Keiromantia [sic], or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

  • Rothmann, Johann
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1652
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Cheiromantia
Art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angell in Corne-Hill, 1652.

Physical description

16 unnumbered pages, 167, that is, 183 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) R2001.
Thomason E.1237[3].

Notes

Various illustrations and diagrams depicting palms throughout text.
Page 177 misnumbered as 161, which numeration continues to the end.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Febr. 20. 1651."; the 2 in the imprint date has been crossed out.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 253:E1237[3]) s1999 miun s

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