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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 signes. Also, canons or rules upon diseases, or sicknesses. Whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as naturall astrologie, with the nature of the planets. Written in Latine, by John Indagine priest, and translated into English by Fabian Withers.
Indagine, Johannes ab, -1537Date: 1656- Ephemera
Hands : amazing appendages : a free event for the incurably curious / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2010- Books
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The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar : Collected into one entire volume. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.
Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681Date: 1683- Books
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The High Dutch fortune-teller : wherein all those questions relating to the several states, conditions and occasions of humane life, are fully resolv'd and answer'd, according to the rules of art used by the ancient and famous Egyptian magi, or wise men and philosophers. To which is added, a judicial account of phisognomy and palmistry; as it was practised by the ancient Egyptians, (from whom the same was originally derived) shewing a person's good or bad fortune, by the lines and marks that are found in the face and hands, &c. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this nature hitherto published. Licens'd and enter'd according to order.
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A manual of cheirosophy : being a complete practical handbook of the twin sciences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, by means whereof the past, the present, and the future may be read in the formations of the hands ; preceded by an introductory argument upon the science of cheirosophy and its claims to rank as a physical science / by Ed. Heron-Allen ... with full-page and other illustrations by Rosamund Brunel Horsley.
Heron-Allen, Edward, 1861-1943.Date: 1892