Palmistry - Lot 739

Lot 739
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Palmistry - Lot 739
Palmistry TAISNIER (Jean) Opus Mathematicum octo libros complectens innumeris propemodum Figuris idealibus Manum et Physiognomiae, aliisque Adornatum, quorum sex priores libri absolutissimae Chieromantiae Theoricam, Praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent Coloniae Agrippinae, Baumium, 1583. In folio : 6f., 624pp. 3f. ; frontispiece portrait and numerous figures in the text. Antique stiff vellum with covers, handwritten title on spine, small trimming on one bowl and very slightly on spine. The work has about two thousand figures in the text: chiromantic hands, physiognomies, astrology, zodiacs (Caillet III, 10524). The author, musician, astrologer and mathematician. He devoted himself to palmistry by which he claimed to know by the disposition of the lines of the hand, the temperament, the character and the future of those who came to consult him of all Europe.
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