American Astrology Manuscript Album 1837 — Horoscopes, Star Charts, Lottery Numbers, Portraits.

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Unusual handwritten American astrological album dated 1837, containing detailed horoscope readings, hand-drawn star charts, predictive portrait drawings, dream interpretations, and lottery number advice.

The manuscript records two full horoscope readings: an extensive analysis of Robert H. Gould, not yet twenty-one, and a separate “Lady’s Horoscope” for a woman apparently born in 1810. Each section is accompanied by a hand-drawn astrological chart mapping the celestial signs governing the subject’s birth, with the individuals consistently described as “natives.”

Gould’s horoscope is notably elaborate, forecasting marriage, career prospects, travel to the southern United States and Mexico (“In 7 years you will be in the South you will be Rich in Mexico and in the Southern States”), longevity, and specific advice on favorable days of action. It also provides recommended lottery numbers and predictions concerning children, prosperity, and personal relationships. The album includes pen-and-ink portraits depicting Gould at age twenty-one, figures said to influence his future, and a child identified as one of his sons.

The lady’s horoscope offers comparable predictions, including marriage, faithfulness, personal fortune, bodily injury, and death, and is illustrated with drawings of her future husband or sincere friend.

Written with confident authority, the compiler explicitly distinguishes his interpretations from contemporary printed dream books, suggesting familiarity with popular astrological and oneiric literature of the period. An exceptionally rare survival documenting antebellum astrology and popular belief in the United States.

Price: $1,500.00