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INDAGINE, Joannes. Introductiones apotelesmatice elegantes, in chyromantiam, physionomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarum. Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1556. Woodcut medallion portrait of the author on title-page, numerous diagrams and woodcut illustrations of palm-reading and mythological gods. With the three final blanks.
[Bound with:]
Thaddaeus HAGECIUS ab Hagek. Aphorismorum metoposcopicorum libellus unus. Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. Second edition. Woodcuts of heads.
2 works in 1 volume, 8° (166 x 106mm.). Contemporary calf with gilt arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou as bachelor on both sides [Olivier 216 fer 2], flat spine (worn at spine). Provenance: J.A. de Thou, binding, signatures on title-pages and press mark on front pastedown.
An interesting duo on chyromancy and metoposcopy, the art of judging a person's character based on the lines on the forehead. Caillet 5388; 4926.
[Bound with:]
Thaddaeus HAGECIUS ab Hagek. Aphorismorum metoposcopicorum libellus unus. Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1584. Second edition. Woodcuts of heads.
2 works in 1 volume, 8° (166 x 106mm.). Contemporary calf with gilt arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou as bachelor on both sides [Olivier 216 fer 2], flat spine (worn at spine). Provenance: J.A. de Thou, binding, signatures on title-pages and press mark on front pastedown.
An interesting duo on chyromancy and metoposcopy, the art of judging a person's character based on the lines on the forehead. Caillet 5388; 4926.