Raphael's Book of Dreams by Sepharial [Robert Cross Smith]

Raphael's Book of Dreams by Sepharial [pseudonym, Robert Cross Smith]

Publication: 1910 W. Foulsham and Co. Fourth Edition

Robert Cross Smith 917195-1832) was an English astrologer who wrote under the pseudonym of "Raphael". He married in 1820 and moved to London, where he became interested in astrology. Together with G.W. Graham, he published a book on geomancy in 1842 but failed to receive enough subscribers, and the periodical had to be discontinued after a few issues. He collected the issue of the failed periodical in a volume entitled The Astrologers of the Nineteenth Century in the same year. From 1827 until his death in 1832, he edited an astrological almanac entitled The Prophetic Messenger. Also published by Smith were The Familiar Astrologer and A Manual of Astrology, both in 1828. Smith died on February 26, 1832, in London. His almanac continued to be edited as Raphael's Ephemeris and would become a standard work in British and US American astrology. Raphael's Ephemeris popularized the system of Placidian system of astrological houses in the English-speaking world and in modern Western astrology in general. 

Condition: mild wear to extremities, bubbling, bumped corners, toning/staining to boards, interior clean, binding firm, in very good condition