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There are a selection of antiquarian astrology books up for auction at Bloomsbury Auctioneers (http://www.bloomsbury-book-auct.com), London on Feb 2nd 2006.

Books include:
Thomas White's Celestial Intelligencer 1811
Henry Coley's Clavis Astrologiae 1776
Raphael's A Manual of Astrology 1832

Hayzee wrote:There are a selection of antiquarian astrology books up for auction at Bloomsbury Auctioneers (http://www.bloomsbury-book-auct.com), London on Feb 2nd 2006.

Books include:
Thomas White's Celestial Intelligencer 1811
Henry Coley's Clavis Astrologiae 1776
Raphael's A Manual of Astrology 1832

I wish with hindsight that I had bid on the Coley edition. Unlike most reprints, it was complete, and sold for just ?500 plus buyer's premium.

Last night on ebay, I was positively amazed to see a buyer purchasing a similar copy for the seller's astronomical reserve price of $2800, equivalent to three times the price of the copy that sold at the start of the year!

Just goes to show that where a work is scarce enough, people will pay more or less whatever is asked if they want it there and then....