Wemyss maurice pseud (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 619 pages; Four volumes (IIâ"V) of Maurice Wemyss's influential The Wheel of Life or Scientific Astrology, issued over a period of years by Modern Astrology Office, L. N. Fowler, and International Publishing Company. Wemyss, the pseudonym of Scottish lawyer, astronomer, and astrologer Duncan MacNaughton, sought to present astrology as an empirical discipline grounded in observation and statistical study. An incomplete but substantial run of one of the more ambitious English-language astrological series of the early twentieth century. Light crimping to cloth at spine ends and mild bumping to a few corners. Volume III bound in lighter blue cloth with spine lettering dulled. Gilt lettering bright on the spines of Volumes II and V; lettering on Volume IV largely rubbed away. Bindings sound and contents clean. VG- . Oversize book set may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.…