MEMENTO MORI, DEATH - OCCULT MAGICK ENGRAVING (Raphael's ASTROLOGER), 1825 LITERATURE Cambridge (1901)

Cambridge (1901)

the Astral Plane

Author: Jacques Heugel

with illustrations

MEMENTO MORI, DEATH - OCCULT MAGICK ENGRAVING (Raphael's ASTROLOGER), 1825 LITERATURE Cambridge (1901)Details + Condition: Original hand colored occult engraving from the 1825 first edition (thus), of THE ASTROLOGER OF THE 19th CENTURY by Raphael (pseudonym for Robert Cross Smith). Scarce. This in text illustration is titled "A Curious Old Astrologer, and His Singular Predictions". It depicts a religious figure (cardinal?) accompanied by a skeleton very much a memento mori scene. There is text to the bottom of the page, which continues to the reverse