus Manilius discusses celestial phenomena and signs of the zodiac. Per the jacket flap, Manilius ". ..is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possesss." The Latin text is presented side-by-side with the English translation of G. P. Goold, with his frequent footnotes. Includes several illustrations (including an early frontis map of the Eastern Hemisphere as Manilius knew it) as well as Goold's lengthy introduction. Entry 469 in the Loeb Classical Library series, edited by Jeffrey Henderson. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with publisher's device to cover, titling and classical Greek key decorations to spine; all in gilt. Simple jacket in red with Loeb medallion to cover, Greek key… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 469. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. cxxiii, 386 p.p. Colour map frontis and folding star chart at rear. B&W illustrations. Light rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Some spots of yellow highlighting. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, has some light wear to extremities, some chafing to joints and edges, short open tear to rear joint at head. Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial phenomena, and then proceeds to treat the signs of the zodiac and the twelve temples; there follow instructions for calculating the horoscoping degree, the details of the chronocrators, decans, injurious degrees, zodiacal geography, paranatellonata, and other technical… Read More