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INDAGINE, Jean de (1467-1537). Chiromance & physiognomie par le regard des membres de lhomme. Translated by Antoine Du Moulin. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1549.
8o (158 x 102 mm). 144 leaves. 83 woodcuts in text. Modern red half morocco, edges gilt, by David. Provenance: Stanislaus de Guaita (bookplate); A.R. Lug (bookplate); acquired from George Staack, 1966.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, illustrated with figures attributed to Bernard Salomon. The "Chiromance" is illustrated with thirty-seven woodcut diagrams of hands and seven cuts of gods and goddesses of the seven planets associated with palmistry. There are eleven cuts, each showing two heads, in the "Physiognomie" and twenty-seven diagrams and a table in the "Astrologie naturelle." Brun, p. 225; Caillet I, 5387; Mortimer French 325.
8o (158 x 102 mm). 144 leaves. 83 woodcuts in text. Modern red half morocco, edges gilt, by David. Provenance: Stanislaus de Guaita (bookplate); A.R. Lug (bookplate); acquired from George Staack, 1966.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, illustrated with figures attributed to Bernard Salomon. The "Chiromance" is illustrated with thirty-seven woodcut diagrams of hands and seven cuts of gods and goddesses of the seven planets associated with palmistry. There are eleven cuts, each showing two heads, in the "Physiognomie" and twenty-seven diagrams and a table in the "Astrologie naturelle." Brun, p. 225; Caillet I, 5387; Mortimer French 325.