IMPORTANT: Accept cookies to place a bid!
Our website requires cookies for the bidding form to work. Without cookies, your cart will remain empty, and you won’t be able to place a bid. Click ‘Accept’ to enable bidding and ensure the website functions optimally. We ask for your consent to use cookies.

I agree to the use of cookies. I don't agree to the use of cookies..
en
Your cart
back to overview

GRAN-PESCATOR von CHIRAVELLE (Pseud.)

Metoposcopia et Chiromantia curiosa, das ist: Kurtze und deutliche Anweisung, Wie man aus dem Gesichte und Gestalt eines Menschen, von dessen Verstand, Gedächtniß, Sitten und seinen Verrichtungen, wie auch Glück und Unglück
Jena
Cröker
1723
€300 - €400

12mo, [10], 250, [56] pp, with 31 folding engraved plates and some woodcuts in text. Light waterstaining to lower margins of register and 1 plate, small repaired tear in one plate, age-toned. Contemporary half calf binding, corners bumped

Later German edition of the scarce work on chiromancy and physiognomy (prediction of personality and destiny based on the lines of one's palm and on the pattern of lines on one's forehead). This edition not in Wellcome. Ref. Graesse, Bibl. magica p. 107

Occultism