[The Ebenezer Sibly Edition] – Culpeper, Nicholas / Ebenezer Sibly (Astrologer and Writer of the Occult).

Culpeper’s English Physician And Complete Herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of One Hundred additional Herbs, with a display of their Medicinal and Occult Properties, physically applied to the Cure of all Disorders incident to Mankind. To which are annexed Rules for compounding Medicine according to the true System of Nature; Forming a complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic. Beautified and enriched with Engravings of upwards of Four Hundred and Fifty different Plants and a set of Anatomical Figures. Illustrated with Notes and Observations, critical and Explanatory. By E[benezer] Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; and Author of the Complete Illustration of Astrology. [With the Famous Quote of Dryden on the Titlepage: “Happy The Man, Who, Studying Nature’s Laws, Through Known Effects Can Trace The Secret Cause”.] [Volume I: Containing the Herbal / Volume II: Containing the Medical (as well as the Occult and Astrological Part].

Two Volumes in One (complete set). London, Printed for the Author, And Sold at The British Directory Office, Ave Maria Lane; and By Champante and Witrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, [Printed in the Anno Lucis [Year of Light], The Masonic Year 5793 [which is the year 1793 in the Gregorian Calendar]. Quarto. Pagination: Volume I (Herbal): Frontispiece – Portrait of Nicholas Culpeper with Astrological Properties, XVI, 396 pages including an extensive “Index to the Herbs and Plants” / Volume II: (Medical, Occult and Astrological Part): Frontispiece [The two Rare Engravings of Celestial Influx of the Body of Man and Woman are both included], 256 pages with an explanatory Index to the Medical Part, basically being an Index of Diseases cured by the Foregoing Herbs and Plants. Hardcover / original 18th century leather with restored spine by a Masterbinder in the style of the 18th century. This is the most firm and strong version of a Culpeper we ever handled ! With the scarce portrait of Culpeper ! This is the very rare occasion of a complete Culpeper with the Astrological Plates of Celestial Impact on the body of men and women separately illustrated. A stunning publication with all the secret knowledge of plant properties of the 18th century laid out in front of you.

[Ebenezer Sibly is celebrated for the natal horoscope he cast of the United States of America, published in 1787 and is still cited].

This Edition is the First Edition with Sibly’s Illustrations !
It also includes the printed Dedication by Ebenezer Sibly to Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. – Provincial Grand Master of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Dorset, Essex, Gloucester, Somerset, Bristol, Southampton and The Isle of Wight. Dated in The Year of Masonry 5793.

Ebenezer Sibly (1751 – c. 1799) was an English physician, astrologer and writer on the occult.
He was the son of Edmund Sibly and Mary Larkholm, born in the parish of Cripplegate ward, London. He was the brother of Manoah Sibly. Early on he devoted himself to medicine and astrology. He studied surgery in London.
In 1785 he was working as an astrologer in Bristol; and by about 1788 had moved to London. In 1789 he became the first master of the Lodge of Joppa #188, one of the founding masonic lodges under the Ancient Grand Lodge of England. In 1790 he was temporarily in Ipswich, supporting Sir John Hadley D’Oyly, the Whig member, at the general election. On 20 April 1792 he graduated M.D. from King’s College, Aberdeen.
Sibly was a deputy to Thomas Dunckerley in the founding of the Royal Ark Mariners, and recognized Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe as the next Grand Commander after Dunckerley’s death.
As a student of medicine, he became interested in the theories on animal magnetism by Anton Mesmer, joining Mesmer’s Harmonic Philosophical School, and later also theosophy. Sibly died in London around 1799.
Sibly is celebrated for the natal horoscope he cast of the United States of America, published in 1787 and is still cited.

Ebenezer Sibly used an eclectic mixture of early modern esoteric works. His brother Manoah Sibly (1757–1840) was a linguist, as well as a Swedenborgian preacher. Under Manoah’s name appeared texts including a revision of John Whalley’s translation of the Tetrabiblos, and a translation of Placidus de Titis; as an astrologer, Ebenezer is said to have used the Placidian system of houses; as a student of alchemy, he translated Bernard of Treviso (the fountain allegory). It has been said that experts of the time would have seen that Sibly was not very discriminating about the sources he chose, and drew on unpublished translations that he had borrowed. He knew the Book of Enoch via Charles Rainsford.

Sibly published the New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology in four volumes, from 1784. He had completed it by the time he moved to London. The work, which had later editions under various titles, gave details of magical procedure, and an account of the spirit world derived from Reginald Scot, in the 1665 edition of Discoverie of Witchcraft. Revised editions appeared posthumously as Astrology, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by Ebenezer Sibly, M.D. F.R.H.S., Embellished with Curious Copper-Plates, London (1806), and The New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology (1817).

Sibly published A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, in 1792.
Sibly wrote a book called Universal System of Natural History in 1794. In the book, in a form of environmental monogenism, he claimed that the White Race was the first on earth:

“We must consider white as the stock whence all others have sprung, Adam and Eve and all their posterity, till the time of the deluge were white; in the first age of the world no black nation was to be found on the face of the earth.”

Sibly believed that humans had not reached Africa until after the dispersal from the Tower of Babel, that the continent’s first inhabitants had been white, and that Africans had become dark only as a result of climate.

The original version of Culpeper’s English Physician and Complete Herbal was published in 1652 without illustrations. In 1790 [correctly 1793] an illustrated version of the book was produced with drawings done by Sibly. (Wikipedia)

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With the Famous Chapter on The Physical and Astronomical Description of Man / The Diseases of Women, Of The Green-Sickness (Obstruction in the Womb-Vessels of young females), Of Weakness contracted before marriage, Process of Childbirth (Midwifery in illustration), Image of Position of the Embryos in a plural Conception etc. etc.
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Nicholas Culpeper (probably born at Ockley, Surrey, 18 October 1616; died at Spitalfields, London, 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His books include The English Physitian (1652), later known as the Complete Herbal (1653 ff.), which contains a store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655), one of the most detailed documents on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized the methods of some contemporaries: “This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took a voyage to visit my mother Nature, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. Diligence, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by Mr. Honesty, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it.” Culpeper came of a long line of notabilities, including Thomas Culpeper, lover of Catherine Howard (also a distant relative), who was sentenced to death by Catherine’s husband, King Henry VIII. Culpeper’s translations and approach to using herbals have had an extensive impact on medicine in early North American colonies, and even modern medications. Culpeper was one of the first to translate documents discussing medicinal plants found in the Americas from Latin. His Herbal was held in such esteem that species he described were introduced into the New World from England. Culpeper described the medical use of foxglove, the botanical precursor to digitalis, used to treat heart conditions. His influence is demonstrated by the existence of a chain of “Culpeper” herb and spice shops in the United Kingdom, India and beyond, and by the continued popularity of his remedies among New Age and alternative holistic medicine practitioners. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
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