If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one!

[Koen G]

According to the constellationsofwords website you refer to, the Hunting Dogs constellation wasn't quite accepted yet in your proposed time frame:

Canes Venatici represents two dogs, two hounds, or two greyhounds, on a leash or brach, the leash held by Bootes, the Herdsman or Bear Driver as they pursue the Great Bear, Ursa Major, as it circles the Pole. The northern dog is named 'Asterion', the southern 'Chara'. The stars of this constellation first appear in the Prodromus (1690) of the inventor of this constellation; Hevelius. 

I assume this issue is addressed in your $100 book on the subject.