Bédigis, Philippe

Traité de la chiromancie, ou l'art de deviner par l'inspection des lignes de la main. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated by three pen-drawings of hands.

mid-18th century

1 volume 2 ll. first bl. + 21 pp. + 3 ll. + 6 bl. ll. 4to. 21 x 16 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1933.

Written inside the upper cover: 'Philippe Bédigis, Professeur d'Écriture, Rue Saint Antoine à Paris.'

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).