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The book of palmestry and physiognomy

being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant, and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination, and physiognomy, with circumstances upon the faces of the signs : also, canons or rules upon diseases or sicknesses : whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as natural astrologie, with the nature of the planets

Also known as Chiromantia. English

by Johannes ab Indagine & Fabian Withers

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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224 unnumbered pages : 15 cm (8vo) Translation of: Chiromantia

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology and Divination and oracles.

  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Astrology”. Retained metadata contains “Astrology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Astrology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Astrology”· via Open Library
    • “Astrology”· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “divination”, “Palmistry”, “palmistry”, and 2 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Physiognomy” in the title, “Chiromancy” in the subtitle, “Divination” in the subtitle, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Palmistry”· via Internet Archive
    • “Physiognomy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Palmistry”· via Open Library
    • “Physiognomy”· via Open Library
    • “divination”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “palmistry”· via Wellcome Collection

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being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant, and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination, and physiognomy, with circumstances upon the faces of the signs : also, canons or rules upon diseases or sicknesses : whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as natural astrologie, with the nature of the planets

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224 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm (8vo)

1651London : Printed by J. Cottrel for Edw. Blackmore; Printed by J. Cottrel for Edw. BlackmoreEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Scanner: scribe3.euston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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